These two factors may lead to poor health, death, and other psychological problems. ... Society puts the blame on the victim instead of the perpetrator who is experiencing psychological problems by assaulting the victim. ... In other situations the victim may develop psychological thoughts of "escape- while being abused. ... They may also develop eating disorder for example, if the victim is thin, she will want to become fact, and if the victim is fact, she wants to be thin. ...

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If having been hit by their parents is one of the causes of being violent, then these husbands may also have suffered psychological damage when they saw their fathers batter their mothers. Children who witness domestic violence succumb to psychological disorders as if they themselves had suffered abuse [and] become prone to perpetuating the intergenerational cycle of domestic violence as they mature. ...

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Emotional abuse, also referred to as verbal, mental, or psychological abuse, includes acts or the failures to act by parents or caretakers that have caused or could cause, serious behavioral, cognitive, emotional, or mental disorders. ... Psychological neglect includes the lack of any emotional support and love, never attending to the child, spousal abuse, drug and alcohol abuse including allowing the child to participate in drug and alcohol use. ... Of those findings, 63 percent were neglect cases, 19 percent stemmed from physical abuse, 10 percent suffered sexual abuse, and 8 percent suffer...

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These consequences range from chronic headaches, sleeping and eating disorders, multiple injuries to the head, neck, abdomen, and vaginal area, to death (Gordon 5). Psychological problems also arise from exposure to domestic violence. The long-term impact of violence includes depression, fear, anxiety, lowered self-esteem, and PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder). ... The first step is the "tension building stage" in which the victim experiences minor battering incidents and verbal and psychological abuse. ...

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Emotional Abuse (also known as: Verbal abuse, mental abuse, and psychological maltreatment), includes acts or the failures to act by parents or caretakers that have caused or could cause, serious behavioral, cognitive, emotional or mental disorders. ... Psychological neglect is the lack of any emotional support and love, never attending to the child, spousal abuse, drug and alcohol abuse including allowing the child to participate in drug and alcohol use (Herman, Judith Lewis p.144). ...

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In those families are mothers who have had an extreme experience of child abuse which led to psychological distress in adulthood, and which contributed to them abusing their own children. ... "Researchers have found that children of depressed parents are at greater risk of psychiatric disorders than are children of nondepressed parents" (Lindsey et al., 2008, p.80). ...

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Dating violence, defined as "any attempt to control or dominant another person physically, sexually, psychologically, resulting in harm (Voltz at el, 2000: #587) Relationships whether it is a dating or friendship should maintain a healthy connection. ... Teen relationship violence often contributes to depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and anxiety. ...

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No one ever imagines that they would allow themselves to be in a domestic violence relationship; however it's more common than one would think. No one can begin to understand how it happens until it does. I know this because it happened to me. My first love as a teenager was also my worst. I met him...

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Child abuse is a global problem that is deeply rooted in cultural, economic and social practices. It is a state of emotional, physical, economic and sexual maltreatment meted out to a person below the age of eighteen and is a globally prevalent phenomenon. However, in India, as in many other countri...

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