Women's Aid defines domestic violence as physical, psychological, sexual or financial violence that takes place within a family or intimate relationship and forms a pattern of coercive and controlling behavior. It may involve partners, ex-partners or other relatives. Although the most common view of domestic violence is that it is the behavior of some "sick" disturbed individuals. However sociologists have questioned this, saying it is too widespread to be the work of just a few individuals. Domestic violence accounts for nearly a quarter of all violent crimes, and an estimated 6.6 million domestic assaults occur each year. Domestic violence follows certain social patterns and these patterns have social causes. The most shocking thing about these patterns is that they are mostly violence by men against women. A 1999 survey by Catriona Mirrlees-Blacks found that the majority of victims of violent domestic crime are women, 99% of all incidents against women are committed by men, almost 1 in 4 women have been assaulted by their partner in some time in their lives and 1 in 8 have been repeatedly assaulted. attacked. Dobash and Dobash believe one reason for this was that violent incidents could be triggered by what men saw as a challenge to authority, such as his wife asking him why he was late home for dinner. They argued that marriage legitimizes violence against women by giving power and authority to husbands and dependence on wives. Official statistics on domestic violence actually underestimate the true extent of the problem and this is for two main reasons. First, many victims may not be willing to report the incident... middle of the paper... and this is why many women tend to be the recipients of domestic violence because men feel that women at sometimes they challenge their authority. Throughout history, men have been socialized to believe that they have power over women and that they must provide for their families. This is perhaps one of the main reasons why domestic violence exists and why the victims are mainly women. Wilkinson's theory seems to be quite well thought out and has a good idea of ​​why domestic violence actually occurs, but if this is true, then why are women primarily the victims? Liberal feminists hope and believe that over time the problems we suffer from today will resolve themselves, but this will actually happen. If we leave the problems as they are, they will really disappear or the problem will get worse?