Domestic Violence: Causes and Promoters in Our Societies

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Domestic Violence
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Abstract
Domestic violence is a major social problem which affects many families in the world today.
Domestic violence has left many families in great trouble today, and that’s why it’s important to
discuss it for us to understand it better. This critical essay will discuss domestic violence where it
will mainly concentrate on the main causes and promoters of domestic violence in our societies.
Many scholars argue that the varying cultures and norms of our societies are the main causes of
domestic violence in our societies, but we have some scholars with different perspectives. In this
essay, it will be argued that “some of our varying cultures are the main causes and promoters of
domestic violence in our societies.” The arguments from different theories will be gathered to
help in supporting or criticizing this argument.

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Domestic Violence
In social psychology, domestic violence is an aggressive or violent behavior which
occurs in a home setting and mainly involves married partners (Berns, 2017). Domestic violence
is a common problem in our societies where many married partners have found themselves
quarreling and raising different forms of violence due to different issues which bring some
serious differences in their lives (Dutton, 2011). In this critical essay, we shall discuss domestic
violence in details where we shall concentrate on some of the main theories which have been
formulated to explain different aspects of domestic violence. The critical essay will be split into
two main parts where the first part will state the main argument of the essay and come up with
some evidence to support the main argument, while the second part will be the balanced
argument part where some major points will be raised to criticize the main argument or raise
some alternative views about the main argument of the critical essay. The main argument of our
critical essay is that ‘some of our varying cultures are the main causes and promoters of domestic
violence in our societies.’ The scope of our work (the critical essay) will cover different
arguments and theories which have been given by different scholars in their attempt to explain
the main causes of domestic violence in our society.
The culture of violence theory is one of the main psychosocial theories which support the
argument that our varying cultures are the main causes of domestic violence in our societies.
According to this theory, we have some societies which have some subcultures which have come
with some norms which permit the use of domestic violence in our homes. This theory goes
ahead to explain that we have some societies with some norms which allow women to be beaten
by their husbands when they go wrong as a way of correcting them so that they won’t repeat the