Compare And Contrast Cobras And Pitbulls

The most current form of violence that women suffered from is the physical violence imposed by the intimate partner (husbands or boyfriends). According to the UN’s numbers, on average, one in three woman is beaten during her life. In the common mind, all the men who batter their wives are acting the same and having the same issues. Two professors of psychology, Dr. Neil Jacobson and his colleague, Dr. John Gottman, studied the behavior of violent marriage and divided men who batter their wives in two types. The two categories are Cobras and Pit bulls, as the animals. During ten years, the two professors made researches and studied the similarities and differences in violent marriage, especially on who they are calling “cobras” and “pit bulls”. In this essay, I will describe the similarities and differences between them. …show more content…
Neil Jacobson and Dr. John Gottman, found some common characteristics about cobras and pit bulls. First of all, when they started the research, Cobras and Pit bulls were in the same group in front of the unhappily marriage but non-violent and the happily one. Both of them, were recruited in the same way : advertisements. It shows us that cobras and pit bulls were first of all in the same “category”: men who battered their wives. Cobras same as Pit bulls, had a difficult childhood. It was maybe for different reasons, but the two of them suffered during this period and it has an impact on them. Furthermore, we can notice that all the battered women are afraid. No matters if the man is a cobra or a pit bull, the woman will be scared and won’t say anything that can cause a “vicious attack”. In the same time, these violent men hurt their women and may kill them. The last but not the least, the two types of batterers are referred to treatments that don’t really work and they even success to dupe the person in front of