The Effects Of Domestic Violence On Women - 1362 Words

Domestic violence is a sensitive topic even though media and society are providing more information about this topic. Domestic violence not only affects women but children and family in general. This issue is a very sensitive topic and not a lot of individuals are comfortable talking about it or sharing if they have either experience or have someone in their lives that had been subjected to abuse. Sadly, domestic violence is experienced by many people and it does not matter what race, gender, social status, or education people are from. Domestic violence is the term most known among individual, but other refer to this issue as violence against women because predominately women are the victims of abuse. Throughout the essay, there will be†¦show more content†¦Further, violence against women are predominately men subjecting women to abuse in an intimidate relationship. Family violence in Canada: A statistical profile, 2014 states â€Å"Female victims of family violence (56%) were more likely to be victimized by a spouse than male victims (31%)†. This demonstrated that still different between women and men being the perpetrator in a relationship. When talking about violence against women, there is a need to also talk about the different power and control tactics it is used in order to have power over someone. But before to explain about the different tactics, it is important to know that when an individual used power over someone there is an intention behind, either to get what they want (e.i. keep having control or manipulate the other to get their own way) or to avoid something (e.i. avoid an argument, confrontation, or to be accountable for their choices). There are ten power and control tactics that a person can use to subject others to abuse. The tactics are emotional abuse, intimidation, isolation, economic abuse, using children and/or other, minimize, deny, and blame, male privilege, coercion and threats, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. In the following picture capture all ten tactics as well as providing examples of each. When looking closer at the power and control wheel, physical and sexual abuse are on the outside of the