Family Violence

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that the most important thing to remember about family violence is that it affects the entire family, co-workers and friends, not just the people involved in the violence. The paper points out that family violence does not have to have physical violence as a component. Mental abuse and neglect can be just as damaging as physical abuse especially since this type of abuse can go unrecognized much longer. The paper questions if the acceptance of violence by modern society is perhaps leading to more family violence.

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"Some of the hardest violence to contemplate is physical and mental violence against a child, and yet it occurs all too frequently. Battered child syndrome, shaken baby syndrome and child abuse of any sort is difficult to understand, as the victims are young and incapable of fighting back or defending themselves at all. Family violence is difficult to comprehend, but violence against children seems to be the most heinous form of violence, and it should be the type of violence punished most heavily by the law. However, any form of family violence is wrong, and it tears families apart."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bell, Holly. "Strengths and Secondary Trauma in Family Violence Work." Social Work 48.4 (2003): 513+.
• Dalpiaz, Christina M. Breaking Free, Starting over: Parenting in the Aftermath of Family Violence. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004.
• Woolford, Andrew. "Heather Strang and John Braithwaite (Eds.), Restorative Justice and Family Violence." The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 41.1 (2004): 117+.

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