What is Domestic Violence And Who Is The Victim And Abuser?
Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is a pattern of behavior in which one intimate partner seeks control over another intimate partner through physical, mental, economic, social, and sexual abuse.
Victims Of Domestic Abuse
Those who face domestic violence are victims and could be men, women, children, or anyone living in an abusive environment. They get abused by an intimate partner in a relationship through intimidation, manipulation, terrorizing, harassing, hefty battering, and hurting with weapons. Such behavior results in severe damage to the victim that can be physical, mental, sexual, social, financial, and in other dangerous forms.
Domestic Violence From Time Of Birth
In most cases, women face domestic violence from the time she is born. And it’s not something new to know, as is happening from the beginning throughout the world through centuries. Acceptance is the first challenge women face. Some women are killed based on their gender. As a woman, she is challenged not to get an education or speak about her rights. Child marriage and forced arranged marriages are violent acts against women.
Intimate Partner Abuse
Women in an intimate relationship face domestic violence when the partner is abusive, controlling, and dominating. The abuser uses all coercive means of violence to command the partner to obey their rules and follow their lead. Women living in abusive households suffer from physical, mental, sexual, social, economic, and verbal abuse. Men don’t stop there, and they use all possible means to become dominant in an intimate relationship over their intimate partners.
Types of Domestic Abuse
Physical Abuse
In physical abuse, the woman is battered to death by hitting, beating, punching, pulling hair, cutting, biting, shoving, grabbing, pushing through the stairs, pulling and pushing in public, and attacking with acid.
Mental Abuse
In mental abuse, their cognitive abilities are challenged by the abusers by speaking low of them in front of friends, family, guests, children, and in public.
Financial Abuse
In financial abuse, women are kept dependent on every need of life by withholding all resources of money so that they can become their obedient slaves.
Sexual Abuse
In sexual abuse, women are forced into activities that are not acceptable. After severe battering, they get forced to have sex. In some cases, women are forced into sex with others in their presence. Forcing women while they are ill and their health conditions are poor can lead to further illness. Sexual abuse can also lead to reproductive health issues.
Social Abuse
In social abuse, women are abused by not allowing them to go to social events. Men prohibit them from visiting friends, family, and loved ones. They are locked in homes for days, months, and years.
Verbal Abuse
In verbal abuse, women face sarcastic, devastating words from their men. Intimate partners feel joy in cracking jokes at the very expense of women. Their accomplishments are discouraged in front of others through sarcasm.
Emotional Abuse
In emotional abuse, women are subjected to hate, anger, and aggression. By withholding love and affection and showing over-possessiveness. Humiliating women in public in front of family and kids everywhere. They are mistreated by demeaning their feelings and emotions. They restrict women from seeking any medical care if they dare to seek help, they get threatened with death and other severe consequences.
Stalking
Stalking is abusing women by recording phone calls and text messages and chasing them everywhere, calling and messaging nonstop. They plant cameras at every nook to record every step of their intimate partners.
Body Shaming
Body shaming is a form of abuse where women get abused for their looks, skin color, body shape, etc. Women in such relationships get into an inferiority complex. Intimate partners take joy in body shaming, which is very bad and demeaning.
Drugs addicted Abuse
Abusers addicted to drugs and alcohol force their partners into alcohol and drugs, which is insane.
Kids Domestic Violence
A child growing up in a household where domestic violence is common suffers badly. They face physical, emotional, mental, social, sexual, verbal, and economic violence. Domestic abuse lowers the ability of a child to learn and nurture. Their childhood memories become weeded with the seeds of abuse. They lose interest in life and become insensitive to joy.
Men’s Domestic Abuse
It would be wrong to discuss domestic violence against women only. Men are also victims of domestic violence. The harsh and insane behavior of their spouses, children, parents, and society plays a huge role in violence against men.
Others Abuse
In an abusive household, not only the intimate partners are affected by violence, but other people living with them are equally affected. Who could be their parents, children, cousins, friends, roommates, house helpers, pets, etc.
Cycle Domestic Abuse
Domestic violence is a cycle of irrational, unacceptable, abusive behaviors. This cycle is carried from generation to generation and is considered a legacy. If a child, girl, or boy grows up in an abusive household, they entitle the abuse to themselves. They feel no bad about abuse and they follow the cycle of domestic abuse.
Are you a Victim Or Abuser?
Having grown up in domestic abuse, you become either a victim of violence or the abuser. Identify who you are.
Are you an abuser or a victim?
Report Domestic Abuse
Stop violence by reporting through the following means
· Report violence and ask for help from people you trust.
· Report to the police if you are a victim. Or find anyone being a victim.
· Report the abuse through the medical and healthcare center.
· Report the abuser to the local court.
· Report the abuse to the mental healthcare centers.
Conclusion
Step out and stop the brutal cycle of domestic violence. Domestic abuse is a crime, and the victims should take prompt action to eradicate this curse from its roots.
