1.3 the darker side of the family

Question 1

When was rape in marriage made illegal?

Answer 1

1991

Question 2

What percentage of victims in domestic abuse related crimes were women in the year ending March 2021?

Answer 2

73%

Question 3

What do Marxist feminists argue about domestic abuse in families?

Answer 3

• structural factors related to capitalism are the causes of domestic abuse

Question 4

What do radical feminists argue about domestic abuse in the family?

Answer 4

• domestic abuse is used by men to exert patriarchal control

Question 5

What do the New Right argue about domestic abuse in families?

Answer 5

• domestic violence occurs in dysfunctional families
• family instability comes from an increase in cohabitation and divorce

Question 6

What do Dobash and Dobash (1980) find about domestic violence in the family?

Answer 6

• there is still cultural support for the view that men have a right to “discipline” their wives
• 31% of the wives = said there were circumstances when the man has the right to hit his wife e.g. failing her duties
• male violence against women in the family is the means by which women’s subordinate role + unequal power are enforced

Question 7

What does Wilkinson argue about domestic violence in families?

Answer 7

• domestic abuse is the result of stress on family members caused by social inequalities

Question 8

What did Pahl (1985) find about domestic violence in families?

Answer 8

• 62% of women were subjected to violence for 3 or more years
• the injuries ranged from cuts and bruises to broken bones, stab wounds and fractured skulls

Question 9

What does Giddens (2006) argue about domestic violence in families?

Answer 9

• family life is characterised by emotional intensity and personal intimacy and domestic violence is common
• the isolation of nuclear families lead to the increase in intensity and escalations to violence

Question 10

What about domestic violence in same sex relationships?

Answer 10

• 1 in 4 LGBT individuals will experience domestic violence at some time in their lives
• 77.8% said that they had been subjected to emotional abuse at some time

Question 11

What did Mirza (2015) say about cultural differences in domestic abuse?

Answer 11

• Pakistani women are being abuse by their MIL and their spouse
• the MIL comes to identify with the same traditions that proved so oppressive during her own youth now that she is a ‘beneficiary of these practices’
• a vicious cycle is created