Domestic Abuse

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Women in China were once executed for killing abusive spouses. Over time, the sentences became lighter. In Mrs. Li’s case, her husband abused her by grabbing her hair and hit her head against the wall, stubbed cigarettes on her face and legs, and even lock her out of the house at night. He wasn’t done with abusing her, so he decided to sexually abuse her. One night Mrs. Li’s husband came home in a drunken state and threatened to kill her with an air rifle. She then grabbed the rifle and slammed in his head twice, killing him. Afterwards, she cut off his head and put it in the pressure cooker. Then chopped his body pieces and boiled it before calling the police. Before all of this happenings, Mrs. Li had called her lawyer but instead of doing …show more content…
Athletes are trained to do combat on the field and most likely carry it on to their personal relationships. Domestic abuse is wrong. It’s answer is not public humiliation, but education.
Child maltreatment can cause serious health issues. Child maltreatment ruins the child’s psychological and physical well-being. It tear families apart and cost society billions of dollars. The U.S Department of Health and Human Services estimated that in 2004 872,000 children were victims of child abuse and neglect. The sad reality of child abuse is the younger they are, the greater risk of maltreatment. Abused and neglected infants and toddlers can interfere with health, brain, mental and language or learning problems.
In 2005-2006, an estimation of 553,000 children were abused physically, sexually and emotionally. The abuse dropped since down 26 percent since 1993 with an estimation of 743,200 abuse victims. Sexually abused children in 1993 decreased from 217,700 to 135,500 in 2005-2006. Which makes a 38 percent drop. Children who experienced physical abuse fell by 15 percent and 27 percent for emotionally abuse. Now, there are more public awareness and intolerance abuse. Poor children were three times more abused. Rates of African-American were much more higher than Hispanics and

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