Is Dating Abuse and Relationship Violence the Media Candy?
Have you heard the latest dating abuse story? It does not matter the time, the month or the year, one popped into your head. Even worse is you probably thought of more than one. Recent cases of domestic abuse and dating abuse cases years old, cases that made you outraged and cases that made you cry. Relationship abuse is prevalent. While this is the case it is disturbing how much media is devoted to it. Doesn’t the media help? The media attaches itself to domestic violence in most all its forms, mental abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse and sexual abuse. Abuse and relationship violence cases draw in viewers and readers and the media outlet is thrilled with additional flow. Thus the case becomes important not so much to condemn the person causing the violence or to wish the victim well. The media is attached because of more business. The public is not really much better. Why would people not want to help? People search the media looking for the reason why the person was abused. “She
