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    lot of recognized violence such as domestic violence, emotional violence, and sexual violence. But these aren't the only types of violence that exist. Domestic Violence affect the family living through it also the people that surround them. Domestic violence is mostly found in dysfunctional relationships. In those relationships it’s starts of with jealous and it end up progressing. When someone is in this type of relationship they usually don't realize it until a friend or family member bring it

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    Only twenty years ago, domestic violence was seen as a private family matter rather than of public community concern. During the 1960’s and 70’s, second wave feminism and the Battered Women’s Movement highlighted the problem of family violence to the fore, where individuals assisted victims by providing shelter for women and children and taking political action to advocate the hidden societal causation of the violence; gender inequality. The social issue up until this stage had little to none empirical

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    that this paper will be discussing is family violence and its interconnected relationship with social work. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of this of family violence by analyzing research and statistics on the topic. This paper will also shed more light on the very prominent problem of family violence and educate individuals on the matter in hopes that they would be able to pick up any signs of violence occurring within the family. This will be accomplished through providing

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    Violence in families happens all across the United States. A family member who abuses other members of the family causes family violence. The person who causes the violence, known as the perpetrator or abuser, does it to take control and dominate over their victims. They may evoke physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect or economic abuse. The victims endure the abuse that is being done to them and is unable to escape because the perpetrator is controlling every aspect of their

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    The fatal flaws in society’s erroneous conception of family violence The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) defines domestic and family violence as ‘any incident involving the occurrence, attempt or threat of either physical or sexual assault experienced by a person since the age of 15’. What this definition fails to recognise is that not all domestic violence can be defined as this. Sometimes, the scars that hurt the most are the psychological and emotional ones. We believe that abuse that creates

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    Hannah Wyatt Mrs. Gallos English 3 Honors 6 April 2017 Family Violence A problem that occurs in many homes, though some do not see it, is abuse. Whether it be from a parent, spouse, brother or sister, it is a very real thing that can sometimes go unnoticed. Handling a situation, such as this, is harder to do when one does do not know exactly what it is or when it is occurring. Even though people do not see or hear about it, people should be educated on it and learn how to stop it because it affects

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    Family violence is not a new phenomenon, as it has essentially existed since the beginning of time. Only in modern times, however have societies begun to recognize violence and family members as a social problem (Barnett, Miller-Perrin & Perrin, 2005). For many years, the social problem of family violence had not only been heavily ignored, but for a number of years, had not been fully understood. For example, family violence takes many forms and has a number of different names. Family violence, also

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    Family Violence in military families Family violence, including both child maltreatment and spouse abuse, is a public health concern in both military and civilian populations. Physical abuse represents more than 90% of all substantiated cases of spouse abuse in military families, followed by emotional abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse (Tasso, Whitmarsh, & Ordway, 2016). There is 4 types of intimate violence (1) patriarchal/intimate terrorism, (2) violence resistance, (3) common/situational couple

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    It is important to understand how to respond to some domestic violence victims once they ask for help. There are guidelines to ensure effective evaluation and intervention and referral. The Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) has set up an efficient way to assess victims of domestic violence. FVPR first step in assess the victims immediate need for safety. The following question can be asked to assess for safety conceders. “Are you in immediate danger? Where is your partner now? Is your partner

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    Throughout the existence of humans there has been violence. Some examples of violence that people can identify are war between countries because of political and religious disagreements. Discrimination (which is a type of violence) by its country of origin, color and customs. Finally, in the family we can find several types of violence, the most common is violence towards women physically and psychologically, child abuse, and the one that I identified with my siblings is their behavior towards parents

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