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
