Violence Caused By A Dysfunctional Family

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Heart racing, speed increasing, the teenager tried to outrun the bullet. You cannot outrun a bullet, so you know what happened next. Just that fast the society loses another citizen due to violence. Violence should never be your choice to a problem because it can always take someone's life away. The constant disruption of violence has to stop because it has changed me for life to where I portray every situation I’m indifferent, violence is commonly caused by a dysfunctional family, and violence can be prevented by the families uniting together and the society, communicating with one another. Violence is like a heavy iron weight, bearing down on anyone who becomes trapped underneath it. For instance, I will never forget what I witnessed that …show more content…

Violence primarily originates from a dysfunctional family. A dysfunctional family is a family that in which conflict, misbehavior, and often child neglect or abuse are displayed, leading its viewers to become instinct to such actions. When this behavior becomes instinct, whenever he/she gets involved in conflict their first choice will be to solve the problem with violent behavior. Children sometimes grow up in such families with the understanding that such behavior is normal. In other words, a child who is spanked, hit, beaten, or threatened with violence will have a tendency to become violent himself or herself. For instance, in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, 16-year-old Alex Hribal rampaged through his high school's hallways, stabbing wildly with two kitchen knives, the first hints of a possible motive began to emerge. Alex’s attorney believed that his client may have been bullied. Turns out he wasn’t bullied, but he was affected of some sort to make him perform such crime. With more investigating the authorities suspect Alex was in a dysfunctional home, which caused him to rampage through his hallways due what he witnessed in his household. This could’ve been prevented if Alex tried to reach out to a counselor, police, or even a close …show more content…

Violence in every form needs to stop because it has changed me for life to where I portray every situation I’m indifferent, violence is commonly caused by a dysfunctional family, and violence can be prevented by the families uniting together and the society communicating with one another. In life, there is no person in the world who never gets angry, upset, aggravated, or sad. We all have bad days and there are going to be people in life who will push our buttons or try to test us. It’s very important that we learn from a young age appropriate ways to handle our frustrations. Starting now, we can start with educating our young, family members, community members, and organized groups such as athletic teams and girl/boy scouts on the idea that violence is never the answer. It can also be helpful to discuss openly and honestly with our partner’s ways we can communicate effectively in heated situations so that we do not resort to violence. Sadly my brother was a victim of violence but if you take this stance you won’t have to experience the horrible effects of what violence

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