Intimate Partner Violence Essay

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Domestic violence or Intimate Partner Violence concerns those in family type relationships, cohabitating, involved but not living together, or separated where violence occurs due to an imbalance of power and control from one of the parties within a relationship. One of the parties will go to great lengths to control others in their immediate household and will use different means to accomplish this goal and they are labeled as a batterer. The old term abuser can denote mostly ideas of physical and sexual means of violence as well as confuse intimate partner violence and sexual abuse of children, when there are many different forms that the violence can take, from emotional, religious, financial, and or physical among several others. Intimate partner violence is spoken …show more content…

People outside of a relationship, and who have never experienced the trauma of intimate partner violence, have a tendency to blame the victim for staying under a belief that it should be logically simple for the victim to leave such a relationship. Those relationships do not begin with violence but they end that way; the partner finally leaves, dies at the hands of the batterer, or in some cases kills the batterer. Intimate partner violence can happen to anyone, yet is something widely known to happen to women and is a large health concern for women globally (Bartol et al., 2015). Therefore, to reduce the violence from occurring addressing the societal perceptions and attitudes towards intimate partner violence is a necessary step since blaming the victim is still extremely common (Gracia, 2014). Within societies changing laws in respect to women, subjugated laws had assisted different forms of intimate partner violence to, at the time, be considered cultural

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