HTML**FONT SIZE=3 PTSIZE=10*Clearly alcohol was in charge and had been for years. It led the way by making our decisions and settling all of our critical issues. I, she, or we didn't -- but alcohol did. Specifically, my partner's addiction to alcohol was the most important force in our family....

Violence has always been apart of our society, and as the amount of violence that occurs rises, people have become more immune to it. Violence is as simple as one child hitting another to the worse case scenario of capital murder. Researches have always been interested in what makes people react in ...

How important honor is? In various countries throughout the world, particularly in the Middle East and parts of South Asia, notion of family honor is extremely important. The reputation of a family in the Islamic world rests on the reputation of its women. Women are usually killed because ...

Cummings, J.G., Pepler, D.J., & Moore, T.E. (1999). Behavior problems in children exposed to wife abuse: Gender differences. Journal of Family Violence, 14, 133-155. Introduction: The purpose of this research is to focus on behavior problems that children witnesses of domestic violence ...

What's the most violent thing you've ever seen on television? A murder? An assassination? A deadly explosion? Whatever it was, the chances are, that violent image still remains in your memory. Now, we're all balanced young people, right? We know those images won't do us a...

Intimidation and violence have all too frequently been common occurrences in high school and college sports. While journalists report it, and sociologists and psychologists attempt to explain it, it is the athletic-program administrators who are held accountable for sports-violence related incid...

Not many people would argue that violence in the home destroys families, individual lives, and upsets the community. When a domestic violence incident occurs, we often readily identify the obvious victim, the adult. However, we often overlook the unintended victims. Our children, silent sufferers o...