If a parent has a strong bond with the child, and raises them in a loving climate, with attention and support, the child will be inclined to behave at the parent wishes. ... Murray Strauss at the Family Research Laboratory affirms that spanking teaches children to use acts of aggession to solve problems. ... Consider for a moment the vision of a family that knows how to win cooperation and creativiley solve their problems without using force or violence. The alternatives are limitless and the results are calmer to parents who feel more supported....

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Husbands of these times supported the family and were the only ones who had a job in the family. In "Sweat" Delia was the supporter of the family she worked every day supporting herself and Sykes. ... Most women stayed home and watched the children while the men supported the family. With women not working this made it hard for them to get enough money to leave their husbands and support themselves and their children without their husbands. ...

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Most families are not functional families. ... Now that he cannot work and his dream has come true, which was that he doesn't have to work anymore, he feels a lot of guilt that he is not able to help his parents and support the family. His parents were the reason for which he kept his job and supported the family with. ... Gregor now also realizes that the family has gone more independent and didn't need his support anymore. ... Finally, Gregor possesses guilt, since he feels that it is his fault that he is unable to support his family anymore due to his physical condition of a b...

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The entire family becomes isolated. ... Viewing family violence is traumatizing to a child and is considered to be a form of child abuse. ... Despite increases in recent years in the number of battered women accessing legal support, counseling, and support groups through nonresidential programs, these services are less available to children. ... Family therapy approaches may include counseling for mother and child, and referrals to other family support services. Because of the potential dangers, few family therapy programs include batterers. ...

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Many crave power, some people see violence as a way to gain control over family members. ... Other times the victims have children and want to keep their families together. ... Family members may not know that help is available from local human service agencies, shelters and the police. ... There are many sources of help for troubled, such as hotlines, family and social service, clergy and religious groups, shelters, self-help groups, legal assistance centers, hospitals and mental centers, law enforcement officials and support groups. ... As a member of the community, I would support prog...

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The number of available jobs in your field is very scarce and finding a job is essential to you being able to support yourself. ... Now imagine yourself as an 18-year-old kid living in a small dilapidated home with 10 other members of your family. ... Pretty soon they've convinced you that this is a way out of your life, and a way to help support your family. ... Pretty soon you"re making good money and your family is living better. ... There are many more people out there who come from the same situation as you and want a chance to support themselves and their families as well. ...

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This is a pretty risky section because it touches on how over populated Ireland is and how poor families are still producing children when they do not have the money nor resources to raise them. The risk, to me, pays off because the exaggeration of getting money in this kind of way informs the reader of the harsh lengths families have to go through to provide for their family. This is almost Swift's way of saying that mothers have done way worse to support themselves and families that this would be easier for them to get the money and support. ... The act of spousal abuse tend to happen...

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"(Lynn) After Crystal's tragic death her family opened up a Domestic violence Shelter called "The Crystal Judson" center which is also a resource center to help other women get help who are being abused. ... The YWCA is a temporary "safe house" with individual rooms that can house up to thirty families at any given time, and it also has a separate building next to it where women are sometimes court ordered for counseling. ... Domestic violence is the common thread that bonds the victims at the Crystal Judson Center and the YWCA as they work together to support on...

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Domestic violence is abuse between family members or related persons. ... In all cultures, the perpetrators are most commonly the men of the family. ... Therefore, the work of the domestic violence movement constantly advocates for individual safety while striving to eliminate institutional and cultural support of domestic violence. The domestic violence movement also understands that the most effective work is based on peer support and self-help that encourages women to exchange information and support while making decisions for themselves. ... The task we now face is continuing the work t...

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For almost all families moms are the ones who keep everything together. In some cases fathers are the bread winners and mothers are the ones who take care of the home and family. ... Women's addictive behaviors are a mechanism for coping with the impairment they face and can severely damage all aspects of their lives, such as work, family and social relationships. ... [Womenshealth.org] Drug abuse influences the function of many families, their life at home can be turned into pure chaos. ... When a child feels like they cannot offer the help and support they often blame their self, this...

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If a child is determined to be in need of protection, the child welfare authorities may respond by, for example, providing counseling and support for the family, removing the child (temporarily or permanently) from the home, or removing the abuser(s) from the home. ... The support services may not resolve the problems that led to the abuse and the child may be abused again or worse, killed. ... Lack of social involvement and community deprives parents of support systems and contacts that would help them deal better with stress and conform their behaviour. Cultural factors determine amount of ...

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Many people today believe that children don't see or concern themselves with what they see and hear in the way of family violence. ... The sad part of domestic violence is that children most often enough feel that they are the blame for the violence and that it is up to them to restore peace to the family. ... Encourage the child to seek out support networks such as friends, teachers, relatives, counselors, or neighbors. ...

