Globe and Mail: On their own
child care, cost-of-living, Faculty of Social Work
CBC Saskatchewan: Organization calling governments to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic in the Prairies
Faculty of Social Work, Intimate partner violence, RESOLVE
The deaths of five people this week in southern Manitoba are a clear example of domestic violence and come in the midst of an epidemic of intimate partner violence in the province and beyond, experts say. "When anything ends in a fatality, when a life is taken, that's the most severe form of violence that someone can endure," said Tracie Afifi, a University of Manitoba professor in the department of community health sciences. "Here we have the death of an intimate partner … [and] we have the deaths of three children that were part of that relationship and a fourth family member as well, who was also a child," she said. "Without a doubt this is intimate partner violence." Kendra Nixon, a professor in the Faculty of Social Work and the Director of RESOLVE at the University of Manitoba, says it's troubling to see the issue rising.
Faculty of Social Work, Max Rady College of Medicine