Family Violence: The Cause Of Domestic Violence

Most people may argue that they would more likely encounter violent behaviors outside the families than inside the family, but surprisingly this is untrue. Domestic violence is more common than people believe it would be. According to what we learned in class, family violence includes child and adult abuse that occurs between family members or adult intimate partners. For children, this includes acts by others that are physically and emotionally harmful or that carry the potential to cause physical harm. For various kinds of reasons, although family violence has drawn more attention than it did in the past, many family violence victims choose not to report the abuse, so family violence today still did not raise enough social awareness. In this …show more content…
Most children are not able to report the abuse, or they are afraid that reporting the abuse would bring even worse consequences. There are different kinds of child abuse, includes sibling rivalry, is when a child is bullied by their siblings; parents exposing children to sibling rivalry is also a kind of abuse; other parent abuse, which includes physical abuse, sexual abuse and psychological/emotional abuse; children witnessing abuse, is when children watch one parent abusing another, this could cause children grow up to be distrusting, afraid of marriage or commitment; and most common child abuse is neglect, such as abandonment, fail to provide physical care and emotional care, neglect could sometimes cause children’s death. Some children are too young to speak about their abuse, some are frightened, and when the brave children do tell adults that they are abused at home, they are often blamed and distrusted, adults may think those children are just lying to seek attention from their parents. And many people think child abusing is a private issue, they could just solve the problem within their family. In some culture, they find child abuse to be a common phenomenon, according to Lau, Joseph T. F. , in Hong Kong, 41.2% people felt physical abuse was common; 76.9 felt child neglect was common; 47.4% people felt psychological abuse was common; sexual abuse was less aware(P1). Those parents …show more content…
most common forms of elder abuse are physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse economic abuse and neglect. Recently, number of elder people being violent abused by family members are on the rise, according to the textbook, since 2012, this number has increased by 14%. Elder females are more likely to be abused by family members than elder male; and different societies also treat elder people differently, in China and Middle East and Aboriginal groups, older age means higher social status, older people are more respected there; but in North America, older people are marginalized because of their lack of wealth, power, mobility, and physical perfection, so we can understand that abusing elder people in China, Middle East and aboriginal groups are more likely to be criticized than in North America. Dependency theory is also a theory explains family violence, this relate to Canada’s aging population, when elder people retire, they lose the ability of earning money, so they have to be economically or financially dependent on their children. According to Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, “Financial abuse is one of the most common forms of abuse against seniors and frequently goes unreported.” (P1). Many elder people are abused when their children get stressed; interestingly, more