1. Family Violence
... experiencing a higher level of stresses as well. When a husband has "fewer perceived or actual resources than his wife" caused by socioeconomic factors such as level of education, occupational prestige, and income, "he may feel threatened by his wife's status relative to his" (Anderson and Schlossberg, 2003: 109). When a husband can not meet his "family responsibilities and role expectation" because of these ... 107). Because batterers tend not to be violent outside of the family, it suggests that the "locus of violence is in the relational context rather than within the individual" (An...
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