Domestic Violence Scenarios

When most people hear the word domestic violence often time’s people think about a man physically beating his wife or girlfriend or a man raping a women. Hardly anyone imagines that a man or young boy can have the very same actions reciprocated to them by a woman. In order to understand domestic violence, let’s define what it is. First off, domestic violence is an act of power and control. According to the department of Justice of the United States, domestic violence is defined as “a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over their partner”. (DOJUSA, 2016) Furthermore, domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, verbal, economic, or psychological. (DOJUSA, …show more content…
(safe horizons, n.d.) Research also indicates that 1 in 7 men have been victims of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime. (NCADV, 2016) Like men, females are also capable of domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, rape and inflicting harm on to another person. In this essay, I will discuss four different scenario’s in which females are the perpetrators in domestic violence cases. These situations include; female nanny/babysitter abusing a child, lesbian relationships where two women are involved but one carries out the abuse, a wife/girlfriend abusing their husband/boyfriend and when a female adult pedophile sexually abuses a child. The first scenario I will discuss will be when a nanny or babysitter abuses a child. There have been several cases in the media lately that talk about couples who install nanny cams due to suspension of child abuse while their children are left in the hands of a trusted adult. It’s awful to considered that anyone would harm an innocent child, especially your own. Unfortunately, there are dishonest and abusive female nannies all over the …show more content…
This reaction is due to gender roles placed on us by society. Society expects men to be vigorous, in control and authoritive. If a man is abused, society may see that man as weak, shameful and powerless. No man wants to have his manhood disrespected. This is why men who are victims of domestic violence do not report their female abusers to law enforcement. In my research, I have found stories from men victims who have come forward to help other men victims of domestic violence become survivors. On the website mankind.org several men victims of abuse share their stories. Here is just one of story about a man named