Convicted Women Against Abuse: Sin By Silence

Brenda's parents continued to raise him as a girl and did not tell him about the procedure or anything that happened when he was an infant. This had traumatic results on Brenda and his family. Brenda's brother was diagnosed with depression. Her mother was also diagnosed with depression and was often suicidal. Over time, Brenda's father increased his drinking and turned became an

Many women struggle to overcome obstacles in their lives. Sometimes they find it difficult to leave abusive relationships and end up never leaving. But some women are brave or work up the courage to take a stand and leave the situation. In the short story, “Women Hollering Creek”, Sandra Cisneros explains the theme of the story by telling about a woman who’s husband abuses her.

Just like Janie, many women are physically abused. The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence estimates that 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by their partner each year. Nearly eighty five percent of domestic violence victims are women and females between the ages of twenty and twenty-four are at the greatest risk of partner violence. Janie was only one of the few women to be assaulted. In the 1900’s, Janie’s time, it was even more likely that women were abused since men had more rights.

Leslie Morgan Steiner, TED talk “Why Domestic Violence Victims Don’t leave”, analyze how the violence victims interact with their situation. In her talk, Steiner discusses, why victims don 't leave their abusers, if they know that they are victims of violence and why did not break the silence. Also, Steiner says that the domestic violence can happen to everyone all races, all religion, all income and education levels. However, domestic violence is either a man hitting or abusing of a woman or a woman of a man. In addition, she says that she was able to end her own “Crazy Love” by breaking the silence then, and also in her talk. Steiner, creates a credible argument based on the right amount of emotional appeal. Even Though, her credibility, and statistics were lacking, it helped just to support her position.

The goals of the battered women’s in jail group were sampled from The National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women and would include educating women about the dynamics of domestic violence, supporting domestic violence survivors healing from the effects of trauma, supporting survivors of abuse in developing strategies and identifying resources to help prevent them from experiencing abuse again in the future, helping survivors plan and prepare for being released, including developing comprehensive strategies for enhancing their safety while in the community (Bible, 2011).

We hear the stories of these women and learn about the women in themselves. We learn why studies show they were placed in that position as well as why they think they were placed in that position. The most interesting portion of the book is when the author shows us how the women write violence off as not being violent at all, with such excuses as "I wanted to keep the marriage together" or "he was mad" or even "I deserved it". Because a lot of women grow up in abusive situations similar to the one's they were in it is harder then to identify oneself as a battered woman. Many of the women interviewed in the prison stated that they didn't consider themselves battered women until it was too late to get help, some even went as far as saying that they didn't realize what they were until they went to prison and joined the CWAA.

The short story is an eye opener for young women to beware of their surrounding. The short story became a classic and is read all throughout schools. It really open the eyes of the reader to beware of strangers and that even the person they believe would not hurt him just might. Thirty-five percent of women have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non partner sexual violence, according to the united nations. According to a global study on homicide of all women who were victims of homicide globally in 2012 an estimated half were killed by intimate partners or family members.

Although, many of the women that are convicted have been abused by their husband, if the women are armed and the men are unarmed when the women kill them, the women are convicted of the crime. The women have been locked up in the California Institution for women. Sin by Silence provided different women’s stories, explained the Convicted Women Against Abuse support group, and characteristics of the person abusing. Glenda took her

In the poem “The Victims” Sharon Olds states “When Mother divorced you, we were glad. She took it and took it, in silence, all those years and then kicked you out, suddenly, and her kids loved it” which is a statement that an author would state about someone that is going through some type of abuse (Line 1-2). This was written during the time when Nixon was president, which tells me that this was common during that time frame. During that time frame, men were very abusive to their wives and children. The women and children kept this secret and were trained to never tell the outsiders what was going on in the household. Several men would physical, mental and verbally abusing their wives during

As the video states that today there are three times as many women in prison as there were just ten years ago, the sizable number of female offenders had serious drug problems, more than half were victims of physical abuse, over a third had been sexually abused, and about a quarter those offenders has attempted suicide. Many of the women offender are not married or they are single parents, or they may have run away from home and is without home fighting to survive. Women were less likely than men to have offended and committed a crime because women grow out of crime, they are most likely to desist from offending in their late teens. Many of the offenders have been in the jail because of their family background, as in the documentary Heather Zerangue said her mom has been to prison and because the judge knew about her history, he had said to her that he was gonna put a stop to her before she got on her mother`s track. There are many women convicted of manslaughter or murder because they have committed murder of their boyfriend or husband during abuse toward them or someone close.

“Shackled and abandoned”, reported by Anne Kingston, recorded the trail treatments to a series of sexual assault victims, and analyzed the essential reasons. In Edmonton, as a victim of a sexual assault, 16 years old “Angela Cardinal”, a dubbed name under the name of protecting the victim, was shacked and jailed in the same cellblock as the man raping her. Although her prosecutor Patricia Innes concerned about her physical and mental state, she didn’t suggest hospitalization but leaving her stay in the cell with a desperate emotion of “embarrassed, vulnerable, violated and alone”. In another example of comparing the two trials in Duing Ghomeshi and Cosby, it clear showed that a part-time job and cater-waiter identity could be the reason

While not a somatic assault, emotional abuse can cause lasting effects on a woman’s health, so much so that researcher, B. Van Houdenhove and others working on the project have found “that emotional abuse and neglect may be contributing factors to the development and/or severity of illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia” (Karakurt and Silver). Finally, emotional abuse is a rampant issue, Karakurt and Silver report that “Psychological aggression by an intimate partner was reported by 48.4% of women,” which was found in the National Intimate Partner & Sexual Violence Survey (“Emotional Abuse in Intimate Relationships: The Role of Gender and Age”). Nearly half of the population of women report being victims to psychological abuse, making it a widespread epidemic faced by not only women in dystopian novels but also real life. Psychological abuse can take many verbal and non-verbal forms, which can put great strain on a woman’s health, and affects nearly half the population of the United States.

Every choice that an abused woman considers to do with regards in seeking help or ending the relationship involves a variety of risks. Time and time again, the common question arises, “why doesn’t she just leave?” Most often abused women, at great and potentially fatal risk, do leave their abusive relationships. However, there is a multitude of barriers, including increasing abuse and the potential for re-victimization by the system that does not respond accordingly, and most often force many women to return to their abusers. A woman may become vulnerable as she goes through the stages of leaving her abuser. There are many reasons why a woman becomes vulnerable; guilt, denial, and fear may be among a few reasons, though no matter what the

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.

“Every year in the United States there are over 3 million incidents of domestic violence. That means that every nine seconds a women is beaten by her domestic partner” (Findeley). There are many women that stay silent when being abuse by their partners. The consequences of staying quiet when obtaining abuse can be dangerous and can also lead to death. Many women do not recognize the importance of the fact that there is in speaking out if they are being abuse by their partner. No woman should take domestic abuse by their partners. Every woman deserves a healthy relationship; A healthy relationship involves trust, respect, and consideration for the other person. Domestic abuse has gotten worse during the past years and is still rising up. One can see that domestic abuse can occur everywhere. Domestic abuse is considered a crime and woman should not keep silent when being abuse.