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Domestic Violence. How would you feel if your dad were beating your mother? How would you handle the nights you were kept up solely because of yelling? Domestic violence’s whirlwind effect has been around since human life itself. America needs to crack down and needs to aid the fight against domestic violence. The American government should become more involved in educating students about the problems concerning domestic violence. Doing so would safe lives; decrease future domestic violence cases and would save money for businesses and health departments. What defines domestic violence? Domestic violence can be defined as any relationship of unequal power and control where there is coercion, threats, intimidation, emotional abuse, isolation, minimizing, denying of freedoms, blaming, use of male privilege including spousal rape, or economic denial (Lynch). There is no doubt that domestic violence has taken a great toll on the women and children of America. Each year, 1 million women and 1.4 million children are assaulted by members of their own families (Kuehl 115). The outcome of these assaults can be deadly, 17% of all murder victims are killed by family members and more than 50% of all American women who are victims of