Domestic Violence
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Domestic Violence
There are several lawsuits having to do with domestic violence, but today there are about 3-4 times as many offenses as there was 75 years ago. Domestic violence tears thousands of familys apart every year. You may not think there are as many cases of domestic violence. Domestic violence isnt always a husband or boy friend beating their kid or girlfriend/wife. There are several different types of domestic violence, a man beating a women, a man beating his child, a woman beating her significant other, a woman beating her child, or a child abusing his/her parents verbally or physically. There are also cases not only on physical and verbal assault; there are sexual assaults, social abuse, and economic abuse. Most of all acts of domestic violence are involved with alcohol and drugs. Although these things happen every day, they should happen at all, but some people are afraid or embarrassed about being assaulted. This gets to the point where they victim is so frightened about their assaulter that they wont even report it to the police, so they go on living in abuse which is not right at all.
A major percent of domestic violence is occurred from husbands/boy friends abuse their significant other, whether its physically or verbally. Males commit over 2.27 million violent crimes against women who they are intimate with. There is an estimated $3 to $5 billion spent each year just in medical facilities caused by domestic violence. Women experience an approximated 572,050 violent victimizations by someone they have had a very close relationship to. For several generations, wives have been beaten but not nearly as much as the increasingly amount of beaten wives now. There are shelters where women can go for protection from their significant others, but there are neither enough nor enough women to be courageous and step up and stop being frightened. During 1990 there were only 1,500 shelters for domestic violence shelters in America, yet there are 3,800 animal shelters. Of course, this number has gone up quite a bit, but still not enough.
Although not as rare as you may think, wives beat there husbands around as well. In 1994 there were 48,983 cases heard where a women beats her husband. As low as a number as this may seem, it is quite deceiving. If you ponder about this for a while, this is only the number of cases heard, not all of them. You must think about all of the men who are embarrassed and have entirely too much pride to proclaim that his wife physically abuses him. So theoretically, there are possibly tens of thousands of more cases of domestic violence, where as men are the victims. Out of all male homicides, approximately 3.3% were committed by the victims spouse. While men who commit domestic violence use there bodies to harm the victim, women will usually use weapons such as cooking knifes, bats, guns, and on some occasions forks.
On many occasions, children are not even considered to be an attacker when it comes to domestic violence. However one must think about fights with siblings and on a rare occasion hitting their parents but mainly their mother. When siblings fight as much as it is, the injury may vary from, a bruise on the knee, to a broken arm, or even accidental death. As hard as it is to believe it, an ignorant sibling fight over the remote has actually ended up in the result in death. An estimated $1.28 billion are spent in hospitals to treat children that were engaged in fights with their siblings. Children fighting their siblings arent the only forms domestic violence that was to do with children were they are the attacker. Although it doesnt happen nearly as much as children physically abusing their siblings, they also abuse their parents, but mainly their mothers. This is only referring to children who constantly beat their mothers and are over 12. Mothers of these abusive and disrespectful children are usually in the hospital for broken bones.