The Problem Of Domestic Violence :: Violence Against Women Essays

A trouble has become known and to many, they feel that its about timethat the general public has taken notice. This problem has been a taboo forcenturies and in the mid nineties it has chosen to let itself be known, theproblem that I am talking about is domestic violence, it has ruined families,and demoralised the victims for geezerhood and now because of the "trial of thecentury" we finally are allowed to discuss it in detail, without fear ofreprisal, now we blend in to familiarize ourselves with it and eventually after weget to know all about it we can, done treatment, get rid of it. In this written report, I will discuss problems with the so called pestilent of domestic violence.     This entire paper will be about domestic violence, and because of that Ifeel it is important to note that "in most families men and women do not engagein physically abusive behavior" (The Brown U.), but because the media feels thatit is their public duty to de ceive us into believing that this problem is an"epidemic" (Domestic V.) we feel that, that is the case. Websters dictionarydefines epidemic as "a rapid spreading of a disease to many people at the sametime", this is not the case with domestic violence, sensation it didnt just happenovernight, it has just been popularized overnight, domestic violence has beengoing on from as far back as anyone can remember and probably farther than that,and two, this is not affecting many people at the same timem, because, as Ivestated before, "in most families men and women do not engage in physicallyabusive behavior". If you as the reader gets anything out of this paper, it isimportant to me as the writer, that you find that, while domestic violence is amajor problem for some families, it is by no means an epidemic.     The major reason domestic violence has become so widespread over thelast couple of years is because of the O. J. Simpson trial, as one person put it"the O. J. Simpson case would do for domestic violence what Anita Hill did forsexual harassment" (Domestic V.). The trial of the century brought a more thanneeded attention to a issue that for too long was pushed to the back burnerdomestic violence was a major issue in the case and it became evident, throughthe mass publicity of the case, that women werent crying wolf all these years,because of "the murder of Nicole Brown ... the media would focus squarely on and