Violence 2
Throughout history many women have been victims of domestic violence. Society considered men to be superior to women because men were always in power economically, legally, and religiously. This gave men the attitude that women were inferior to them. Men harm their wives by beating them physically and abusing them emotionally. Many of these women did not report the abuse that they got from their spouses and families because they thought that no one would believe them. By becoming informed with the causes, effects, and treatments of domestic violence towards women in the United States, we can then contain the damages that are done to women or at least get the message across to other women that there is help to overcome this tragic display of “affection”. “Domestic violence is defined broadly as violent acts carried out by persons in a marital, sexual, parental, or care-giving role toward others in reciprocal roles. ‘Spousal abuse’ may apply to couples engaged in a sexual relationship outside of marriage. And ‘child abuse’ may be penetrated by parents, siblings, step-parents, or live-in boyfriends or girlfriends of the abused child’s parent (Rosen 3). Batt
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