Domestic violence

Domestic violence, by barest definition, is violence within a home. Beyond this, the term has a range of definitions, some more and some less formal, which are frequently used with little awareness that a range of definitions exists.

Cause

Domestic violence is caused specifically by the choice to engage in violent or abusive behavior against a partner, sibling or child. A variety of factors can lead to that choice, but only in the case of truly uncontrollable compulsions can those factors eliminate the potential to choose nonviolent and nonabusive behaviors. Other possible causes may include behavioral changes in the individual who has a chemical dependency problem (e.g. drugs and alcohol). Mental illness may also play a role in domestic violence. Unfortunately, after domestic violence occurs both the victim and the abuser may go through a stage of denial, while other victims may choose to eliminate the problem either by way of issuing a restraining order against the abuser or in the worse case scenario, rid the abuser altogether. But in certain situations, the consequences usually results in the victim's death (the second kind of "silent-killer" of women).

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