FREE ESSAY ON SPOUSAL ASSAULT

SPOUSAL ASSAULT

Spousal assault is either the male or the female of the relationship who is being beaten
up 
very brutally by their partner, such as a marriage. In most violent marriages the women
in most 
cases are mostly subjected to spousal assaults. Women who are subjected to such beatings
by 
there spouses are considered to Be known as Battered wives. Wife assult is to be known as
a 
very serious crime when committed this type of action can happen to any person at any age
of 
there lives. Their husbands or even their boyfriends beat up over one million Canadian
women 
each year. There are five types of wife abuse that are physical, psychological,
emotional, sexual 
and also financial. Some men beat their wives to a point until they receive power and
control over 
there battered wives spousal assault is a continuing process by which has many
contributing 
factors.
A common myth about wife abuse is that it is direct result of the perpetuators drinking 
problem and if it is treated, the addiction and abuse would end. Alcohol and different
types of 
drugs do not cause the spouse to beat there wives senseless but although the alcohol may
be 
contributing factor to the abusement. Many of the men who are constantly abusing their
wives do 
so with out any substance abuse .The men who are beating their wives have one main reason
for 
doing so and that is to gain power, and to gain control over their wives. If they realize
that they 
have not received enough control and power over their wives they would continue to do so
till 
they do gain there advantage over there wives. The man who constantly drinks and does
drugs 
when they batter their wives is used as an excuse for beating their wives 
up.Alcohol is a strong substance that can cause the men to be highly encouragably that
can cause 
the men to be very violent. Many of the abusive men who have increasingly battered their
wives 
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to a pulp try to apologies to their wives and want them to forgive them for there
wrongful act and 
try to make up many excuses that she had done some thing wrong such phrases as these:  If
you 
had been a better wife ,  Oh , it was your fault  ,  Your not being a good mother to the

kids or to the family .  then you would not have deserved to be beaten up . 
Beaten up their wives is all about control and power over their wives. The man tries to 
control what she does, whom she is talking to all the time and even keeps a track on her
to see 
where she is going at any time of the day. If the wife does not listen to the  King  they
try to 
intimidate their wives by putting fear in their wives by giving them fearful looks,
unusual actions 
, giving her threatening gestures , talking to her in a loud despicable voice. Grabbing
things of her 
property and smashing and throwing them all over the house. The husband believes that he
has 
absolute power and ever-lasting control over his wife. Most of the men consider them
selves as 
the king of the castle in other word the home. He thinks that he is the one who makes the
 Big  
decisions in the home. And also not letting the wife make any rules of her own in the
home, and 
she is also expected to listen the man if not she knows what would happen if she doesn't

listen to her husband. The man takes it as an advantage to control the household so no
one is able 
to over control him. Making or carrying out threats to his wife or emotionally hurting
her is 
another way that the man wants power over his wife. Using the children to make the wife
feel 
guilty in a way the man will sometimes do to harass her, Many of the men will ask their
wives to 
do very sickening sexual things to him even though she doesn't want to do such an act
with him. 
Always physically attacking her sexual parts on her body and treating her like a sex
object that 
can be very ridiculing for a woman, the man sexually abuses her.
There are five forms of wife abuse. Firstly, psychological abuse. Psychological abuse is

when the women live with the constant fear of threats of violence against herself, her
children and 
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her friends or relatives. Always being harassed at work with phone calls or visits or
being 
threatened by the abuser can put the women in great fear. Secondly emotional abuse.
Emotional 
abuse is being put down, criticized by family , friends and her husband. Women who are 
emotionally abused find it hard to find work, make new friends and even join social
groups 
outside their homes. Thirdly, physical abuse. Physical abuse is when any slapping,
punching, 
kicking, or choking occurs. Sometimes the women are slammed repeatedly Against walls and
are 
increasingly injured with many types of weapons or other such objects, Brutal beatings
can result 
in bruising, lacerations, broken bones, or even sometimes it can be very fatal. Sixty
percent of the 
victims of female homicide died in the hands of their partner. Fourthly, sexual abuse or
marital 
rape. Women are forced against their own will to perform sexual acts or even having pain
and 
injury being inflicted during the intercourse. If the women do not perform sexual
behavior to their 
partner, Beating usually occurs. Finally, financial abuse. Women who have no access to
the 
family's money for any of there personal use. When they are need of money their husbands
start 
asking many questions for what reason they are needing the money for though if he was
doing 
some type of murder investigation. 
In conclusion to this research, I have thought much about this and think that this should

be delt with much serious consideration and should be stopped. Because no women at all
should 
be treated this way under any circumstances and the abuser should be delt with in a harsh
way. If 
any body who knows of any people who are being assaulted in any way even if it is only
verbally 
you need to help them in any way you can. While many types of abuse are more dangerous
than 
others, all abuse and assaults need to be taken very seriously. The people looking onto
an abusive 
relationship need to abandon the thought that is none of their business. Violence against
women is 
defiantly not a private; it is a matter that should concern every body in the world no
matter who 
you are. 
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Beaudry, Micheline. Battered Women. Montreal : Black Rose Books, 1985
Denham, Donna and Joan Gillespie. Wife Abuse: A Workplace Issue. Ottawa : National
Clearinghouse on Family Violence, 1993
Martin, Del. Battered wives. New York: Pocket Books, 1976 
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