Domestic_Violence

Domestic Violence Domestic violence is known by many names including spouse abuse, domestic abuse, domestic assault, battering, partner abuse, marital strife, marital dispute, wife beating, marital discord, woman abuse, dysfunctional relationship, intimate fighting, male beating and so on. McCue (1995) maintains that it is commonly accepted by legal professionals as "the emotional, physical, psychological, or sexual abuse perpetrated against a person by that person's spouse, former spouse, partner, former partner or by the other parent of a minor child" (although several other forms of domestic violence have become increasingly apparent in today's society). Whatever name is used to refer to it, however, domestic violence is a very grave and difficult problem faced by American society. Although domestic violence can include the abuse of parents, children, siblings and other relatives, it mainly involves violence against sexual partners with women being the most common victims and men being the 'aggressors' (Family Violence Professional Education Taskforce 1991). It is inadequate to view domestic violence as an aspect of the normal conflicts that take place in most families. According to McCue (1995), many families experience conflict, but not all male members of families inevitably resort to violence. It is not violence, abuse, domestic, family, men, education, taskforce, professional, partner, male, families, 1991, wives, status, society, although, 1995, physical, langevin, however, home, emotional, community, according, women, rather, higher, forms, cases, alcohol, against, victim, therefore, spouse, socioeconomic