This document discusses domestic violence, including definitions, statistics, stories, and perspectives from Catholic social teaching. It defines domestic violence as physical, psychological, emotional, or economic abuse against intimate partners or family members. Statistics provided indicate that domestic violence disproportionately affects women and children globally. The document references Catholic teachings advocating for human dignity and against violence and oppression of women. It discusses the role of shelters and organizations in supporting survivors of domestic violence.

1. Domestic Violence
By: Jonathan Carballa and Karla Gonzalez

2. ✤ “the acts of violence or abuse done against a person living in one’s
What is “Domestic Violence”?
household, especially a member of one’s family.“(Random House)
✤ It can be either be physical or mental
✤ Physical: hitting, verbal, or sexual
✤ Mental: psychological, emotional, or economical(FOW)

3. ✤ Tana Greene was in 9th grade when she fell for one of the most
Story Time
popular boys at her Virginia high school. Within a year, she was
pregnant, then married soon after. Six months later, the abuse began.
It was both mental and physical. He unplugged the phones and took
them to work so she wouldn't call anyone. He beat her, then cried and
promised not to do it any more, then beat her again. "You don't want
to tell anyone," she says now, 35 years later. "You think, 'If I just
looked better, if I just cleaned better...'"
✤ FACT: Tana’s story will be going into the eNOugh violence
campaign. Meckleburg County, in North Carolina, is one of the worst
places with domestic violence. It ranks #4 in the nation.(The
Charlotte Observer)

4. ✤ CANADA:
✤ 38% of women are killed due to domestic violence.
Statistics:
✤ 4% of men are killed due to domestic violence.
✤ In most cases, domestic violence against men is caused by other men.
(Hambrook)
✤ AFRICA (Uganda):
✤ 68% of women have experienced some sort of violence.(Mubiru)
✤ AUSTRALIA (Canberra):
✤ *hidden statistics* 66 deaths due to domestic violence since 1988, 57 of them being
women.(Canberra Times)

5. Statistics(continuation)
✤ CANADA:
✤ 97% of the time, men use violence against children.(Doak)
✤ *(child abuse poem for domestic violence month)*

6. ✤ ANSWER:
“WHAT ABOUT MEN!?”
✤ Simple as that.

7. I’m still in the relationship because..
✤ FEAR
✤ “I can’t run away”
✤ he “loves” me/ CULTURE OF SILENCE (Doak)

8. Human Rights and Domestic Violence
✤ It doesn’t violate human’s rights.. right? After all, men are “Tarzan”..
right?
✤ NO. And not only does it violate human rights but also human
dignity.
✤ “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or
degrading, treatment or punishment.”(Carr, 153)

9. Evangelium Vitae, also known as the Gospel of Life, states that
“women occupy a place, in thought and action, which is
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unique and decisive...[that] rejects the temptation of
imitating models of “male domination”, in order to
acknowledge and affirm the true genius of women in
every aspect of the life of society, and overcome all
discrimination, violence and exploitation.”(John Paul II)

10. ✤
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Justicia in Mundo, also known as Justice in the World, states that
“listening to the cry of those who suffer violence and are
oppressed by unjust systems and structures, and hearing
the appeal of a world that by its perversity contradicts the
plan of its Creator, we have shared our awareness of the
Church’s vocation to be present in the heart of the world
by proclaiming the Good News...”(Synod of Bishops)

11. ✤ We need to act on issues like domestic violence. Let’s help open the
Let’s Continue the Fight..
eyes of those who are blinded by an ideal world where violence is
hidden from those who don’t experience it.
✤ Operation Kony could open a lot of eyes, so can domestic violence.
✤ There’s not only one but three solutions.

12. Domestic Month is October Month
✤Domestic Violence Violence
✤ This year, teenagers could submit their poetry to express what they
feel about domestic violence.
✤ It’s not very popular, but with our voices, we can spread the word to
those that we know.

13. ✤ NNEDV, which stands for National Network to End Domestic
NNEDV and VAWA
Violence, is an online organization that is trying to help pass the
VAWA Act by donating money to the website and providing people
with information about domestic violence. The website is:
www.nnedv.org (NNEDV)
✤ VAWA, which is Violence Against Women Act, is an act that is trying
to end violence against women. (WASHINGTON)
✤ When it was first passed in 1994, it showed a decrease of 53% of
domestic violence.

14. Shelters
✤ Shelters such as Friendship of Women in Brownsville, TX welcome
any woman who is being mistreated by her partner at home.
✤ If any man gets into the property, they will be taken to jail. (FOW)
✤ Shelters like this and hotlines for domestic violence can help end this
treatment towards women.

15. WORK CITED

16. ✤ Synod of Bishops. "Justicia in Mundo." Catholic Social Teaching Major Documents. Catholic Charities of St. Paul & Minneapolis, 2012. Web. 22 Apr.
2012. <http://www.osjspm.org/page.aspx?pid=441>.
WORK CITED (continuation)
✤ Pope John Paul II. "Evangelium Vitae." Catholic Social Teaching Major Documents. Catholic Charities of St. Paul & Minneapolis, 2012. Web. 22 Apr.
2012. <http://www.osjspm.org/page.aspx?pid=441>.
✤ Charlotte Observer. "A Path from Victim to Violence Survivor - Domestic Abuse Program Aims to Fight Issue with Awareness." News Bank. News
Bank, 26 Mar. 2012. Web. 26 Apr. 2012. <http://iw.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc>.
✤ Canberra Times. "Canberra Times: Domestic Violence Deaths Not Recorded." News Bank. News Bank, 23 Apr. 2012. Web. 26 Apr. 2012. <
http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_product=AWNSE>.
✤ Mubiru, Apollo. "New Vision (Uganda) - AAGM: UK to Support Domestic Violence Survivors." News Bank. News Bank, 25 Apr. 2012. Web. 26 Apr.
2012. <http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_product=AWNSE>.