Power And Control Wheel

The greatest problem facing health care is domestic violence. Over the years more attention has been provided on defining domestic violence and its causes. Still women and men are struggling with leaving their partners. Women have been finding it easier than men to get resources yet the number still remains high. States have been working on ways to control the batters but victims find themselves at more risk when they leave the batter's. The power of control wheel was created in order to educate people on the types of disadvantages victims may have in an domestic violence relationship.
The power and control wheel is designed to explain the main reason why batterers abuse their victims. The wheel is designed with power and control directly …show more content…
Male privilege since the beginning of time has caused controversy for women. In the beginning of time women were thought of as property of men. Women had to run basically their full life through that of mens. In the power of control wheel women are found subjective to men. As they are treated like slaves are not an individual person and have to treat their batters as kings. This causes a lot of harm for the women as they think that men are suppose to treat them in such ways and are often finding themselves returning to the endless cycle of abuse and control. Usually these women have trouble with finding new …show more content…
The power of control wheel also includes a section on the batters using the children as a means for women to stay. They usually threaten the women to take away the children and sometimes even give the women threats on how they are going to mistreat the kids if she were to leave. The use of threatening by using the children is also another example of the emotional abuse. The victims when being threaten with their children often times feel obligated to follow the request of the batters because of the fear that they do not want their children to suffer the way they are.
Isolation is one common factor most women who struggle with domestic violence have in common. Their batters make it in a way where the women can not have any contact with anyone who is not a person approved by them. Usually women become so isolated that they do not even communicate with their families. The batter does this so that the women do not get any ideas in leaving. Isolating falls under the controlling behaviors that betters begin to adapt. They do this so that the victim finds themselves struggling to