The Serious Problem of Domestic Violence

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The writer of this essay discusses about family violence, a serious social problem, and its effects on the public. Family violence also known as domestic violence “is when someone uses abusive behaviour [physical, sexual, or emotional] to control and/or harm a member of [his or her] family, or someone with whom they have an intimate relationship.” (Department of Justice) The writer explains why family violence/domestic violence is a social problem and whom the issue affects. The writer describes, how the problem shallows the whole society and the families with family violence occurring in the household. In this essay the writer discusses the cost of domestic violence and affects of it on the average taxpayers. This essay highlights the impact of family violence on young children and the negative effects of violence in the future of the nation.
The essay points out the errors and stereotypes in societies perception when viewing a victim of family violence. The writer acknowledges that both gender are equal victims of this problem and does not support the myth that men cannot be victimized by their intimate partners. The writer supports both gender and does not have a biased view on the victims. She also applies the sociological theory of symbolic interactionism to explain the existence of the problem, and outlines few current ways of dealing with the social problem. She also provides few future predictions with dealing with the social problem, which can be useful to identify violence and prevent it from occurring.
Throughout history family violence has been happening, and has been socially acceptable. In today’s society family violence is a serious social problem with considerable damaging influence on individuals and the c...

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...nd avoid family violence, and the best among them all is to help treat the abuser so he or she would not continue the cycle of abuse.
Family Violence is a serious social problem many people believe its family’s personal problem and no outsider should be involved in it. Thus, such people forget that family violence also affects them, they pay taxes and their tax money goes to supporting and treating family violence victims. One does not directly have to be in a household where violence occurs to be affected by the problem. Victims’ friends, extended families, neighbours are also indirectly affected by the abuse because of the victims’ and the witnesses’ behaviours. Family Violence is an issue that needs to be resolved and each day the society is getting closer in achieving its goals, soon we will live in a society with happy families and no family violence.

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