In America, Family Violence Such As Child Abuse And Spousal

This began to change in the 1980s, as women’s groups were organized locally and internationally to demand attention to the physical, psychological, and economic abuse of women (p.369-370). Domestic violence is a serious social issue that happens to many women in our world today. This type of abuse is not declining but continually rising on a daily basis. There have been issues in the past with the way these cases were being handled. Today, there has been some improvement concerning the laws that have been enforced in order to protect women from this type of abuse. There has been extensive research done on this issue in the past concerning domestic violence. Over the last ten years there have been a number of surveys on domestic violence that have been published from around the world.

Domestic violence is a widespread sociological problem wherein women and children are most often the victims. This sociological problem is compounded by the fact that so much domestic violence goes under-reported, whether against women or children. Domestic violence may take a wide range of forms and may include a variant combination of battery, sexual abuse, verbal abuse or general violence. Targets of such behaviors may include a spouse, child or both. For the purposes of this research, there will be an interest in noting the impact on children who are exposed to violence both directly as the victims of abuse or indirectly as witnesses to spousal abuse. In either instance, the same findings are anticipated. Namely, the primary thesis driving the

“Every year, in the United States there are over 3 million incidents of reported domestic violence. Every year, 4,000 victims of domestic violence are killed.” (Domestic Violence: Disturbing Facts about Domestic Violence). Domestic violence is a crime that is not just committed in the United States, but worldwide. This crime is committed every day, every hour, every minute, and every second. Anybody can be a victim or the abuser. This can happen to any child, man or woman. This is a horrific crime. Women are more likely to be the victim in domestic violence than men. “Forty-five percent of all violent attacks against female victims 12 years old and older by multiple

Domestic violence that occurs in the home, will of course, hurt a child in one for or another; either being the target of the violence or by witnessing the issue. In interviews conducted by Sev’er (2002), many mothers stated that children get hurt because they happen to be around when their mothers are being attacked (105). One

Domestic violence became a realization and a serious concern in the mid 1970’s for many Americans. “This realization is due to the women advocating on behalf of the battered women movement”

Domestic violence should have harsher punishments because domestic violence is a growing problem that is passed down from past generations to future generations. Victim boys who have witnessed domestic violence are more than likely to become abusers themselves, continuing the cycle of violence to the next generation. Without help, girls who witness domestic violence are more vulnerable to abuse as teens and adults. The age group of 18 to 34 years of age in women are at a higher risk of being abused. More than 4 million women experience physical assault and rape by their partners. Domestic violence also affects the family in the different ways that a family works together, such as the destruction of trust between the victor and the victim. If

Domestic violence used to be considered a private family matter and was not considered a societal problem until feminists in the 70's started pushing the matter. Beginning in the 1970’s, social policy toward female victims of domestic assaults focused on improving legal response and

Domestic violence has been a large problem for as long as societies have been around, but more recently in the past century, it has received more attention. The part of domestic violence that has gotten the largest amount of awareness is the act of spousal abuse. Between 600,000 and six million women and between 100,000 and six million men are victims of domestic abuse each year. Of course this is paralleled by the effect on children. For every family household that a spouse is abused in, if there is a child there is a large chance that the he or she will be affected by the incident. It is estimated that about 3.3 million children will witness some type of domestic abuse

Larry A. Morris, a forensic psychologist with a private practice in Arizona, writes the book named Dangerous Women: Why Mothers, Daughters, and Sisters Become Stalkers, Molesters, and Murderers. This book is about exploring case studies on girls and women who committed violent crimes, including sexual crimes. The book is helping the readers to understand why girls and women commit violent crimes and to give information of domestic violence against women and children which is the significant driving force behind criminal acts. (Larry 28-29). Each woman in this book had a long history of abuse and molestation by fathers, mothers, siblings, relatives, friends, etc. Domestic violence known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family, and intimate partner violence, is defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one partner against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family, or cohabitation. Domestic violence against women and children is a serious crime. It can happen with anyone, any family, any classes of family, anywhere, and anytime. There are many types of domestic violence such as, threats and intimidation, isolation, verbal and emotional, economic, using religion and spirituality, using children, family, friends or pets, using prejudice and privilege, physic, and sexual (Kirk and Okazawa-Rey 261). Domestic violence against women and children can affect and

