During the past several weeks there have been several incidents of physical violence towards women, mostly at the time of the alleged incident these women were engaged or dating these men. At the spotlight of these incidents of violence are professional athletes; men that are held to a higher standard, although it is never "ok  to beat on a spouse, fiancée or girlfriend. These recent outbursts of domestic violence have inundated all news media outlets. The exposure to violence is the talk of every show host from Anderson Cooper to Bill O'Rielly. The issue of domestic violence is not a new phenomenon; there has always been domestic violence against women. But because recently there have been a string of professional athletes committing these acts, the issue of domestic violence is now being discussed and these violent acts are being brought to the forefront and frowned upon. Outrage over these violent acts and the lack of punishment against the aggressors is sweeping across the nation. What exactly is domestic abuse/violence? According to the Department of Justice it is defined as the following: We define domestic violence as a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner.   Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone. According to USA Today Sports there have been 84 arrests between 2000 and 2013 for domestic violence, no player received more than a one-game suspension (2014) and most disturbing is the fact that most of the players that were charged had their cases dropped. Just about everyone has watched in horror the video of NFL player Ray Rice of the Baltimore Ravens knocking