Domestic Violence And Abused Women

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Domestic Violence and Abused Women

Introduction

Domestic violence is a real act or threat of physical, sexual, psychological or economic violence by one person towards another with whom the person has or has had family, intimate or other similar relationships. This is a cycle of physical, verbal, mental and economic violence, repeated with increasing frequency, with the aim of controlling, intimidating, instilling a sense of fear. These are situations in which one person controls or tries to control the behaviours and feelings of the other. Sexual and gender-based violence is one of the violations of human rights. This kind of violence rooted in the stereotype of gender roles, denying the individual's human dignity and stymied human development. …show more content…

Only in the new literature, both domestic and foreign, the topic of domestic violence is raised, but not in full and in a relaxed form. Although violence is a crime. In the Russian Federation, a woman dies every hour from the hands of her relative or a current or former partner. Domestic violence against women takes place in all regions of the world. Acts of violence occur in families regardless of their social or ethnic background. This problem concerns the whole society, it goes beyond private life.

Moreover, women all over the UK has been experiencing physical, psychological, and sexual violence along with honour-based violence by a partner and noticeably by the age of 13 or 15.

The problem of violence has many aspects such as domestic violence, violence at work, violence on the street. Violence can be both physical and psychological, it can have a social and criminal nature, lead to various consequences, including the extremely sad. Violence always indicates discrimination. The larger the scale of domestic violence, the more a woman is subject to discrimination in other spheres of public life in the country. The legal consolidation of citizens' rights does not always lead to an actual change in the state of …show more content…

The more violent and prolonged is violence, the deeper and more resistant the trauma, which in the worst case can lead to loss of sense of identity . Thus, victims of domestic violence pre-empt deep personal, cognitive, emotional, behavioural changes, such as: decreased self-esteem, increased guilt, belief in most myths about violence, thoughts of a hopeless situation, the emergence of a strong sense of loneliness, guilt for what is happening and not passing Fear, isolation, self-aggression, the emergence of psychosomatic diseases and much more. It is important to note that low self-esteem and belief in most of the myths about violent relationships are inherent not only to the victim of violence, but also to the rapist. Similarly, partners have the same ideas about the family, the role of women in the family and society and they have traditional views on the leading role of men in the family and society. All these signs and some personal changes do not depend on the duration of domestic violence and may appear after the first act of

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