Domestic Violence & It Effects in Our Lifestyles Essay

Domestic Violence and It Effects in Our Lifestyles

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Domestic Violence and It Effects in Our Lifestyles

Narrowed topic

My narrowed topic is determining the major effects that domestic violence poses to the society. I have heard of cases where people have been hospitalized due to been victimized in domestic violence cases. Others have lost their sanity due to the torment resulting from this violence. Hence it is such a delicate matter that needs addressing and a better understanding of the effects domestic violence poses is a crucial step of curbing this violence.

Target audience

This study will act as a means of reaching out to my primary and secondary audience who will hopefully support and share my values and opinions as will be highlighted in the essay. Importantly, my primary audience majorly constitutes the middle-aged men since they are believed to be the major perpetrators of domestic violence. In addition to this audience, the health and the legal units are part of the primary audience. This is because they are the major parties in the frontline of fighting domestic violence. The secondary audience on the other hand comprises my professor and fellow classmates some of whom might have been victimized in domestic violence either directly or indirectly. My beliefs that the study may help sensitize some of the audience on the negative impacts that result from domestic violence. At the same time fuel the fight against domestic violence by encouraging self-report and other ways of reporting typical cases.

Thesis statement

 The life of a domestic violence victims, specifically is characterized by moments of torture; psychologically, health wise, and socially. Even worse, these effects extend to the whole society as they deplete the economy. Studying such effects will open us up to a whole new error of fighting the violence at all cost as shall be seen in this study. 

Topic sentences

• The major victims of domestic violence are women.
• Domestic violence is an international hazard.
• Domestic violence affects everyone in the society directly or indirectly.
• Domestic violence is a major cause of psychological and physiological mishaps to women.

Introduction

Domestic violence has grave effects on the day to day life specifically on women who are the major women. Therefore, a need arises for the determination of these effects so that a novel approach on how to deal with it can be developed. According to Alhabib, Nur and Jones 2010, domestic violence has developed into a hive of economic, health, physical and psychological damage to its victims, women being the major victims. Other researches also support the fact that domestic violence has become an international menace and needs to be addressed. This document is set out to assess some of these effects and also offer possible ways of curbing the violence. Studying the effects will help build a foundation that will help advice all the concerned parties in a bid to reduce occurrences of domestic violence which is the major goal of this study.

Theory  

It should be noted that I mostly based this study on Alhabib, Nur & Jones, (2010) as the major resource document. The other references therein are meant to support the information acquired from the major document. Alhabib, Nur & Jones, (2010) is considered a reliable and valid source of effects of domestic violence. This is because it contains a documentation of a wide range of information collected from reliable sources dating between years 1995 and 2006. This means that the information acquired is voluminous enough to yield more generalizable conclusions for this study. Also, I found the information acquired from the document agreeing with the information acquired from other documents which made the information even more credible.

To start with, Alhabib, Nur & Jones, (2010) acknowledge that the women are the major victims of domestic violence. Consequently, the women’s physical, psychological, health and economic status have been greatly deteriorated. The authors point it out that due to this effects, the general society has experienced hiccups in the day to day lives. Importantly, the authors assert that the violence knows no ethnic, racial or socioeconomic boundaries but affects all the members of society on a global level. Campbell (2002) supports the argument that the domestic violence leads too serious psychological and health problems especially to women. For instance, he mentions that the women victimized in domestic violence are characterized with having severe premenstrual syndrome, posttraumatic stress and even depression. This fact is crowned up by Ellsberg and Heise (2005) who say that domestic violence is a major cause of women’s ill health and thus affecting their well-being.   

Advantageously, the authors (Alhabib, Nur & Jones, 2010) go ahead and suggest solutions towards curbing the violence. For instance, the authors suggest that the if the medical training offered recently is focused at offering techniques that will help recognize and report domestic violence cases, then the cases can be easily identified and therefore greatly reduced. Other than the medical sector, the authors suggest that the governmental, legal and judicial sectors should see to it that people (locals of any given country) are well sensitized about domestic violence and the legislative rights against such violence. In other words, the authors suggest that only proper sensitization against the violence can offer a perfect evasion path from the intolerable peril. Merry (2003) explores some of the legislative measures such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) that the government have implemented so as to curb domestic violence. However, the implemented laws are not fully sanctioned which means that they are often not effective enough (Michalski, 2004).  

Conclusion   

Conclusively, women are subjected through much undeserved stress through domestic violence. They are subjected to a lot of psychological and health problems which affect the socioeconomic status of the whole society. This is because a substantial portion of our resources are directed towards eradicating health and psychological issues which crop up from domestic violence. This resources (such as money and drugs) could be channeled towards other major issues such as providing drugs for the victims of HIV/AIDS or even providing food to the needy people affected by natural disasters causing hanger. From all explored so far, it is evident that domestic violence requires the health sector, the legal sector and the general public to be more rampant in detecting and reporting domestic violence case. Its only through their cooperation that the discussed domestic violence impacts can be curbed. Its only through this cooperation that the menace can be kept in check and the experienced cases reduced.

References

Alhabib, S., Nur, U., & Jones, R. (2010). Domestic violence against women: Systematic review of prevalence studies. Journal of Family Violence, 25(4), 369–382. doi:10.1007/s10896-009-9298-4

Campbell, J. (2002). Health consequences of intimate partner violence. The Lancet, 359(9314), 1331-1336. Doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(02)08336-8

Ellsberg, M., & Heise, L. (2005). Researching violence against women: A practical guide for researchers and Aactivists. Washington DC: World Health Organization, PATH.

Merry, S. (2003). Constructing a Global Law-Violence against Women and the Human Rights System. Law & Social Inquiry, 28(4), 941-977. doi:10.1111/j.1747-4469.2003.tb00828.x

Michalski, J. (2004). Making Sociological Sense Out of Trends in Intimate Partnera Violence: The Social Structure of Violence Against Women. Violence Against Women, 10(6), 652-675. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801204265018