choosing between safety and children
I used to volunteer with a peer counseling center for abused women. I was truly shocked by the number of women who were afraid to report abuse or regretted reporting abuse because of child protection.
There were a lot of cases where women fled an abusive situation, went to a shelter, and were reported for being homeless. What else were they supposed to be, while fleeing abuse?
There were almost as many cases where child protection gave CUSTODY of their children to the abuser, because he still had a house with bedrooms for the kids, a job, and plenty of family willing to vouch for him.
The women I worked with often went back to protect their children and ended up repeatedly in the hospital trying to save their kids. They knew that reporting the abuse would get their kids taken so they were afraid to report anything.
Is this a common thing, social services bullying women into staying in abusive relationships, or is it just Canada that has this problem? I'm not sure it's the same in the US. I lived there for a while but didn't volunteer with any social services there.
Id really like to find a group raising awareness for this because a lot of those cases were very awful.
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