The Reauthorization of 2013 Violence Against Women Act is an act that was made to help victims of violence by providing resources of healing for the victims and seeks to take action to help end domestic violence. ... The proposed reauthorization of this act intended to not only ensure the continuation of the previous law, but proposed to expand its protection by promoting state and local efforts to combat rape and domestic violence, protecting women, gays, and Native Americans.1 With on going issues of violence and sexual abuse, Congress felt that these issues needed to be addressed immediate...

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Today, domestic violence is no longer looked at that way. ... Using any form of physical violence is a crime. ... Abusers feel this need to control their partner because of low self-esteem, extreme jealousy, difficulties in controlling anger and other strong emotions, or when they feel inferior to the other person in education and socio-economic background. ... Children who witness or are victims of violence may learn to believe that violence is a reasonable way to solve conflict between people. ... Child abuse and domestic violence go hand-in-hand. ...

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Domestic violence has a weighty effect on children who are exposed to it. ... Infants and toddlers who witness violence in their homes show extreme irritability, immature behavior, sleeping disorders, emotional suffering, fears of being alone, and decline in toileting and language skills. ... Other studies have reported that school-age children, age 6-12, who are exposed to family violence, are affected similarly to those exposed to community violence (Houskamp 364). ... They usually blame their mother for the violence. ... Individual therapy is specified for children who show extreme symptoms...

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Violence in Literature There are various disputes in our society that occur with different controversies when dealing with Violence in Literature. ... "Parents are taken away books from their child due to violence. ... Violence is a big part of the world we live in. ... In Matt Olsen's article he writes: "No book, be it American Psycho, has depicted such extreme acts of violence as this book has, but this book is widely accepted and cherished. ... Matt Olsen who feels that violence in books is wrong idea says; "I admit that violence in books does not always occur in a negative affect on...

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Domestic violence could be our nation's number one social problem. ... In order to understand the cycle of violence or prevent it, we should examine the psychological and sociological factors found in the players and roles of this tragic drama: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE The most common factor in the developmental history of both abusers and victims is previous experience and exposure to violence. ... The psychological effects of domestic violence on children are far-reaching, and starts when they are still young. ... They feel shame, remorse, and guilt that the violence is occurring. ... ...

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From the beginning of time, violence has always been a part of the human condition. ... Because domestic violence has become a major social problem, researchers are becoming increasingly interested in violence and its effect on children. ... Domestic Violence often occurs more frequently in homes with children. ... Because they hated their living conditions while growing up, they take extreme measures not to become their parents (www.newbeginigs.com 1). ... Nonetheless, domestic violence and its effects do not stop there. ...

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Background of Domestic Violence Domestic violence and psychological abuse are identified as, "behaviors used by one person in a relationship to control the other" (http://www.domesticviolence.org/). ... According to Futures Without Violence, an organization dedicated towards addressing gender-based violence and child abuse, "women of all ages are at risk for domestic and sexual violence, and those age 20 to 24 are at the greatest risk of experiencing nonfatal intimate partner violence" (http://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/). ... Men more prone to violence usually have a h...

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Domestic violence totally contradicts this. ... Domestic violence has a huge impact on our society and humanity. ... Many issues can be a factor in domestic violence. ... Domestic violence is in majority a learned behavior cycle. ... Politics plays a huge role in the continuing cycle of domestic violence. ...

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Mankind's" history was dominated by violence, whether its political war, domestic violence, social violence or personal violence, violence had abided in our culture visibly and invisibly. ... We live in a system, domestically and internationally that employs violence as a solution to violence. Beyond this violence, is the violence in our hearts. ... Extreme violence can push a person out of cultural system, because pain is in controvertible and world-erasing, registering the body pain as sensory, aversive and overwhelming, plus it causes deeper fear of the bodies" own futur...

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It is difficult to censor without crossing the line of free speech, but in an environment where parental guidance is lacking and youth violence is increasing, control must be integrated. ... Researchers have followed the correlation between screen violence and actual violence for more than three decades. ... The code had incorporated strict standards for depictions of, among other things, violence, sexually explicit material, crime, and racism. ... Violence and sex are popular topics among many of today's music videos and CD artists. ... However, the challenge for media practitioners, in...

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The comparisons were considered so extreme that it would catch a person off guard. ... But, sex and violence in conjunction with women can't be a good recipe. ... Violence was and has been glamorized by the media for a very long time in this country. This country has a love affair with violence, however sad the point may be it is also very true. ... It was said, that alcohol played a big picture in helping to set the tone for domestic violence. ...

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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. ... When children continue to be exposed to violence it becomes a major concern and most of the attention is directed to the environment in which the child is living, and how the media displays child abuse (Ornduff et al., 2002). ... When a parent abuses drugs it has an extreme effect on how well their parenting skills are toward their children, and some African American parents are guaranteed to fall under t...

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Joel faces a number of barriers such as poor living conditions, a mother who is mentally unstable whilst being subjected to a large amount of domestic violence. ... Being surrounded by domestic violence at this stage in life can have major impacts on her children. ... What is the impact of the household violence on the parents, children's and Holly's development? Connie's attachment to her mother would have been seriously disrupted as a result of domestic violence. ... Growing up with domestic violence then having to rais...

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Somehow the tables are turned and it is made to seem that the victim is responsible for the violence. ... Physical violence is more common in poor families, families living under stress or parents who suffered cruelty as children. Sometimes in extreme cases the shaking of a child with such extreme force as an aggressive abuser possesses can cause severe brain damage as the brain is crushed from repeated impact against the skull. ... The physical destruction of a child is the extreme reaction of parents to the stress of having children. ...

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Rachel Yehuda, PhD, a professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division, at defines PTSD as an anxiety disorder that happens to people that are exposed to an extreme traumatic event that caused fear, horror, or helplessness (Yehuda, 2002). ... Violence between spouses or cohabitants rates are alarmingly high. ... While it is clear that this violence is in no way a pain felt by only women, the survey data cleared shows the risks women are at in comparison to men. ... The data from this survey is almost 15 years...

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A profile of a typical abuser was described as, "a person who is not employed, has a prior criminal history or domestic violence case, has a history on drug or alcohol dependence"(2013).There are five ways an elder can be abused: physical, psychological, sexual, financial, and neglect (citation needed). ...

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