Suzanne K. Steinmetz: The Cycle Of Domestic Violence

Mytheos Holt states “Just because someone else has it worse, that doesn’t mean we should ignore injustice here at home?”. This question can mean many different things, but for this essay it means domestic violence against men. According to WebMd domestic violence is “Abuse that happens in a personal relationship” (WebMD, 2014). Abuse can be verbal and/or physical. Domestic violence can affect anyone! women, men, gays, straights. In this society people are used to thinking that domestic violence only happens to women. Men, too are victims of domestic violence. If we take men as seriously as we take women in any situation, then we would be a society that has equality for all.
One of the reasons domestic violence occurs can be psychological.
Suzanne K. Steinmetz found in "The Cycle of Violence," a 1977 study of 57 families from a wide range of socioeconomic status categories and age groups that "60 percent had used physical aggression . . . to resolve marital conflicts. Thirty-nine percent of husbands and 37 percent of wives had thrown things, 20 percent of both husbands and wives had struck their spouses with their hands, and 10 percent of both husbands and wives had hit their spouses with a hard object". This research shows that men and women percentages are not the difference. They have the same percentages or with a very little difference. Yet when men report domestic violence it is not handle the same as
Alterman said in the New York Times article “When I called the police to file a complaint against my former wife, the initial response was amused disbelief. When I finally convinced them my complaint was real, the response -- without missing a beat -- was "So hit her back." This man was being abused by his wife and the police didn’t react fast with what was happening to him. This issue should be handle with equal care for everyone who experience it. It doesn’t matter if you are a women, a men, a transexual, anyone, if you experience domestic violence there should be people who will help you right away.
This issue of men not being taking serious will lead to men not reporting their abuser at all. Society expect men to be strong, and handle everything. That is a wrong way of thinking. There should be support for men. There should be not only Violence Against Women Act(VAWA) but Violence Against a Human Being Act. There should not only be a Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women but against anyone. Men have no political support at