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Throughout history many women have been victims of domestic violence.Society considered men to be superior to women because men were always inpower economically, legally, and religiously. This gave men the attitude thatwomen were inferior to them. Men harm their wives by beating them physicallyand abusing them emotionally. Many of these women did not report the abusethat they got from their spouses and families because they thought that no onewould believe them. By becoming informed with the causes, effects, andtreatments of domestic violence towards women in the United States, we canthen contain the damages that are done to women or at least get the messageacross to other women that there is help to overcome this tragic display of“affection”.“Domestic violence is defined broadly as violent acts carried out bypersons in a marital, sexual, parental, or care-giving role toward others inreciprocal roles. ‘Spousal abuse’ may apply to couples engaged in a sexualrelationship outside of marriage. And ‘child abuse’ may be penetrated byparents, siblings, step-parents, or live-in boyfriends or girlfriends of the abusedchild’s parent (Rosen 3). Battered women are defined as women that have beenVictora 2physically or emotionally abused by their husbands or families. These womensuffer 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 tothe police. “Abuse is an underreported crime, it is underreported for tworeasons: a) it occurs in the privacy of one’s home where there are typically nowitnesses aside from family member’s to detect and report it and b) thoughviolence is by no means restricted to the lower classes, middle- and upper classviolence 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 thatare building up inside the victim’s head. These women feel apprehensive inreporting the abuse because they are scared of what the abuser will do to them.They were afraid because if he found out that they called the police he mighthurt them or their children even more than he already did. The lower classviolence is usually reported because they deal with social services more oftenthan the middle and upper classes do. They are more educated in knowing thatpublic social control agencies can help them get through the abuse. The middleand upper classes do not usually report these acts of violence because theyprobably can afford a psychiatrists or a marriage counselor.Abusive behavior begins in cycles and not everyday occurrences. Thisabusive cycle is called the battering cycle and it contains three phases. The firstphase is the tension-building phase, the second phase is the explosion or acute3battering incident phase, and the third phase is the calm, loving phase. The firstphase is when the woman notices the man building tension and becoming veryedgy which causes minor violent episodes. Then the second phase beginswhen that tension builds up higher and the man explodes in anger or in a blindrage that revolves into a severe violent incident. And the third and final phase iswhen the man apologizes and tries to win the woman back by showering herwith gifts. The abuse that women obtain towards them can be experienced withvarious types of violence. Those types of violence can be anything from a minorpush or shove to something major such as threatening with a weapon. “In thepast, spousal abuse has been treated as a fairly simple set of violent behaviors”.The five most common types of domestic or spousal violence are: 1) when awoman is thrown against an object, 2) when she is hit with the man’s open handor fist, 3) when she is pushed or shaken roughly, 4) when she is hit with anobject and the 5) and most deadly of all is when a woman is threatened with aweapon (Rhodes 32). The causes of domestic violence towards women in the United States aremany but the best known and lucid are the male gender attitudes of beingnumber one. Men have the idea that women are worthless and inferior to them.This concept degenerates women to a lower class or form of life that can notallow men to see women as their equals. According to Violence Hits Home,“Karen Rosen reported that men who abuse their spouses tend to have more4traditional gender-role orientation than do non-batterers. She also suggeststhose abusive men tend to be more controlling, dominating, and aggressive inorder to get their needs met” (85). These men also believe that their abuse willhelp them to maintain power in their families. Rosen also found out that“witnessing marital violence as a child was consistently related to abuse in adultrelationships” in other words “Being a member of a violent family is how eachgeneration learns to be violent” ( 85 ). When a child is exposed to everyday actsof domestic violence then that child is brought up to believe that domesticviolence is acceptable and can be done to their own spouses. Some men alsoabuse their wives in an act of jealousy, anger, and aggression or poor impulsecontrol.Men usually tend to abuse women more often when the women involvedare not their wives. Batterers are more likely to be violent in non-familysituations than men that are married and do not batter their wives. According toSandra Stith, a researcher of the causes for domestic violence, “Abusers weremore likely than non-abusers to believe that wife-beating is not only justified butacceptable” ( 86 ). This belief that violence is justified to maintain power mayexplain why men may choose not to control their anger and frustrations. In anabusive man’s eyes violence is not only justified but also acceptable.
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