Domestic Violence TGC

What is Domestic Violence?

• Also known as domestic abuse or family violence
• The behaviour of which the purpose is to gain control over a spouse/family member

Types of Abuse/Violence

• Control
• Invasion of privacy, no freedom of choice
• Physical Abuse
• Hitting, withholding physical needs
• Sexual Abuse
• Rape, sexual assault
• Emotional Abuse & Intimidation
• Threatening, accusing, damage self-esteem and confidence in order to control

• Isolation/Neglect
• Isolating the victim from resources/the outside world
• Not taking proper care
• Verbal Abuse: Coercion, Threats, & Blame
• Screaming, threatening to hurt/kill the victim, calling the victim bad names
• Economic Abuse
• Controlling/manipulating income, restricting victim's access to money, spending money unwisely

Domestic Violence in The Glass Castle

page 122.

Physical + Verbal Abuse:

A drunken Rex returns home and starts fighting with Rose Mary.

page 86

Sexual Abuse: Jeannette almost gets raped by Billy and is forced to do what he wants

page 9

Isolation/Neglect: Jeannette was going to cook hot dogs at age 3 but her mom was in the other room/wasn't paying attention to the danger she was in

page 43

Intimidation: Rose ran out of the car and was chased by a drunken Rex. The kids were crying and begging Rex to stop but he ignored them.

page 43

Verbal: " You crazy Bitch! " Dad hollered " Get your goddam ass back in this car!" When they are chasing Mary whose running away form the car

Domestic Violence in The Glass Castle

page 76

Control/Economic: Rex takes control of Rose's paycheck for the family and spends the money on himself.

page 114-115

Verbal/Intimidation: When the family is trying to enjoy Christmas, Rex burns down the Christmas tree and ruins the occasion. Rex tells Rose Mary that he is doing her a favour.

page 103

Neglect: One night, a guy breaks into their house and starts touching Jeannette in her bed. Her parents refuse to close the windows/doors because they needed fresh air and it was essential that they refused to surrender to fear.

page 69-72

Verbal/Emotional/Physical: Rex and Rose Mary start fighting about their situation. They call each other out on their insecurities (not being able to get a job, being a bad artist, being bad parents, etc.) and they start attacking each other. The fight ends with Rose Mary hanging out of the window.

Statistics

- 8421 Reported Domestic violence in Japan 2017

- Gender of Victims (reported)

- Women: 83.2% (7005)

- Men: 16.8% (1416)

- Age range of Victims (reported)

- ~19 119

- 20~29 1808

- 30~39 2595

- 40~49 2266

- 50~59 968

- 60~69 352

- 70~ 305

- unknown 8

Statistics (continued)

- Age range of abusers

- ~19 64

- 20~29 1485

- 30~39 2476

- 40~49 2325

- 50~59 1168

- 60~69 468

- 70~ 387

- unknown 48

- Relationship of Victim and Abuser

- Living together 1814

- Couple not married legally 267

- Married Couple 6340

Examples

2017 December. 23

A 33 year old woman was found in a Prefabricated hut, dead. When found, she was only 145 cm tall and weighed only 19 kg. 19 kg is the average weight of a 5 year old boy. She had been confined by her parents for 15 years. The door of the hut could have been opened from the inside, but her parents had been monitoring her through a camera. She was given little food only once a day,

and was rarely able to take a shower. The cause of death was freezing.

Isolation and neglect: She was isolated from the outside world and was neglected

by her parents.

Physical abuse: Fed poorly.

Control: As she was confined and was monitored by a camera, she was not able to

have any control over herself.

Victim of coninement. Picture taken when she was an elementary student.

Comparing with The Glass Castle

This case of domestic violence is an example of neglect and isolation. The violence of neglect can also be found in the way the children in The Glass Castle were being treated. None of her parents cared when Jeannette was beaten up at school. The parents were not there to listen to the trouble the kids were going through, which resulted in Maureen's delinquency.

Examples

2018 March

A 4 year old girl was poorly fed and physically abused, which lead to her death. After she died, the letters she wrote to her parents were found. They said, "Papa, Mama, please forgive me. I understand how much I have played. I will not play any more because playing is a sin. I won't do it again. I promise." While most kids learn how to write after starting elementary school, she was already able to read and write at the age of 4 because she was forced to study instead of playing.

Control: A paper was found with around 20 rules written. This included "Study hard" or "clean the bath tub."

Physical: (the parents) Splashed cold water on her on a cold day. Fed poorly. She also had bruises all over her body. She was killed.

Emotional: She was made to think that it is a sin to play instead of studying, even though she was only 4 years old.

Mother of the victim

Comparing with The Glass Castle

This case of domestic violence has similarities and differences with the case of violence in the Walls family. In this example, the daughter is being poorly fed. This is similar to how the kids in The Glass Castle were often starving and looking for food. The difference is that while the child in this example is being controlled by the parents, the kids in The Glass Castle are not. They are more free, but too free that they are close to being neglected.

Organizations

Tokyo Rape Crisis Center

- The Tokyo Rape Crisis Center provides telephone counseling to female victims of sexual

violence.

- They provide medical and legal information to help victims figure out next steps

Tokyo English Life Line (TELL)

- TELL is a Tokyo based non-profit that offers English language counseling support

- They regularly deal with cases involving sexual assault but also other issues such as physical and verbal abuse

- Can be contacted through their online form or a phone call

RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network)

- RAINN also offers a free counseling for sexual assault and other issues

- it's available 24/7

Nagoya International Center

-help victims of domestic violence to find a temporary protection

-also helps the victims of DV to submit appropriate paperwork to the district court after being notified about their issues

-district court will then issue either a restraining order, in which your partner is not allowed to approach you for as long as six months

Bibliography

• “About Domestic Violence.” Types of Domestic Violence, Arizona

Coalition, www.acesdv.org/domestic-violence-graphics/.

• Walls, Jeannette. The Glass Castle: A Memoir. Scribner, 2006.
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