Dont Knoe
...superior to women because men were always in power
economically, legally, and religiously. This gave men the attitude that women were
inferior to them. Men harm their wives by beating them physically and abusing them
emotionally. Many of these women did not report the abuse that they got from their
spouses and families because they thought that no one would believe them. By becoming
informed with the causes, effects, and treatments of domestic violence towards women in
the United States, we can then contain the damages that are done to women or at least
get the message across to other women that there is help to overcome this tragic display
of affection . Domestic violence is defined broadly as violent acts carried out by
persons in a marital, sexual, parental, or care-giving role toward others in reciprocal
roles. Spousal abuse may apply to couples engaged in a sexual relationship outside of
marriage. And child abuse may be penetrated by parents, siblings, step-parents, or
live-in boyfriends or girlfriends of the abused child s parent (Rosen 3). Battered women
are defined as women that have been Victora 2 physically or emotionally abused by their
husbands or families. These women suffer from many different types of domestic
violence but the cause is just one abuse. Abuse happens to many women but most of
the time it is not reported to the police. Abuse is an underreported crime, it is
underreported for two reasons: a) it occurs in the privacy of one s home where there are
typically no witnesses aside from family member s to detect and report it and b) though
violence is by no means restricted to the lower classes, middle- and upper class violence
is likely to go unreported to the police (Stets 3). Why it is not reported to the police
could be the result of the emotions that are building up inside the victim s head. These...
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