“Abuse is all the physical, emotional, or psychological actions or threats of action that influence power, control, or force over another human being. This includes anything that frightens, intimidates, terrorizes, manipulates, hurts, humiliates, blames, injures, or wounds the victim.” (Marecek, 1983)

Domestic violence usually occurs by the male whether he is the women’s husband, ex-husband, or has some sort of relationship with them. According to “Women Against Violence”, domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women between .

the ages of 15 and 44 in the United States; more than car accidents, muggings, and rapes

combined. There is also three to four million women in the United States beaten in their homes each year by males. T

Abuse is a serious issue that no one should go through. Many people are affected from abuse. Women are the most common victims and often do not know what to do. If children are involved they may also be abused and feel like it is their fault. Children that grow up in that kind of environment could think that abuse is not wrong. The victims suffer many problems whether it be emotional, physical, psychological and financial. Each problem will take a different amount of time to fix or heal. Now that you are aware of the serious issue of domestic abuse, I hope that you will either help someone from their distress or inform someone else of this serious issue.

Long term effects of children who have witnessed violence are more likely to be either abusers or victims themselves when they get older. Children normally learn by observing their parents and if young boys see their dads abusing them or others they are more likely to abuse people and think that it is ok. Girls may learn from their mothers that violence is also ok and that there is nothing that they could do about it.

Children with all of these problems often start to do bad in school. They may even start to have bad nightmares and flashbacks . Children may suffer emotional harm if they are abused themselves, if they see others in their family being abused, and if they end up defending someone else in their family from t

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