The world most disturbing topic now days are violence. People are not responsible any more they don’t even know what their personal responsibilities are. Respect your older, manners and responsibility are an obsession of the past. Media and drugs play a very important role in the violence of the society.
Our society becomes more violent and dangerous day by day due to media. It’s a scary world for our children every third or fourth teenagers knows someone who has been shot. Media is one of the most dangerous sources of violence in our society. The news-media promoted intense fear before and during the Iraq War by almost universally, unquestioningly reporting the government position as fact. On the local level, news programs constantly report violent episodes in poor neighborhoods with increasing frequency while consciously or otherwise consumers see their society as violent and scary. Mostly white people spend so much of their income on security systems while they aren’t supporting the local corporate puppet promising to crack down on crime.
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Media is one of the main sources of violence in our society. The movies of new era video games and TV programs everything have different kind of violence. Many video games are full of violence and children around seven years or older love to play those kinds of games. When I was Twelve years old I was very interested in video games, my favorite games was street fighter and I always dreaming to be strong like my game player and I can beat the people who give me hard time in the school, Just Imagine if every child have the same experiences that I had, and what a big impact that could do to a little children. Many teenagers try to bring out their dreams to be exactly like their favorite hero done in the game or movie. By selling and showing these games and movies, I would emphasize that we are propagation a production of violent children, which make our society more violent in the future. We have to teach our children that violence is bad for our society. We try to teach our children self respect brotherhood and patience. We also teach our children don’t hurt anybody and always help others.
Every two minutes someone is sexually assaulted in America. One in six women and one in 33 men will experience sexual assault in their lifetime, according to a study by the World Health Organization. The U.S. Dept. of Justice states that nearly a quarter of a million sexual assaults occur each year.
Sexual, physical and psychological violence causes as much illness and death among women aged 15 to 44 as cancer, while child sexual abuse is more common than teen pregnancy, pediatric cancer or childhood obesity, according to the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Given all the press lately about the issue of childhood obesity, we should remember there are many hidden issues facing our children today —sexual violence is one of them. The American Medical Association has called it “the silent violent epidemic.”
It is silent because sexual assault is the most underreported crime in America. Only 20 percent of sexual assaults are ever reported to law enforcement. Even in those that are reported, the offender, most often an acquaintance, is rarely ever convicted. According to the FBI, 15 out of 16 rapists will walk free. Scarier still, is that less than 5 percent of completed or attempted rapes of college students are brought to the attention of campus authorities or law enforcement despite the fact that one in four college women will be sexual assaulted before they graduate.
The HOPE Center provided services to a total of 830 victims in Rice County in 2009. We know these numbers do not represent the full scope of those wounded by sexual violence and that the number of victims not accessing services is profound. But it is not just the prevalence on college campuses that is shocking, or the number of victims who never seek support — it is the high cost that sexual violence has on our community.
The Minnesota Department of Health put out the first ever report on the economic impact of sexual violence in Minnesota. The report states that sexual violence costs our state $8 billion dollars annually , or $1,500 per resident. More astonishing is that our state spends almost twice as much on treatment and confinement of perpetrators than it does on victims’ medical care or support services, and none of those dollars are allocated for prevention efforts!
While the financial strain that sexual violence puts on our state remains high, federal and state funding for programs like the HOPE Center have been drastically reduced. With each cut, programs that provide direct services to victims are impacted.
Sexual violence costs us a lot — more than mere dollars — it wounds individuals and our community as a whole.
While these statistics may be overwhelming, preventing sexual violence in our community is possible.
But it will take courage, and it will take all of us. If after reading this you feel compelled to learn more, to make a financial contribution, to attend an event, to share your story or to sign the “Voices Against Violence” Pledge, please visit our website: www.hopecentermn.org.
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