OL 2024 Domestic Violence Demi Moore

Brooklyn Pruitt Professor Lawler ENG-105-OL0224SP 4 March 2024 Domestic Violence Demi Moore was a young high school girl when she had her first encounter with domestic abuse, with an ex-boyfriend at the time (Moore). With her being so young and not experiencing it before, she found it hard to comprehend what any of it meant fully. Years later, after struggling with herself, she met someone new. Unfortunately, this would become her second abuser, this one being much worse than the first. She was in this severely abusive relationship for years, and one day she decided she had enough. She packed all of his things and made him come get them and that was it. She worked on herself for a long time and she wanted to share her story to hopefully help

The rules concluded that the men were judges over their wives and abusing her was an accepted form of discipline that would benefit her soul (“A History”). Even to this day, some strongly religious Catholics believe in the verses of the Bible about the justification for abusing their spouse and children. Moving up the timeline to the 17th century, some colonists traveled to North America to get some freedom from religion called Puritans. The Puritan legal system forbade excessive violence, but men were still allowed to punish their wives and children as long as the neighbors did not hear (“A History”). Milestones in 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights, and the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the world started to see women as more than just property to white men. There was a case in 1871 that changed domestic violence for the world. George Fulgham was charged with assaulting his wife. The court said, “A married woman is as much under the defense of the law as any other member of the community,” (“A History”). It took quite a bit of time for all of the states to follow along, and that case started a worldwide movement against domestic violence (“A