Essay About Domestic Violence And Important Issue

Domestic Violence
Essay title: Domestic Violence
Although domestic violence includes sibling abuse and elder abuse, and child abuse the
focus of my essay is on spouse abuse. Domestic violence has many names; family violence,
battering, wife beating, and domestic abuse. All these terms refer to the same thing, abuse by a
marital, common law, or a dating partner in an intimate relationship. Domestic violence is not
limited to physical beatings. It is any behaviour that is intended to subjugate and control another
human being through the use of humiliation, fear, and physical or verbal assaults. Domestic
violence is very important issue in todays society because it has such a profound negative affect
on the abused, mentally and physically, and more needs to be done to help the abused and
prevent it from happening further. Even though Domestic violence can be caused by either the
male or the female it is usually caused by the male due to their controlling nature and physical
advantage.
History and Causes
Since the dawn of time physical force has been used to keep subordinate groups in their place by
dominant people in society. Men have always been physically larger than women and since most
societies are male dominated, too no surprise the woman has almost always been the most
common victim. In Roman times, a man was allowed to divorce, chastise, or even kill his wife
for adultery, attending public games, or public drunkenness. All of which the husband was
allowed to freely partake in. During the middle ages it was mans right to beat his wife or kill her
for so much as giving her husband a dirty look. The first recorded advocates against domestic
violence were two author by names of Christian Pizan and Mary Wollstonecraft. Even though
the issue was being publicized, no action was ever taken until the 1840s when the American
womens movement brought up the issue while fighting for the right to vote. No state in the U.S
actually passed a law making wife beating illegal until 1883.
Finding the reasons or causes of domestic violence is a very difficult. There is never one reason
for domestic violence but it usually begins with a controlling nature and the need the need to
control ones spouse. It begins with verbal insults and degradation then over time escalates into
physical violence. The abuser has usually been involved in domestic violence cases before.
More than likely during child hood. There is usually many different stressors and factors that
cause these inherent or learned abusers to begin the abuse; unemployment, drugs and alcohol,
different religious back rounds, low income levels, and lower education levels and simply
different points of view.. None of these factors are not meant to be excuses, they are simply
factors that come up in domestic violence cases time and time again.
Types of Abuse/Psychology of domestic violence
When domestic violence occurs there is several different types of abuse that take place. The first
is physical violence. Physical violence includes slapping, kicking, burning, punching, choking,
locking a person out of the home, restraining, and other acts designed to injure, endanger, or
cause physical pain. The second type is emotional abuse which consists of consistently doing or
saying