Isn it just alcohol that makes men violent?
Many men who drink are not violent to their partners and many men who are violent do not drink. Alcohol may be a factor in triggering violent incidents in the home but it’s not the cause. Often when violent alcoholics seek help for their drinking, the outcome is a sober perpetrator. So it’s more accurate to say that the two problems can co-exist rather than one causing the other. Alcohol ‘frees’ some men up to act in certain ways by giving them what they feel to be an excuse for their abusive behaviour. However, drunkenness is never an excuse for violence. Drunk drivers are not seen as unable to help their behaviour, and their drunkenness is not seen as an excuse for the damage they cause.
