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Reflective Essay Summarizing Family Violence in Australia    4
REFLECTIVE ESSAY ON FAMILY VIOLENCE IN AUSTRALIA
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Body    3
Conclusion    11
References    12
Introduction
Family violence is when one spouse in a relation engages in offensive behavior in order to gain control over the other. There are several types of family violence that are perpetrated by one or more family members, resulting in injury to other family members. Physical maltreatment, sexual abuse, psychological or emotional abuse, and financial/economic abuse are the five types of family violence. Experienced or observed domestic violence as a kid, one's attitude of supporting aggressiveness, socioeconomic level, and verbal aggression are just a few of the elements that might lead to domestic violence. Domestic violence may be caused by a variety of factors including power dynamics, stress, and jealously.
Though alcohol and other illegal substances are contributing factors in domestic violence, this does not indicate that those who use them are necessarily violent. Domestic abuse affects every married relationship, regardless of color, age, or socioeconomic background. Some people are subjected to physical assaults, while others are subjected to sexual abuse, while still others are subjected to two or more types of abuse. Domestic abuse is not necessarily physical, as seen by this. One of the spouses might be the culprit and the other the victim. That implies a woman can abuse a guy while he is the victim, or the other way around, with the male as the offender and the woman as the victim. Domestic abuse is critiqued in the following sections.
Body
Domestic violence has become a big welfare and health concern in Australia. It affects people of various ages and demographics, as well as socioeconomic classes (Douglas & Fitzgerald, 2018). It primarily affects children and women, though. This paper examines the welfare and health data on family violence in Australia. This paper compiles data on offenders and victims, as well as the causes, impacts, and consequences of family violence, from a wide range of sources. After accumulating this data, the article identifies research gaps that, if filled, may strengthen the evidence foundation. Furthermore, the significant data gaps might aid in the reduction and prevention of domestic violence in Australia. Violence perpetrated by an intimate partner has been the subject of previous research investigations. Male aggression towards women, in particular. On the one hand, this paper focuses on domestic violence among Australian family members.
Domestic, sexual, and family violence are all serious health and welfare concerns. It affects people of all ages, as well as all socioeconomic and demographic categories, although women and children are disproportionately affected. Family violence is defined as violence between family members in which one person exerts power and control over another. Domestic violence is the most prevalent and ubiquitous kind of violence that occurs in intimate (current or past) partner relationships (Bagwell-Gray, 2021). Physical violence is defined as sexual behavior that is carried out against a person's will. It might be committed by a current or previous spouse, other persons the victim knows, or complete strangers. Men are more likely to be assaulted by strangers in a public location, but women are more likely to know the attacker (typically a current or former spouse) and the violence occurs in their own house.
    The most common type of domestic violence is physical assault. It is the most prevalent type of domestic violence, and it entails inflicting physical injury on the victim, such as slapping, burning, or cutting. Physical assault includes any use of physical force against someone that puts their life in jeopardy, such as battering, assaults, denial of food, or forcing them to consume illicit substances.
Second, there is sexual abuse, which includes the use of coercion to force someone to have undesired intercourse. Sexual abuse can take the form of physical assault followed by forced intercourse, or marital rape, in which a man compels his wife to have unwanted sex (Sedziafa, Tenkorang & Owusu, 2019). In some situations, the father compels his daughter to have intercourse with him and threatens to murder her if she tells anybody, as well as attacking the victim's genital organs. Furthermore, when one partner rejects their spouse's sexual rights and makes sexual jokes at the victim's expense, this is a sort of sexual abuse that torments the victim's psyche, leaving them with the want to engage in sexual activity.
    Third, psychological mistreatment happens when somebody subverts their life partner's or relative's confidence and worth. Psychological mistreatment can incorporate hurting the casualty's relationship with their kids or life partners, just as boisterous attack like disconnection, accusing, shouting, and meddling with the casualty's capacities by controlling their person (Armstrong, 2019). Dangers, confinement, terrorizing, and disavowal, among different techniques, are utilized by victimizers to apply authority and command over their casualties, causing them to feel uncomfortable and putting their lives in harm's way.
    Fourth, Psychological maltreatment is the place where a mate summons the dread inside the family by taking steps to actually hurt themselves, their mate, kids, or even the casualties' relatives. The victimizer does this determined to seclude the casualty from their friends and family, annihilating the properties or in any event, banishing them from going to work or school. Mental maltreatment can likewise apply for the situation where a male life partner assaults their kids and takes steps to kill them when they will generally report the case; the casualty is impacted mentally in this way adjusting their relationship with their folks, loved...