Domestic Violence In Australia

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P1: Domestic violence
By Coby Rose

P2:
73% of Australian women have had more than one experience with domestic violence. Domestic violence is a big problem in Australia. Women have the most chance of experiencing domestic violence. The definition of domestic Violence is "Domestic violence and emotional abuse are behaviours used by one person in a relationship to control the other" (domesticviolence,2015).
Domestic violence is important issue to talk about because there are 58% of Australians that haven't report domestic violence. More than half of Australians that have be affected by domestic violence haven't reported it so there are more domestic violence issue going on than we no.

P3:
This issue happen at home between 6pm to 6am when
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The first one is that the man have an inner voice that tells them you got o show them you are boss or the female's are making a fool out of you. The last one is when there are harmful illusion between the partners.

P7:
Richard Gula says " any action that violates right couples " this says if you cause physical harm or mental harm to partner in your relationship you don't have any sin. If you follow this you have sin because you are not harming your partner or you relationship. Domestic violence harms humans and wrecks relationships so if a person does domestic violence they are not sinful.

P8:
Domestic violence goes against catholic social teaching. The catholic social teaching principles that domestic violence goes against are human dignity and respect for human life. The parts that make up the principal of human dignity are all humans have dignity, all humans are created in gods image and human life is scared. The principal respect for human are humans are social, laws must protect people and we don't deny human necessities. Domestic violence doesn't follow any of this rules because it doesn't respect human life or give human their

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