Stories of domestic violence from university students

Abstract

Violence within families is determined by a system of power in which one of its members defeats others through dominance schemes that violate their integrity and compromise their physical, emotional and social well-being. An expression of this family problem is that in which parents violate their sons and daughters, from early childhood to adolescence and adulthood. In this sense, this work, developed from a hermeneutical qualitative approach, aims to describe the manifestations of domestic violence experienced by young university students from Chiapas, Mexico, through the story of some of their experiences in a chaotic and violent family context. The testimony of three undergraduate university students was recovered, from which categories of analysis were identified around the configuration of violence in the family, such as gender, parenting, parenting styles, alcoholism, machismo, among others. The results offer a perspective of the reality that many young women suffer in living together and interacting with their parents, evidencing spirals of violence that do not stop since childhood and that compromise their personal and professional development. The conclusions highlight the complexity of domestic violence, the traces it leaves on young adults and the implications it has on their current reality.