Cause And Effect Essay: The Cause Of Domestic Violence

Now we know or are aware of how bad domestic violence and how much of an affect it can have on the younger people who see it or are around it. John Gacy grew up seeing his mother and siblings being beaten by his father. A big reason to his father doing that was because his father was an alcoholic. Now majority alcoholics are abusers but some are abuse in others ways than physical. Anger is exhibited through children who see abuse or domestic violence. For an example, my whole life I’ve been around domestic violence with my father hitting my stepmother all the time. It affected me in a way because every time I get mad at a female I choose to walk away because I don’t want to be like my father, I don’t want to be a women abuser in any type of way. Being that way affects me in many ways because some

females like males who hit them or get aggressive with in that type of way so if I don’t exhibit that type of aggression right away they get turned off or don’t deal with me but I channel my aggression and anger in other things like workouts and football which helps me to prevent being abusive. There are even females who are abusers because of what they’ve seen growing up like my sisters and my brothers. I’ve witnessed and even heard stories of both my sisters and brothers hitting their spouses a lot of frustration and anger. That makes me look at my dad and say “look what you have created a bunch of abusive males and females because you couldn’t control channel anger in another way”.

When looking at the nature and nurture debate.

Specifically the nurture side you can bring up children or even adults who look at things in the media or play games and become violent because of the things they see and because they want to do what they see. They are influenced by the violent acts they see which are bad because they continue the acts of violence. The things they see around them and see through the media turn them into the violent people we hear of in the world.
In conclusion I think that people are formed into the evil/great people we know and see. The things Gacy went through played a part in which John Gacy became. Some say that it he was born with it and psychologists think certain traits can be passed down through generations or early family members. John Gacy was reported as being a great person in his community. His father or grandfathers weren’t known to be violent in the way Gacy was. Sure his father was an physical abusers but all physical abusers are serial killers. I think it something you have to go through or endure to become something as evil as being a serial killer. Nurture is definitely the reason why humans become the killers they

become.