Abuse is a central part of Alex Flinn’s Breathing Underwater, the character Nick Andreas Is found guilty of domestic violence and as a result, must attend counselling to come to terms with his demons. An abuser is a person who sexually assaults, makes painful torture by hand, violence or emotion. These offenders regularly and habitually abuse other persons or those in relation to the individual, especially life partners in practical. Sometimes people use coercive and abusive patterns of behaviours with their partners thinking they can develop a dominating position, strong control and power in their relationship. There are certain categories of abuse, that is, they may abuse their partners for money, emotions and feelings, for sexual and for
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An important fact to understand about the abusive individual is that when he or she starts abuse and domestic violence toward his opposite sex life partner, it shows that they are trying to create some serious situation toward a larger pattern for control or dominance (Tepper 178-190). If we properly judge the behaviour of an abuser, it gives us a proper message that this behaviour is going to create an unrest situation in the whole society so it should not be tolerated at any cost; particularly in the community. The offender should be treated under the criminal system without any barriers, steps should be taken to overcome the abusive behaviour of people in their relationships and fair and clean professional behaviour should be adopted to identify and point out prosecute abusers in the society. The factors of discrimination and homophobia should be discouraged, abuse or violence is not the solution to any domestic problem (Thriving Family Magazine).
In many occasions the male partner may abuse his wife or girlfriend because he feels that there is nothing wrong with the behaviour, there are, however, abusers who are aware of the implications of their actions. It can be judged after reading Breathing Underwater that, abuse is a learned process or behaviour adopted by Nick Andreas, who grew up with domestic violence and failed to understand the implications of his actions. Nick passed the behaviour from his father, who beat him brutally and often criticised him, this is often the reason some children become abusive after growing up
An important fact to understand about the abusive individual is that when he or she starts abuse and domestic violence toward his opposite sex life partner, it shows that they are trying to create some serious situation toward a larger pattern for control or dominance (Tepper 178-190). If we properly judge the behaviour of an abuser, it gives us a proper message that this behaviour is going to create an unrest situation in the whole society so it should not be tolerated at any cost; particularly in the community. The offender should be treated under the criminal system without any barriers, steps should be taken to overcome the abusive behaviour of people in their relationships and fair and clean professional behaviour should be adopted to identify and point out prosecute abusers in the society. The factors of discrimination and homophobia should be discouraged, abuse or violence is not the solution to any domestic problem (Thriving Family Magazine).
In many occasions the male partner may abuse his wife or girlfriend because he feels that there is nothing wrong with the behaviour, there are, however, abusers who are aware of the implications of their actions. It can be judged after reading Breathing Underwater that, abuse is a learned process or behaviour adopted by Nick Andreas, who grew up with domestic violence and failed to understand the implications of his actions. Nick passed the behaviour from his father, who beat him brutally and often criticised him, this is often the reason some children become abusive after growing up