DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ABUSE

Domestic Violence And Abuse

Abstract

Domestic violence encompasses far more than acts of physical abuse. It involves a perpetrator attempting to exert power and control over his or her partner, and a variety of types of abuse can be used as tools to achieve that goal. These can include physical abuse (e.g., hitting the victim, physically restraining the victim, breaking objects, physical acts). Such acts cause the aggression in the behavior of the child.

Domestic Violence And Abuse

Background

Since the late 1970s, attention paid to domestic violence has increased exponentially. It is now one of the types of victimization garnering the most policy and research attention. Initially, domestic violence was defined narrowly as physical violence perpetrated by husbands against their wives. This definition has evolved in the last 30 years as people have come to realize that violence exists in all kinds of romantic relationships. Here, domestic violence is defined broadly as abuse perpetrated by one romantic partner (or ex-partner) against another. Other terms used to characterize abuse in a romantic relationship are intimate partner violence, spouse abuse, battering, and dating violence. This entry details how common domestic violence is, the kinds of abuse victims experience, risk factors for abuse, and how abuse impacts victims, their children, and the community.

Introduction

Domestic violence is any action or omission starring the members who comprise the group family, this can be by marriage, blood or affiliation and transformed into aggressors relations between them causing damage to physical, psychological, sexual, economic or social one or several of them. This abuse can be specified as:

Physical acts that threaten or attack the person's body such as pushes, slaps, punches, kicks, etc.

Psychological Attitudes have intended to cause fear, intimidation, and controlling behaviour, feelings and thoughts of the person who is being targeted as the insults, insults, control, etc.

Economic: Do not cover the person's basic needs and exercise control over resources economic.

Statement of the Problem

“Children who grew up around domestic violence turn out to be emotionally disturbed”

This is the basic problem that is why the behavior of the children varies; the domestic violence creates negative impacts on the brain of the child. In order to evaluate the behavior of the child the above mention problem is discussed here, because the solution of this problem will provide better guideline to maintain the good behavior of the child.

Literature Review Conceptual Framework

There are two ways to measure how common domestic violence is incidence and prevalence. In the case of domestic violence, incidence is best thought of as the number of acts of domestic violence during a given time in a given population. Prevalence is best thought of as the proportion of a population that has experienced domestic violence in a specified time period. If every victim experienced only one act of domestic violence in a year, incidence and prevalence numbers would be the same for that year. However, typically incidence figures are higher than prevalence figures when based on the same ...