CASE STUDY: Jay and Anita

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CASE STUDY Jay and Anita

• Exploring the impact of domestic violence on
  children, within a CALD context

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Issues

• Migration to Australia impact on the family
• Children born child care issues
• Under employment
• Role expectations in the family and in the
  community
• Isolation forced and unforced
• Abusive behaviour occurring in a regular pattern
• Language barriers
• Barriers to seeking help reporting, what if
  others come to know, fear of being ostracised

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Impact on the children

• Avoiding the perpetrator being on guard when
  approaching him
• Mothers extended family support sense of
  security
• Inability to make friends at school withdrawn
  making it up by focusing on studies
• Lack of expression

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Children in domestic violence

• Victims, both directly and indirectly
• Impact on their development physical,
  psychological
• Manifestations
• Family relationsips
• Resilience

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From "A Heart for Children"

• One hundred years from nowIt will not
  matterWhat kind of car I drove,What kind of
  house I lived in,How much I had in the bankNor
  what my clothes looked like.
• One hundred years from now It will not
  matterWhat kind of school I attended,What kind
  of typewriter I used,How large or small my
  church,But the world may be. . . a little
  better because . . .I was importantin the
  lifeof a child.Margaret Fishback Powers