Violence is never a good thing for any one and because of violence a lot of people have gotten hurt very bad or even killed. However, these senseless acts will never stop or change and has been going on for year. Therefore, in 1970 Lenore Walker developed the social cycle theory known as the cycle of violence. She created this cycle in hopes of limiting some of the domestic violence and abuse that women were dealing with. Now this cycle has four stages of violence in it which consists of tension building, the incident, reconciliation, and calm. Yet, each stage has a different level of violence as well as abuse and how the victim feels at that stage. Therefore, the first stage is called the tension building stage. At this stage the abuser starts
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The first stage was met when Marty started beating Amy because of their financial problems. He was angry because she did not have a job and he was the only one working in the household. Therefore, the abuse begins with her as well as the children because they had to witness their father abusing their mother whether it was physically or emotionally. Unfortunately, Amy would always try to down play the abuse by telling family members as well as law enforcement that it did not happen. Yet, Marty would also deny the abuse ever happen or was happening which is a part of the making-up stage and the calm stage. However, there was evidence of this abuse going on in the household because Amy had been seen with bruises on her and their son Aaron had shown up at school on several occasions with bruises but denied that they came from his father. Now on the other hand their daughter Ashley has not been seen with any bruises or signs of abuse physically but she is dating a young man who does abuse her mentally. Therefore, this is a sign of the incident stage of the cycle of violence which can later lead to the tension building because he has an anger problem and from there lead to the last three stages. Unfortunately, Marty is a violent person and in return has led to his son being abusive and his daughter being the victim of abuse because she has seen her mother
The first stage was met when Marty started beating Amy because of their financial problems. He was angry because she did not have a job and he was the only one working in the household. Therefore, the abuse begins with her as well as the children because they had to witness their father abusing their mother whether it was physically or emotionally. Unfortunately, Amy would always try to down play the abuse by telling family members as well as law enforcement that it did not happen. Yet, Marty would also deny the abuse ever happen or was happening which is a part of the making-up stage and the calm stage. However, there was evidence of this abuse going on in the household because Amy had been seen with bruises on her and their son Aaron had shown up at school on several occasions with bruises but denied that they came from his father. Now on the other hand their daughter Ashley has not been seen with any bruises or signs of abuse physically but she is dating a young man who does abuse her mentally. Therefore, this is a sign of the incident stage of the cycle of violence which can later lead to the tension building because he has an anger problem and from there lead to the last three stages. Unfortunately, Marty is a violent person and in return has led to his son being abusive and his daughter being the victim of abuse because she has seen her mother