| Description |
Domestic violence, also known as Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) or Relational Violence, includes emotional and psychological aggression as well as sexual assault on individuals romantically partnered, affecting all genders and social classes. This research connects this harmful behavior to the lack of understanding of the concept of love, referred to in academic literature as self-love, and its connection with sex, particularly its correlation with domestic violence and sexual assault. Adult Mexican immigrants with children participated in this study, which analyzed data about their love experiences through their development years, unveiling that toxic parental traits are influenced by marianism, caballerismo, and machismo, detaching the concept of love from self-love as a fundamental concept to develop healthy relationships. To prevent the perpetuation of harmful behaviors in romantic relationships, a curriculum was designed to teach young adults and adults to better understand self-love and its effect on creating healthy relationships in the hope of preventing and decreasing domestic violence and sexual assault cases. |
