Be it a deadbeat parent with more than enough funds to help their children or spouses making use of their significant other’s dependency on them, economic abuse pervades life and remains a blindspot.
While housing is undeniably getting less affordable, it’s still something you can influence a lot through individual choices. My sister and I live in the same city. Her house cost 300k€ and mine cost 100k€. Both are located in similar neighbourhoods too - my house is just a lot smaller and older.
If the choice is living on the street with your kids or living with your economically abusive boyfriend, most mothers will choose the safety of a roof over their children’s heads.
And to be clear, it’s not a gender thing or a heterosexual thing specifically, my example is just the most common one that I’ve seen personally in my life. At every shitty, cheap apartments I’ve ever lived in, there was always at least one couple matching this description, where a mother and her children were chained economically to some man not because she really loved him but because she needed his part of the income to take care of her children properly. Hell, it’s also the type of home I grew up in. However, I am sure there are plenty of men and LGBTQ+ people who end up being abused economically as well.
Economic abuse is why affordable housing is a human rights issue.
While housing is undeniably getting less affordable, it’s still something you can influence a lot through individual choices. My sister and I live in the same city. Her house cost 300k€ and mine cost 100k€. Both are located in similar neighbourhoods too - my house is just a lot smaller and older.
100%. Being poor can be (& typically is) traumatic. People under that much stress and trauma are more susceptible to abuse and manipulation.
If the choice is living on the street with your kids or living with your economically abusive boyfriend, most mothers will choose the safety of a roof over their children’s heads.
And to be clear, it’s not a gender thing or a heterosexual thing specifically, my example is just the most common one that I’ve seen personally in my life. At every shitty, cheap apartments I’ve ever lived in, there was always at least one couple matching this description, where a mother and her children were chained economically to some man not because she really loved him but because she needed his part of the income to take care of her children properly. Hell, it’s also the type of home I grew up in. However, I am sure there are plenty of men and LGBTQ+ people who end up being abused economically as well.