SOCI 2445 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Domestic Violence, Social Learning Theory, Social Class
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Myth hits the poor only, seem to be evidence to support this. Violent because there are no other ways to resolve these issues. Lower class trapped of having children involved and a lower income. Violence and love cannot happen together method of discipline children. Spousal abuse, comes down to them still loving each other (twisted) never reported, significant other would not show up to court so there would not be a prosecutor. Mandatory arrest police driven by a feminist approach, thinking this is how you can deal with family violence (not based on any research) Myth most abused children grow up to be abused parents not the case with all abused children (evidence shows that abuse can be intergenerational from one generation to the next) Independent empirical to show that? (interested in facts and evidence) when violence occurs in a family, it"s only the male child that absorbs it and carries on from one generation to the next (intergenerational hypothesis)