Home Violence And Abuse - Tragically, It Reaches Across All Societal And Socio-Economic Divides

by Carl 

Relationship violence occurs in all cultures, against people of all races, ethnicities, religious belief systems, and classes. Domestic violence is known by many terms including husband or wife beating, battering, home abuse, spousal abuse, and family abuse and violence, which is a wider definition often used to include child abuse, elder abuse, or other violent and abusive acts between family members. It also takes on many forms aside from physical and bodily violence; sexual abuse, emotional abuse, intimidation, fiscal deprivation, or threats of harm and violence all constitute domestic violence. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), abusive relationships are a serious, preventable public health issue that affects more than 32 million American citizens. This number only reflects the number of cases that are reported; it is approximated that in the United States, as many as one third of domestic violence cases are never reported.

Relationship violence occurs when a family member, partner, or ex-partner tries to psychologically or physically dominate the victim. Most often the term refers to abusive relationships between spouses, but can also include co-habitants and non-married relationship partners. The United States Office of Violence Against Women (OVW) defines domestic violence as a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another relationship partner. Home abuse can be physical and range from tossing objects, the threat of harm and violence, harm to pets, unwanted physical contact, or murder and rape. Violence can also be psychological in these abusive relationships, involving emotional abuse, and fiscal and/or social control, such as controlling the victim's money or not allowing communication with family or friends. Sufferers in this scenario find themselves completely isolated from the outside world due to the fear they have of the victimizer.

Increased attention to home abuse began during the women's liberation movement, and violence and harm against women has continued to be a major focus of modern feminism, and is now synonymously known as intimate partner violence. Domestic violence should not ever happen to anybody, but it does. It's never a pleasant topic, and the very best solution is to prevent violence before it begins. For more factual information on news and research about coping with violence and abuse, symptoms, prevention and screening, law and policy, and statistics, go on the web to the National Institute of Health web-page. Other good resources can be found at End Abuse and Women's Law, which feature free, simple to understand legal factual information and resources for battered women. It takes monumental effort to get out of a physically or psychologically abusive relationship, but there is help if you happen to know where to locate it.

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