dark side of the family Flashcards
dark side of the family - key ideas
Marxists - Perpetuates capitalism
Feminism - Burden on female members
Radical Psychiatry - causes mental illness
Domestic Violence
Child Abuse
Vogel and Bell
recognise the family can have dysfunctions
they see children used by parents as ‘emotional scapegoats’ or punch bags for their everyday stress
domestic abuse stats
- 1 in 4 women will experience DV
- 1 in 6 men will experience DV
- Stanko - DV every 6 seconds in UK
- 2 women per week are killed a the hands of an existing, or past partner
- approx 30 men per year
Faith Robertson Elliot (1996)
- rejects the claim that all men benefit from violence against women
- not all men are aggressive and most are opposed to domestic violence, radical feminists ignore this.
- some studies do not explain why women rather than men are the main victims.
ao3 for domestic abuse
child abuse stats
child abuse kills one child every week
1/5 of adults have experienced child abuse before they were 16 - ONS
leach
radical psychiatry
- he described it as a claustrophobic institution where parents fight and children rebel
- he likened family life to like living in a ‘‘chicken coop’’ and said that families behave like ‘‘overloaded electrical circuits’’
R D Laing
radical psychiatry
- saw the family as a key source of mental illness, especially schizophrenia
- he saw family as a tangle web of conflict and tensions
- such tensions can pull children apart resulting in psychiatric problems
family is bad for us essay plan
D - dangerous place for women - Dobash and Dobash - 1 in 4 - Stanko
D - women do an unequal amount of labour in the family - Ferri and Smith - Dunscome and Marsden - AO3 Willmott and Young symmetrical family
D - can cause mental illness - RD Laing - Leach - AO3 Warm Bath
D - perpetuates capitalism - Althusser - Zaretsky - Cooper - AO3 - Murdock
