'Shadow pandemic': Advocates worry lockdowns have fuelled surge in partner violence

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Pandemic home-based quarantines effectively put women under heightened levels of control from abusive partners, advocates say.

COVID-19 has been dubbed "an abuser's dream," says a new study probing how the pandemic has affected victims of domestic violence.

"Those circumstances only increase the tensions within a household and increase the level of anger within an individual," she said. One support worker who participated in the study wrote that "for a lot of survivors and their children, pre-COVID they could go to work, she could [go] to work and there was reprieve, there was escape for eight hours.

"Women disclose that....they have been strangled or they've been hit with an object around the head, face and neck," she said. Advocates say their big worry is that there may be a wave of women with not just physical injuries that haven't been tended to but also traumatic brain injuries, now a recognized consequence of IPV.

 

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We’ve been saying this.

In Montreal alone it's happened both times ...you reported on them remember? Oh and ALOT of filicides ..which you also reported on. Like the one with 2 kids under 3 in QC a few weeks back. More children died of lockdowns than COVID. 🤦‍♀️

No shit.

EndTheMandates

Put our fearless leader in this discussion

Blame the government LMAO

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We worry that the media is insinuating and suggesting more than reporting facts

That's as good as a man you get over here. Pests, parasites and woman beaters.

Why is Saskatchewan currently running a HIV testing campaign?

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