Domestic violence
Domestic violence is prevalent although often concealed problem in several parts of Australia. It takes place in all parts of society irrespective of social-economic status, religious affiliations, and geographic location and often leads to demoralizing impacts. Such effects associated with domestic violence are either short term or long term in nature. The vice contributes to psychosomatic, economic and social challenges to the victims involved. In the long term, intimate partner violence can negatively affect the whole family unit, children’s lives, and the community as a whole. Currently, domestic violence has become a major public health problem and is very common among the females attending medical or clinical practices.
The phrase domestic violence also called gender-based violence, refers to an interpersonal violence that occurs in a domestic setting between two people who have or had an intimate relationship and it is commonly perpetrated against the female partner by the man. Such acts of violence include sexual assaults, physical and psychological exploitations. Nevertheless, the term is also used to refer to violence among the children by their parents and by the women against their male spouses (Summers, & Hoffman, 2002).
The city of Sydney in Australia has widespread occurrences of domestic violence often committed by the man to their female partners. In Sydney, there are people of all age brackets that is pre-teens, teenagers, and adults whose ages range eighteen years and above. The population in this city of Australia composes of both male and females, and the federal government requires that an individual should be recognized within the society as gender rather than the sex they were assigned during infancy. Some parts of the Sydney city are associated with certain ethnic groups and people born in diverse regions of the world living in particular parts of the metropolitan. The majority of the natives in Sydney are above the poverty levels and substantially educated. The city has a growing market economy with major fortes in finance, industrialization and tourism (Rauscher, & Momtaz, 2015).
Sydney is the largest town in Australia situated within a coastal basin, surrounded by the Hawkesbury River to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Blue Mountains over to the western side, and the Woronora Plateau over to the south. The population size in Sydney, according to the 2012 census statistics, was approximately 4.39 million out of which 49.2% are females, and 50.8% are males The present population density in the municipal area is 372.2 peoples per square kilometer. The middle age of the people in Sydney is thirty-six years. Considering the high prospects of population growth in Sydney, the Metropolitan Plan has provided suitable housing in several locations of the city. The principal modes of transport used in the city of Sydney are trains, ferry services, airport links and buses (Biddle, Al-Yaman, Gourley, Gray, Bray, Brady, Pham, & Montaigne, 2014).
In the city of Sydney, there is widespread exploitative and violent behavior that takes place in the privacy of natives’ houses often committed by men against women. In other words, women and children in this city experience gender-based violence at greater rates than males do. According to the most recent researched information, domestic violence in Sydney became more prevalent in 1996. Further, the survey proved that almost half a million female spouses reported having experienced sexual assault and physical abuse committed against them by their husbands. Besides, the majority of violence complaints amongst the men dwelling in the city were perpetrated by other males. Up to date the local government of Sydney is still fighting against the vice of domestic violence (“Measuring domestic violence and sexual assault against women.”
, 2012).
Personal safety survey carried out in 2005 in Australia indicates that almost 4.7% of all women natives in metropolitan undergo physical exploitation committed by their male counterparts. In addition, 1.6% of the total female population experienced sexual abuse under the age of 15 years. The data released by the 2005 survey shows that compared with the 1996 collected information on domestic violence, the prevalence of the immorality has fallen substantially. However, other researchers recorded that this reduction in sexual assaults and physical abuse was not common to all parts of the large city of Sydney. The issue of domestic violence in Sydney does not occur in particular circumstances; instead, it takes place arbitrarily throughout the year. Women and children who commonly experience sexual assaults and physical violence are at high risk of suffering from Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and bodily injuries.
References
Parliament of Australia
http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BN/2011-2012/DVAustralia
Biddle, N., Al-Yaman, F., Gourley, M., Gray, M., Bray, J. R., Brady, B., Pham, L. A., Montaigne, M. (2014). Indigenous Australians and the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Rauscher, R. C., & Momtaz, S. (2015). Sustainable neighbourhoods in Australia: City of Sydney urban planning.
Summers, R. W., & Hoffman, A. M. (2002). Domestic violence: A global view. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press.
