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Victims of Domestic Abuse
The disadvantaged population that I chose is victims of domestic violence. I choose this population since it is a global problem whose scope is wide and, in America alone according to the Centers for Disease Control (2003), annually affects more than 25 million American women. It is also more hopeful, in a way, than other social problems in that with sufficient attention and information, and, with knowing what to do, it can be prevented.
Challenges that victims of domestic abuse violence face vary from country to country in their severity as they are also controlled by socio-economic and ethnic variables (as most problems are). In all countries, women are considered 'second-rate' individuals; some countries, however, share this perception more intensely than others. In Spain, for instance, female victims of domestic abuse would be more severely challenged than they may, for instance, be in America due to the fact that, as their law itself states, aggressions against women initiate from cultural...
The country itself admits that sexual inequality is representative of its mandate, and that, according to Spanish constitution, attackers possess legal rights in perceiving their victims as lacking the basic rights of respect, freedom, and power of decision (Shipway, 2004).
Oftentimes, too, although not always, domestic violence initiates from the pressures of impoverishment (Jewkes, 2002), and, therefore, victims of domestic violence have the added disadvantage of being ignored and treated unfairly due to their economically disadvantaged position.
Thirdly, the power or affluence of the persecutor or over variables of influence may lead to matters of domestic abuse being overlooked. To elaborate: many cases of spousal abuses are known exclusively by family physicians or other primary care providers and do not involve the police. Yet, due to the perpetrator being feared or respected for some reason or other, the medical professional…
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (March 2003). "Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States." Atlanta, Georgia
Jewkes, Rachel (April 20, 2002). Intimate partner violence: causes and prevention. Lancet 359 (9315): 1423 -- 9.
National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics
http://www.naswdc.org/pubs/code/code.asp
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