Essays on Battering

Everybody has memories of their childhood, both good and bad, but it is the good ones that many people remember. But that does not rule out the possibility of remembering bad memories because they also bring into a person sad memories they would wish to forget. In the poem, My Papa’s Waltz that is written by Theodore Roethke, a picture of a boy waltzing with his father is created. By the look of things, the story is told by a grown man who has gone back into time to pick an incident from his childhood. The title of ...

In Bebe Moore Campbell’s, Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine, there are fictional stories about several people. The stories are set in rural Mississippi where there are clear forms of racial segregation. A good example is the killing of a poor fifteen year old black boy, Armstrong, on racial grounds because he spoke French to a white woman, Lily. Perhaps the most pitiful person in the text is Lily because of how she is treated by her husband. First of all, she is a school dropout. She then goes on to get married to Floyd, a young man who owns a pool hall ...

Domestic violence is also known as domestic abuse, intimate partner abuse and intimate partner violence. It is defined as a type of maltreatment that occurs in a romantic relationship . However, it is not isolated only between heterosexual relationships but also among homosexual partners. In fact, there are studies which suggest that the statistics of domestic violence among homosexual relationship continues to exist because majority of homosexuals who are victims of domestic abuse are personally restrained by their fear of being further humiliated or condemned. In the early part of 2014, as documented by MedicineNet.com approximately 2 million women ...

The Wall Street Journal has prepared this year’s Major League Baseball Hateability Index. The teams have been rated and given points based on the their mal-practices exercised by them. Higher points here on the index suggest greater more hateability. That is, the more points a team secures, the more it becomes a is a subject of scorn and disgust. Points are allotted to the erring teams have based on malpractices, includingbeen given on issues such as suspension for drug abuses, having keeping funny beards, opponent battering, and alsoeven for winning too much. This year the number of criteria for constructing configuring ...

Introduction

In the United States alone, statistics show that one in every four women experience domestic violence (NCADV, n.d.). The National Coalition against Domestic Violence (NCADV) reported that around 1.3 million women in the US have been victimized and subjected to physical assault by their partners. Although domestic violence affects both men and women, NCADV reiterated that 85 percent – the majority – of all victims are women. Other alarming facts about domestic violence is that in most cases, women do not report these violent incidents to the police due to fear. Moreover, in families, children witness violence between their parents, which ...

Violence Against Women

Violence Against Women

Question 1

Feminist researches have made important contributions to the field of survey research and the methods of measuring sexual assault and intimate partner violence. Describe the major methodological contributions of feminist researchers as well as the advantages of dedicated violence against women surveys.

Response 1

The feminist researches materialized research models that are relevant, legitimate, and popular. Both the quality and validity of the findings are beyond contentions and it produced important results that provided suitable guidelines for policies vital in the modern society. The domains and basic methodological principles are very diverse and wide. In addition, the type ...

Gender inequality has been a major issue from the old times and it still remains to be a controversial issue particularly for women. There are a number of gender disparities in the world. Some of the gender inequalities are displayed in “Happy Ending” by Margret Atwood. The reference of “Happy Ending” is going to be used often through this paper since it is the book being studied. Women have always been subjected to lower social power compared to men. In Margaret Atwood’s story “Happy Ending”, there are instances of these forms of gender inequality. It is evident, according to the author, ...

Introduction

The Kingdom of Matthias story relates to the emergence of a religious cult in New York in the early 1820’s. Led by Robert Mathews, the religious cult influenced the local people through market revolution and second great awakening. The market revolution and the great awakening was a prophecy created by Matthias and his followers that stipulated that there would be no market, no buying, no selling, and no wage systems in the region. Matthias gained a lot of followers who were driven by the economic situation and necessities. In New York, individuals felt the urge to join the cult because they ...

