Violence or interfamily

Domestic violence or interfamily violence is a concept used to refer to "the violence

exerted in the field of family cohabitation or assimilated, by one of the members against
another, against some of the others or against all of them". all those violent acts, from
the use of physical force, to harassment, harassment, or intimidation, which occur in a
household, and perpetrated by at least one member of the family against another family
member.2
The term includes a wide variety of phenomena, including some components of
violence against women, violence against men, child abuse, filio-parental violence and
abuse of the elderly.34
Family violence includes all violence perpetrated by one or more family members
against another or other members of the family. Violence against children, violence
against women and violence against dependent persons and the elderly are the most
frequent violence in the family. It is not always exercised by the physically or
economically stronger within the family, sometimes being psychological reasons (see
Stockholm syndrome) that prevent the victim from defending themselves.
Some studies conclude that people from homes where there is abuse or psychological
violence or any other type of violence, are 15 times more likely to manifest some type
of abuse in their adulthood.5
Psychological violence is the form of aggression in which most of the countries affected
people almost never have the possibility of action, since in this case they are joined by
the lack of legal options for reporting and protecting against this form of violence.

The signs of violence are easier to hide if they are emotional, because women do not
accept abuse in a "passive" way. According to studies, most battered women did not
accept it and tried to oppose it. These defensive actions made the psychological violence
seen as a mutual aggression and that some institutions catalog it as a couple conflict.
However, a study on domestic violence shows that only two of the women interviewed
accepted that they were emotionally assaulted, before being physically mistreated. In
certain countries of South America, and thanks to different advertising campaigns, an
attempt has been made to promote a higher level of awareness about psychological
abuse.6 Family violence could be defined as any action or omission committed within
the family by one of its members, which undermines the life or physical integrity, or
psychological, or even the freedom of another of its members, and which causes a
serious damage to the development of his personality
CAUSES:
Although the causes of family violence is a complex problem, several contributing
factors are known. These include poverty, unemployment, other exogenous pressures,
attitudes of cultural acceptance of violence to resolve disputes, substantial abuse
(especially of alcohol), little knowledge as parents, ambiguous family roles, unrealistic
expectations of other family members, conflicts interpersonal in the family,
psychological or physical vulnerability (real or apparent) of the victims by the
aggressors, preoccupation of the aggressor by the power, control and familiar social
isolation, among others.
1. Alcoholism: a large percentage of women who are assaulted by their conjugal
partners are under the influence of alcohol.
2. Lack of awareness among the inhabitants of a society: they believe that this is the
best way to do things.
3. Strong ignorance that there is no better way to solve things
4. Failing to control the impulses.
5. Intra-family violence is the biggest cause of violence: a child who grows up in a
conflictive and unharmonious environment must be, surely, a problematic person with
few personal principles.
6. Lack of understanding towards children: many mothers mistreat their children, and
thus generate violence.
7. Drug addiction: many people are drugged to be what they are not really, to escape
from reality and causing much violence.
8. Media.
9. Absence of communication and precarious human relations.
10. Economic dependence of the victim.

CONSEQUENCES:
Family violence can have different types of consequences, although it is mainly about
physical and psychological damage to health.
Physical damages
Physical injuries include injuries, ranging from minor cuts with the use of bladed
weapons (for example, knives, forks), bruises (bruises, bruises) and fractures, even
chronic disability.
A high percentage of these injuries requires medical treatment, although usually people
who suffer from these injuries do not usually take it because they try to hide what
happens to them.
In addition to the consequences mentioned, family violence causes a weakening of
physical defenses due to the stress caused by abuse, self-neglect and a greater
propensity to take risks. It is very common that, as a result of the mistreatment, the
person suffers from autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus
erythematosus or that resort to alcohol and drugs to disguise their pain, among other
disorders.
Another consequence is unwanted pregnancy, either by rape or by not using
contraception; Some women are afraid to raise the use of contraceptive methods with
their partners for fear of being beaten or abandoned. This risk of unwanted pregnancy
carries many additional problems. For example, if motherhood occurs during early or
middle adolescence, before girls are biologically and psychologically mature, it is
associated with adverse health outcomes for both the mother and the child. Infants can
be premature, low birth weight, or small for their age.