Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate Partner Violence
Look around. Can you spot them? She’s sitting next to you in class; she’s the lady that cashes your paycheck on Friday at the bank; she’s the nurse who gave you a tetanus shot; he’s the car salesman who sold you your car; he’s the guy your brother takes guitar lessons from; she’s the lesbian you met last week at the flower shop; he’s the gay guy who serves you pizza at the local pizzeria; maybe it’s your best friend, mother or father. Unfortunately there are no distinctive characteristics to identify an abuser or the abused.
Women are victims of intimate partner violence at a rate about 5 times that of a male. Black females experience domestic violence at a rate of 35% higher than that of white females, and about 22 times the rate of women of other races. Domestic violence is most prominent among women between the ages of 16 and 24. Poorer women experience significantly more domestic violence than higher income women. For both men and women, divorced or separated persons were subjected to the highest rates of intimate partner victimization, followed by never-married persons. (Newton)
Hundreds of years ago domestic violence was a socially and legally accepted tradition. In other countries, physical violence was legal and promoted to keep women from acting out; they could not legally withhold sex from their husbands and were often raped. Today violence occurs between spouses, dating couples, former spouses, gay and lesbian partners. Now when violence occurs between intimate partners and law enforcement is contacted, one, sometimes both, will be incarcerated. In years past, back to the beginning of time, violence has been a socially and legally accepted tradition. For example, in Islamic culture, the men justify beatings of the wife with a verse from the Qu’ran.
Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the
Intimate Partner Violence
Look around. Can you spot them? She’s sitting next to you in class; she’s the lady that cashes your paycheck on Friday at the bank; she’s the nurse who gave you a tetanus shot; he’s the car salesman who sold you your car; he’s the guy your brother takes guitar lessons from; she’s the lesbian you met last week at the flower shop; he’s the gay guy who serves you pizza at the local pizzeria; maybe it’s your best friend, mother or father. Unfortunately there are no distinctive characteristics to identify an abuser or the abused.
Women are victims of intimate partner violence at a rate about 5 times that of a male. Black females experience domestic violence at a rate of 35% higher than that of white females, and about 22 times the rate of women of other races. Domestic violence is most prominent among women between the ages of 16 and 24. Poorer women experience significantly more domestic violence than higher income women. For both men and women, divorced or separated persons were subjected to the highest rates of intimate partner victimization, followed by never-married persons. (Newton)
Hundreds of years ago domestic violence was a socially and legally accepted tradition. In other countries, physical violence was legal and promoted to keep women from acting out; they could not legally withhold sex from their husbands and were often raped. Today violence occurs between spouses, dating couples, former spouses, gay and lesbian partners. Now when violence occurs between intimate partners and law enforcement is contacted, one, sometimes both, will be incarcerated. In years past, back to the beginning of time, violence has been a socially and legally accepted tradition. For example, in Islamic culture, the men justify beatings of the wife with a verse from the Qu’ran.
Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the
Cited: Stark, Evan. Family Violence. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 2000. Yuwiler, Janice. Family Violence. San Diego: Thomson Gale, 2004.