The choice : violence or poverty Anne Summers
By: Summers, Anne
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BookPublisher: Sydney, NSW : University of Technology Sydney, 2022Description: electronic document (109 pages) ; PDF file.Subject(s): DISABLED PEOPLE | DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | ECONOMIC ASPECTS | HOMELESSNESS | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE | MOTHERS | POVERTY | SEPARATION | STATISTICS | VICTIM/SURVIVORS' VOICES | WOMEN | INTERNATIONAL | AUSTRALIAOnline resources: DOI: 10.26195/3s1r-4977 (Open access) | Access the website | Watch ABC Q+A video (60 mins) Summary: The data that is published here for the first time reveals both the shocking extent of domestic violence suffered by women who are now single mothers, and outlines in grim detail the economic, health and other consequences of the choice these women made to leave the violence. The findings are both new and confronting and have major policy ramifications for how we address domestic violence, and to the policy-induced poverty that is its outcome for far too many women and children. (From the Executive summary). Record #7706
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The data that is published here for the first time reveals both the shocking extent of domestic violence suffered by women who are now single mothers, and outlines in grim detail the economic, health and other consequences of the choice these women made to leave the violence. The findings are both new and confronting and have major policy ramifications for how we address domestic violence, and to the policy-induced poverty that is its outcome for far too many women and children. (From the Executive summary). Record #7706
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