Break Up Short Story

she gives birth to her stillborn child, she gives life to a starving man by breast-feeding

Anderson, S.A. & Cramer-Benjamin, D.B. (1999). The Impact of Couple Violence on Parenting and Children: An Overview and Clinical Implications. American Journal of Family Therapy, 27(1), 1-19.

The two tug back and forth for the baby, and in the end the two both yank at the baby closing the story with, “In this manner, the issue was decided,” (Carver 2). This leaves the reader up in the air on what happened, the reader is

I have selected the story, “Popular Mechanics". It is a story where a married couple who are separating is fighting over who should get the baby. This fight escalated to a physical battle for the baby. This story started off with a man packing a suitcase and arguing with a woman. While things became heated, the subject changes to who is going to keep their baby. It became a tug of war and as tempers had begun to increase, as well as the screams of the baby. Though the ending is very dubious, one can assume that the baby is not safe, but may be injured or dead.

Quite often we stumble upon an old memory as we revisit Social profiles. Tonnes of them are juvenile, a few others, upsetting.

Despite the fact the physical effects of domestic violence could be the similar as for other forms of violent crime, the emotional effects can be much worse. Domestic violence happens when a crime is committed against a victim by someone with whom the victim is or has previously found, in a close relationship or somebody living in the same household as the victim. Domestic violence regulations differ from state to state. These variances range from conceptualization to the requirements under required reporting laws. Because of all these differences, the entire process of avoidance a domestic violence situation rest on each state. The Violence

She started to grab the baby with one hand and then used the other to try to hold up the mother as she started to fall. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to stop the mother's fall, but she was able to keep the baby safe as the whole thing happened.

Domestic altercation contributes the largest category of calls received by the po-lice annually. It is not surprising considering the vast number of womb who are abused by their significant others. Domestic abuse is a hard pill to swallow, it is a complex issue that plagues a society. Neither parties are likely to come forth with the traumatic details. It is easy to read on the internet about the perils of domestic violence. The common sto-ries of a man abuses woman, a woman kills child, for all to see. However, what causes violence to happen? Who really is to blame? The Judicial system

Abuse and neglect go hand in hand in domestic violence. Physical violence can also be seen throughout the text. Interpreting the text in this concept, we see that the father could be drinking at home and beating his child. In this text, we can see that the father could have had a stressful day at work and went to a bar to drank himself to oblivion. Upon arriving home, it is possible he took all his anger and stress out on his son. In line 5-6, we see that they “Romped until the pans/Slid from the kitchen shelf”, I could also see this as the father pushing, punching, and kicking his son into the shelves. The mother also could be interpreted as by hearing and seeing this act of physical violence and crying because she cannot help her

He stands observing both parties as they try to break away from each other while noticing them equally inflicting pain. The purpose of this piece is to highlight the pathetic, hurtful and difficult separation of a couple from a third parties inside perspective, however, there is no positive ending to make us believe

“He felt the baby slipping from his hands, and pulled back very hard.” Carter is intentional with very sentence, so to sequence the idea of the baby’s death, he could have added “To the point the father heard a pop.” or “The baby stopped screaming.” However, “… Pulled back very hard” can be analyzed as he pulled himself away. The mother knows the condition of the baby, and sees this before her own eyes. So, with her frenzy, she can stop the action of the baby being pulled, by letting go. Throughout the story, she repeats often “You’re hurting the baby.” “She caught the baby around the wrist and leaned back.” Is a simple sentence that can prove she only lightly touched the baby, which did not harm the

She begs and pleads for her life and he stops. He apologizes and lets her go making her promise not to tell.

He looked at her…” (328). The man’s selfish desires appear at this moment, already hurt from the ending of the relationship and the rage filled words uttered by his past lover he sees an opportunity to demolish her to the same level she did him. With both people aggressively tussling for what they want, they completely disregard everything in-between: the child. “She grabbed for the baby’s other arm. She caught the baby around the wrist and leaned back.

This yet again shows that the man who has the child is someone who is in a position of power. Thus if the husbands from either story were to find out of the behavior of their wives towards his child he would divorce them and they would lose all their money and

Every year in the United States, One in four women are victims of the domestic violence; however, this is only based on what has been reported to the department of justice (Stahly 2008). While men are also victims of domestic violence, women are more often the victims. Moreover, 90% of domestic violence is male initiated. In severe cases domestic violence ends with victims being murdered. More specifically, domestic violence resulted in 2,340 deaths in the United States in 2007, and 70% of those killed were females (CDC 2012). Many people think that victims have the option of leaving and many people blame victims for putting up with the abuse; what many people don 't know is, victims of domestic violence have many reasons preventing them from leaving their abusers, these reasons include, isolation, having children bounding them with the abuser and lack of financial support. "It 's never pretty when you leave an abusive and controlling relationship. The warden always protests when a prison gets shut down," says Dr. Steve Maraboli (qtd from web). Whether a victim stays or leaves their abuser, the outcomes of both situations are not always as easy as many people predict. In some situations, the outcomes of leaving may be very dangerous for both the victim and her children.