Problem+Research

**1. What is the problem? (short, concise answer)** **2. What are the background and/or historical events of this problem?** **3. Why is this important to society?** **4. How does your topic create problem(s) for society? (requires an expert, detailed explanation)**
 * Problem Research**

"Domestic Violence: MedlinePlus." //U.S National Library of Medicine//. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 23 Feb. 2012. Web. 23 Mar. 2012. . 1. Type of abuse that people are getting hurt by their spouse or parents. Three major types of domestic violence: Sexual, physical, verbal abuse. 2. It happens to all ages and leaves bruises and broken bones sometimes.

**1**.**Between 600,000 and 6 million women are victims of domestic violence each year, and between 100,000 and 6 million men, depending on the type of survey used to obtain the data.** **2.Nearly three out of four (74%) of Americans personally know someone who is or has been a victim of domestic violence.** **3.On average, more than three women and one man are murdered by their intimate partners in this country every day.** **4**.**The health-related costs of intimate partner violence exceed $5.8 billion each year. Of that amount, nearly $4.1 billion are for direct medical and mental health care services, and nearly $1.8 billion are for the indirect costs of lost productivity or wages(1,3,4)** **5. Studies suggest that between 3.3 - 10 million children witness some form of domestic violence annually.** **6. Three in four women have reported being raped or physically assaulted.** **7. 3.3 - 10 million children witness some form of domestic violence annually.** **8.One in five teens in a serious relationship reports having been hit, slapped, or pushed by a partner.** "Domestic violence affects men too." //DNA// [Daily News & Analysis] 18 July 2010. //Infotrac Newsstand//. Web. 26 Mar. 2012. **10. 170,000 husbands have been claimed by rampant domestic violence against them.** **11. 2008 reveals that almost double the number of married men have committed suicide in comparison to married women as the report corroborates.(1)**
 * "Domestic Violence Statistics." //Domestic Violence Resource Center//. Web. 23 Mar. 2012. . **
 * 9.14% of teens report their boyfriend or girlfriend threatened to harm them or themselves to avoid a breakup. **


 * "Domestic Violence - History." //Columbia University in the City of New York//. Web. 26 Mar. 2012. . **
 * 1. The 19th century was when domestic violence became a social issue. **
 * 2. Created a Wife Beaters Act of 1882 **
 * 3. They created numerous bills for domestic violence one of which was, "Domestic Violence Prevention and Services Act" it was not passed. **
 * 4. Another bill was made in 1984 called the Family Violence Prevention Services Act which was passed. **
 * 5. The death of Nicole Brown was what made people really bother to take this act ^ seriously. It changed their view of domestic violence. **

Farmer, Amy, and Jill Tiefenthaler. "Explaining the recent decline in domestic violence." //Contemporary Economic Policy// 21.2 (2003): 158+. //Student Resources in Context//. Web. 27 Mar. 2012.

1. Domestic violence is a serious problem in our society with significant social costs. 2. black women are 35% more likely to be abused than white women and 2.5 times more likely than women of other races. 3. women with children under age 12 experience twice the rate of abuse than those without young children. 4 Women in the lowest income households have seven times the abuse rates of those in the highest income households.

Thaemert, Rita. "Till violence do us part." //State Legislatures// 19.3 (1993): 26+. //Student Resources in Context//. Web. 27 Mar. 2012. 1. Studies show that up to 80 percent of wives suing for divorce cite physical abuse by their husbands. 2. Between 15 percent and 25 percent of pregnant women are battered. 3. People who are abused end up homeless and usually are fleeing domestic violence. 4. Women who leave their batterers are at a higher risk of being killed by abuser than those who stay. 5. About 300 women are imprisoned in Florida and about 70 percent were involved in some kind abuse. 6.Many requests of domestic violence are made a month and many of them are permanent orders.

"At home, alone and facing abuse; Cases of domestic violence against women in Rajasthan have doubled in two years." //DNA// [Daily News & Analysis] 26 Sept. 2009. //Infotrac Newsstand//. Web. 27 Mar. 2012. 1.In 2008-09, around 900 cases of domestic violence were reported. 2.The complaint of violence has increased in two years more and more people are getting abused.

"Center for Problem-Oriented Policing." //Center for Problem-Oriented Policing//. Web. 27 Mar. 2012. . 1. domestic calls are the most frequent for police officers. 2. most women that have been beat up do not go to the hospital even when they need too. 3.women are the victims in domestic violence incidents 85 percent of the time. 4. Victims and kids experience the psychological trauma, fear, suffering from anxiety, stress, sleep deprivation, loss of confidence, social isolation. 5. Domestic violence has an affect on everyone around you: your family, kids, friends, neighbors. They have to see you go through this. 6. Domestic violence includes murder, rape, sexual assault, robbery, and assault. 7. It has an affect on you too. It may cause you to lose your job because of being absent to much, or you might even lose your home. 8. A lot of victims end up in shelters, depending on others or just becoming another addition of the towns homeless percentage. 9. Most guys that hit women have experienced abuse in their child hood or have watched their mom get beat up. 10. Some woman feel that they put so much into their relationship that they are willing to put up wit the abuse, this is called Psychological entrapment theory. 11. Some woman are so terrified from the experiences of violence that she feels their is no escape. This called battered woman syndrome. 12. **"Stockholm syndrome.** A battered woman is essentially a hostage to her batterer. She develops a bond with and shows support for and kindness to her captor, perhaps because of her isolation from and deprivation of more normal relationships." 13. The first phase of abuse is the tension building phase when it is just minor physical and verbal. 14. The second phase is the battering stage. When you actually start getting hit. 15. The third phase is the make up stage, which pulls the women back and then the cycle repeats. 16HAving a verbal abuse partner is one of the risk factor to being involved in a abusive relationship. 17. Women who have a controlling boyfriend are at risk also to be involved in a abusive relationship. 18. Another risk is if your partner is on drugs or a alcoholic. 19. People depend to much on the police you have to get out of the relationship yourself. 20.Some women end up going back to the person even after the police get involved.

"Addressing Domestic Violence." //Addressing Domestic Violence//. Web. 29 Mar. 2012. . 1. Domestic violence is a global issue reaching across national boundaries as well as social-economic, cultural and racial. 2.Psychological and emotional violence are repeated verbal abuse, harassment, finacial and personal resources. 3. It impacts the kids greatly. They start using drugs, grades dropping, suicide attempts etc.. 4. Some women belive they deserve getting beat because they think they did something wrong. 5. Its shameful on the state and socities because they are not preventing this. its denying the first basic rights. 6. Males are the main abuser but their are women that abuse too.