Domestic Violence In The United States

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Domestic Violence Domestic Violence is the willful intimidation, physical assault, or other abusive behavior as part of control perpetrated by one intimate partner to another (justice.gov). Domestic violence directed against women is serious, though it can happen to both male and female. Former US Surgeon General Dr. C. Everette Koop has called it women’s number one health problem. According to “safehorizon.org” nearly 3 million men are physically assaulted in the USA 1 in 4 women will experience domestic violence during their life time. More than 60% of domestic violence incidents take place at home. Most people in age 18 to 34 are at risk of being victims, more than 4 million women experience physical assault and rape by their partners. The…show more content…
Financial issues means difficulty in paying debts. Financial problems mostly occur when a country’s economy is bad (nnedv.org). People lose their jobs and convenience goods get expensive. Due to that people/partners are unable to pay their debts. Partners who have children, can’t pay for their children’s school fees and can’t afford to feed them, which puts the partners in a delicate situation. Due to these problems, one of the partner’s starts taking drugs. Because the person doesn’t know what to do, and the person doesn’t have the money to pay for those drugs. The person puts more debts on themselves by collecting the drugs on bank credit or lending money from somebody else. If the bank gets tired of giving the partners money, they get more financial trouble. They lose their house and sometime be unable to find a place to live. If one of the partner finds out that one of them has been gambling and lending money, they get into a fight which will lead to physical and psychological violence. Financial difficulties also causes anger, because of the problems they are having. It is human nature for any person who is having problems to get angry. The anger will cause them to argue a lot, which will lead to physical and emotional violence. Some partners are addicts of gambling and some like to spend money shopping for clothes and shoes. They have financial problems, but they can’t stop themselves from doing what they are addicted to. There are…show more content…
Infidelity is being unfaithful to a partner by having an intimate relationship with another person. Spouses get angry because their partner has cheated on them with another person. By getting angry they physically or psychological abuse their partners. Spouses that are psychologically abused show symptoms of, poor self-esteem, anxiety, depression and a distorted sense of reality (Michael and Trotter), in this case men partners cheat on their female partners, and most of them get away with it. Because the women are not strong enough to stand up to the men. The least the women can do is ask or file for a divorce, in this case the male falsely ague or deny. Only the strong women file or ask for a divorce, the weak ones get threatened by their male partners. This makes them stay and continue living with their male partners, and the male continue to abuse them. But male partners are not always the one’s cheating on their female partners. Although the females are always considered the victims, they can also be the one’s abusing their male partners. But if the females are the ones abusing the males, it is not usually physical abuse but psychological abuse. They cheat on the male partners which affects the male mentally, they start taking alcohol and other drugs in order to feel better. Some men even go as far as to commit suicide, which shouldn’t happen. Because nothing is worth a person’s life. As the male are emotionally abused
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