Domestic Violence And Its Effects On Our Lives - 1469 Words

Every minute 20 people are victims of intimate partner violence. (Vagianos, 2015) Domestic Violence is described a pattern of behavior that is used to establish power and control over another person through fear and intimidation, often including the threat or use of violence. There are many other terms for domestic violence which includes intimate partner violence, battering, relationship abuse, spousal abuse, or family violence. (Safe Horizon, 2015) Domestic violence has affected and altered my life in various ways. There has been a long history of domestic violence in my family for many decades. I can remember being younger and hearing about my grandmother and her then boyfriend getting into a domestic dispute, which led to her†¦show more content†¦Sometimes I had to threaten calling the police. I remember one time in specific I heard them screaming and hollering in the bathroom. When I busted in they were both bleeding from stab wombs. My young eyes saw both of my parent s stabbing one another. My mother had a cut on her leg and my father on his arm. I was in disbelief by what I had witnessed, and of course ran to my room in tears. There were numerous other times were I have witnessed their domestic fights before and after that incident. The worst incident that I witnessed occurred when I was 11 or 12 years old. I would never forget this dispute because I had something to do with it. My mother found out that my biological father (whom she had taken all the abuse from to be a family) had been sexually and mentally abusing me. It went on for a few years before she found out. The day she found out she was so upset and utterly disgusted that she grabbed a double edged sword that we had on the wall for decoration and tried to end his life. My mother cut his arms up pretty badly, all I could remember from that time is blood being everywhere and my father denying my accusations. Luckily, they ended their relationship when he was arrested and that was the end of me witnessing domestic violence as a child. Since that relationship my mother has made a vow to her children that she would never put us nor herself in such a horrible situation or expose us to