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This 7 page paper discusses the impact of domestic violence on society. Perspectives offered from healthcare, criminal justice system, and sociologists. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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is a single act whose only repercussions extend to the parties involved in the dispute. But, as this paper will demonstrate, this is a false assumption. Thesis: Domestic violence impacts
us all. According to the national statistics, women are ten times more likely to be victimized by someone they are intimate with, and young women, women who are separated, divorced
or single, as well as low income African American women are the victims of vicious assaults(N.O.W. 2002). Most of the traditional procedures in a battering or domestic violence case have
involved separation, restraining orders and sometimes has involved child protective services for the safety of the children. However, according to the concerns of Susan Schechter, of the National Resource Center
on Domestic Violence, these solutions may have inadvertently made things worse for the women, rather than making them better. "The basic goal of (any) project was to identify and help
battered women with abused or neglected children and offer to the women support and advocacy. In this way, women would be better protected, and, as a result, so would their
children. The argument was that childrens safety was usually - although not always - largely dependent on their mothers"(Schechter, 2002). Through various case studies, Schechter found that many women were
hesitant about coming forward to name their abusers, because the system did not seem to either believe them about the scope of the violence, or the system only protected them,
and not the children. In many cases, the children were removed from the home, and away from their mothers while the system attempted to remove the abusive spouse from the
premises. This, one can see, makes a victim of the woman twice. Not only is she abused by her spouse or significant other, but then the system abuses her by
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