Informative Speech
Types of Family Violence
Introduction
Attention material: “Family violence accounted for 11% of all reported and unreported violence between 1998 and 2002. Of these roughly 3.5 million violent crimes committed against family members, 49% were crimes against spouses, 11% were sons and daughters victimized by a parent, and 41% were crimes against other family members.”(Writer 2009)
Orienting material: What is the definition of Family Violence? Family violence is a situation in which one family member causes physical or emotional harm to another family member. At the center of this violence is the abuser’s need to gain power and control over the victim. (Cleveland clinic 2011)There are main different factors that can determine family violence: Age, Gender, Social class, and, many more demographics.
Central Idea
A. Domestic violence and abuse can happen to anyone, regardless of size, gender, or strength, yet the problem is often overlooked, excused, or denied.(Smith & Segal 2011)
B. Let us further explore the world of domestic violence by looking at the different types and how they vary from one another. Physical, Mental/Psychological, and Verbal.
I. Body
One main type of family violence is physical violence.
There is acknowledgment that many victims of physical abuse are not actually married to the abuser, but rather cohabiting or in other arrangements.
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Family physical violence is defined as: abuse involving contact intended to cause feelings of intimidation, pain, injury, or other physical suffering or bodily harm.
Physical family violence is defined as: Hitting, kicking, biting, shoving, restraining, slapping, throwing objects, punching, or burning, choking, pushing.
c) Physical abuse can also include behaviors such as denying the victim of medical care when needed, depriving the victim of sleep or other functions necessary to live, or forcing the victim to engage in drug/alcohol use against his/her will. It can also include inflicting physical injury onto other targets, such as children or pets, in order to cause psychological harm to the victim
* 2. Victims often go through five to seven episodes of abuse before they seek help or leave the relationship. The longer the abuse continues, the more difficult it often becomes for the victim to leave. (Cleveland clinic 2011)
a) An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year. (Writer 2009)
b) Historically, females have been most often victimized by someone they knew.
c) Most cases of domestic violence are never reported to the police. (Writer 2009)
d) Females who are 20-24 years of age are at the greatest risk of nonfatal intimate partner violence. (Writer 2009)
Transition: Now that we know a little more about one type of family violence let’s take a deeper look into another type of family violence.
Second issue: When people think of Family violence, they often picture battered women or children who have been physically assaulted. But not all abusive relationships involve violence. Many men and women suffer from mental/psychological abuse, which is no less destructive. (Smith & Segal 2011)
Mental/ psychological abuse is another main type of Family violence.
Mental/ psychological abuse may systematically wear away at the victim’s self-confidence, sense of self-worth, and trust in their own preconceptions and self-concept. (Department of Health and Social Services 2011)
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Mental/ Psychological abuse better known as emotional abuse is defined as: any kind of abuse that affects the mind rather than the body. Any behavior that threatens, intimidates or undermines the victim’s self-worth or self-esteem, or controls the victim’s freedom. (Department of Health and Social Services 2011)
The aim of emotional abuse is to chip away at your feelings of self-worth and independence. (Smith &Segal 2011)
c) Some behaviors include but are not limited to threatening the victim with injury or harm, telling the victim that they will be killed if they ever leave the relationship, public humiliation, isolation, constant criticism, name-calling, making statements that damage the victim’s self-esteem, intimidation, manipulation, and refusal to ever be pleased, embarrassing the person in public or in front of family or friends, constantly correcting the person, refusing to be intimate with them as a punishment, talking a person down because of things they can’t change (race, skin color, family, history), criminally harassing or stalking, harming their personal possessions or pets; and/or, terrorizing a person.(Department of Social and services 2011)
Abusers who use emotional or psychological abuse often throw in threats of physical violence or other repercussions if you don’t do what they want. (Smith & Segal 2011)
Transition: Now that you have seen how hurtful and devastating family violence can be in just two types of abuse let’s take a look at another type of abuse.
Third issue: verbal abuse is difficult to identify and regrettably can be a common type of abuse in some marriages. Not all words that are meant to hurt are “ugly words.” (Meyer 2011)
C. Verbal abuse is an additional main type of Family violence that many people cannot identify.
1. In Jekyll and Hyde behaviors, the abuser may fluctuate between sudden rages and false joviality toward the victim; or may simply show a very different “face” to the outside world than to the victim.(Evans 2010)
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a) Verbal abuse can be defined in many ways. The main definition of verbal abuse is: a negative defining statement told to you or about you; or by withholding any response thus defining the target as non-existent.
b) Despite being the most common form of abuse, verbal abuse is generally not taken as seriously as other types of abuse, because there is no visible proof and the abuser may have a perfect persona around others. (Evans 2010)
c) Verbal abuse can be more detrimental to a person’s health than physical abuse. If a person is verbally abused from childhood on, he or she may develop psychological disorders that plague them into and even through adulthood. (Evans 2010)
2. various behaviors comprise of: Name calling, using words to shame, yelling, screaming, swearing, using threats to intimidate, blaming the victim, feelings are dismissed, manipulating actions, ridicule, disrespect, and criticism. (Meyer 2011)
a) Statements that may seem benign on the surface can be thinly veiled attempts to humiliate; falsely accuse; or manipulate others to submit to undesirable behavior; make others feel unwanted and unloved; threaten others economically; or isolate victims from support systems. (Evans 2011)
Conclusions
Summary
Physical violence is the act of abuse involving contact with the intent to cause feelings of intimidation, pain, injury, or other physical suffering or bodily harm.
Mental/Psychological violence better known as Emotional violence is the act of any kind of abuse that affects the mind rather than the body. Any behavior that threatens, intimidates or undermines the victim’s self-worth or self-esteem, or controls the victim’s freedom.
Verbal violence is the act of abusing one by saying a negative defining statement told to you or about you; or by withholding any response thus defining the target as non-existent.
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B. Family violence can be defined in many ways, but no matter what way you do define it in. Family violence can be devastating and life threating to everyone that may be involved.
