Spousal Abuse And Domestic Violence

The main topic of this paper is spouse abuse. The five sub topics are socialization and stress explanations for spousal abuse, employment and the risk of domestic violence among low income women, status relationships in marriage and the risk factors of abuse, domestic violence in African American communities, and wife abuse in urban Russian couples. It will also look at and determine what factors play a role in spousal abuse and explain to the reader how to potentially avoid spousal abuse. Abuse happens in relationships of all races and cultures. Many do not understand how abuse is possible in a relationship but spousal abuse is becoming more and more common. The chances of spousal abuse will continue to rise until a study can determine what
Domestic violence is a crime in the United States that mostly goes unreported and is very underestimated. Many cases are not reported due to fear. Causes of spousal abuse vary depending on what survey one reads but it is easy to understand that so many things have to go right in order for spousal abuse to be avoided. African American domestic abuse is not reported or investigated often so that is what Huang and Gunn (2001) look into; they look into causes of domestic violence in the African American communities. Cubbins and Vannoy (2005) look into urban Russian couples and if absolute socioeconomic resources effect spousal abuse. Both of these studies show different results in what is the main cause of spousal abuse. Cubbins and Vannoy (2005) find that husbands with the lowest or highest socioeconomic resources are less likely to be abusive husbands than those who are in the middle of the socioeconomic resources. This may be because those that have middle socioeconomic statuses have more standards that they have to live up to as well as more stress to deal with in the relationship. People with low socioeconomic resources are less likely to abuse their partner because that partner is most likely working as well, which makes the income being brought in extremely important. Those with high socioeconomic resources are less likely to abuse their partner because usually this couple has everything
all (2005) look into how the earning income of the single mother may affect abuse in the relationship. Hornung et. all (1981) discovered in their study that women who work while in an abusive relationship are the least likely to experience psychological and physical abuse as well as life-threatening violence. Women who remain a housewife are the most likely to experience this. Gibson-Davis, et. all (2005) find that women who work outside the home are less likely to be victims of domestic violence. The increase of income into the relationship seems to decrease the chances of abuse as well but this can be misleading (Gibson-Davis, et. all 2005). One reason as to why the low-income women abuse study is misleading is because the more a woman works, the more she is away from her abuser. It would be almost impossible to determine if the decrease in abuse was due to an increase in money or a decrease in the time a woman has with her attacker. This is interesting because in the study done by Cubbins and Vannoy (2005), the income of the husband or male partner is not a strong factor in abuse whereas the women’s income seems to have a great effect. It becomes clear that income does not appear to be the most significant topic related to spousal