Outline On Domestic Violence

1. What is your possible topic? Brainstorm five questions about it.

Family: Domestic Male Violence

• Are there any shelters for battered men?

• Are men ashamed to report that they are victims of domestic violence?

• Why do they stay with their abusive partner?

• What are the dangers of not reporting the abuse?

• Why doesn’t the media cover male domestic violence the same way they cover female domestic violence?

• Is female DV against men on the rise? 2. How is the topic important to you and how does it affect you? What do you personally hope to gain or accomplish by writing about this topic?

The reason that this subject is important to me is that it does not get the same attention or the same outcry as when a woman is a victim of domestic violence. My motivation is to shed light that women are not the only victims of domestic abuse, and that men also suffer the same abuse from their partner.

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Research your topic and provide a brief summary of the current points of view about the topic. Share at least two different/opposing positions on the topic

When people hear the term "domestic violence," they often think that the man is the aggressor. Although this may be true, in countless cases, domestic violence against men is more common than one may think. According to the CDC, “one in four adult men in the U.S. will become a victim of domestic violence during his lifetime. That’s upwards of three million male domestic violence victims every year, or one man in America abused by an intimate or domestic partner every 37.8 seconds.”