International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue VII, July 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186

Domestic Violence: A Cause of Broken Homes

Abdulkarim Umar
Department of General Studies, Federal Polytechnic Damaturu. Yobe State, Nigeria

Abstract: Domestic violence is a common and a universal problem which cut across societies the world over. It is however, viewed differently but the general point is that it is a violence that occur at home among or between people related marriage or blood. This kind of violence seems to be either toward the children, the old persons, the wife, the husband or any relative staying in the family. Various dimensions of domestic violence exist which ranges from physical violence, sexual violence, psychological/ emotional violence, financial abuse and spiritual abuse. Reasons for domestic violence may be as a result of cycle of violence, socio-economic status, social and structural, social isolation and community embedded, low self-concept and personality problems.

Keywords: Domestic, Violence, Males, Females, Children.

I. INTRODUCTION

Different understandings exist for the term domestic violence, however they generally refers to violence that occur in the home among people related by marriage or by blood. According to Edwards (1996) domestic violence characteristically includes acts of physical and mental cruelty progressing from a slap or shove, to a punch or kick, and to the more extreme manifestations of violence, in suffocation, strangulation, attempted murder and murder. The prefix ‘domestic’ serves to neutralize the full horror, viciousness and habituation of the violence. It refers to different types of abuse of various scales such as child abuse, intimate partner abuse, elder abuse, and abuse of the siblings. Such may include acts of physical violence (slap, punch, strangle, rape etc.); psychological trauma, threatening, coercive conduct; interference with the personal liberty of the victim; or includes the forcible entry of the victim’s residence against their will many types of abuse, such as child abuse, intimate partner abuse, elder abuse, and sibling abuse. Domestic violence includes acts of physical violence (slapping, punching, strangling, rape, etc.); psychological trauma, threatening, coercive conduct; interference with the personal liberty of the victim; or includes the forcible entry of the victim’s residence against their will, ( Nevada Network Against Domestic Violence , 2012) Domestic violence can take various dimensions, ranging from physical assault, sexual abuse or psychological abuse which is only known some time with the death of the abused person or the perpetrator of the abuse. Domestic violence is actually an act that is not peculiar to any particular socio-economic group or culture but it cut across all cultures and groups, (Lockton, 1996).