Informative Essay On Domestic Violence
Nikenya Moore
Ms. A. Credle
English III
15 February 2013
Domestic Violence
In the US, it has been estimated that 9.8% of women had experienced abuse within the previous two years. An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of abuse and physically assaulted by an intimate partner each year. According to experts, instances of domestic violence across the board are under reported for a variety of reasons. There are about 1,500 shelters for battered women in the United States. There are more resources to go with than going to a shelter. You could go to family member, call police, friends or co-worker etc. You should go anywhere that's safer for you and your children if children are involved. Domestic violence highly impacts the victim, abuser, …show more content…
and the bystander.
Majority of people always assume that domestic violence is just physical abuse.
Domestic violence is more than just physical. Domestic violence can be considered as verbal, isolation, sexually and even controlling your whereabouts making most of your decisions for you. All that basically falls under domestic violence is when your partner women/ men wants’ more control over you than your are willing to give. You and your partner don’t have to just be married to experienced domestic violence. You may be may be married heterosexual, same sex, living together, separated or dating. Some abuse may come from the partner being out of controlled. The abuser may have been high or drunk before they hit their partner.
People aren't randomly picked to be abused or killed by domestic violence. Both women and men can witness abuse or experienced domestic violence. Women are likely to be abused because of weakness or fear of a man with power to take your life at any time. That still isn't a reason for a man to abuse a woman. Victims can be of any age, young victims can abused uh7yu66i9in high school relationships, college relationship even at home abuse within fathers and daughters. Domestic violence can happen to anyone of age, sex, race culture, but it still shouldn’t
happen.
You cant spot abusers out from any other person in a crowd. It can be the person the least you aspect it to be. Some may be your father, your close friend maybe your brother. They wont show much of their abusive or controlling ways in person cause some people may suspect things are going on and they usually don’t wont to draw attention to their selves. It happens regardless. They may not show the abusive ways in public by still being calm, loving and nice to their partner. They switch ways behind close doors to their partner.
Domestic violence can happen on your home not only between partners. It can happen between adult children and adult family members etc. It can happen anywhere behind close doors or where anyone wont stop the the abuse or come in between to stop it.
Ms. A. Credle
English III
15 February 2013
Domestic Violence
In the US, it has been estimated that 9.8% of women had experienced abuse within the previous two years. An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of abuse and physically assaulted by an intimate partner each year. According to experts, instances of domestic violence across the board are under reported for a variety of reasons. There are about 1,500 shelters for battered women in the United States. There are more resources to go with than going to a shelter. You could go to family member, call police, friends or co-worker etc. You should go anywhere that's safer for you and your children if children are involved. Domestic violence highly impacts the victim, abuser, …show more content…
and the bystander.
Majority of people always assume that domestic violence is just physical abuse.
Domestic violence is more than just physical. Domestic violence can be considered as verbal, isolation, sexually and even controlling your whereabouts making most of your decisions for you. All that basically falls under domestic violence is when your partner women/ men wants’ more control over you than your are willing to give. You and your partner don’t have to just be married to experienced domestic violence. You may be may be married heterosexual, same sex, living together, separated or dating. Some abuse may come from the partner being out of controlled. The abuser may have been high or drunk before they hit their partner.
People aren't randomly picked to be abused or killed by domestic violence. Both women and men can witness abuse or experienced domestic violence. Women are likely to be abused because of weakness or fear of a man with power to take your life at any time. That still isn't a reason for a man to abuse a woman. Victims can be of any age, young victims can abused uh7yu66i9in high school relationships, college relationship even at home abuse within fathers and daughters. Domestic violence can happen to anyone of age, sex, race culture, but it still shouldn’t
happen.
You cant spot abusers out from any other person in a crowd. It can be the person the least you aspect it to be. Some may be your father, your close friend maybe your brother. They wont show much of their abusive or controlling ways in person cause some people may suspect things are going on and they usually don’t wont to draw attention to their selves. It happens regardless. They may not show the abusive ways in public by still being calm, loving and nice to their partner. They switch ways behind close doors to their partner.
Domestic violence can happen on your home not only between partners. It can happen between adult children and adult family members etc. It can happen anywhere behind close doors or where anyone wont stop the the abuse or come in between to stop it.