Domestic violence is when a your life partner control in a relationship through physical, sexual, or psychological abuse, resulting in physical or emotional damages to the victim. Some example of domestic violence can be rape, stalking, dating violence, verbal abuse...etc. Domestic violence occurs within all ethnicities, faith and culture. It also can exist in any age groups, education levels, sexual orientation and income levels. Regardless of your relationship status , domestic violence can shown in between married or unmarried couples, couples who cohabitate or live separately, homosexual and heterosexual couples and...etc.
The history of domestic violence goes back to 1960’s and 70’s. The first movement against it was battered women’s movement. Erin Pizzey opened the first battered women's shelter in chiswick, england. There are multiple type of abuse. For example, physical violence, sexual violence,dating violence, stalking, psychological violence. The National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAWS) proves that 1 in every 4 women will experience domestic violence somehow in their lifetime. Reports shows that females are the majority of family violence victims, spousal abuse victims, and dating violence victims between ages of 20 and 24. In addition a few of studies have shown that males are victims of domestic violence in similar number …show more content…
Overall satestic shows 321,500 people from age of 12 or older have been victims for rape or sexual assault each year in united states. What is rape and what causes that? Rape is a crime of forcing another person to have sexual intercourse with the offender against their will. Usually the causes and reasons behind rape are deeply entrenched in our social structure. There are many reasons behind rape such as anger or the need of overpower, dominate, and humiliate. We can also look at some historical attitudes which today’s beliefs and stereotype have
The history of domestic violence goes back to 1960’s and 70’s. The first movement against it was battered women’s movement. Erin Pizzey opened the first battered women's shelter in chiswick, england. There are multiple type of abuse. For example, physical violence, sexual violence,dating violence, stalking, psychological violence. The National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAWS) proves that 1 in every 4 women will experience domestic violence somehow in their lifetime. Reports shows that females are the majority of family violence victims, spousal abuse victims, and dating violence victims between ages of 20 and 24. In addition a few of studies have shown that males are victims of domestic violence in similar number …show more content…
Overall satestic shows 321,500 people from age of 12 or older have been victims for rape or sexual assault each year in united states. What is rape and what causes that? Rape is a crime of forcing another person to have sexual intercourse with the offender against their will. Usually the causes and reasons behind rape are deeply entrenched in our social structure. There are many reasons behind rape such as anger or the need of overpower, dominate, and humiliate. We can also look at some historical attitudes which today’s beliefs and stereotype have