Part one Flashcards
Data and clinical experience suggest that the incidents of abuse is all too common within the church. True or false.
True.
Although accurate data is difficult to obtain, it is estimated that almost blank to blank blank spouses have experienced abuse at the hands of a mate.
2 to 3,000,000.
Throughout much of history, male violence toward women and children has been socially, legally, and religiously endorsed. True or false.
True.
In Roman legal precedent, the blank blank blank blank blank granted the father the absolute right to sell his children, as well as the power of life and death over the child.
The law of the 12 tables
“Patria protesta” has nothing to do with Roman jurisprudence. True or false.
False.
In ancient Greece, the wife and children were also the man’s absolute property. The order of priority was: Blank blank blank and blank.
Father, cattle, mother and children.
The prevalent view permeating all of Jewish law was that a woman was blank blank blank.
Not a person.
For many centuries, including the blank and blank blank, as well as the blank, women were routinely subjugated.
Dark and middle ages,Renaissance,
So-called “laws of chastisement” are currently part of our legal system in the United States. True or false.
False.
One 13th century French law code stated that, “in a number of cases, men may be excused for the injuries they inflict on their wives, nor should the law intervene. Provided, he neither kills normal aims her, it is legal for a man to beat his wife if she wrongs him.” True or false.
True.
For the most part medieval society view women as needing blank blank.
Strict control.
Early church leaders such as blank blank, blank blank, and blank blank, were as stern as the Roman Catholic contemporaries on the physical discipline of wives. True or false.
Martin Luther, John Knox, John Calvin
The net effect of blank was that a married woman could not own property, have money in her name, make contracts, and sue or be sued in court.
Couverture
During the late 1860s influential person’s such as blank blank blank did speak out against the abusive treatment of women.
John Stuart Mill.
Scripture makes it very clear the blank blank of wrong doing. (Exodus 34:7; Leviticus 26:39)
Generational influence
The male child who lives with violence will usually identify with his mother and have strong negative feelings about his father’s abusive behavior. True or false.
True.
Girls who have experienced violence between their parents may take either the blank or blank role.
Victim or abuser
Researchers clearly indicated that females who lived with violence will never display any acting out, behavioral problems. True or false.
False.
Spousal abuse generally refers to blank rather than blank or blank physical contact.
Brutal, accidental, insubstantial
Physical violence includes any blank or blank that inflicts bodily harm or that is blank to inflict physical harm.
Act or behavior, intended
Emotional abuse may include blank or blank another person, Blank blank or blank, and blank him of her for family or interpersonal problems.
Ridiculing, demeaning, withholding affection, privileges, blaming
Blank violence is a particular form of emotional abuse.
Threatened
There are no statistics that men are sometimes victims of spousal abuse. True or false.
False.
Weekends are more conducive to domestic violence then weekdays. True or false.
True.
Marital violence is more frequent when both spouses work and when they work the same shift. True or false.
False.
Violence is more likely to occur when the wife is not pregnant. True or false.
False.
As the frequency of battering episodes increases, the more severe they become. True or false.
True.
The inability to manage anger is not considered a characteristic of men who batter. True or false.
False.
Researchers have found that adults who as teenagers, where frequently punished physically, have a spouse beating rate Blank blank greater than those who are not struck as teams.
Four times.
The blank acts as a powerful socializing agent.
Family
Abusive males have an especially hard time expressing their blank, as well as blank and blank those feelings when they occur.
Emotions, identifying and handling
It has been suggested that men use their inexpressiveness as a blank blank to maintain a blank of blank within the family.
Power strategy, position of dominance
Men who abuse their spouses are usually very blank dependent on their wives or intimate partners.
Emotionally
An abusive man lacks other blank relationships and tends to maintain only Blank blank with persons outside his own family.
Supportive, superficial conduct
Studies indicate abusive men are generally blank – blank outside of the home, possess a low blank – blank, and are blank.
Non-– assertive, low – esteem, depressed
In general, blank blank blank are characteristic of violent households.
Poor communication skills
Violent men tend to have more inflexible beliefs about the roles and function of their spouses. True or false.
True.
Using his religious beliefs for support, the man who beats his wife tends to adhere to a male dominant role which requires that he:
Never appears weak, solves problems without help, makes all important decisions, receives a differential treatment from his wife or children, be in control of his emotions especially in public
Man who abuse their partners have often been found to have a problem with substance abuse. True or false.
True.
It has been discovered that drug and alcohol abuse is causing all the violence in abusive relationships. True or false.
False.
Blank blank such as unemployment, under employment, or high levels of job dissatisfaction of been found to be related to marital violence.
Economic stressors
The blank of the husband is often related to the amount of blank he acquires through his work.
Power, resources
Social isolation raises the risk that there will be severe violence between spouses.
True.
Isolation can be blank – blank because either the abused woman or her partner may feel embarrassed or fearful that the problem would become known by others.
Self – induced
At the bottom of all societies norms and expectations is the blank blank of human beings.
Very nature
One in three women will be seriously assaulted by her husband sometime during the course of her marriage. True or false.
False.
Battered women enter marriage with different desires and goals as other women. True or false.
False.
Initial episodes of violence typically begin during the blank blank of marriage.
First year