For example, domestic violence is also child abuse. Women are not the only people involved with domestic violence. Some children are abused too. 15% of all domestic violence victims are kids. If a boy witness’s domestic violence at home, he is twice as probable to do that as an adult. 30 to 60 percent of perpetrators that abuse their girlfriend or wife also beats their kids. There are about 681,000 children

The journal article Child Abuse in the Context of Domestic Violence: Prevalence, Explanations, and Practice Implications, addresses three critical components in regards to child abuse resulting from domestic violence. The first component focuses on how often child abuse occurs in relation to domestically violent families. The second component of the journal article attempts to explain why this child abuse occurs due to domestic violence in families. Treatment methods for child abuse due to domestic violence conclude the third component studied in this journal article. All three critical components studied in the journal article elaborate on the prevalence and effects of child abuse in domestically violent families.

Research conducted in the United States of America clearly identifies an interaction between victim age and abuse characteristics (USDHHS, 2003). There exists a negative correlation between the onset and prevalence of physical neglect and victim age, for instance, indicative of a young child's dependency upon the caregiver for supervision and nurture (Mash & Wolfe, 2005). The incidence of physical and emotional abuse is also most prominent during developmental periods of independence, specifically the early, pre-school and adolescent transitional stages of development (ibid). Sexual abuse has prevailed most consistently, however, from an onset of age 3 throughout childhood, highlighting the vulnerability of children across the age-spectrum (ibid). Nevertheless, victim gender is emphasised as an influential variable within the incidence and nature of sexual abuse; for females have accounted for up to 80% of reported victims and are more likely to be abused by male family members in contrast to male victims, where the perpetrator of abuse is more likely to be a non-family male offender (USDHHS, 2003; Berliner & Elliott, 2002).

There are various factors that will increase the probability that a parent or caregiver will abuse a child. These factors are associated with the financial state of the family and the status or age of the parent when they became a parent, “children living with single parents are more likely to live in poverty with fewer social supports, which may contribute to stress and increase risks of maltreatment” (American Psychological Association, 2016), this is also an indicator for perpetrators to skillfully maneuver their caring ways into the child’s life to abuse them. “Infants and young children are also at risk with parents with strained financial statuses, because they are small and need constant care, and are more likely to experience certain forms of maltreatment such as being shaken by parents or caregivers frustrated or overwhelmed by persistent crying. Teenagers, on the other hand, are at greater risk for sexual abuse” (APA, 2016). Dr. Langberg states that 20 to 40 percent of the females, typically beginning at age 6 and 20 percent of males, beginning at the age of 10 who are at risk, will be sexually abused by the age 18 years old (Langberg, 2003). Children in violent homes may be victims of physical or they may be neglected by their parents or caregivers who may be focusing on their partners, which causes an unresponsiveness to the children, ultimately causing forms of neglect. If these children have any physical, emotional or cognitive

Domestic violence affects 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men (NCADV, 2015). Although the devastating effects that domestic violence has on women are well known, there is a population of domestic violence victims that we tend to overlook. These are the children of the women and men who are in domestic violence situations. Children are the invisible victims when it comes to domestic violence. There are many statistics being thrown around when it comes to the number of children who are exposed to domestic violence; they range from as little as 200,000 to even 3-18 million (Sousa et. al., 2011). A 2001 study discovered that in 75% of the cases in their study, children were present in the home during the assaults (Hutchison & Hirschel, 2001).

By touching upon the feminist theory approach, this paper criticizes the patriarchy society and discusses how feminists faced many obstacles along the way since the mid 20th century. To better understand the violence against women, Abraham and Tastsoglou (2016) look at the micro, meso, and macro levels of this issue. Women who were victims of domestic violence were discriminated based on gender roles and stereotypes; hence why they started the anti-violence movement to promote pursuit of equality and justice in the society. This feminist movement successfully gained the support of the state and the criminal justice system in both the US and Canada. Also, there has been many different organizations, policies and legislations made for supporting victims of domestic violence. However, this paper also argues that not all women who are victims of domestic violence get involved with the criminal justice system, due to their dependence on their partner or other insecurities. Therefore, the paper states that there must be other policies and strategies put in place to deal with this issue more in-depth. Women from lower social class, minorities and immigrants are shown to be more likely to be victims of domestic violence. The article discusses the steps taken by the feminist groups as well as the state to address these issues.