Essays on Battered Women

The elements that I would like to focus on are the Family violence offenders Military and Rural components of violence. According to the term rural actually refers to a geographic location that is sparsely populated (Barnett, 2011). Based on the composition of rural male-to-female intimate partner violence these are people who live in territory outside of the urbanized areas and even the urban cluster. These people are compromised of 2,500 residents and they live apart from one another. The main challenge for this kind of abuse is the access to services. Since they live in rural areas, close-knit ...

KC Mothers in Charge is committed to end violence against women in household settings and beyond. In being so committed, KC Mothers in Charge plans a broad range of community engagement activities aimed at making battered women more comfortable in sharing painful, personal stories not in pain but in a more, insightful, determined and forward-looking manner. The following (personal) stories, recounted by battered women of diverse backgrounds, unfolded during a Bus Tour organized by KC Mothers in Charge for more community engagement.

Mom # 1

The state of homelessness defines Mom # 1's personal experience. Shunned by her family and peers (for reasons ...

Introduction

Domestic abuse an issue which has been on the rise in the society; the most affected are women and the girl child. This has not well addressed well because a majority of the women prefer keeping this issues to themselves. They are suffering in silence it is the high time for the state to be responsible and protect women that are victims of violence. As victims, battered women often have a high fear of retaliation from their perpetrators and as much as 50% of all women who are victims say that they fear that they will be subject to revenge because ...

Violence Against Women

Question 1 Describe the various kinds of backlash against surveys regarding violence against women. What

The same thing as experienced in the United States, Canada is currently facing the problem on backlash against survey concerning violence against women; the Canadian National Survey or CNS and the Canadian Violence Against Women Survey or VAWS . The issue on backlash contains backlash criticism and action, with four types of backlash against surveys; adopting sexual symmetry thesis and commenting, misinterpretations of survey data, releasing well placed lies, and intimidation and harassment. “Women are just as bad as men” or “Women do ...

Introduction

In the United States alone, statistics show that one in every four women experience domestic violence (NCADV, n.d.). The National Coalition against Domestic Violence (NCADV) reported that around 1.3 million women in the US have been victimized and subjected to physical assault by their partners. Although domestic violence affects both men and women, NCADV reiterated that 85 percent – the majority – of all victims are women. Other alarming facts about domestic violence is that in most cases, women do not report these violent incidents to the police due to fear. Moreover, in families, children witness violence between their parents, which ...

Violence Against Women

Violence Against Women

Question 1

Feminist researches have made important contributions to the field of survey research and the methods of measuring sexual assault and intimate partner violence. Describe the major methodological contributions of feminist researchers as well as the advantages of dedicated violence against women surveys.

Response 1

The feminist researches materialized research models that are relevant, legitimate, and popular. Both the quality and validity of the findings are beyond contentions and it produced important results that provided suitable guidelines for policies vital in the modern society. The domains and basic methodological principles are very diverse and wide. In addition, the type ...

Domestic violence is a behavioral pattern wherein a person or a partner attempts to exert control of power towards the other person by inflicting physical force, threats, and intimidation. The behavioral pattern includes emotional, psychological, sexual, verbal, spiritual, financial, physical abuse, and stalking or threatening behaviors. Any person can be a victim either rich or poor, racial or ethnic group, educational background, sexual orientation, age, and religion. Domestic violence abusers come from all backgrounds as victims do. Abusers share their characteristics that they attempt to justify their behaviors as abusive. They fail to take proper responsibility for the abuse, use the same ...

Introduction

In a nursing practicum, the nurse is exposed to real world experiences where a nurse takes care of patients, conducts evaluations and assessments. The exercise allows the nurse to develop competencies and readies him/her for work. During my spring semester, I undertook my practicum. Initially, I intended on registering with a facility in California. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, my clinical contract in California was null and voided. Consequently, I had to travel to Wisconsin where I conducted my clinicals. This was very challenging given the abject change in climate. Unlike in California where the climate is hot, Wisconsin was snowy ...

Effects of Domestic Violence on families and Marriages

Domestic violence has got negative consequences to the victim, family and marriage. According to Kaspiew (43), it is evident that domestic violence leaves trauma in lives of the victims. Domestic violence has been established as one of the causes of divorce and family chaos. For instance, if one of the partners chooses to be abusive, the relationship loses its building units and the abused partner starts to tolerate the abuser. However, when the trauma is too much to take, the partner can choose to walk out of the marriage or to look for help from the friends. Sometimes, following ...

Effects of Domestic Violence on families and Marriages

It is evident according to the victims that leaving a marriage that is abusive is not an easy task. It is said to be a very critical and difficult decision that in most cases has to be made with the help of legal advice or counselor so as to ensure the children’s safety and that of the victim also. However, currently there are many available resources which are meant to protect domestic violence victims from cases such as loss of jobs, free counseling, financial aid, and provision of shelter temporarily not comparing to the story of Ruth in the book ...

1.0 Domestic violence, PTSD and women

Research has proven that battering and violence in the families are major causes of post-traumatic stress disorders among the victims (PTSD). The problem of intimate patner violence has become a very widespread calamity in the world today. It involves physical or bodily assaults, emotional distress, and traumatizing responses by one patner to another.Women in particular, form the larger population of people experiencing domestic violence. This makes them to be most vulnerable to mental disorders that result from experiencing violence, and in particular PTSD. According to a study by Loring Jones, Margaret Ughes and Ulrike Unterstaller, battered women are great victims of ...

Faith Mcnulty was the author of the book, The Burning Bed. The Burning bed was a non-fiction book that tackled family problems and at some point, the possible consequences of an unresolved husband and wife conflicts. This book later on was adapted to a film. The film won several awards and nominations because of the boldness of the story which revolves around the story of Francine, a battered wife.

The Burning Bed is a non-fiction book which represented the life of Francine Hughes. She was basically subjected to a great deal of violence from her husband. It was a book that staged how human rights ...

Introduction

Group therapy has its origins in 1905 when J.H Pratt was treating tuberculosis patients. He noted the positive effects of the instruction classes on the patient’s emotional states. Triggant Burrow in 1925 got impatient with individual therapy and began group therapy. He wanted to decrease the authority of the therapist in the sessions and increase interpersonal interactions. Paul Schilder and Louis Wender in the 1930s found group therapy to be effective in the treatment of prison inmates and discharged mental patients. After World War 2, many of the soldiers were treated successfully using group therapy. Over the years ...

INTRODUCTION

Domestic abuse is still a major problem for many women, particularly in the United States. Alaska is no exception; according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, women have a 25% chance of experiencing some form of domestic abuse in their lifetime (2005). Domestic abuse can cover myriad offenses, from physical violence to emotional abuse, and even sexual abuse and rape. When in an abusive relationship or having endured some form of domestic abuse, it can be difficult to find a place to turn to. In Alaska, with its smaller population and greater sprawl, it can often make it hard for women ...

What principles with respect to women battering and self-defense have been established in Lavallee's case?

Most of the case law involving female offenders depends on the Supreme Court of Canada's verdict in Lavallee, which accepted proof that an offender had encountered violence elicited by the victim, Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS)1, as applicable to the problem of self-defense. In the Lavallee case2, proof was disclosed demonstrating that the offender had been exposed to years of abuse owing to the victim, and she was acquitted of murder because she had acted in self-defense. Battered women constitute one of the most marginalized groupings in the social order. Their relationship incidents occasionally put these individuals into ...