The action that boys take on girls to feel dominant leads girls into different risks such as pregnancy, suicide and drugs. When a girl goes through teen dating violence they feel that they don't have nobody to talk about their problems. Repeatedly the violence continues girls start to adapt to the abuse they are receiving from their partner because they are afraid if they try to seek for help they would get abuse worser. The pregnancy, suicide and drugs are all risks that girls are exposed to when being in a violent dating relationship. When girls are in a violent relationship they become exposed to sexual abuse in which they can end up pregnant. Once a girl end up pregnant in a violent relationship the abuse increases. A survey …show more content…
Other studies have also demonstrated multiple negative consequences for girls who experience teen dating violence. A 2008 study, for example states “Girls experiencing teen dating violence are more likely than boys to suffer long-term negative behavioral and health consequences, including suicide attempts, depression, cigarette smoking and marijuana use”( Mulford and Giordano 2008). This shows how girls are at a higher risk of multiple type of risks when they have undergone teen dating violence experience.If girls are being abused they will try finding a way to feel better. Its known that antidepressants are used to help people who are depressed or have low-self esteem feel better. This can lead into girls having a severe addiction to the antidepressants medication. Also the treatment they are getting can be severe that girls don't know how to stop it so they try ending their life. Teen dating violence can increase suicide rates if no help is given. The suicide rate for teens in California in 2008 was 7.1 percent per 100,000 and in 2011 it was 7.7 percent. This demonstrates how the suicide rates are increasing due to multiple factors. If no help is given to girls at the right time the overall suicide rate is going to increase. In society today dating relationships start at an earlier age which is exposing them to
The headline, “Recession Causes Increase in Teen Dating Violence”, clearly affirms a causal relationship between the economic recession, and the increase in teen relationship violence. Specifically, causation can be described as one event causing an effect within a specific scenario. As you see in the headline title, a recession assumes the responsibility for an increase in teen date violence. Hence, with this headline we observe a cause and effect relationship.
Teen dating violence is a growing problem. We need to educate young adults about teen dating violence. Educating people about teen dating violence could possibly prevent it by identifying the warning signs. Teen dating violence laws need to be strengthened.
On the news stories of girls being raped, killed, and dumped air frequently. This act happens more than it should, if possible it should never happen. In families it happens every day of their life. Sexual abuse occurs, for most victims, with someone they know. “Any situation in which you are forced to participate in unwanted, unsafe, or degrading sexual activity is sexual abuse. Forced sex, even by a spouse or intimate partner with whom you also have consensual sex, is an act of aggression and violence. Furthermore, people whose partners abuse them physically and sexually are at a higher risk of being seriously injured or killed” (Smith and Segal).
For example, the article written by Kress, Protivnak, and Sanlak (2008), suggest that 34 percent of females suffer from domestic violence at some point in their life. In these domestic violence situations 30-55 percent of female deaths are committed by intimate partners. According to Kress et. al., (2008), suggest that approximately 3.3 million children observed domestic violence situations inside of their home. According to the same authors numerous of these children have experienced long term effects. When individuals are suffering from domestic violence situations they could experience the following consequences mental health disorders, such as “depression, anxiety, and suicide” (Kress et. al., 2008 pg. 200). Kress et. al., (2008), suggest that individuals that suffer from domestic violence can suffer from other mental health disorders like “PTSD, depression symptoms, anxiety, psychosomatic complaints, substance abuse, and lowered self-esteem” (pg.
Historically, domestic violence has been a devastating social problem affecting individuals from every segment of the American society irrespective of race, class, age, religion, sexual orientation, nationality and economic status. Although, men to a smaller extent experience domestic violence, it is usually understood as a women 's issue; which inadvertently affects children. Approximately, 85 to 95% of victims are females (Laney, 2010). Every 9 seconds in the United States, a woman is assaulted or beaten (National Domestic Violence Statistics, 2014). 72% of all murder-suicides involve an intimate partner and 94% of the victims of these murder suicides are females. Moreover, 9.4% of women in the United States have been raped by an intimate partner in their lifetime (National Domestic Violence Statistics, 2014). Intimate partner violence
Violence is defined as the intentional use of force to harm a human being. Its outcome is injury (whether physical or psychological, fatal or nonfatal). Violence among teenagers is on the rise, and has been since the early 1980's. In my opinion this is due to the increase of violence in the media, the astounding availability of firearms and the lack of proper guidance in the home. Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice reports that from 1985 to 1993 murders committed by people over the age of 25 dropped an impressive 20%; meanwhile they increased 65% for people between the ages of 18-24 and an astounding 165% growth for teenagers 14 to 17. According to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, in 1996, 6548 young people 15-24 years old were victims of homicides. This amounts to an average of 18 youth homicides per day in the US. It also states that homicide is the second leading cause of death for persons 15-24 and is the leading cause of death for African-American and Hispanic youths in this age group. There are a few things that we as Americans can do to stunt this problem, and it starts with the home. By focusing on the home first, we as Americans can drastically reduce the amount of violent crime committed in the US.
