An Ethical Thinking On Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence is a global social affair. Domestic Violence refers to the immoral act appearing in social unit based on marriage relationship, blood relationship and adoptive relationship to infringe others' body mind and sex by beating, binding, humiliating personality, restricting personal freedom and maltreating sex. Its forms are physical, psychological, sexual violence.Domestic violence takes place in modem or ancient times, in China or elsewhere. Comparing with public violence, domestic violence has following features: secrecy of act, universality of phenomenon, complexity of causes, diversity of forms, continuation of time, seriousness of consequences etc.According to the relationship of the violence conductors and the victims, family violence can be divided into violence between spouses, violence between parents and children, and violence between other family members. This graduation thesis mainly introduces the first two kinds of domestic violence. Violence between spouses includes the violence done to wives by husbands and the violence done to husbands by wives. Parents and children's violence includes the violence done to parents and the violence done to children. Different-domestic violence has its particular causes, but hab its common causes which can bereduced to two-external causes and internal causes. There are threemain external causes of domestic violence. Firstly, the changes of moral culture. During the social transformation, -modem and traditionalmorality runs foul of each other and produces conflict, then affects the relationship among family members, thus it may lead to violence. Secondly, the increasing of utilitarianizing tendency. The invasion of utilitarianism has weakened the concern care, coordination among family members, which weakens altruistic morality that makes family members support, help each other, share the comforts and hardships and pull together in times of trouble. Excessive rights are certain to hurt other family members. Thirdly, the weakening of moral control mechanism. During the economic transformation, the effectiveness of vocational organization has been reduced. The original social organization was split, dispersed and disintegrated, and the integrated social organization which should be suited to the new market economy'hasn't been established. Under the background, owing to the weakening of moral control mechanism, people's behavior lacks restriction, which produces the possibility of the domestic violence. Imperfect legal system cannot prevent and check the family violence, thus encourages the violence conductor's arrogance.The external causes provide some possibility for the domestic violence. The internal causes are the final decisive factors of the act of domestic violence. The internal causes are: psychological factors of persons concerned and their moral cultivation. Unhealthy psychologies include weak sense, suspicious sense, abominating sense, toleration sense and usual sense. Besides, the feebleness of violence conductor's willpower, can increase the possibility of doing bad. The level of moral training can also determine one's act. The crux of moral cultivation is a process in which the individual as a cultivator fights against his/her immoral thoughts and acts of his/her own free will. A person who canwillingly engage in moral cultivation, that is, a person with high moral level, good moral character and noble moral quality, can conscientiously resist all kinds of immoral thoughts and acts in the society. The occurrence of domestic violence, to a great extent, is because doers can't make self-education, self-examination, self-dissection and self-correction on one's own thoughts, words and deeds.The causes of domestic violence are very complicated. The perniciousness of domestic violence is very grave. Domestic violence violates the principle of social responsibility and influences social stableness and unity. Therefore it is of great urgency to seek the measures to prevent and eliminate donlestic viol...