The Effects Of Domestic Violence

Emotional abuse can be just as severe or in some cases more brutal than physical abuse. Physical abuse may leave a victim with visible scars, but sometimes emotional abuse has lingering lifelong effects. When a person is emotionally abused it can affect their confidence and perception of the world. The abusive partner will usually identify and focus on things that they perceive to be valuable to the victim in order to control them. One way of controlling a victim is by withholding access to things like money and basic essentials. The goal is to make the victim to feel and in essence become totally dependant upon their mate.

Domestic violence has long term and short term effects on victims. “Victims may abuse alcohol or drugs and experience depression, eating disorders, or other types of psychological distress” (Gelles). Long term effects could be that they go through depression, begin to abuse alcohol or drugs, or suffer through eating disorders. Being a victim and if they run they have to be aware of their surroundings to make sure that they are not following them.They might not trust anyone for a long time and that could cause them to go through these things because they do not have anyone to talk to.

Domestic violence is the most overlooked, misunderstood offense. Anyone can go through it, but many can’t endure the pain it brings. According to (www.helpguide.org), people whose partners abuse them physically and sexually are at a higher risk of being seriously injured or killed. Most people wonder why doesn’t the victim leave the relationship, well it is not that easy. “The question, ‘Why does she stay?’ is code for some people for, it’s her fault for staying,’ as if domestic violence victims intentionally choose to fall in love with men intent upon destroying us” -Leslie Morgan Steiner (www.azquotes.com).

As an undergraduate research assistant in a lab focused on intimate partner violence, recruiting participants always brought a challenge and often resulted in an uncomfortable confrontation. The lab’s main project recruits pregnant women and children to participate in a study on violence during pregnancy, need for community services, and the well-being of women and children. In order to study the effects of intimate partner violence, however, we must continually follow-up with existing participants to schedule yearly interviews as well as reach out to potential participants. Follow-up phone calls and the scheduling of interviews pose a risk and are often challenging to schedule because victims of violence are forced to move and keep information

This article provides an overview on domestic and intimate violence against women. It outlines the different cycles of domestic violence that a victim experiences whether if its emotionally, physically, and/or sexually, and how the cycle rehashes its self until the victim finally reaches out and seeks help. The article also expounds on being a victim of domestic violence can affect you mentally, and emotionally. It explains how it makes women afraid of men when they are victimized by them. Some women do not leave because they believe that the abuser loves them, and at some point in they are going to change. In most relationships, the abuse begins emotionally and later becomes physical if the victim does not recognize the abuse early on.

Domestic violence is a sensitive topic even though media and society are providing more information about this topic. Domestic violence not only affects women but children and family in general. This issue is a very sensitive topic and not a lot of individuals are comfortable talking about it or sharing if they have either experience or have someone in their lives that had been subjected to abuse. Sadly, domestic violence is experienced by many people and it does not matter what race, gender, social status, or education people are from. Domestic violence is the term most known among individual, but other refer to this issue as violence against women because predominately women are the victims of abuse. Throughout the essay, there will be

The study of human culture provides us with a look into other cultures from an up-close and distinct perspective, which allows us to better understand their culture and way of life. Taking an objective look at another culture without being somewhat biased can be a difficult task. This being the case, we must examine culture by using emic and etic perspectives. An emic perspective is an insider views; observing the culture from within the culture itself. An etic perspective is an outsider’s view of a culture; evaluating the culture through the eyes of someone who is not part of the culture.

Statistically, women experience the negative impacts of intimate partner violence at a greater rate than men, with as many as 23% of women worldwide experiencing measured negative impact in comparison to 6.9% of men (García-Moreno et al., 2013). According to the World Health Organization, women who have experienced intimate partner violence are almost twice as likely to experience symptoms of depression as women who have not had this negative experience (García-Moreno et al., 2013). Intimate partner violence also contributes to PTSD, with 20% of women in the United States experiencing one or more symptoms of PTSD as a result of experiences with intimate partner violence (Breiding, 2011). Additionally, in the United States, 42% of women who experienced intimate partner violence sustained a physical injury (Breiding, 2011). The impacts listed, both mental and physical, are not relegated only to the victims, but also to society, as the health system and the criminal justice system are taxed with trying to provide appropriate and necessary services to victims, survivors, perpetrators, and children

Domestic violence has a significant effect on a child psychological mindset, whether the child is the victim of domestic violence or is strictly the witness of these actions. Nevertheless, domestic violence can certainly cause a child to become fearful and anxious around certain individuals, which eventually causes a child to lose trust in specific figures in their life.

Women who have experienced abusive violence are in a long process of healing both physically and mentally, due to multiple traumas affecting the mind and body. It is usual for this to happen but is crucial and important to take action and began to process and heal. If it is not brought to attention it could worsen throughout time. “According to a study done by the Centers for Disease Control, nearly three in every 10 women-about 32 million-in the United States have experienced rape, physical violence and/or stalking by an intimate partner reported at least one measured impact or effect related to forms of violent behavior in that relationship” Affects of Domestic Violence. Obviously every victim suffers a variety of traumas. Factors that could influence the outcome of the trauma is age, frequency, degree, and over all impact. It's is important to learn about the effects of violence. Recovering is possible but will take time and painful memories. But entitles to discovering your inner

Underreported and underestimated, domestic abuse rips families apart every single day. Domestic violence comes in mainly five different forms, physical, sexual, psychological, emotional, and economic. This violence ruins families, demoralizes the victims, and the public downplays the household terrorism that goes on every day. Generally thought of as taboo, the public belittles and humorizes domestic abuse as a way to deal with it, that avoidance must come to an end.

Every day, women and men fall victim to deceptive love mates or spouses who purported to be (prior to the commitment) everything except who they really are. Sometimes this is a negative result of "love at first sight," a phenomenon that occurs when two people who meet each other for the first time and claim to instantaneously fall in love. Statistics show that 2/3 of people in the U.S. believe in love at first sight and 20% of them often marry the object of their affection unaware that the object of their desire is truly less than desirable. Although some of them may end up staying marrying well over what it is considered the national average, many of them, whether they marry the person or not, often end up in abusive relationships that many

Domestic violence often goes deeper than the bruises on its victim’s flesh. The lasting mental effects are usually what rips apart a victim and destroys their entire life. These disorders are very serious problems, and can even lead people to think they have no other way out and as a result they commit suicide. People should be more aware of the mental effects of domestic violence because not enough attention is given to the severity of these mental illnesses.

The violence women experience in domestic abuse can be life threatening, and even long term. The types of injuries women are exposed to are horrendous. These injuries are followed by emotion, psychological, and sexual abuse (Fergusson, Horwood, & Ridder 2005). Family

Oftentimes, the root cause of domestic abuse is when an individual feels as if they have no control over another. By doing this they believe that if they tear at the victim’s self-esteem they can gain control. Eighty-five percent of domestic violence victims are women. Thirty to sixty