A Research Paper is assigned to analyze and critique (one) a social issue related to marriage and family. The Social Issue relevant to Marriage and Family will be explored using good research skills,...

Domestic Violence in Marriages and its social impact
The issue of violence by an intimate partner in a marriage has become a widely discussed issue in the world in past two decades. This issue raises the concerns related to the physical as well as mental health of the abused partner in a marriage. Spouse abuse has been recognized as a human right concern worldwide by the Fourth World Conference on Women which was held in Beijing in 1995. The term domestic violence has been called by other names also such as spouse abuse, marriage abuse, partner abuse or intimate abuse. The main purpose of choosing these terms is that it does not define abuse related to the gender of the partner who is abusing. It has been very clearly specified that the odds of suffering are equal for men as well as women. However, the research and other sources have indicated that women in a marriage are more likely to be victimized for domestic violence. A survey by the National Crime Victimization Society in United States has stated that women in a marriage are ten times more susceptible to getting injured by their partners in a relationship. Studies have found that 20.4 percent women in a marriage suffers abuse in a marriage relative to seven percent men.
The violence in a relationship have been defined in three ways based on the prevalence of the abuse, (i) overall prevalence, it refers to the partner who has ever been physically abused in a marriage, (ii) twelve month prevalence, it refers to partner who has been abused by their partner in last twelve months and (3) currently prevalence refers to relationship where on the partner is currently getting abused in an intimate relationship.
Some people considers Domestic violence as an intimate issue and not as a social issue. But the main cause under the domestic violence and more prevalence of violence being presented as a victim of domestic violence also underlies in our social upbringing. The social upbringing of a person that is their primary socialization has set up some gender roles in our minds. From childhood, men are socialized into dominant and aggressive roles than women. The main reason for providing dominant role to the men of the society is because they are always provided with higher education and...