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FOYER HEBERGEMENT [1 record]

Record 1 1995-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of the Family
  • Social Problems
DEF

A home which offers a bed only and which provides residency for several weeks during which the victimized woman takes steps to reorganize her life.

CONT

Safe home networks are generally made up of several private homes whose owners offer to put up battered women and their children for very brief periods of time until they can be transported to a transition house.

OBS

According to the Regroupement provincial des maisons d'hébergement et de transition, a safe house is one type of transition house, the other being a second-stage shelter which offers long-term support.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la famille
  • Problèmes sociaux
OBS

Les réseaux de maisons d'hébergement sont habituellement formés de plusieurs maisons privées dont les propriétaires acceptent d'accueillir les femmes battues et leurs enfants.

Spanish

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