Spousal Abuse

Want to read the rest of this paper? Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay and over 50,000 other term papers

abusive situation for a longer time.
Billboards, radio, and TV ads across the country proclaim that “every fifteen seconds a woman is beaten by a man.” Violence against women is clearly a problem of national importance, but has anyone ever asked how often men are beaten by women? The unfortunate fact is that men are the victims of domestic violence at least as often as women are. A survey conducted by National Family Violence showed that men are just as likely to be the victims of domestic violence as women are. In a study in Nineteen- seventy - five (1975) and nineteen - eighty - five (1985), the overall rate of domestic violence by men against men actually increased. Violence can take various forms. There is no question that since men are stronger than women are, they can do more damage in a fistfight. But in nineteen - eighty - four (1984) a study of sixty - two - hundred (6,200) cases of reported domestic assault found that eighty-six percent of female - on - male ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays. Write better papers. Get better grades. Already a member? Login

around his wife would be forced by the community to wear women’s clothing and to ride through the village, backwards on a donkey holding it’s tail. Modern versions of the charivari and persist today. Take Skip W. For instance. He participated in a program on domestic violence aired on short-lived Jesse Jackson show in nineteen - ninety - one (1991). Skip related how his wife repeatedly hit him and attacked him with knives and scissors. The audience’s reaction was exactly what male victims who go public fear: laughter and constant derisive snickering. Even when men are severely injured, men will go to great lengths to avoid telling anyone what they’ve been through. Dr. Ronn ...

Succeed in your coursework without stepping into a library. Get access to a growing library of notes, book reports, and research papers in 2 minutes or less.

CITE THIS PAGE: