Domestic Violence and What It Is

What Domestic Violence Is

Hello again! As you already know, I am writing about domestic violence. I am going to briefly speak about what it is and the three types of abuses that occurs in this type of situation. Some of you may know how to define domestic violence and what domestic violence consist of, but I am going to lay some information out there.

Domestic violence is when two people are in a relationship and one tries to control the other. This kind of situation occurs more to the woman than the man. The man is the more powerful one in the relationship. Domestic violence may occur to men, but rarely does this happen.

An experts word on types of abuses

“Spouse abuse, or battering, is the victimization of a spouse, former spouse, living partner, former living with a partner or someone with whom the abuser has or has had an intimate/romantic relationship. Battering, which is predominantly perpetrated by men against women may take the form of physical, sexual and/ or psychological abuse and is generally repeated and often escalates within relationships” states Klaus, Patsy A, a Justice Statistics and Domestic Violence expert.

Physical, Verbal, and Sexual Abuse


As you can see here, there are a few types of abuses under domestic violence which includes physical, verbal, and sexual. A man might be embarrassed to say that his wife beats him in the situation that the woman is beating the man. Not only is domestic violence morally wrong, but it is hazardous. Battering is a power-driven situation where the abuser feels that he has full power over the victim.

Physical abuse can be extremely hurtful to the woman because the man has more force than she does. On the other hand, verbal abuse, in my opinion, is more hurtful than physical abuse because it makes the woman feel that she is unworthy. Sexual abuse is something that makes me very sad. The man here is forcing the woman to do sexual activities without her wanting to. She will get beaten or yelled at if she does not listen or do what the man wants her to.

All of these abuses are really sad to think about. Why would a man feel the need to make his wife cry or feel that she is worth nothing? I really do not think that domestic violence should ever happen because it is wrong in every way, shape and form, but it happens all the time.


Klaus, & Rand. (1991). Physicians and Family Violence: Ethical Considerations. Retrieved October 29, 2008, from http://www.amaassn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/369/ceja_bi91.pdf