Domestic violence may occur from many different types of scenarios. Does this person have low self-esteem, jealousy, or perhaps problems with interpersonal communication resulting in anger or other strong emotions? Does a person feel inferior (towards a spouse’s job or to a co-worker in the workplace?). Nonetheless, control is what it boils down to in the end.
How we are brought up may have plenty to do with this dilemma of domestic violence. There have been numerous of men who are raised to believe that women are beneath them. From “honor” killings of women for being rape victims or having premarital sex in some countries, to women being omitted from serving on juries in the United States until 1701 and prevented from voting until 1920, the view that women are somehow second-class citizens encourages mistreatment of women (Edwards, 2014, p.3). In turn, there are women who may believe if they’re bringing home more finances than the man then they have the say so over what goes on in that household, which diminishes the man’s mental state of being the provider in the household, which can cause negative feedback eventually. Domestic violence on women is more recognized in society than in men but surely not one sided, and some believe many abused men go unreported. Domestic violence cuts across every segment of society and occurs in all age, racial, ethnic, socio-economic, sexual orientation, and religious groups (Lien, 2003). Some physical methods may be sexual, verbal, emotional, physical, and psychological tactics used to intimidate or threaten an individual. Same situation can occur in the business world with using coercive behavior to instill fear to employees of possibly losing their job. Whether being provoked by an instigator to commit domestic violence or someone plainly just having anger problems this is a disease that can be cured with proper interpersonal communication skills. As one communication text puts it, “interpersonal communication occurs not...