Abuse and the Family

             In society today, marital abuse in any and all forms are due to the media that is all over. With the media that is on television and in the movies, marriages are crumbling apart due to violence in the marriage and/or abusive situations.
             Media all over the world is getting more and more evil each day. No movie that you see on television or in the theaters doesn't not have a bad guy in it. It seems that nowadays there is no good without evil. Take the television show Sopranos for example. I do love the movie, but the message that it sends to young boys on up to older men is disgusting. The message they send basically says that you can slap and beat up your wife and gumbahs because they are women that are yours and you can do whatever you want. This is what is fed into the minds of the male population these days.
             Young boys are what is worrisome. The minds of young boys are seeing these images and ideas in their minds and evaluating it and learning that it is okay to slap your wife or girlfriend around, but it is not okay and you don't see many movies about that. The only movies that I can think about are Enough with Jennifer Lopez and a couple Lifetime Television movies.
             The number one cause that most men say they do what they do is because they think in some corner of their mind that it is okay to do this. They have this unspoken right to be able to do this just one time to whip their girlfriend or wife into shape. WRONG! They have no right and they teach possible children of their own that this is how life is in a marriage or partnership.
             More and more in today's society, women are dying of abuse in their homes. Beatings, sexual abuse or manipulation, verbal abuse, these are all present in today's homes and it is happening because of the media and it's portrayal of women and men's positions. Not only are the wives abused and treated badly, but the children in homes are watching and seeing thi
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