... social control (eg. police intervention) over family relations decreases the costs of one family member being violent toward another. Certain social and family structures reduce social controls in family relations and therefore reduce the costs and increase the rewards of being violent. The social and family structures that can affect family violence are the social attitudes ... folklore and nursery rhymes will graphically illustrate that a variety of media has for many years supported intimate violence, abuse and neglect. For example, wicked stepmothers in children's fairy tales, "the ol...

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