Sentences with phrase «perceive sexual violence»

Today saw another slew of headlines about rape, in a seminal week for the debate over how people perceive sexual violence.

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Adversity is commonly defined as anything children perceive as a threat to their physical safety or that jeopardizes their family or social structure, including emotional, physical or sexual abuse, neglect, bullying by peers, violence at home, parental divorce, separation or death, parental substance abuse, living in a neighborhood with high crime rates, homelessness, discrimination, poverty and the loss of a relative or another loved one.

Participants» suggestions on how to surmount the identified challenges and barriers to effectively addressing sexual violence against women / girls or rape in general and their area in particular (probe for what they perceive as appropriate individual, community, civil society and government level initiatives)

Their framework is founded on the idea of relational youth violence — «behaviors (physical, relational, sexual, verbal, or psychological) and policies (formal or informal) that are intentionally or unintentionally harmful... based on real or perceived power imbalances.»

The aim was to see if the instrument was able to differentiate between groups known to differ in exposure to IPV.19 The following hypotheses were postulated: women who are exposed to physical and / or sexual IPV (lifetime exposure, «yes / no») would have poorer self - perceived health2, 20 — 24 and have grown up in a home where they witnessed physical violence between their parents.10, 25 — 27 The Mantel - Haenszel test was used to control for age, income, civil status, education and country of birth.