DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
INTRODUCTION
Imagine being beaten up, whipped around, smacked to the point you drop…EVERYDAY, Imagine seeing your brothers and sisters going through serious pain…constantly waking up with a Black eye, bruised body and cuts all around all because a family member was angry, drunk or they’ve been abused themselves …Domestic Violence is a bad habit and let this inspire you to help firstly
Domestic Violence has many effects on our families…people think it’s a norm for them when really it’s not…we all have our reasons why we get physically abused by our parents or family member, usually because their Drunk, Angry or maybe we have just done wrong…Families are so used to thinking ‘Beatings teach you a lesson’ when really it doesn’t…This Behaviour can impact the way children are brought up because what they see at home is how they treat others and also when they grow older they will do the same thing to their children and so on…Domestic Violence also break our families apart and that’s why children are Motherless or Fatherless .
One in three women experience psychological or physical abuse from their partners in their lifetime1. On average 14 women, six men and 10 children are killed by a member of their family every year. Police are called to around 200 domestic violence situations a day – that’s one every seven minutes on average. Police estimate only 18% of domestic violence incidents are reported. At least 74,785 children and young people aged under 17 were present at domestic violence situations attended by police. 84% of those arrested for domestic violence are men; 16% are women. The economic cost of domestic violence was estimated at $1.2 to $5.8 billion per year by economist Suzanne Snively in 19962. In today’s figures, that would be up to $8 billion. In the 2009/10 year there were 3,867 domestic violence cases in the Family Court which each involved at least one child.
INTRODUCTION
Imagine being beaten up, whipped around, smacked to the point you drop…EVERYDAY, Imagine seeing your brothers and sisters going through serious pain…constantly waking up with a Black eye, bruised body and cuts all around all because a family member was angry, drunk or they’ve been abused themselves …Domestic Violence is a bad habit and let this inspire you to help firstly
Domestic Violence has many effects on our families…people think it’s a norm for them when really it’s not…we all have our reasons why we get physically abused by our parents or family member, usually because their Drunk, Angry or maybe we have just done wrong…Families are so used to thinking ‘Beatings teach you a lesson’ when really it doesn’t…This Behaviour can impact the way children are brought up because what they see at home is how they treat others and also when they grow older they will do the same thing to their children and so on…Domestic Violence also break our families apart and that’s why children are Motherless or Fatherless .
One in three women experience psychological or physical abuse from their partners in their lifetime1. On average 14 women, six men and 10 children are killed by a member of their family every year. Police are called to around 200 domestic violence situations a day – that’s one every seven minutes on average. Police estimate only 18% of domestic violence incidents are reported. At least 74,785 children and young people aged under 17 were present at domestic violence situations attended by police. 84% of those arrested for domestic violence are men; 16% are women. The economic cost of domestic violence was estimated at $1.2 to $5.8 billion per year by economist Suzanne Snively in 19962. In today’s figures, that would be up to $8 billion. In the 2009/10 year there were 3,867 domestic violence cases in the Family Court which each involved at least one child.