Difference/similarities in domestic violence within Military personal and civilian's families



Difference/similarities in domestic violence within Military personal and civilians families

Introduction

The domestic violence inclusive of spouse and child abuse is considered as a public health issue and exists from a longer time period in every society in both f the civilians and militants environment. It is one of noticeable and debatable issue in the US government as well. Congress has already taken notice of these issues by passing Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act in 1974 and formed a child abuse and neglect Center at National level to address theses issue, which is supported by the government. It is engaged in determination, and dealing of causes related to child abuse in US. But unfortunately there are no such agencies and associations established that keep records and analyze the issues pertaining to domestic violence despite of existing law by the name of National Violence Against the Women Act in 1994. However, these issues are tracked via conducting national surveys like that of National Violence against women survey, National Family violence surveys etc. The department of defense has taken several steps in counseling militants and advising them regarding child abuse and family violence oriented behaviors via Family Advocacy Program. As per research, domestic violence is much more common amongst military families as compare to civilians due to higher stress level that is common in military life style; for instance, relocations, isolation, dangerous nature of work, etc result in adverse social and cultural consequences (Rentz, D. E., et al., 2006).

History of abuse in Military and Civilians Life

Domestic Violence may refer to as the behavior that aims to threaten or abuse physically, sexually, psychologically, financially or emotionally, with family member or partner (Williamson, E., 2012). As per time magazine, violence on spouse or partner is double in military families as compare to civil ones i.e. one out of every three families may in military may suffer from spouse violence per year. The reason of higher difference in terms of rates among military and civilians is due to aggressive training style adapted by militants and strict culture. This has been acknowledged by many studies so far. As per the study conducted by Richard E. Heyman and Peter H. Neidig in 1999, in which 33,762 army men and 30044 civilians participated, the married army personnel had a domestic violence rate of 11% s compare to 10% rate of civilians. However, the difference between the two rates may have occurred due to the difference in age and race as well.

Other reasons include aggressive strict trainings in army and increasing issues faced by veterans, family background, and historical child abuse experiences. Several sociological studies have been conducted in this regard which takes into account the effect of military culture and aggressive behaviors particularly that is proved to be highly correlated with the spouse violence. Such factors differentiate the reasons behind domestic violence and its reliability of comparison between militants and civilians.

Child abuse is considered as a severe matter ...