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A 3 page research paper that discusses the prevalence and problem of domestic violence. The writer also addresses the fact that partner abuse occurs in gay and lesbian relationships. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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their case history (Lawson, 2003). Partner violence, therefore, affects roughly one out of every six women (Lawson, 2003). However, it is a folk belief that the perpetrator of partner violence
is always male. Fifty percent of the battered women served by a San Francisco organization report that they were abused with the context of a same-sex relationship (Peterman and Dixon,
2003). There is a belief in the lesbian social communities that "women are not abuse or violent" and the idea of a lesbian being "an abuser is considered impossible," which
means that domestic violence in a lesbian couple is "largely ignored or kept quiet" (Peterman and Dixon, 2003). Additionally, the prevalence of same-sex violence in gay and/or lesbian relationships is
not only a topic that is ignored by their respective communities, but it is also a subject that is "largely avoided by government, law enforcement and society" (Peterman and Dixon,
2003). As a result of this, the batter partners are less likely to report abuse and with the battered partner internalizing societal prejudices against them, causing them to "believe they
deserve to be violated" (Peterman and Dixon, 2003). Due to the widespread misapprehension that women are not abuser, the battered condition of a woman in a lesbian relationship can be
easily overlooked by hospital personnel or other clinicians. Women both "initiate and reciprocate violence" (Lawson, 2003, p. 19). However, male assaults on females are six times more likely to
cause injuries than are female assaults on female (Lawson, 2003). The social dynamics and motivations behind assaults tend to differ according to gender. Men, more often than women, will
resort to violence in their desire to control their partner, while women tend to "engage in violence as an expression of frustration or for self-defense, or both" (Lawson, 2003, p.
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