Social Responsibility & Family Violence: Rosie Batty's Story Analysis

This essay explores the theme of family violence through the lens of Rosie Batty's story, emphasizing its significance as a social issue and the collective responsibility for its prevention. It examines the abuse faced by Rosie Batty and her son, highlighting the need for awareness and action against domestic violence. The essay references 'Introduction to Domestic Violence,' 'What Causes the Violence,' and Jess Hill's chapters, analyzing the perpetrator's behavior and the victim's experiences. It concludes by underscoring the importance of understanding the dynamics of domestic violence and taking steps to protect victims and prevent future occurrences, advocating for a society where individuals are safe and free from violence. Desklib offers similar essays and resources for students.

A mothers story

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
What do these themes/topics in the context of Rosie Batty’s story tell us about family violence
being a social issue and thus its prevention a social responsibility?...........................................3
‘Introduction to Domestic Violence’ and ’What Causes the Violence’ as well as Jess Hill’s
chapters ‘The Perpetrator’s Handbook’ and ‘The Underground’. .............................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERNCES:..................................................................................................................................6
Books and Journals:....................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The theme of “A mother’s story” is related to the story of women about violence being faced
by them. There is discussion related to the courageous actions being taken by the women in order
to live a free life and save her children. It is not a story of one women but it is the issue faced by
society (Hawley, Clifford and Konkes, 2018). There is discussion related to the violence being
faced by her in front of her son. The ex-partner of Rosie tried to murder her son. The situations
were so complicated and she has fought at each and every situation in order to get protection
against violence.
MAIN BODY
What do these themes/topics in the context of Rosie Batty’s story tell us about family violence
being a social issue and thus its prevention a social responsibility?
Family violence can be understood as any kind of abuse, mistreat, neglect of a child, or
having relations with outsiders. All the actions that are legally wrong are being considered under
family violence. There is need of considering that there is abusive behaviour of one partner on
the other due to dominant position. The same is being faced by Rosie by her ex-partner. She was
being abused and she faced the terrible and hideous violence from him. It is not only physical
violence but also on the mental health (Jahirul Islam and Mazerolle, 2022). It is necessary to
understand the pain and take necessary actions. She also faced issues in getting the basic
facilities. She was being tortured and deprived of all the facilities. It is necessary to understand
the social issue and provide protection to the people. There are various women that are facing
this serious issue and not able to get any protection. It is necessary for the people reading the
book and in real life to understand that the violence is a major issue that is being faced by
women.
There is need of understanding the issue and providing protection to people against the
same. It is right time to speak and start complaining against the issue. Being a victim is not any
body’s choice. But it is necessary to take necessary actions and inform the professionals that
could help to get the victim out of the situation. It is responsibility of the nation and citizens to be
aware about social violence. There is need of being aware and also helping other in the case of
requirement (Wendt and et.al., 2020). It is seen that there are laws being formulated by
Government but there is need of awareness. By making the people aware the victims can be

safeguarded against the crime. It is social responsibility of all the citizens to act as humans and
do not use violence. It is ethically, legally and socially wrong to take such actions that cause
violence on a person. There is need of understanding the social responsibility and the taking
suitable action to keep the people safe and healthy with free living conditions.
‘Introduction to Domestic Violence’ and ’What Causes the Violence’ as well as Jess Hill’s
chapters ‘The Perpetrator’s Handbook’ and ‘The Underground’.
Domestic violence is harmful activities done by the victims surrounding. Someone who
is close to the victim whether in family, relatives and friends has caused trouble in terms of
physical or mental violence (Segrave, Hedwards and Tyas, 2020). These causes the social
trauma for the society which creates legal obligations and needs to eradicate these consequences.
Therefore, it is necessary to analyse the trouble which is out on the victim and how they could
take justice. With the context of Rosie Batty's story, the perpetrator is the one how take
advantage of the love and trust of their partner and force them to oblige their commands. For that
instance, they use the partners personal details such as weak factors, secretes and body shaming.
This is termed under the domestic violence which shows a controlling factor that
influence thee partner to make bear unwanted abusiveness due to feeling helpless. In the story of
Rosie batty of a mother story who is family domestic violence due to her partner. She is
struggling with the trauma of gerg's violence. She has fear of protecting her and her son from her
partner's violence which has lead to the murder of her son. The readings of perpetrator's
handbook and the underground shows the choice of the victims to reinforce the choice of shifts
(Reeves, 2020). It shows that, the perpetrators have made their different choices which leads to
show in their behaviour. Perpetrators are born like the opposer who likes to command to their
partner and respect a positive obligation from their side. Sometimes they do not even know about
they are being abusive.
Overwhelmingly, the reason for making abusive is different and vary from person to
person. They could be said as controller of psychopath who just want to control and have power.
All the controllers have similar actions but perform in different ways. As in the case of a mothers
story, there is need for raising the voices and take stand for own self. The society give many
rights to women to choose their life and their partners (Noble‐Carr, Moore and McArthur, 2020).
It could not be controlled by anyone. There are many reasons the victims falls in love with the

controllers. It could be trust and love, isolation and eternal love and attraction for someone. In
order to end the domestic violence, the partners behaviour must also be analysed.
CONCLUSION
The report has concluded that, it is necessary to have an insight about what is happening
around the victim who is facing troubles and gets controlled. Domestic violence is the serious
issue which needs to be end soon until it leads to cause any big trouble like murder in the case of
A mothers story. Hence, the readings is supported by the perpetrator and underground which
shows different reasons of the focus on control that cause trauma for victim.

REFERNCES:
Books and Journals:
Hawley, E., Clifford, K. and Konkes, C., 2018. The “Rosie Batty effect” and the framing of
family violence in Australian news media. Journalism Studies, 19(15), pp.2304-2323.
Jahirul Islam, M. and Mazerolle, P., 2022. Nexus between police attitudes and responses to
domestic and family violence in Australia: does training matter?. Policing and Society, pp.1-
16.
Noble‐Carr, D., Moore, T. and McArthur, M., 2020. Children's experiences and needs in relation
to domestic and family violence: Findings from a meta‐synthesis. Child & Family Social
Work, 25(1), pp.182-191.
Reeves, E., 2020. Family violence, protection orders and systems abuse: views of legal
practitioners. Current issues in criminal justice, 32(1), pp.91-11
Segrave, M., Hedwards, B. and Tyas, D., 2020. Family violence and exploitation: Examining the
contours of violence and exploitation. The Palgrave International Handbook of Human
Trafficking, pp.437-450.
Wendt and et.al., 2020. Strengthening the domestic and family violence workforce: Key
questions. Australian Social Work, 73(2), pp.236-244.