Domestic Violence During The United States

Domestic violence against women happens around the world every day, but the main focus of location discussed in this paper is Washington State. Females are most likely to suffer domestic violence abuse from someone that they know. In such cases, it has been a spouse that is the attacker. Women escape these violent crimes and reach out for help, but not every time. Based off of the data collected, I strongly believe that females are more often victims of domestic violence than males.

Before reading the first two parts of "Til Death Do Us Part" I knew that domestic violence was a growing issue in the United states, but it was a surprise to find out that the state that we live in for more than fifteen has been place in the top ten nationally in the rate of women murder by men (Pardue, Smith, Hawes, & Hauff, 2014). The first part gave the statics on how many victims were turned away in 2012-2013 from shelters around South Carolina which was a total of 380. The reason why this was done because there was no rom they said (Pardue et al., 2014). Since this information was taken there should have a increase in the number of shelters in South Carolina, but there is only 18 domestic violence shelters. There is about 36,000 incidents of domestic abuse in our state. That number is shocking, many people wouldn 't have thought that there were that many incident. The national statistics on domestic violence given by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence states:

The response to heterosexual domestic violence is addressed differently because often times it is the woman that is being physically, mentally and/or emotionally abused by her intimate partner (Almeida, et al, 2009). Law enforcers, organizations and families often come to the aid of the women simply because they feel the woman is of a weaker sex (Sargent, 2009). Although the cisgender community and the LGBT community experience physical, emotional and mental abuse both situations should be considered as equally

Taking a look into America’s work industry, society’s values reflect the meaning of domestic violence. In order to gain an understanding of how societies function, many professionals have observed various factors that contribute to the way societies work and the specific explanations of social problems, such as domestic violence. Domestic violence and emotional abuse are behaviors used by one person to control the other. Victims can be of any age, sex, race, culture, and religion. Although both men and women can be abused, most victims are women. Domestic violence against women has become a social issue discussed by many Americans and it has become unacceptable, this paper will focus on the causes, effects, and solutions to domestic violence against women in the United States, and provide examples of how it has been changing through the years of 1995 to present.

Domestic violence is a single act or a pattern of cruel acts in any relationship that a partner uses to get or keep power and control over another partner. The violence can be sexual, physical, economic, emotional, or psychological actions or threats of actions that impacts another person. Any actions that manipulate, intimidate, isolate, humiliate, terrorize, frighten, threaten, coerce, hurt, blame, wound, or injure someone can be domestic violence (The United States Department of Justice).

Millions of women in the United States are physically, and emotionally abused by an intimate partner each year. Domestic violence is a situation that harms and kills most particularly women, children, and families members. As a result, battering of women is one of the foremost causes of injury to women. The growing awareness of how pervasive and destructive this situation is in our society, and the violence that accompanies it, has created a wide variety of programs, shelters, educational endeavors, law enforcement initiatives, and other efforts to prevent the development of this well-known trend. Fortunately, most victims of domestic violence today have one or more ways out, if they know there are available opportunities exist and able to use them accordingly.

Introduction: “Domestic Violence in America occurs behind the scenes of homes and is often kept a secret. The results of abuse in intimate relationships can be deadly if loved ones do not know the signs, help is not requested, and if the public is not educated.”

Domestic violence is any incident or repeated incidents of coercive, threatening, or controlling abuse, behavior, or violence between intimate or former partners and family members, which can involve emotional, financial, physical, psychological, and sexual abuse (Domestic Violence, 2014). Women are at a higher risk of experiencing violence at home than they are in the street, Most women who die due to homicide are more likely to be killed by their partner or ex-partner and domestic violence is a major cause of death during pregnancy (Lee, 2013, p. 1350). Even in circumstances where the abuse does not become lethal, domestic violence survivors sustain serious injuries physically, neurologically, psychologically, emotionally, and

This is the tenth time that Lisa has been admitted to the hospital within the past two years. At least this time there aren’t any broken bones or concussions to worry about. Lisa only has two black eyes, a patch of her beautiful long hair forcibly yanked from her head, a nasty black and blue bruise on her neck and a few nails ripped directly from the newly manicured nail beds. Lisa swore to God and her best friend Brandy that this was the final straw. Actually, she made that exact same pledge under oath just three months ago, yet she is coincidently in the same position she vowed never to return to. This time was different though. She was making plans to move her things out of the small apartment that she shared with her

There is no exceptions to whom experiences domestic violence. It can be between family and household members, friends, spouses or partners (including former dating relations) and complete strangers. In The Department of Justice Website, state that victims are subjected to “physical, sexual, emotional, economic, and psychological abuse or coercion”. Which includes behaviors that “intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, blame injure or wound” the victim is then forced to stay in their predicament. This abuse can be sustained for a long amounts of time. And is some cases, a lifetime, if nothing is done to to end it. Regardless of race, gender, religions, age, religion, or sexual gender referral for relationships, domestic violence can happen to anyone. “On average, 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States — more than 12 million women and men over the course of a year”, stated by The National Domestic Violence

An average of 1 in 4 or 25% of women in the United States has experienced physical or sexual abuse throughout an intimate affiliation at some point in time in their life (“Domestic Violence”, 2009). Among these individuals, nearly 2,000 do not make it and die of the resulted injuries they suffer from (“Women against Abuse”, 2012). When it comes to domestic violence, anyone can be a victim; the violence does not discriminate as to who will suffer from it no matter their sex, age, race, ethnicity, or financial background. Behaviors used by one person in a relationship to control the other are what define this dangerous act of crime. Although no one deserves this, it is important to learn of the precautions in order to help someone you love

In America we have this somewhat naïve idea that a family is a completely safe haven where no evil can harm its members. Sadly, this idea is false and, in quite a few cases, the victims of domestic abuse go unnoticed and the programs designed to ease the pain are underfunded or forced to endure budget cuts. Such was the case in Kansas during the fall of 2011. The article in question proposes that families should be a private matter, a position that I vehemently disagree with. Families should be public institutions because, whether we choose to notice it or not, its members effect our day-to-day lives and other aspects of life, including education. Now, the issues of the family should still be dealt with internally, but the government should

There are several individuals in our society who suffer from being neglected to being brutally beaten and even being financially deprived. In today’s society it is not uncommon to see the citizens of our country fall victim to domestic violence. While some people debate that this kind of behavior should not go on and is unacceptable, there are others who choose to stay out of it. Regardless of one’s point of view, it is obvious that there are people in our communities that are suffering from domestic violence and both our state and federal legislation have chosen to partake in this fight against domestic violence.

Have you ever considered that domestic violence could be right next door? Have you ever realized who can become a victim of domestic violence? Do you think you can be a target of domestic violence? Women are more vulnerable to domestic violence, but men can also be victims. One in four women has been a target of domestic violence and is 90-95% more likely to be a victim than men. (dcadv.org) Every single one of us knows or will know someone that is a victim. In order to raise awareness of domestic violence, it’s essential to apprehend who can be a victim and what to do when someone is being victimized. In other words, it’s important to understand who can be a victim and how to solve the problem.

According to statistics found by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Every nine seconds a woman is abused by her husband or intimate partner. At least 1 in every 4 women and 1 in every 9 men have been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in their lifetime. Most often the abuser is one of their own family. Domestic violence is a problem that somehow affects every one of us in this room at some time and is actually the leading cause of injury to women -- more than car accidents, muggings and rapes combined.