Have you ever wonder why when people think about an unknown person, they tend to think of a “he” instead of a “she”? How people always think that women are weaker than men? And why is it always women being abused, and not men?
Well, first of all... what is women abuse? People think that women abuse is just when men start beating up women until they are half dead, well, lets get a real idea of what women abuse is:
Women abuse is domestic violence and abuse, also called intimate partner violence, is when one person purposely causes either physical or mental harm to another, including:
physical abuse
psychological or emotional abuse
sexual assault
isolation
controlling all of the victim's money, shelter, time, food
Often, the violent person is a husband, former husband, boyfriend, or ex-boyfriend, but sometimes the abuser is female. One of the reasons that there are female abusers is that these abusers themselves have experienced abuse before.
And many of the research proved that most of the women who had experienced abused are less likely to marry than the ones who are not being abused.
Specifically, women who were abused as adults tended to avoid romantic relationships with men, whereas women who were abused as children tended to have a series of short-term relationships. Because they feel unsafe of whether they can trust the men or not.
There is a cycle of men abusing women,Phase 1 (Tension): Increased tension, anger, blaming, and arguing. Phase 2 (Abuse): Battering: hitting, slapping, kicking, choking, use of objects or weapons; Sexual abuse; Verbal threats and abuse. Phase 3 (Honeymoon): This stage may become shorter over time; the partner may deny violence, say they were drunk or sorry and promise it will never happen again.
Every year, more than 960,000 incidents of violence against a current or former spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend occur each year, and about 85 % of these victims are women. About 1,500,000 women and are raped and/or physically assaulted by an intimate partner annually in the US.
On average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in this country every day. If we think of it like that, three times 365 days in a year, every year, 1095 women are being killed in a year. and this research was done in 2001, so in this seven years, 7665 women are being killed from abuse.
Find it scary? Well, this is the truth. Those women have to cover up their whole body so their partner won’t recognize them, they get so scared that they don’t even have the courage to go to the washroom. And you know what's more scary? The number of women getting abused is still increasing.
This issue is definitely not the most important social issue in the world, but if we don’t even let these women have their rights to live like us, then who would have the time to even care about all those other issues then?
p.s. there are few sentences that i copied from some websites, and i know thats .........but its my rough copy, so i will change it later..... but here are the websites i went to, if you want more info bout this topic, go there and check it out
sources
http://www.shrcc.org/news.php?areyoubeingabused
http://www.4women.gov/violence/types/domestic.cfm
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/news/releases/abused_women.cfm
