| Domestic violence has always had a high level of | | | | something he has no control over. |
| secrecy attached to it, since both the abused and | | | | Next is 'only poor families experience violence'. |
| the abuser will rarely tell you what exactly is | | | | Domestic violence cuts through all social barriers. |
| happening behind those closed doors. Their reasons | | | | Usually it is kept hush-hush in the higher starts of |
| for such justification may be different, but do not | | | | society, hence the general misconception that it only |
| believe all those myths you hear about violence -- | | | | occurs in the lower classes. |
| they are simply not real. | | | | The third myth is that 'violence is a trivial matter'. |
| There are a few common myths surrounding violence | | | | Victims of violence suffer from serious injuries. Look |
| at home, and none of them are true. Like 'domestic | | | | around the ERs of most hospitals and you will find |
| violence happens due to a momentary fit of anger'; | | | | that about 30 percent of all women admitted there |
| the truth is domestic violence is exactly the opposite | | | | have injuries inflicted by their domestic partners. |
| of "a fit of anger". The wife beater is completely | | | | The next myth is 'the head of the households has |
| aware when he is resorting to domestic violence. He | | | | complete right to control his family members'; there is |
| chooses to exercise what he thinks is his right to | | | | no domestic relationship that gives the breadwinner |
| control his spouse, and it is his modus operandi, not | | | | the right to control his partner. |