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The Influence Of Domestic Violence On Family Relationship Among Couples
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1.2Theoretical Framework
Three theoretical models will be used to explain domestic violence and neglect in family relationships:
1. Resource Theory
2. The Patriarchy Theory
3. General System Theory
Resource Theory
The
resource theory of family violence propounded by Goode (1971) assumes
that all social systems (including the family) rest to some degree on
force or the threat of force. The more resources – social, personal and
economic a person can command, the more force that individual can
muster. However, according to Goode (1971), the more resources a person
actually has, the less that person will actually use force in an open
manner. Thus, a husband who wants to be dominant person in the family,
but has little education, has a job, low prestige and income, and lacks
interpersonal skills may choose to use violence to maintain the dominant
position.
According to Nadin (1998) employed women are less depended
on abusive partners and better able to extricate themselves from
harmful relationships. Women are not absolved from this social vice of
heart breaking. Some women (especially those of superior economic
standings to their male counterparts) are tempted to play domineering
role in the family such a way that their husbands have to play the
second fiddle in a home, where they are supposed to be the head of the
family.
In the incidence of domestic violence on family relationship,
the causal few in most cases include infidelity, sex role, sexual
dissatisfaction, feeling of stay in control, influence of inlaws,
economic handship, lack of education among others. For instance, women
that are not allowed to work tend to stay in an abusive relationship
because, their husbands sometimes gain economic and psychological
control over them. According to Nadin (1998) employed women are less
dependent on violent partners and better able to extricate themselves
from violence relationships.
The Patriarchy Theory
The patriarchy
theory according to Dobash and Dobash (1979) is that economic and social
process operate directly and indirectly to support patriarchal (male
dominated) social order and family structure).
The central
theoretical argument is that patriarchy leads to subordination and
oppression of women and causes the historical pattern of systematic
violence directed against wives.
The patriarchy theory finds the
source of domestic violence in society at large and how it is organized
as opposed to within individual families or communities.
Globally,
and in every culture, men have been seen and celebrated as superior to
their female counterparts. Traditionally, the arrival of male child into
a family is seen as a special blessing to such home. It is not
uncommon, most especially among Africans to pry and earnestly expect a
male child irrespective of the number of the female children in the
families. The central belief is that male children are by all standard
superior to their female counterparts and should be treated as such.
This
situation is buttressed also by the social order and family structure.
Almost in every social strata, male men are mostly favoured for
significant posts. The affair of family living is also conferred
superiority on the men. This has helped shape the behaviour and
perception of men as superior to the female counterparts and has largely
contributed to their violent behaviour against wives in family
relationships.
In most cases, wives also tries to prove that they are
never inferior, when this happen the consequence is domestic violence
with its many evil effects on family relationship.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study examined the influence of domestic violence on family relationship among couples in Oshodi/Isolo Local Government Area of Lagos State. Descriptive research survey design was used, while a self-designed questionnaire was used as the major instrument.A total of 102 respondents were sampled. Four null hypotheses were formulated and tested using the independent t-test statistical tool at 0.05 level of significance.At the end of the analyses, the result shows that:1. There is a si ... Continue reading---
