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2. OBJECTIVES:
The learner is expected to:
• raise awareness that domestic violence is existing in the
community
• increase knowledge and understanding of the laws governing
violence against women and children
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3. REPUBLIC ACT 9262
"THE ANTI-VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND THEIR
CHILDREN ACT OF 2004“
• the state values the dignity of women and children and
guarantees full respect for human rights
• the state also recognizes the need to protect the family and its
members particularly women and children, from violence and
threats to their personal safety and security
• Section 2, RA 9262
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4. "VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND THEIR
CHILDREN"
• refers to any act or a series of acts committed by any person against
a woman who is his wife, former wife, or against a woman with
whom the person has or had a sexual or dating relationship, or with
whom he has a common child, or against her child whether
legitimate or illegitimate, within or without the family abode, which
result in or is likely to result in physical, sexual, psychological harm
or suffering, or economic abuse including threats of such acts,
battery, assault, coercion, harassment or arbitrary deprivation of
liberty
• Section 3, RA 9262
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5. FORMS OF VIOLENCE
ACTS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN:
• PHYSICAL VIOLENCE
• SEXUAL VIOLENCE
• PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE
• ECONOMIC VIOLENCE
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6. PHYSICAL VIOLENCE
• refers to acts that include bodily or physical
harm
• is committed through:
 threatening/ attempting/ placing/ causing
physical harm to the woman or her child
 inflicting or threatening to inflict physical
harm on oneself for the purpose of
controlling her actions or decisions
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7. SEXUAL VIOLENCE
• refers to an act which is sexual in nature, committed against a
woman or her child
• it includes, but is not limited to:
• rape, sexual harassment, acts of lasciviousness
• treating a woman or her child as a sex object
• making demeaning and sexually suggestive remarks
• physically attacking the sexual parts of the victim's body,
 forcing her/him to watch obscene publications and indecent shows
 forcing the woman or her child to do indecent acts and/ or make indecent films
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8. PSYCHOLOGICAL
VIOLENCE
• refers to acts or omissions that cause mental or
emotional suffering
• is committed through:
 conduct that causes alarm, emotional or
psychological distress to the woman and her
child
 intimidation, harassment, stalking, damage to
property, public ridicule or humiliation,
 repeated verbal abuse and marital infidelity
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9. PSYCHOLOGICAL
VIOLENCE
 allowing the victim to witness the physical,
sexual or psychological abuse of a member
of the family to which the victim belongs
 destroying property, inflicting harm to pets of
the woman
 engaging in any form of harassment or
violence
 causing mental, emotional anguish to the
woman
 unlawful or unwanted deprivation of the right
to custody and/ or visitation of common
children
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10. ECONOMIC VIOLENCE
• refers to acts that make or attempt to make a woman financially
dependent
• is committed through:
 threatening/ attempting to deprive the woman custody of
her child, financial support, legal right
 withdrawal of financial support, preventing the woman to
engage in legal profession, occupation, business
 controlling the woman’s own money, properties, or solely
controlling conjugal or common money or properties
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11. •WHY VAW HAPPENS AND PERSISTS?
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12. • cultural beliefs and traditions have
conditioned people to think that men
and women have different roles:
• men are the leaders, pursuers,
providers and take on dominant roles
in society
• women are nurturers, men’s
companions and supporters, and take
on subordinate roles in society
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13. • perception results in men having more
social privileges than women = gaining for
men the power over women
• with power comes the need to control to
retain that power = VAW is the expression
of men’s need to control women
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14. • many instances of VAW have
been dismissed as having been
caused by the women
themselves = domestic
violence is sometimes blamed
on a “nagging” or “neglectful”
wife
• rape is sometimes attributed to
a raped woman’s “flirtatious”
ways
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15. • some instances of VAW have been dismissed as trivial
 a woman accusing her employer of sexual harassment is believed
to have an active and malicious mind which causes her to
misinterpret her employer’s appreciation of her good looks
• there are still outdated laws that reinforce the cultural belief that
men, having the dominant role in society = have more privileges
than women
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16. Articles 333 and 334 of the Revised Penal Code
• penalize a wife who commits adultery, but not a husband who
commits the same adulterous act of having sexual relations with
a woman who is not his wife
• a husband may only be penalized for concubinage, or when he
keeps a mistress in a conjugal dwelling or when he has sexual
intercourse with a woman who is not his wife, under scandalous
circumstances
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17. ONE IN FOUR WOMEN EXPERIENCED
SPOUSAL VIOLENCE
• PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE 2017 NATIONAL
DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEY
• Reference Number: 2018-048
• Release Date: Monday, March 26, 2018
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18. PREVALENCE DATA ON DIFFERENT
FORMS OF VAW
• lifetime physical and/ or sexual intimate partner violence: 17%
• physical and/ or sexual intimate partner violence in the last 12
months: 7%
• lifetime non-partner sexual violence: Official National Statistics
Not Available
• child marriage: 15%
- UN Women
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19. based on the preliminary findings of the 2017 national demographic and health
survey (NDHS):
• one in four (26%) married women aged 15-49 has experienced physical,
sexual or emotional violence by their husband or partner
• one in five (20%) women has experienced emotional violence
• 14 percent has experienced physical violence
• 5 percent has experienced sexual violence by their current or most recent
husband or partner
• All forms of violence generally decline with increasing household
wealth
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20. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9262 OR THE “ANTI-VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND
THEIR CHILDREN ACT OF 2004”
• violence against women is classified as a public crime and
penalizes all forms of abuse and violence within the family and
intimate relationships
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21. SOURCE:
• doh.gov.ph
• pcw.gov.ph/law/republic act 9262
• evaw-global-
database.unwomen.org/fr/countri
es/asia/ Philippines
• https://psa.gov.ph/content/one-
four-women-have-ever-
experienced-spousal-violence-
preliminary-results-2017-national
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22. •WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE MIDWIFE IN VIOLENCE
AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN?
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