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No matter what the human race tries, it will be defeated by this “presence”. Violence is found everywhere, whether on the television, in the form of thought, violent acts or disasters from the local news, or fight scenes from a movie or show on network television. Unfortunately, even a young child could be exposed to violence by watching a simple cartoon. By a young child learning to commit these violent scenes or acts they will believe that they are normal and alright; after all, cartoons are said to be “good” for kids. Unfortunately, these types of violence are a part of life, and to rid violence from the world is as impossible. Just as it is hard to rid the world of violence, it also is hard to define it. One form of violence is called interpersonal violence. Interpersonal violence has two levels: the micro-level and the macro-level. A major component of the micro-level is family relationship. Many problems that occur in families are promoted into two spheres: the private and the public. The social forces, whether in the private or public spheres, of family relationships encourage interpersonal violence. Interpersonal violence can be described as violence perpetrated by one individual or a small group of people against another individual or small group. Even though the description of interpersonal violence is quite clear, many acts that fall under this type of violence could be considered not violent at all. For example, certain family relationships that revolve around violence can effect ones view of what is considered as violence and how they react to certain acts in violent ways. In relation to this, domestic violence is a major issue. It is a controversial subject at hand in today’s society and many people are affected, whether it is public or privately known. This type of family violence is complex and many people ask why it is so violent and why it is considered violent. To respond to these questions, an article was released on countries that outlaw domestic violence. This article stated that “in recent years, sexual harassment has been publicly acknowledged as harmful to women, and countries are taking the first steps by adopting legislation prohibiting it” (www.unicef.org). Because of many speculations and confusion, domestic violence is categorized into specific offences: marital rape is a criminal offence and sexual harassment laws. “[The] laws that criminalize gender-based violence are positive steps but they offer not guarantees. Worldwide, even where laws are in place, prosecution of perpetrators is rare, and successful prosecutions uncommon” (www.unicef.org). Although these laws are passed and enforced in many countries around the world, violence still occurs and women are still being violated and abused, whether it is publically or privately, in a family relationship. Another example of family violence promoted in either the public or private spheres as a social force is in Riane Eisler’s work “Human Rights and Violence”. Eisler attempts to explain that certain forms of violence in families are a form of human rights that are mistreated and abused. For this reason, Eisler is able to successfully explains the social force of family relationships that cause interpersonal violence inevitably falls under the private or public spheres. Eisler goes on and logically speaks about a world where human rights are valued. In this world the distinction between public and private violence, cruelty, and discrimination is seen as wrong and absurd. Eisler continues to explain that “private or family relations as separate and distinct, or at best as far less important than, political and economic relations in the public sphere” (Eisler 163). Although this view may be correct for some, it is can be considered false once analyzed. It is the view that shaped and later distorted the development and growth of human rights theory and action. (Eisler 163) Later in the article Eisler speaks of the split of human rights involving families relationships, which incorporates “women’s rights” and “children’s rights”. Eisler explains the split as “the ‘public’ (man’s) world and the ‘private’ world to which women and children were still generally confined by custom and sometimes also by law” (Eisler 164). To conclude her argument, Eisler brings all she spoke about together: social forces, such as human rights of people in families, represent the public sphere and the “women’s rights” and “children’s rights” represent the private sphere. With the definition of interpersonal violence in mind, the social force of family relationships, is what drives one person against another person. The distinction of spheres gives people the ability to describe what one feels is considered violence. As a very controversial form of violence, domestic violence falls under the category, explained by Eisler, as the private sphere. One must decide if violence or any other related abusive actions within the family, or private sphere, is bad for society and should be brought to the attention of the public. Although family violence derives from the private sphere, society has managed to adopt it as a social force. Although this force is unstoppable and uncontainable in the private sphere, it can be contained within the public sphere by educating, protesting, and establishing laws for the public to promote. Bibliography: Word Count: 910
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