Responding to Wife Abuse in Farm and Rural Communities

Résumé du livre

The Northwestern Region and the Western Region of the province are involved predominantly in the potato, poultry and hog industries while the Central Region is fairly diversified with dairy, beef, fruit and vegetable farming and harvesting of wild blueberries. [...] The data gathered is in conjunction with research initiated in 1994 by the Family Violence on the Farm and in Rural Communities Research Team, one of the original five teams of the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research3. [...] In the interviews, we asked background-type questions pertaining to their childhood experiences, the community in which they grew up, the length of time they had been in a violent relationship, the nature of abuse, the role of religion in their lives, the number of children etc. [...] In light of the commonalities of living in small communities with limited access to services, the experiences of rural and farm women were often very similar. [...] However, much of the analysis and the material presented in this paper are the sole responsibility of the authors.