Domestic Violence Domestic violence is a problem which continues to plague the nation‚ but through stricter law enforcement‚ improved hospital reporting technique‚ nationwide education and counseling‚ this problem can be reduced. Domestic violence has many names; family violence‚ battering‚ wife beating‚ and domestic abuse. All these terms refer to the same thing‚ abuse by a marital‚ common law‚ or a dating partner in an intimate relationship. Domestic violence is not limited to physical
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Why Do Women Stay? Domestic violence is a serious and complex plague of society that affects all‚ but women make up the largest number of victims in most case studies. In the United States alone‚ "1.5 million women are raped or physically assaulted by an intimate partner each year. More than 500‚000 women victims require medical treatment‚ and 324‚000 victims are pregnant at the time of assault" (Berlinger‚ "Taking" 42). Numbers like these show how intense the situation of domestic violence truly
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Mia Ridler Examine the patterns of‚ and reasons for‚ domestic violence in society. Domestic violence whether its physical‚ emotional‚ psychological‚ financial or sexual‚ is used as a form of intimidation to gain control and power. Domestic violence can involve partners‚ ex-partners‚ household members or other relatives. Women statistically are more often the victims both men and women can be subject to domestic violence. Men may turn to violence due to the stresses and pressure to conform to the male
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"A violence that occurs between partners in an intimate relationship such as marriage‚ or cohabitation - to live together as husband and wife‚ usually without legal or religious sanction." That’s how dictionary.com describes spousal abuse. But to me‚ spousal abuse is when one person in a marriage sanctified relationship verbally‚ mentally‚ emotionally‚ or physically abuses the other person in the relationship. Many people view domestic violence as only happening to specific races‚ ethnicities‚ class
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When we speak in terms of a domestic violence victim the most dominated gender to that assumption is female. We find in society that the larger group of those victims is females. That is what I will be studying for this paper; why females continue to remain victims. Or they move on to the next abusive relationship. Females tend to seek for the abuse to end but not the relationship. According to CNN the reason they stay in the abusive relationship is because victims tend to be hope junkies‚ open-hearted
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Domestic Violence By: Kris Hudson Each day‚ the statistics on domestic violence get more and more horrifying. A woman is beaten every 15 seconds‚ 22 to 35 percent of emergency room visits from women are because of ongoing partner abuse‚ 1 in 4 pregnant women have a history of partner violence‚ and 63 percent of young men between the ages of 11 and 20 are in jail for murdering their mothers abuser. Also domestic violence is the leading cause of injuries to women between 15 and 44. All these
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Domestic Violence in the Eye of the Law Every 9 seconds in the US a woman is assaulted or beaten. Many people often wonder what it takes for the offender to be arrested and sometimes accuse officers of not doing their job correctly. Police officers tend to have very strict protocol‚ not only for the victim’s safety but their safety as well‚ that they are to follow when responding to domestic violence calls. The laws regarding these domestic calls are especially crucial to the victims because they
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The Negative Results of Childhood Exposure to Domestic Violence The phrase “domestic violence” typically refers to violence between adult intimate partners. It has been estimated that every year there are about 3.3 to 10 million children exposed to domestic violence in the confines of their own home (Moylan‚ Herrenkohl‚ Sousa et al. 2009). According to research conducted by John W. Fantuzzo and Wanda K. Mohr(1999): “[e]xposure to domestic violence can include watching or hearing the violent events
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Domestic Violence Domestic Violence and abuse can happen to anyone. Domestic violence or spousal abuse is when one person in a intimate relationship or marriage tries to dominate or control the other person. Domestic abuse that involves physical abuse is called domestic violence. Domestic violence does not discriminate and can happen to any woman or man‚ Although woman are most commonly victimized. Domestic violence
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2010 for Monty Mathis’ Domestic Violence Course at Rasmussen College by Monika Loos. The police respond to numerous calls per month‚ per week‚ per day about some form of Intimate Partner Violence. Typically the scenario is the couple has gotten into some heated argument over something minute. Often times there is some type of substance abuse going on and quite possibly the victim has already been harmed enough for medical treatment. In any case‚ Intimate Partner Violence is often triggered by
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