A Report on Domestic Violence in Australia

Running head: A REPORT ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN AUSTRALIA
Report on Domestic Violence in Australia
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Discussion..................................................................................................................................3
Rationale for Review..............................................................................................................3
Article 1: Domestic Violence against Women and how it affects the Country’s Economy. .4
Article 2: How Indigenous Women cope with their Abusive Partners..................................4
Article 3: Children as victims of Domestic Abuse.................................................................5
Article 4: Link between Pregnancy and Domestic Abuse.....................................................5
Article 5: Domestic Violence against Homosexuals..............................................................6
Conclusion and Recommendations............................................................................................6
Reference....................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
Domestic Violence is a global phenomenon that indicates a continuous pattern of
behaviour in which an individual controls another one’s activities through domination,
threatening and fear. The association between the two individuals is usually close and
intimate, for example, partners or close family members. The primary aim of the perpetrator
is to instil fear in minds of the ones they abuse and to inflict physical and emotional pain in
them. Domestic Violence can be of criminal as well as non-criminal nature. It perpetuates in
many forms like verbal abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse, social, economic and spiritual
abuse. The stigma of Domestic Violence aggravates when it remains unattended or is ignored
with the excuse of being a private family matter (Woodlock 2017). Consequentially, it takes
the form of a long term behaviour and cause serious disruption in the mental health of the
victims.
Discussion
Rationale for Review
Domestic Violence against an individual, irrespective of their gender and age, not
only cause damage to their own mental and physical well-being but also attribute to an
everlasting damage in other Family relationships and coerces workplace dynamics.
Statistics regarding the prevalence of violence and abuse have exhibited that it is women and
children who are mostly at the receiving end of assaults. This have even increased
homelessness among women and children. As stated by (White Ribbon, 2018), 33% of
women in Australia have been victimized by a close relation or friend; each year, an average
of one woman loses her life to domestic violence, one out of every four children have been
found in a vulnerable abusive situation. The rationale of this review is to uncover the various