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Spouce Abuse

Uploaded by spootyhead on Apr 18, 2007

Spouce Abuse

Marriage and Romance are everywhere in our society. Almost everywhere you look there are signs of them. Magazines, movies, books, most bare stories of this nature reflecting the wonderful perfect relationship between a man and a woman, or at lest how to be in one. Children’s stories of the Prince that saves and marries the Princess are just as common. We grow up hearing about this perfect and wonderful thing, where the prince who is strong and handsome loves and cares for the princess who is beautiful and skinny. But today things like divorce, affairs, and abuse break our ideal relationship with our spouse. These things are common to us today. They do not shock us to hear about them. But they should, especially the last one. Spouse abuse is probably the most harmful to more people than the first two mentioned. This kind of abuse affects the abused, the abuser, the workplace, the children, the family as a whole, and your relationship with friends. To people who have never been in a violent situation it may seem unreal. I offer this excerpt as a look at what spouse abuse is like.

This is how it happens: Inside a quiet room, behind a closed door, a man calls a woman a “slut” and a “whore.” He tells her that she is too fat or too sexy or too frumpy, that she is “a poor excuse for a mother,” a worthless piece of dirt that only he could love. In public, when she smiles at the grocery clerk, he flies into a jealous rage. When she comes home minutes late, he grills her about where she’s been. One day, he slaps her face. The next time, he slams her head against the wall, or chokes her, or burns her with cigarettes, or drags her across the rug by her hair, his children pleading, “Daddy, please don’t hurt her.” Then when it’s over, he gets down on his knees. “I’m so sorry baby,” he says. “You are the only one I can talk to. I’ll kill myself if you leave.” Quivering with shame and fear, she relents. And one day, perhaps after she had finally tried to break off the relationship, she ends up dead.

“Every year in the United States, thousands of men assault their wives and girlfriends, raising both physical and emotional bruises from which some...

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Uploaded by:   spootyhead

Date:   04/18/2007

Category:   Social Issues

Length:   11 pages (2,448 words)

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