“Abuse is rare: only some people to experience!” This allegation is completely false, but the widespread view. When it comes to violence, there are so many myths and misunderstandings in our society, not only women but also what constitutes abuse. This article will focus on the myths and truths as battered women.
Myth No. 1 – the abuse is rare and only a few people to experience.
Truth # 1 – Many battered women have to present fear of abuse. The FBI estimates that every 18 seconds a woman is beaten by her partner.
Myth No. 2 – The abuse does not occur within certain religions.
Truth # 2 – The abuse happens everywhere, in all religions
Myth No. 3 – Physical violence stops in on his own time
Truth # 3 – The abuse will continue and even exacerbated over time.
Myth No. 4 – The abuse of a woman is not a serious or dangerous. Really not much
Truth # 4 – Physical abuse is the most common way that women murdered by men. It hurts not only women but also children are involved.
Myth No. 5 – The abuse is the instinct that men / boys are born aggressive.
Truth # 5 – Violent behavior is learned! Children are educated in their child hood all their models that hard and aggressive.
As you can see, these are the six most common myths about domestic violence. Physical violence must stop because it hurts everyone. Children are not born like this and learn this problem through the cycle of violence. together to raise awareness and stop this cycle of saving lives and physical problems in the future!
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Abused women
It is difficult to understand the life of an abused woman. But after reading the book by Lenore Walker, “Battered Woman”, for the gains in the psychology of women that abused and Stark realization of the complexity of the process.
Walker interviews with abused women is disturbing. Some of these events are graphic, and some are disgusting, and they are all difficult to imagine. However, it happens. Statistics show that hundreds of women who kill their abusers in self-defense every year. But there are many more incidents that go unreported.
What is the role of social institutions play in preventing sudden a woman from the reporting of such attacks? Let’s start with the police. Obviously, some calls controversy is not by the police as they should be treated. Not seem to be in such disputes. They visit the house, talk to the couple, unless the woman wants to complain, to leave her.
Often, the women know not to report it. She is so afraid of the consequences that this place, an apology for her husband if there is a reference to the lock. This was the case of Tracey Thurman, a housewife from Connecticut who was stabbed and brutally beaten by her husband, and left a quadriplegic.
She filed a complaint against the police in Connecticut and therefore the law was passed Thurman. This law requires the police deal with a call to civil unrest with the same care and seriousness as any other violent crime issue.
However, extending the apathy of society towards women abused far beyond our social institutions. actually begins in the family. Dr. Susan Forward, has published a book entitled “Men, women and the women they love to hate.” It is from interviews with perpetrators, the motives for this outrageous behavior clear. She described the perpetrator as misogynist “or that he hates women.
Lenore Walker describes the theory of the cycle of violence “in his book. This theory explains the three phases of the battery.
Phase One is the “House of upkeep” and starts with “minor incidents” in which an abused woman takes the blame and put your mind to avoid future conflicts. The battered woman justifies the actions of the aggressor through the internalization of their own actions and how the incident can be avoided.
The second phase is the incident of “abuse severity,” as “describing all the rage” with the attackers. Since he able to get away with the first phase, or was immediately assumed that felt by their partner feels the offender the right to step up their attacks. These brutal attacks are usually in a shorter period. It was during this phase that the psychological harm to women is the major ore. It is left without defense, without hope and fear.
The third phase is “kindness and excuse the behavior of remorse” by the offender and showed promising that does not happen again. Striker is doing everything too much to compensate for the pain.
A woman forgives the offender generally, as in the case of an isolated incident, it sets its own way of thinking they do not get back on track. She accepts his gifts and promises. All is forgiven, right? Wrong!
Very quickly, the attacker, the cycle all over again until it is completely deaf. He has lost all sense of identity, self-control. The cycle is a routine, a ritual. So while there are aggressors, there will be no victims.
“The abused woman” is not the panacea for this disease, but provides the reader with information on possible reasons for this growing problem. It offers alternatives for women to stay in a relationship with select, and those who choose to leave.
In a conversation I had said with a colleague about this subject, “Well, you know how it is. I’m going home, she starts barking at something, and I’m very tired. I will not listen. It does not happen, but it works. What can I say? ”