Changing Family Structure and Elder Abuse Issue in Japan

Changing family structure and elder abuse issues in Japan
· Kisuyo Kasuga11Yasuda Women's University, JapanKisuyo Kasuga, Yasuda Women's University, 6-13-1 Yashigashi Asaminamiku Hirosimasi, Japan. Email: kasuga@ynet.yasuda-u.ac.jp

Abstract

Families are now changing; contemporary Japanese women are threatened by loss of their right to care by their family members, and as a result, they are clearly placed in danger of poverty. Elder abuse exhibits different phases, from child abuse or domestic violence, in terms of the power relationship between the abuser and the abused. This leads to incidences of abuse cover-up, creating difficult situations where it cannot be determined who is the abuser and who is the abused. Although the definition of elder abuse by the National Center on Elder Abuse in America (NCEA), namely, physical abuse, emotional/psychological abuse, neglect, financial/material exploitation, sexual abuse, and self-neglect, is used in many parts of the world, a quantitative analysis based on this definition alone does not clarify the relationship between abuse and women in a sexually discriminative society.


SOURCE: blackwell-synergy
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Some of the findings may still be valid in present settings.