Thursday, November 26, 2009

Intimate Partner Violence


Its interesting to see the dynamics of when a partner does not want to communicate, is closed off in a sense, and the risk factors for when IPV will occur. "---> that is an interesting comment.

When one chooses to not commicate the other person resorts to violence, which is just how IPV occurs. The first thing that happens is emotional IPV where the person threatens the other or his her possessions or loved ones or threatening the person's self worth. Examples of this is name calling, stalking, intimidation, and not letting the person see their friends or family. The two become frusterated and end up lashing out at each other. Usually most couples yell at each other and that's a signal for domestic violence to occur. yelling at each other leads to more stress and one act such as pinching leads to shoving, kicking and screaming. The more tense the relationship is, the harder it is to come down. Often when Domestic violence does occur people loose control of their emotions, become irational and lash out on one another. It is very important to keep one's hands to his or herself, especially when the two people are fighting. People who querrel in arguments all the time and have anger issues need anger management because those are the people that usually cause Intimate Partner Violence. IPv is most likely to occur behind close doors. Ipv is hazzardous because it makes people smoke, abuse alcohol, and engage in risky sexual activity.

As I have learned in other courses about studies done on family violence the victim of abuse tend to weigh the cost of leaving higher than the rewards of leaving the abuser. As Aram said be it cause of children, financial reason, fear of reprocusion after leaving, fear of being alone. The victim of the abuse tends to take the abuse so that they dont have to start over in their lives and create a new status for themselves in a community that they dont know because they let their abuser run their lives for so many years.


I agree with the fact that victims tend to stay with the abuser because they have a fear of being alone. It is the same feeling of vurnability that makes it hard to start over for many victims. They feel that they have spent so many years with the victim that they should stay with them and keep giving them chances to improve. It is like chris brown and rihanna, you could say. Somtimes victims are financially dependent on the abuser which is why they can't get away from them. Once they leave they feel that no one is there to support them. It's really sad because sometimes family members of the victims know about it and they don't interfer cause they feel it would cause to many problems. They feel that they should not intrude on someone's marrige where domestic violence is very common in regions like india. Often girls are victimized and cannot leave the marriage cause they were married off at a young age and have no where else to run to for support. Its an outrage for me. Once the girls in India are married their families completely let the husband deal with their own family member. I don't understand how some people could sit there and know about domestic violence and decide to not step in. I find that strangers who don;t know the people will report the crime vs. people who know the victim. For example, when a couple was fighting in the boyfriends apartment, I was about to report it until somone beat me to it. I saw an old women talking to them and saying she was going to call the cops. I heard them fighting because I live underneath them.

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