Basically, intimate partner abuse is considered to be one of the most prevalent forms of violence against women. Basically, it can be manifested in many different forms like relationships abuse and psychological, physical or sexual abuse. The survey conducted by US Department of Justice illustrates the shocking results, where two million American women are expected to be personally abused annually (Burn, 2010). It is ninety-one percent out of all intimate partner abuse cases.
Conditions of living, world economic decline and low wages drive numerous couples in despair and they are expected to intimidate their spouses on these bases. Although the issue of intimate partner abuse is widely debated in USA, it has not been properly addressed yet. That is why, the statistics remains unchanged over the course of recent ten years. In this essay, we are aimed at investigating four basic theories of intimate partner abuse, being intended to determine their effectiveness and practical application for elimination of violence against women.
The first theory of intimate partner abuse is ecological theory. It has been properly formulated and developed by Bronfenbrenner in 1977. According to this theory, the affected individual is seen to suffer not only on the ground of some complex interconnected elements between individuals, cultures or communities in the light of upbringing and maturity, but also because of reactions from resources and systems that surround her (Casey, 2002). For example, the bright example of ecological system is a family with all possible relatives and some other communities like neighborhoods or workplace environments. When speaking about this, Lawoko treats the family to be a microsystem, whereas workplace as mesosystem. He speaks about the integration of family interests to workplace environments and about the fusion or micro- and mesosystem. Apart from that, he speaks that both above mentioned systems are influenced by the exosystem, standing for the broader social impact from other community groups and social media. One more external influence upon microsystem and mesosystem is macrosystem, which denotes all possible ideologies, beliefs, laws and regulations (Tajima, 2002). All systems are interconnected and minor changes or influences are expected to change perceptions. In case with affected women, we must say that the perceptions and life attitudes of every human depend upon all four above mentioned systems. It means that violence can be derived from problems at work, at home, within society and government.
This way, if a person has some certain beliefs that are shaped by interactions at work, within the family or by some communities and governments, the source of negative influence should be found. This theory is effective, because it explains us that even minor change in one of the systems affects the other ones, which may lead to violence and traumatic consequences (Burn, 2010). So, women need to search for a social platform where they could easily fit their beliefs and life perceptions, which could be also shared with people who accept them. Family should serve as central system where everything needs to be good. Once …