Abstract This paper is about Domestic cold violence. Most of people are familiar with domestic violence, but only a few people hear of “cold violence”. The paper will discuss with the following aspects: meaning, characteristic, harm and measures. This paper will gives you a good idea of cold violence. Cold violence is one of domestic violence. It is a serious social problem, and a lot of families are suffered from cold violence in difference degrees. We can not ignore cold violence, because it is becoming a killer of marriage in these days. We should know about clod violence and find a way to stop this abuse.
What is“cold violence”? “Cold violence” is a form of mental abuse. Usually when family tensions explode, one of the couples will take refuge in a passive response of silence, and he or she ignores or never tries to communicate with angry spouse. But this is not all. The abuser will take a passive attitude towards domestic affairs and restricting verbal communication to the occasional snipe or sneer. The absence of all communication – verbal and physical – can make cold violence even harder to bear than the physical and verbal abuse normally associated with serious domestic disputes.
The differences between body violence and cold violence It is generally known that domestic violence is acknowledged by many doctors to be a serious social problem. It is not like normal domestic violence, “cold violence” is a form of mental abuse. Mental abuse doesn’t take immediate effect, but it is a slow process and can be more severe than the physical abuse. Presently, the physical harm of domestic violence has caused a certain degree of concern and attention, but the "cold violence" in spirit level has not been brought to the attention of the public sufficiently. Physical abuse is most often found in low-income, low-education families, while “cold violence” is more common in families at the opposite end of the social