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is historically referred to as domestic violence. It describes a pattern of coercive and assaultive behavior that may include psychological abuse, progressive isolation, sexual assault, physical injury, stalking, intimidation, deprivation, and reproductive coercion among partners (The Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF), 1999). IPV leads to lifelong consequences such as lasting physical impairment, emotional trauma, chronic health problems, and even death. It is an issue effecting individuals in every community, regardless of age, economic status, race, religion, nationality or educational background. Eighty-five percent of domestic violence victims are women (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2003). More than one in three women in the United States have experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime (The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 2012). Thirty to sixty percent of perpetrators tend to also abuse children in the household (Edelson, 1999). Witnessing violence between parents or caretakers is considered the strongest risk factor of transmitting violent behavior from one generation to the next (Break the Cycle, 2006).
With today’s violence among teens rising, most people would like to know why? Does it have anything to do with the way we are raising our children? Some would blame the parents for their child’s aggression, or some would declare that it only has to do with the peers the child associates themselves with, and others would blame media, such as television or video games. Well, which is it? What is the main cause for teen violence today?
Teen violence could be prevented, with proper parenting. Low self-esteem is the leading reasons for becoming a teen violence target. As we know each relationship is unique in his own way, there are a few normal situations that can be an issue to teen dating violence. Most cases the abuser may have once been a victim or witnessed domestic violence themselves, situations that could impact this type of behavior, the abuser could have been raised with strict views on masculinity roles or they could have develop a level of anger management due to witnessed her mother being abused by their father.
It’s easy for sexual harassment and relationship violence to be dismissed as only “adult” issues. On the contrary, these problems have proven to be pervasive in both junior and senior high schools. Although statistics show that “nearly half of students are sexually harassed in school” (Koebler, 2011), sexual harassment and dating violence are not being appropriately addressed in schools and are in essence, being shoved under the table. These are not fleeting issues, because sexual harassment and domestic violence can be particularly harmful to victims and have long-lasting, detrimental effects. One senior girl at Hoover High School said she has experienced sexual harassment and dating violence first hand,
"Around the world at least one woman in every three has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime. Most often the abuser is a member of her own family." (C,J Newton, 2011)
Many people confuse love and infatuation. Infatuation is foolish or all-absorbing passion. Those who abuse others in relationships do not know love but know infatuation. Some can learn to love and learn that their obsession or desire to control their partner is wrong, however not all victims are that lucky. Teen dating violence is a wrong that needs to be righted. The only way to do this is to provide a background, a way to help those who have suffered, and raise awareness to help detect, stop, and prevent.
Lemmey, D., McFarlane, J., Willson, P., Malecha, A. (2001). Intimate partner violence: mother’s perspectives of effects on their children. The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, 26(2), 98-103.
Psychological violence is a mental and emotional aspect of violence that affects the way individuals think. These psychological violent acts within an intimate relationship can incorporate expressive hostility such as verbal abuse, or embarrassment, and coercive control such as restricting access to transportation, cash, companions, and family. Further psychological violence could include intemperate checking of whereabouts with threatened dangers of physical or sexual violence, and control of reproductive or sexual wellbeing by refusal to utilize anti-conception medication, and pressured pregnancy termination. Sexual violence in intimate relationships, however, consists of rape, and unwanted sexual contact. According to authors Wandera, Kwagala, Ndugga, and Kabagenyi, sexual violent acts lead to reproductive health outcomes such as “heightened risk of HIV and sexually transmitted infections, gynecological and sexual disorders, pregnancy complications, miscarriages and low birth weight” (2015).
Consequently, witnessing domestic violence can take a toll on children development. They often suffer emotional and psychological trauma from living in house where their fathers abuse their mothers. For example, they will suffer anxiety and depression as they often feel helpless and powerless. Study shows, girls tend to internalize their emotions and show signs of depression more compare to boys. When domestic violence happened, it gives the child the idea that nothing is safe in the world and not worth being kept