Paper Topic:

Domestic violence

Definition of Domestic Violence

Domestic violence is a way of behavior that includes threatening and intimidating a marriage partner for the purpose of controlling and having power over the partner . It is a way f abusing the rights /feelings of a partner . It can come as an emotional abuse , physical abuse or sexual abuse

Emotional abuse can be done through different means and below are examples :-

Ridiculing one 's valued beliefs and /or religion

Embracing someone in public

Dictating to someone how they spent their money or asking for

someone earnings by force

Insulting or ill treating the relatives of ones partner

Dictating or interfering in the choice of social life a partner is leading

Ignoring the partner 's feelings

Mistreating the partner by may be hiding the keys to the bedroom or to the car to just make someone suffer

Keeping important information from the partner

Ransacking the bags or pockets and mobile phone of a partner (spying on them

A partner who keeps lying or giving contradicting information to his spouse

Physical abuse includes the following :-

-Threatening with a weapon

- Slapping

- pushing or shoving the partner

- Kicking or strangling

- Abandoning the partner in a dangerous place (may be the two had driven far from the town and once outside there the partner forces another out of the car and leaves her there

- Hitting or punching the partner

- locking the partner out of the house or inside the house to restrict the partner from going where she s

Sexual abuse may include the following :-

Sharing jokes that are gender based

Treating a partner as though she were a sex object

Criticizing someone sexually

Forcing someone into sex or to force someone to watch others having sex

Assuming and condemning the partner of having sexual intercourse with other people

Cheating in a relationship even after agreeing to remain faithful

Insulting using sexual words like whore

Forcing someone into sex after physically abusing them

Taking advantage of when the partner is weak and having sex with her

Evolution of Domestic Violence

During the early 1970 's a movement in the United States began for battered women , the theory why women were battered was based on a psychopathology . It was understood that men who battered their wives were mentally ill and could be medically or psychiatrically treated Research found out that the behavior of perpetrators of domestic violence didn 't match those of mental illnesses . Batterers only abused their intimate partners . People suffering from mental illnesses abuse anyone without limit . Initial research had shown women who were victims of domestic violence as those with mental illnesses . After some time these results were contradicted by the fact that women who were battered were not necessarily mentally ill but were judged this way because there was a failure in understanding their physical and psychological effects of the violence

Then research came up with a theory that violence was learned . There was an argument that men...

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