Domestic Violence...

Bad Behaviour?

can be broadly defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one or both partners in an intimate relationship



The violence can be psychological, physical, sexual or emotional. It can include honour based violence, female genital mutilation, and forced marriage. Quite naively I have always stereotyped domestic violence as physical abuse and after researching to do this blog my eyes have been very much opened.



1 in 4 women will be a victim of domestic violence in their lifetime – many of these on a number of occasions.One incident of domestic violence is reported to the police every minute. On average, 2 women a week are killed by a current or former male partner. Although, one misleading statistic is the 1 in 4 women being a victim because 1 in 6 males are also victims of domestic abuse.
http://www.womensaid.org.uk/domestic_violence_topic.asp?section=0001000100220036&itemTitle=Statistics
Since abusers typically display different kinds of behaviours in public than they do in their private relationships, most people are not usually aware of domestic violence when it is happening in their community. Sometimes, it is difficult to believe that a person who behaves so respectably in public can behave so appallingly with their family. Abusers are always responsible for domestic violence they are the ones that choose to act the way they do, the victims are never responsible no matter how they are made to feel. Most abusers will make victims feel that it is their fault and they deserve it and often victims will convince themselves this is true.
In most cases 90% of children in the family unit witness or hear this violence, they may then go onto experience long or short term cognitive behavioural and emmotional effects.

To write any of this i had to do some serious background research because i quite honestly didnt no anything about it....
To me there is no excuse for domestic abuse not even if the abuser has underlying issues, the effect it has on the children is cruel they have done but be dragged into this situation. It definately is bad behaviour, no doubt about it!!!