What are the Facts

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family violence

• What are the Facts?

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Table of Contents

• What is Family violence?
• What is considered as abuse
• Who are the Victims
• Domestic Violence Facts
• Child Abuse Facts
• The Facts on Elder Abuse
• Why it happens
• True? Or False?
• What to do (and not to do) if someone you know is
  being abused
• Statistics
• Bibliography

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What is family violence?

• There are many different forms of family
  violence, which include
• emotional abuse
• psychological abuse
• Neglect
• physical assault
• sexual assault
• Homicide

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A closer look at the types of abuse

• Emotional Abuse
• Causing mental pain, anguish or distress with or
  without words
• Physical Abuse
• Causing or threatening to cause physical pain to
  someone else
• Sexual Abuse
• Forcing any kind of sexual act upon someone
  unwilling

• Neglect
• To fail to provide the food, shelter, or health
  care when responsible to do so
• Exploitation
• Taking, misusing, or concealing the victims
  things (possessions, funds, property, assets)
  illegally
• Abandonment
• The abandonment of the victim who is in legal
  custody and is in the responsibility of the
  perpetrator

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Examples of Abuse

• Kicking
• Biting
• Pushing
• Choking
• Martial rape
• Gestures
• Yelling
• Destroying victims possessions
• Threatening
• Isolating victim from friends and family
• Neglect

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Who are the Victims

• Anyone can be the victim to family violence, no
  matter how old or young, their social standing,
  religion, intelligence level, or gender. However
  most of the victims to family violence are women
  and children. Men and Elders are also the victims
  to family violence.

• Women
• Physical abuse
• Sexual Abuse
• Emotional Abuse
• Exploitation
• Elders
• Physical Abuse
• Sexual Abuse
• Emotional Abuse
• Exploitation
• Abandonment
• Neglect (most common)

• Children
• Physical abuse
• Sexual abuse
• Emotional abuse
• Neglect
• Abandonment
• Men
• Physical Abuse
• Sexual Abuse
• Emotional Abuse
• Exploitation

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Domestic Violence Facts

• Domestic Violence is another way of saying
  spouse/partner abuse
• Physical, emotional, psychological and sexual
  abuse are all forms of domestic violence
• Most of the time the wife (sometimes including
  the children) are the victims.
• 3-4 million women a year are beaten by their
  husbands in the States
• Every 15 seconds someone is being domestically
  violated
• Often takes place at home
• Main reason for injury and death for women in the
  US
• Today the most unreported crime is domestic
  violence
• Sometime the victim is threatened not to leave
  with death or death/injury to children.

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Child Abuse

• Child abuse is a family member putting a child's
  health or well-being in danger
• Child abuse includes physical, emotional, sexual
  abuse and neglect victimizing children
• In The US, more than 2.5 million reports of child
  abuse are made
• Hundreds of deaths of children are related to
  child abuse every year in the states
• Most runaways, prostitutes, and teenage
  delinquents were abused as children

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The Facts on Elder Abuse

• Elder abuse is the physical, sexual, emotional
  abuse, and exploitation, negligence, and
  abandonment that causes harm to the victim
• Often the victims of elder abuse are dependent on
  their perpetrator for their basic needs
• 551, 011 elders (people who 60) were victims of
  abuse during the year 1998 in the USA
• 2/3 of the perpetrators were the victims grown
  children and spouses, and the abusers are just as
  likely to be women as men
• Neglect is the most common form of elder abuse
• Elders are more vulnerable to abuse as many are
  not as social as they once were, and many have
  mental impairments (for example Alzheimer's)
• It is estimated that around 5 million elders are
  abused every year

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Why it Happens

• Some reasons contributing to physical violence
  are
• that women for many centuries have been
  considered interferer, and some husbands feel
  that it is in their right to beat their wife
• Physical violence was witnessed at home while the
  offender was growing up
• The offender is unable to control their anger
• The offender wants to dominate

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True? or False?

• True
• Many times it is hard for the victim to leave as
  they are afraid of putting themselves in more
  danger
• People are abused in all social classes,
  ethnicity, religion
• Women who are abused range from uneducated to
  have a PhD
• The violence IS controllable saying it isnt is
  an excuse
• Most perpetrators seem reasonable and respectable
  outside the family
• Not all violent men are uneducated, many are
  professionals

• False
• People blow family violence out of proportion
  (make it worse than It seems)
• It is the victims fault
• That it is easy for the victim to leave
• It will get better if you wait out the problem
• Only people in lower social classes are abused
• All or most women in violent relationships are
  uneducated
• Children need their father, even if he is abusive

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What to do (and not do) if someone you know is
being abused

• What to do
• Bring up the topic
• Encourage them to talk about it
• Be a good listener (dont interrupt)
• Ask about their safety
• Speak gently- be careful about how you word
  things
• Let them know that being abused is not OK
• Encourage him/her to get professional help
• Call the police if the victims is in immediate
  danger

• What not to do
• Dont ignore the problem
• Dont be pushy
• Dont interrupt and speak harshly
• Dont be critical and accusing
• Dont make the victim feel interrogated
• Tell the victim it will get better with time

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Statistics On Family Violence

• Almost half (47) of the men who beat their
  wives, beat them 3 times or more a year
• 1/7 of assaults come to the attention of the
  police
• Every year 3.3million children see their mothers
  being abused
• 40-60 of men who abuse women also abuse their
  children
• Homelessness is the outcome for 57 of the
  homeless families as a result from of family
  violence
• Nearly 1/3 of women are at least once the victims
  of physical abuse by their husbands
• 10 of family violence is committed against
  pregnant women

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Bibliography

• http//www.nccafv.org/spouse.htm
• http//www.nccafv.org/child.htm
• http//www.nccafv.org/elder.htm
• http//www.stopfamilyviolence.org./sfvo/stats_dom.
  html
• http//www.soundvision.com/Info/domesticviolence/s
  tatistics.asp
• http//www.dvc.org.nz/stats.htm
• http//www.dvc.org.nz/whatcan.htm
• http//www.dvc.org.nz/myths.htm
• http//www.aoa.gov/eldfam/Elder_Rights/Elder_Abuse
  /Elder_Abuse.asp
• http//www.elderabusecenter.org/default.cfm?pfaqs
  .cfm