Essay On Domestic Violence

There are many common features that can be identified within the problems of domestic violence, stalking, child-to-mother violence, and child sexual abuse. Many versions of these crimes involve domestic settings and therefore involves family members, causing many of the incidents to remain in private. Privacy allows for the protection of self-dignity and loved ones, as well as the prevention of increased levels of abuse or negative attention. Unfortunately these qualities intensify privacy within family and domestic atmospheres, which only adds to the many problems victims face when attempting to disengage from these forms of violence.

In terms of private qualities, domestic violence remains extremely so, in the sense most wives or spouses …show more content…
Because of the abuser being known to the victim prior to the abuse, there may have been some level of trust within the domestic environment that allowed for the abuser to get closer to the victim and initiate abuse. Sexual abusers tend to influence their victims into believing the physical contact is mutual when the child does not insist or prevent the abuser from continuing, leaving victims feeling immense levels of shame which can prevent from from admitting occurrences. Sexual abusers can misconstrue this secret form of violence as a form of trust in the abusive relationship, further affecting the child to keep the abuse a secret from …show more content…
A lot of victims of these crimes will tend to blame themselves for allowing such events to happen and keep silent out of fear, guilt, and shame. There are also concerns of what an angered abuser will do in response to being left or exposed for their actions, and escalated levels of violence may soon follow such disclosures. Unfortunately, these factors all lead to complications and increased fear or stress for victims in each situation, in turn leading to varying difficulties in escaping or disengaging these forms of domestic and private