Cycle Of Domestic Violence
Domestic violence
Domestic violence described by Webster dictionary is "violent or aggressive behavior within the home, typically involving the violent abuse of a spouse or partner". Partner violence is any sexual ,physical, verbal, or emotional abuse of one partner by the other. Generally, Abuse or violence occurs in a repetitive pattern known as " The cycle of violence". The cycle consists of three phases: Tension Building, Abusive Incident and The Honeymoon or recapture period.
An average of 28% of high school and college students experience dating violence at some point. What starts off as one argument can turn into an everyday event, which can lead to the tension building phase. When partners are in disagreements sometimes they do not know how to properly handle the situation. The tension begins to increase, making the relationship dangerous and the tension building stage increase. The abuser will typically not pay attention if the victim does try to break the tension.
From 1994 to 2010, about four in five victims of intimate partner violence were female. The abusive incident may be physical or emotional sometimes sexual violence will also occur. Most times it will also include threatening behavior, harassment and destructive behavior. At times it is difficult to know if you are being abused if you have never been in that …show more content…
The calm period or as some refer to it as the honeymoon stage. The honeymoon stage is when the abuser tries to justify or make up for his or her abusive behavior. The abuser my say say they are sorry and that it will never happen again. The victim then still realizes that it is not normal to act that way but they are sometimes sucked back into that dangerous environment. That is the reason that the honeymoon stage is called " Recapture". In the recapture stage the abuser will do and say anything to draw the victim back
Domestic violence described by Webster dictionary is "violent or aggressive behavior within the home, typically involving the violent abuse of a spouse or partner". Partner violence is any sexual ,physical, verbal, or emotional abuse of one partner by the other. Generally, Abuse or violence occurs in a repetitive pattern known as " The cycle of violence". The cycle consists of three phases: Tension Building, Abusive Incident and The Honeymoon or recapture period.
An average of 28% of high school and college students experience dating violence at some point. What starts off as one argument can turn into an everyday event, which can lead to the tension building phase. When partners are in disagreements sometimes they do not know how to properly handle the situation. The tension begins to increase, making the relationship dangerous and the tension building stage increase. The abuser will typically not pay attention if the victim does try to break the tension.
From 1994 to 2010, about four in five victims of intimate partner violence were female. The abusive incident may be physical or emotional sometimes sexual violence will also occur. Most times it will also include threatening behavior, harassment and destructive behavior. At times it is difficult to know if you are being abused if you have never been in that …show more content…
The calm period or as some refer to it as the honeymoon stage. The honeymoon stage is when the abuser tries to justify or make up for his or her abusive behavior. The abuser my say say they are sorry and that it will never happen again. The victim then still realizes that it is not normal to act that way but they are sometimes sucked back into that dangerous environment. That is the reason that the honeymoon stage is called " Recapture". In the recapture stage the abuser will do and say anything to draw the victim back