Domestic Violence Theories

Woman are attracted to men with power and wealth and men are seeking more of an identity. Violence is the most common way to control a partner and maintain order in the intimate partner relationship. A conflict in couple’s relationships is mainly collapsing due to finances, jealousy, and a women’s identity role. When a partner consumes alcohol, there is a higher chance of violence in the home. If a woman is the same or more educated than her partner, she is more likely to leave the relationship.

By establishing a worker/client relationship, this will provide Laura with a secure base to operate from in the future. She will be able to confidently explore her historical, current, and future relationship with her mother knowing that she can receive comfort and reassurance from me, her social worker. Once she recognizes this secure base, I will assist her in discovering how she currently handles her relationship with her mother. During this relational discovery process with her mother, I will also allow her to explore her relationship with me, showing Laura how her previous ways of dealing with others could be positively changed through the change of her various internal behavioral models. Through this social worker and client relationship exploration, Laura will discover how her current perceptions of her mother are connected to expectations from their relationship when she was a child, providing her the opportunity to view the current relationship differently.

Also, men tend to be on the more aggressive side. Therefore, if someone were to threaten the United States, their first instinct would be to declare war. Meanwhile, women would lower the temper of the government and provide a problem solving element. Suffragists argued that direct influence in government was best for both women and society. They claimed that exerting indirect influence was not only time-consuming but also ineffective in enacting social reforms.

Anderson(1997) believed that both men's socio-demographic status and husbands' comparative resource to their wives would influence men's use of violence. A more detailed explanation would be provided in the description of the theory down below. Heise(1998) integrated the ecological theory with feminist perspective. Heise adopted the ecological framework that encompasses the findings that could possibly result in domestic violence but pointed out gender should be taken into account as well. She proposed that patriarchal society and social and individual factors together influence one's behavior.

This hypothesis proposes that sexual assaults may have evolved from selection pressure as a consequence of a female’s ability to choose (Thornhill & Palmer, 2001). For example, males tend to have a stronger sex drive than females and a tendency to be much more indiscriminate in mate preferences and willingness to engage in casual sex compared to females (Felson & Cundiff, 2014). In contrast, women place more time and investment selecting a mate with whom they can together be responsible for their children. These strong differences in the tendencies of male and female sexuality can generate a conflict of interest with regard to contemporary sexual behaviour.

This theory applied to female sex offending can be criticised as there is a considerable amount of offenders who were not victims of sex crimes and decided to engage in the behaviour. Feminist approaches are particularly taken into account and have provided great contribution for the understanding of this topic. This topic particularly challenging for these theorists as women were excluded as sexual perpetrators for several years. They stipulate that sexual abuse is an outlet for the oppression and sexual exploitation women have suffered over the years (Lorber, 2001). Through exercising their power over another person, women are regaining control over the male-dominated culture.

Whittemore answered questions on becoming a social worker, but strongly emphasized the questions about affects it has on her. She made it clear that her job is something she greatly enjoys, but is not always perfect. When asked if her work fulfiller her, she said, “Yes and no Yes, in that when you can help someone see things in a new way . . .

While the United States may be one of the world’s wealthiest nations, teens today face myriad of social, personal, educational and financial problems that impede their development, such as Child poverty, inadequate educational attainment, inadequate health care, parental separation and divorce, foster care system, abuse and neglect, and coping with the modern world. (Siegel p.3) As our book discuss child poverty escalated rapidly since the 2000’s, poverty has risen for every age , gender, and race/ethnic group. With the most severe living among poverty the nation’s youngest families (adults under 30) and even more with those families who have more than one child living in the home. (Siegel p4). Approximately 14 – 16 million children in America

The one that women find themselves thinking of the most is that in any case of rape or incest the woman should not be forced to have that unwanted child. Recently a Senate nominee Todd Akin stated that pregnancy from rape is very rare because “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” That statement is beyond ignorant because according to The Washington Post and TheAtlantic.com on average in just America alone, 32,000 pregnancies are the result of rape. If a woman is forced to have a child because of rape the child could be raised up in a potentially dangerous home environment. Rape can cause PTSD and identity disorder as well as severe mood swings and depression. The woman may not have a chance to get better if she is reminded daily of that traumatic experience in life.

Domestic violence against Women by intimate partners in Thailand In Thailand married women at the age of 15-49 years old have experienced physical or psychological violence from their intimate partner every day, 2-3 times a week (ICDD, 2012).When the "domestic violence" happened, women can be victims more than men. Domestic violence is a social critical issue and should not happen to anybody, but it is difficult to prevent.The problem is often overlooked, excused, or denied. Domestic violence against women by intimate partners is a pattern of threatening or controlling behavior imposed on women by intimating partner without regarding for her rights, feeling, body, or health (Moreno, 2001). Although the problem can be caused by either male or

Intervention Strategy Since the very first emergency shelters for survivors of domestic and sexual violence opened in the United States in 1967, survivors have continued to have problems finding available and affordable housing options (History of the battered women 's movement, 2009). In the state of Virginia alone, 3,639 families were turned away due to full shelters in 2013 (Herring, 2014). Of the homeless population surveyed in January 2015 in the city of Richmond, Virginia, 43% reported experiencing domestic violence in the last year (Ackermann, 2015). These statistics speak to not only the prevalence of domestic violence, but also the widespread homelessness that can result when survivors cannot find safe, affordable housing. If

As defined in “Establishing A Domestic Abuse Care Pathway”, domestic violence is “Any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive or threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those… who are or have been intimate partners or family members, regardless of gender or sexuality. The abuse can encompass… psychological, physical, sexual, financial, or emotional [abuse].” Domestic violence is common, with around 1 in 4 women experiencing it at some point in their lives, and there are many things that need to be fixed about the handling of domestic abuse cases. (Bradbury-Jones) Our society should fix how we deal with abusers, set up an improved care pathway to deal with domestic abuse, and in this pathway improve the response to

Finding some employment for Brenna would also be a good step in making her self-sufficient for her and her child. By working, Brenna will understand what it takes to raise a child on her own and everything that is involved in being a single parent. Lastly, I would work with Brenna and see if she would be interested in rekindling her relationship with her mother. At this time in Brenna’s she could really benefit from support from her mother. The interventions that I have set up for Brenna should help her be more independent in being a single mother and also try to find her

People should stop abuse and treatment victims that affects hundreds of thousands of children every year. I believe that child abuse is one of the most common forms of physical maltreatment. Child abuse comes

“More than one-half of children in foster care have ever experienced caregiver violence or caregiver incarceration and almost two-thirds have lived with someone who had an alcoholic or drug problem” (Bramlett). The fact that one-half of the foster children have either been beaten or witnessed violent acts is heartbreaking. As a country we should be fighting for those who can’t. These children have already experienced more negativity in their lives than most adults. Children involved in foster care show mental and emotional