Two individuals who decide to enter into a relationship, and get married or live together often to start a family, both intend to “live happily ever after.” However, this is not always the case in our present society. Violence in the domicile has become more prevalent, either because there have been an increased number of reports or such cases have increased in frequencies. This paper looks into the existing body of literature to identify the areas which have been extensively studied. The findings of a select number of scholarly materials will be presented in the succeeding sections focusing on the following aspects: (a) ...

Gender role in Intimate partner abuse victimization and perpetration has for the last several decades been debated. There are two perspectives that have emerged from the article that I have read. From family violence perspective, researchers seem to argue that both men and women are at equal rate violent and have called for the issue to be reframed from woman battering to more appropriate family violence. Feminist researchers on the other hand seem to have maintenance that men are most perpetrators that the police dealt with while in majority women are victims in the cases of IPA. The article ...

Introduction

Gender is a word mostly used according to the sphere of study. It generally describes femininity or masculinity of a person and what each is associated to or roles attached to each. It is also extended to cover the state of being either a male or a female. Several gender roles are attached to ethnicity of a person. Ethnicity on the other hand is the grouping of people according to their ethics and traditions. This can be well elaborated by use tribal names and features that show the ethnic origin of a person.

Thesis statement

In most African countries, ethnicity has taken root in the society ...

Effects of Domestic Violence on families and Marriages

Domestic violence has got negative consequences to the victim, family and marriage. According to Kaspiew (43), it is evident that domestic violence leaves trauma in lives of the victims. Domestic violence has been established as one of the causes of divorce and family chaos. For instance, if one of the partners chooses to be abusive, the relationship loses its building units and the abused partner starts to tolerate the abuser. However, when the trauma is too much to take, the partner can choose to walk out of the marriage or to look for help from the friends. Sometimes, following ...

Effects of Domestic Violence on families and Marriages

It is evident according to the victims that leaving a marriage that is abusive is not an easy task. It is said to be a very critical and difficult decision that in most cases has to be made with the help of legal advice or counselor so as to ensure the children’s safety and that of the victim also. However, currently there are many available resources which are meant to protect domestic violence victims from cases such as loss of jobs, free counseling, financial aid, and provision of shelter temporarily not comparing to the story of Ruth in the book ...

1.0 Domestic violence, PTSD and women

Research has proven that battering and violence in the families are major causes of post-traumatic stress disorders among the victims (PTSD). The problem of intimate patner violence has become a very widespread calamity in the world today. It involves physical or bodily assaults, emotional distress, and traumatizing responses by one patner to another.Women in particular, form the larger population of people experiencing domestic violence. This makes them to be most vulnerable to mental disorders that result from experiencing violence, and in particular PTSD. According to a study by Loring Jones, Margaret Ughes and Ulrike Unterstaller, battered women are great victims of ...

The code of conduct thence, build by members of the two different gender namely male and female are given poignant preeminence since they have been inherently cultured to create into women a docile lam like character that places them under some helpless disposition of abuse by their male colleagues. It is this abhorred state of affairs that the writer tries to satirize in the exposition that are eminent in the stories thereof. The writer presents a female character who disabuses the mythology of female gender inferiority and separates with her abusive husband when the marriage life that she had initially craved ...

Battering, also referred to as spousal abuse, family violence, intimate partner violence, or simply domestic violence is a pattern or cycle of abusive behaviors in intimate relationships like marriage, cohabitation, family, or dating. It occurs in many forms such as physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, economic deprivation, intimidation, threats, passive abuse, and stalking, among others. Battering is defined as the infliction of physical or other forms of injury by one partner on the other. In the case of wife battering, the violence is inflicted by the man on the woman. Battering of women results from various factors including, ...

Introduction

When a child or adolescent experiences a health issue often affects all family members and the functioning of the family unit. In this paper, reference is made to a given family scenario in undertaking family assessment. The main purpose of this paper is to identify some of the actual and potential health and social problems/issues that families experience and how these problems affect the functioning of the family unit. The key points of discussion include, health and social issues/problems experienced by the family, effects of these problems to the functioning of family unit, key strength factors evidence in the given family scenario, ...