There's another thing (actually that's wrong - it's probably one of many, many things) I suspect that contributes to domestic violence and bullying. In the same way that we're brought up and trained by media and the world around us e.g. we must have a brand new car, a huge white wedding or be a bloke's bloke or an alpha man he man a la Chuck Connors or Vin Diesel men and to an extent women are trained to accept and be violent.
I was in a pub today watching the Dockers game which is a rarity for me. I noticed that the huge pub were 3 humongous rooms. One room was devoted with several screen about the footy.
Another room was following some caged fighting/mixed martial arts and the third to some rugby game. The biggest cheers and applause was generated from the MMA room which many sports pundits describe as an excuse for full on/no holds barred violence with gloves.
And I thought about it - Australian rules football is a high contact game tending to violent episodes. Crickets going that way in a genteel way.
All this leads me to think that we're being bred and immersed in violence more and more.
There's something more and this is rambling on my part - as nations around the world have people who spend less time reading books, handwriting snail mail letters, we're getting less intelligent and less able to express ourselves and our emotions with words. Like Jagger and Lennon-Mccartney have said - they became a voice of marginally post-war baby boom who were getting steadily unhappy and didn't know how to express themselves 'til their music came along.
So as a nation's people or a world's people become less articulate and wordy, they then become voiceless and resort to... using their fists to express themselves.
Fists + weaponry + violent sport + violent movies + drugs + drugs + drugs + alcohol + gambling + job dissatisfaction and job bullying + two sexes who even in the pre-70s found it difficult to understand each other and all of that = murder, robbery and violence.
Domestic violence and random violence. WE NEED TO CONTROL OURSELVES SOMEHOW. THERE ARE NO INVISIBLE PARENTS TO DO IT FOR US. GOVERNMENTS AND THEIR LEGISLATION CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH.