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Woman's Shelter Worker's Views on Marital Rape

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nation. Child/Adult protective service workers, social workers with provide case services for individuals requiring legal, social and protective support, is an important job within any womens shelter. Case  workers generally provide support for women who have experienced domestic violence, initially helping remove them from the violent situation and then promoting necessary steps and positive choices for personal change.  The problem of marital rape is also on the rise, and has become an issue in the womens shelter environment. Increasingly, child/adult protective service social workers are finding that  women are relating stories of marital rape as a component of psychological and physical domestic abuse. The following study relates the views presented in the current literature regarding the  issue of marital rape and also the assessments and perspectives of a social worker, "Joan," at a regional womens shelter, who makes substantial personal statements about the problematic nature of  marital rape. The Problem of Marital Rape When individuals consider the issue of rape, the most common perceived scenario is the interaction between an unknown assailant and a  female victim and the legal and social response to the issue has been based on this most prevalent view. But in recent years, the evolution of issues regarding domestic  violence and an increase in the number of reported "date" rapes has led to the need for a social and legal response to the issue of marital rape.  In a number of studies of individual perception of rape scenarios, researchers have recognized that while stranger rape scenarios were most commonly viewed as requiring litigation, gender roles and attitudes  have clearly influenced the perception of both date rape and marital rape (Simonson and Subich, 1999). In fact, Simonson and Subich (1999) determined that marital rape scenarios were the