Family violence and coercive controlling behaviour
Coercive, controlling behaviour is common in many relationships. Family violence includes physical violence against a family member, threats, harassment, psychological abuse and numerous other types of behaviour.
If any of this applies to you, you should seek assistance to help deal with the effects of this behaviour to you and your children.
If you or someone else are in immediate danger, call 911.
You must report any child abuse or neglect to the police or Social Services:
- Prince Albert (North) 1‑866‑719‑6164
- Saskatoon (Centre) 1‑800‑274‑8297
- Regina (South) 1‑844‑787‑3760
For access to transition houses and other support services follow this link.
Mediation
Online mediation/dispute resolution processes are impacted by family violence – We screen for interpersonal violence in each case to help you determine what course to follow.
FAMILY VIOLENCE AFFECTS US ALL - THIS IS MY STORY
“I have known two women who have been murdered by their partners.
In one of my first jobs, I worked with a young, single parent mom. Even at that time, she was having a difficult relationship with the man who would murder her 10 years later.
The second was a middle-aged woman who worked for a volunteer organization that I helped. She was someone I knew, liked and socialized with from time to time. Her common-law partner murdered her.
Both of these women were nice middle-class successful women. Family violence may happen in every social class and through all families.
I have had many female clients tell me that they are concerned for their lives and being killed by their ex-husbands/partners. I believed every single one of them. Unfortunately, their honest beliefs don’t carry a whiff of value in an adversarial court case.
Women in abusive relationships are not particularly well adapted for an abusive, adversarial court system. The person who advances the case more angrily and metaphorically, violently, often wins.”
– Brad Hunter, K.C.