The Wire

Domestic violence may work both ways but there’s no doubt that the statistics show it is women and children who are usually on the receiving end. What does drive a man to be violent within a relationship. . Cathy Bettman is a relationships counsellor and she did her PHD on that topic, questioning men from all walks of life . After publishing her work as an academic thesis she decided that her findings should reach a wider audience. She turned them into a novel, For All Our Sakes . Cathy says one of the problems is the narrow definition of domestic violence means that some men can’t even recognise their own behaviour.