The 21st century has seen increased concerns addressed to public health since the lives of millions of Americans are affected continuously. Among the agenda is intimate partner violence (IPV). Essentially, IPV involves all forms of sexual and physical violence, psychological aggression, and even stalking by an immediate or former partner with whom one shared intimate relations. According to National Statistics, in the US, 20 people per minute suffer from physical violence inflicted by their intimate partners, translating to more than 10 million men and women. Additionally, close to 3 million women go through intimate partner rape, while per one year, just over 6 million men and women report incidences of stalking (Hattery 21). Through socialization,
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In many cultures, women are taught since their childhood to be submissive to their husbands, and as depicted, it is their moral obligation. Likewise, men are taught to be in control of relationships. As such, gender roles stereotypes effect on the way of thinking of every particular individual; for example, the marked inequalities make women vulnerable and weaker. Besides, more often than not, children do not need any notations and clarifications since they accept the family pattern they live in. Correspondingly, growing up in a family where a father beats a mother, they just take this model of relationship as the only acceptable. In particular, this affects critical personality factors leading to insecurity, low self-esteem, antisocial personality disorder, or depression; correspondingly, all these brew a conflict and/or discord in intimate relationships. In the long run, the same children grow up to be either perpetrators themselves or victims of IPV. Evidently, this learning process is continuous; it has been passed from one generation to another, thus increasing IPV year by year (Giddens & Griffiths
In many cultures, women are taught since their childhood to be submissive to their husbands, and as depicted, it is their moral obligation. Likewise, men are taught to be in control of relationships. As such, gender roles stereotypes effect on the way of thinking of every particular individual; for example, the marked inequalities make women vulnerable and weaker. Besides, more often than not, children do not need any notations and clarifications since they accept the family pattern they live in. Correspondingly, growing up in a family where a father beats a mother, they just take this model of relationship as the only acceptable. In particular, this affects critical personality factors leading to insecurity, low self-esteem, antisocial personality disorder, or depression; correspondingly, all these brew a conflict and/or discord in intimate relationships. In the long run, the same children grow up to be either perpetrators themselves or victims of IPV. Evidently, this learning process is continuous; it has been passed from one generation to another, thus increasing IPV year by year (Giddens & Griffiths