Discuss the barriers South Asian women face in leaving a violent relationship. What are the values and norms, support factors, and individual factors which must be taken into account when deciding to leave or stay in abusive relationships?
What will be an ideal response?
May include the following:
a. lacking all of the following: social support from women’s organizations, culturally sensitive domestic violence shelters, b. support from informal kin and friendship networks, a job and financial resources
support factors: social support, structural and material resources, knowledge of formal support networks and systems
c. individual factors: safety fears, fear for future/ deportation, inability to live alone in the U.S., lack of jobs, language skills, desire to stay in relationship, fear for children’s futures
d. values and norms-related factors: social, community, and family norms, community/family expectation, patriarchy and prescribed gender roles.
e. skills.
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