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Of course, most couples enter into a marriage or relationship because they love each other, but how does that love turn to violence, and why do people stay in abusive relationships? What triggers the violence is certainly one question, but what keeps the other there is entirely another. Also, there is another aspect to family violence that is hard to understand or accept. In the case of child abuse, one parent must stand by and see it, or ignore it, and how is that possible, especially in situations that continue unchecked, often until death or severe injury to the child. How can a parent ignore the abuse of their own child? These are all unanswered questions that puzzle and perplex.
The chapter material complements the class discussions by helping to give the discussions focus and knowledge. This gives the discussions a chance to interact and react to new ideas and thoughts about the abuse, which adds important details and experiences to the class discussion. For example, there are responses from people who have had personal experience with family violence, and people that work in the field, so they have very personal responses to add to the discussion, and help others see what this vicious cycle is really like.
The chapter material gives more detail and information about abuse and family violence, but the discussion makes it more real, somehow. Not just because of personal experience, but because having a discussion about something like family violence brings out new ideas and thoughts that might not have occurred to a person just reading the chapters....
It seems that people have different ideas about family violence and what it is, and reading these different ideas is very helpful in gaining a greater understanding of family violence. Anything that leads to a greater understanding could help a victim someday, or perhaps even prevent someone from becoming violent themselves, and that does not happen simply from reading chapter material, but it does come from frank and honest discussions like this.
It does seem that more cases of domestic violence are being reported, and the insight from other class members into this topic is very enlightening. It does seem that more people are becoming aware, and there are more programs available, and that might be why it seems like family violence is on the rise. However, we live in a violent society that seems to be becoming more violent, via video games, films, television shows, and music that condone and even romanticize violence. I have to wonder if that acceptance of violence is not leading to more family violence, and what that means for our society of the future. Does anyone else have those feelings, as well?
References
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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