4.3.2 The dark side of family relationships

Domestic violence and abuse

Cheal - 2002

Cheal observes that family relationships can easily break into damaging relationships, love can turn into hate.

In UK, there are three domestic murders of women every two weeks.

Three - quarters of global violence is domestic.

Honour related murders

A female killed by a family member for an actual or assumed transgression. Seen as a 'protection' of family reputation. WHO estimates that there are 5000 murders that are named of honour each year worldwide and believed to be an underestimate.

Toxic masculinity

Stephens - Males are brought up to believe that they are 'hard wired' to behave in a patriarchal way. Many males have experienced a traumatized childhood.

He arugues that men need to recognize that the way they have been brought up is a problem, they are suffering a crisis of masculinity that denies them the capacity to ach=knowledge and understand their childhood pain.