
Domestic violence is very common , although is very bad is when in a family there are different kinds of violence, such as , verbal fights or physical fights , and someone is hurt. In different moments when parents scream to their kids or even just for a simple thing, like dissagrements. This kind of violence affects the feeling that families have and in a consequence of this problem, the Person who does it, hits other members of his/her family.
Domestic Violence affects principally to many women, because women’s right are less respected. For example…Always have less rights for example, two 30-year-old women from Mexico City recently suffered the consequences of intimate partner abuse, according to Communication and Information de la Mujer, Asociación Civil (CIMAC) and La Jornada. Around the world this violence affects many families, places where de man has more importance than the women for traditions and there are not laws that protect them.
In Costa Rica there are laws that protect all women in cases of violence (physical and emotional), in order to try to decrease the statistics of type of aggression. According to a population reference, Costa Rica has also formed a National Plan to Treat and Prevent Intra-Familiar Violence coordinated by the National Center for the Development of Women and the Family. It aims to provide an integrated system of services and actions to prevent domestic violence. This is an important step that Costa Rica has taken, because just few countries did create laws for the women.
On the other hand, domestic violence has led to bad for example Domestic Sexual Violence, like rapes that happen inside homes houses, between family members, where the victims are in silent because they have are afraid. Many cases but a few complaints are made, just for the principal thing that make the violence “fear” to show, to demonstrate the hurt.
As a conclusion, people need to learn about how to fight intelligently with the Domestic Violence, and to know that the silence increases this problem. Also to not be an insecure person, so it is important to take decisions and to find help of different ways that actually the society offers. And practice the most important value that a family should to have “communication”, so this will make a secure family .
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http://www.prb.org/Articles/2001/DomesticViolenceAnOngoingThreattoWomeninLatinAmericaandtheCaribbean.aspx