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The guide of Physciology and it's Practice supports this ides by stating "It's not that the television, movies, music, and games of our culture are necessarily evil in themselves "though in some cases they are "but that our attraction to them can draw us away from the good and the peaceful and push us onto the very threshold of the door to malevolence and death."" There is research that supports the idea that parental communication impacts violent behavior later in life. ... Conversely, social scientists have the research that states a child can grow up in a wealthy famil...

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In 70% of the families where abuse towards the spouse occurs, there is also physical abuse of the children. ... No one is safe from domestic abuse when a member in the family is receiving the abuse in one form or another. ... Domestic violence or rape outside of the family starts at a very early age for girls. ... The victim feels humiliated and embarrassed when talking to family, friends, court system, and from society. ... The victims have to put up with the abuse and worry about who is going to listen, or support them through this difficult ordeal. ...

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Parents are expected to provide unlimited care, protection, and emotional support to their children. ... Several may feel different from peers, hide resentful and angry feelings toward both parents, and feel they bring disloyalty and disruption to the family. ... I can not think of a reason to support child abuse. ...

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John Rosemond, a family psychologist, in an interview with Talk of the Nation "spanking is, at times, with certain children and certain situations, absolutely the best disciplinary response" (Melenda Penkava 2). ... An author of the book The War Against the Family, William Gairdner, asks the question "are we going to depend on the authority of parents or are we going to depend more and more on uniformed policemen in our schools" (Woodard 35). ... A pole done by National Family Violence survey shows a 10% decrease of spanking in the United States since 1950 yet the amount of juvenile violen...

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It affects families both mentally as well as physically. ... Although it directly affects the user the family of an alcoholic is just as scarred. ... Although families may resent this, it is rare that the learn how to avoid it. ... They may fear the family will break up. ... Regardless of the fact that she stopped drinking, she is still unable to hold a decent enough job to support the family in the way that she should. ...

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Family violence has existed since the conception of the family unit. ... Each year, an estimated 3.3 million children are exposed to violence by family members against their mothers or female caretakers. ... The Family Protection and Domestic Violence Intervention Act of 1994 required the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) and the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence (OPDV) to develop and distribute a standardized "domestic incident report"(DIR) form to be utilized by police departments throughout the State. ... A ...

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Teachers tend to believe that school violence is a result of sociological factors such as: lack of parental supervision, lack of family involvement and exposure to violence in the mass media. ... In fact, research has shown that juveniles who are victimized, or who repeatedly witness violence, and do not receive immediate support in understanding and dealing with it are at higher risk of using violence as a means of dealing with their own conflicts; thus repeating the cycle of violence. ... We need more discipline in the family, in school, and even in public. ...

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While a number of causes for wife abuse have been suggested, husband primarily abuse their wives because they grew up in a violent family, have low self-esteem, and are influenced by society. Men who grew up in a violent family tend to be more abusive than those who did not are. ... (McKenzie 21) Goldentyer also supports the thought that in some home a father may force his children to watch as he beats their mother. ...

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Since one of the major components of abuse is isolation, the battered woman often lacks a support system. Her family ties and friendships have been destroyed. ... The abuser was probably brought up that way from an abusive family. ... They lost their family and friends because of her abuser. ... Many battered women need all the support they can get. ...

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In addition to the obvious restrictions placed on women by their partner's violence, police routinely fail to respond to calls for help displaying dismissive attitudes towards "family disputes" and women complaints. Even when police seek to support women institutional parameters remove women's choices. ...

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A form of gender based violence is Honor Killings in which parents kill their daughter for dishonoring their family in hope that this would bring back honor. From the documentary, "Honor Daries" about honor within families. ... " Honor has become an important aspect within families that it became apart of the culture, also with this it also became apart of the culture to punish women who "dishonored" the family. If a women was to kill herself in fear for dishonoring the family then people will say she did the right thing. ... We are an organization that supports victims of for...

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Domestic violence tears thousands of family's apart every year. ... Out of all families who have children, 2 out of 5 children are beaten. ... The best things to do when dealing with domestic violence include counseling for domestic abuse which should be available from the local community health centers, family support services, and your neighborhood. ... When feeling threatened or worried about your family's safety in any way, you should not hesitate to call the police. ... Through the rising domestic violence rate, I feel in a few years no one will have to worry about being hi...

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For example, in the story The Reclaimed, Arthur writes about a character that loves his family, but eventually abuses them. ... The narrator in Arthur's narrative undergoes transformations that led him to harm his family, but he experiences another transformation by becoming sober. ... All in all, this stranger connects with the narrator because he too was "enslaved to the love of the strong drink "how he neglected his business and abused his family"" (Arthur 49). ... After reading both narratives, I came to the conclusion that Poe's more satiric narrative supports the temperanc...

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