Domestic Violence and Abuse...
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- Domestic violence and abuse...
- Types and definition
- Violence and abuse perpetrated by one adult partner against another.
- May include sexual, physical, emotional and financial abuse.
- Generalized as domestic abuse
- Extent of domestic violence and abuse
- BCS - 4 in every 1000 women suffer from domestic violence. 2 men in every 1000 also suffer from domestic violence.
- Nazroo (1999) domestic violence from men to women is treated as being more serious than domestic violence from women to men.
- Explanations for domestic violence and abuse
- Feminism
- Radical feminists say that domestic violence results from the patriarchal society.
- The nature of masculinity - men result to violence when they feel they are losing control over women.
- Dysfunctional Families
- New Right - violence stems from the instability of cohabitation and divorce.
- Emotional Intensity and Family Life
- Mixture of strong love and hate emotion that form in the family resulting in domestic abuse.
- This intensity is caused by the nuclear family becoming more isolated from extended kinship.
- Mixture of strong love and hate emotion that form in the family resulting in domestic abuse.
- Feminism
- Types and definition
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