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Economic Abuse
- Makes you account for all the money spent/controls the money
- Keeps you short of money
- Makes you ask for basic necessities/money
- Undermines your attempts to improve your education
- Undermines your attempts to get or keep a job
- Makes you give all your earnings to him
- Chooses not to work, when he is capable of obtaining a job, and makes you be the sole earner
Male Privilege/ Patriarchy
- Demands obedience like you’re a servant
- Makes major decisions without your input
- Treats you like you’re inferior
- Tells you that you can’t cope without him
- Coerces you into marriage through threats and force
Immigrant/Cultural Abuse
- Threatens to cancel sponsorship/have you deported
- Lies about your current status
- Provides false information about immigration laws/process
- Uses religion and cultural practices to threaten or isolate you from accessing supports
- Undermines you because of your race, religion or country of origin
- Makes false allegations to immigration officials
- Threatens/tries to remove children from Canada
- Makes threats about penalties in country of origin
- Uses or glorifies patriarchal cultural practices
- Refuses to acknowledge divorce through religion
Sexual Abuse
- Pressures you to have sex
- Makes you feel guilty if you don’t have sex
- Forces sex against your will
- Pressures you to have sex after being abusive
- Pressures/forces you into unwanted sex acts
- Treats you like a sexual object
- Threatens to share or does share pictures of you on the Internet
- Inflicts unwanted pain on you during sex
- Pressures you to engage sexually with a third party
- Uses sex and intimacy to control you
- Forces sex as a condition to keep children safe/allow you to see them/return them to you
- Exposes children to pornography
- Sexually abuses the children
