Domestic Violence & Attachment Theory

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ATTACHMENT THEORY

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A look at the existing statistics indicates that thousands of families may be suffering in silence as they are continuously subjected to domestic violence . Where spousal violence has been going on for ages attention to this social malady was intensified in the 1970s where women began rising up against women battering husbands . In today 's world there are cases of husbands also being abused by their husbands although not to a level similar to that of women , it is

suspected that the number could be higher as men are afraid to come out in public to escape the stigma . As with every social phenomena that rock the society there exists a number of theories that have come out to explain domestic violence and its impact on families . One of these is the attachment theories that posit that insecure attachments that children have with their attachment figures may result to dysfunctional interpersonal relationships later in life

The attachment theory is a relatively new theory introduced by John Bowlby in the 1970s but it took time before it could be accepted as a psychoanalysis theory because it was a strange break from the existing thoughts . The conclusions forming the attachment theory are based on the observations of infants and the close attachment they enjoy with the caregivers especially the mothers . For normal development to occur in children , secure attachment is crucial as it gives them a sense of security (John Tonia , 2007

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