My Experience With Domestic Violence

Although we lost Ellen Pence, a woman who changed how domestic violence is addressed, in 2012, there are many lives that are being saved to this day because of her work. Ellen Pence found her calling in 1977 when she began working for the Minneapolis Housing Authority that helped individuals relocate with housing complications (StarTribune, 2010). It was then that she immersed herself through domestic violence cases and set the standard for addressing these cases. Ellen Pence is especially known for establishing the Duluth Program, a program that address batterers in the court systems, and Praxis Training, which are training on addressing domestic violence for law enforcement, advocates, community agencies, and institutions. Pence’s 35 years of service change the way domestic violence cases were handled, educated key players in domestic violence cases, and showed the world what it was like to be a victim of domestic abuse. Without her efforts, many individuals in power addressing these cases would be lost and those to who are victims would not be understood as they are today.

The first few years on a relationship, everything seems gold plated and perfect. Respecting, honoring significant others is a given, but unfortunately some feel the urge and need to claim their dominance over the relationship. Unexpected things would eventually start occurring, like physical assaults, diminished self-worth, and sometimes even child abuses are consequences of trying to dominate the members in a household. After growing up in a household where the abusive environment is dominating, people are known to develop trust issues, disturbed and unreal perceptions of reality; the solution may not always be clear, but immediate action is to be taken from the abused party or victims.

An individual who is responsible for subjecting their intimate partner to domestic violence is often controlling, manipulative, aggressive, violent, and dangerous. It is important for an individual who is experiencing any form of abuse should contact authorities to prevent any further abuse in the relationship. While the victim of domestic violence is constructing a plan for a safe escape, the victim will choose a domestic violence attorney. A domestic violence attorney is a lawyer who specializes in family law.

he snatched me and covered my mouth and nose so my screams would not be heard. He carried me out through the back door and started running. At that moment my mom looked out of the back window and noticed what was going on and that I was

Once I arrived back at home, I told my mother about the altercation and she immediately phoned the police. After taking statements from both sides, the authorities determined that no crime had been committed, because the assailant was on his own private property when the incident occurred. I was devastated – we were targeted, harassed, and chased and now there was nothing that could be done to right the wrong. I stood up for myself and my friends to only be told that what we endured was permissible by

I would shut my eyes because I knew what was coming. And before I shut my eyes, I held my breath, like a swimmer ready to dive into a deep ocean. I could never watch when his hands came toward me; I only patiently waited for the harsh sound of the strike. I would always remember his eyes right before I closed my own: pupils wide with rage, cold, and dark eyebrows clenched with hate. When it finally came, I never knew which fist hit me first, or which blow sent me to my knees because I could not bring myself to open my eyes. They were closed because I didn’t want to see what he had promised he would never do again. In the darkness of my mind, I could escape to a paradise where he would never reach me. I would find again the haven where I

Then they went away for the weekend, mom and dad, and things got bad, real bad. I thought things were bad before, but that weekend was hell. My parents arrived home to flashing blue and red lights and me crying on the doorstep; all cuts and bruises and torn clothes and him being bundled into the back of a police car.

He pull out a gun. I didn't think it was real and I told him that. I was kinda scared so I yelled at him.

Because children are more likely to get involved when exposed to severe violence against their parent, children are placed at a higher risk for injury or death by the abuser (Domestic Violence: Statistics & Facts).

The article Witnessing Domestic Violence as a Child and Adulthood Emotionality: Do Adults “Feel” the Consequences of Exposure to Partner Abuse Later in the Life Course by McKee and Payne made an hypothesis of how children witnessing domestic violence at home will influence them psychologically in the future. This study focused on the relationship between child witnessing abuse at home and the emotional impact of adults. A random sample of telephone interviews is being used in this study to collect data from the respondents. The finding was categorized between the gender of male and female. They found that female is easily to be impacted psychologically than male. Life course theory was being used to talk about the social structure which knowing

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

As I went down stairs I noticed I had been robbed of all my money valuables. Such as my tv, keys to my car, my antiques that my grandparents had passed down to me and all sorts of things. The house was wrecked with chairs tipped over to drawers opened with letters and mail all over the ground. I was too scared to tell anyone about it because the gangs in the area are notorious of killing anyone that brings police into a crime case. So I had to keep it to myself until further notice, people in Englewood neighborhood are know for not keeping their mouths shut about anything.

First of all, I was an immature, unwise, and impoverished woman who had lived seven years in a small town in Rhode Island. Once day I took off with my youngest three kids to a Woman Abused Shelter at Holyoke, MA. I just desired to pursue a new life without domestic abuse in order to offer a better life to my kids. Therefore, I used to live for four months in a small room and share bathroom with my three kids who were four, two, and one years old. Consequently, I become deal with a lot of stress, I was not able to sleep well every night. But my wide challenge was waking in the morning, I was deprived of sleep during the night, While the kids were in the day care, I was taking counseling and looking for an apartment to move out. I got enough

Ellie and I lay in our beds, neither one of us knew what to say. In the other room, our host parents were arguing. We didn’t know what about, but we knew it was serious. Then we heard a “THWACK” followed by silence. Ellie and I sat up in our beds and looked at each other, I could tell she was as scared as I was. “Was that? Did he just?” she asked me. Then the arguing started back up again. We calmed back down until we heard it again. “THWACK” We knew then, the noise we heard, was him beating her. We got up, our hearts racing; neither of us knew what to do. We got our nerves together to go get help. When we opened the door to our room we saw the children sitting on the couch crying out for their mother. I could see the fear in their face and I knew something needed to change.

Cut back to the kitchen where the person has heard the noise, and goes to the front door to find two police officers standing there. The person invites the policemen in, who gesture about how they heard raised voices and came to investigate. The person waves an arm, showing that the house is theirs to search. Cut to a shot of the door, we see the knob rattle. The policemen see this, and, a little later, so does the person. The person tries to stop the knob from rattling, but the policemen are already heading over. The person gives up and lets the policemen unlock and open the door. There is nothing there, to the relief of the person. Then, the roommate comes running up the stairs and out of the basement. The police ask if the roommate rattled the doorknob, but the roommate seems to have no idea what they’re talking about. Puzzled, the person leans in closer to the door. We cut to a shot from within the basement staircase, and see the person lean closer and closer to the camera. All of a sudden, the doll leaps out from behind the camera and onto the person, attacking them. The screen goes black. This serves as a PG version of the original tale, but without sacrificing any of the crucial plot points of the source material.