Battered Women and Their Families. The relationship between Violence, Social Support, and Self-blame in Battered women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. The most rapid growth in domestic relations case loads is occurring in domestic violence filings. Elder Abuse Detection of elderly abuse is complicated by the effects of normal aging.
Elderly men are as likely to be abused as elderly women.
Elderly women sustain more severe physical and psychological injury. While current data on the incidence and prevalence of domestic violence are not comprehensive in scope, they provide compelling evidence that our nation is experiencing the growth of a major public health problem. As a result of significant preliminary studies, domestic violence is growing at a rapid rate among all U.S.A. classes, cultures, age cohorts, economic and religious groups. As mentioned earlier, violence against women encompasses a subset of family and intimate violence including threatened or actual use of physical, psychological or sexual abuse against a woman by her family members or other intimates. The United States Public Health Service treats violence as a health issue and consequently, uses injuries, both fatal and nonfatal, physical and psychological, to quantify the impact of violence.