Family violence is a term that includes many different forms of abuse. It characterizes the cruel treatment or disregard that adults or children may experience from their loved ones, relatives. Family violence is a complex problem in which many different factors (individual relations and society) play a role.
Major victims of family violence
1. Women
Family violence is the most common criminal crime in America. According to statistics, each sixth American couple was participants in incidents with physical violence in 1985. Women are physically weaker, so they are a direct victim. Especially inexperienced women are subject to this, as they do not have ideas about how to protect themselves.
2. Children
People who are subjected to ill-treatment or having low social status often try to offend those whose social position is even lower. In some countries, many children often relate to their hot-tempered parents. They sometimes look helpless how their mother beaten, and nothing can do to help her. It imposes an imprint for the rest of his life.
How to help women and children cope with violence?
Women can make every effort to create a warm and harmonious family atmosphere for members of their family. They can organize more joint activities, for example, to travel with family or walk together for purchases, as well as take guests and prepare gifts for special holidays.
Children need to teach non-violent resolution of conflicts, management of anger and other skills that will serve as good in future family relations. In general, the domestic violence is indeed poison both for society as a whole and for individuals. We must do everything you need to avoid it. At the same time, in psychological articles, it is said that society and local authorities should also pay great attention to this problem and take effective measures to reduce the cases of domestic violence.
