variety of backgrounds, and some choose to continue
             aggressive behaviors learned in childhood, while others do not. Male
             abusers do tend to subordinate and exercise excessive control over their
             partners in an effort to dominate every aspect of their lives. Researchers
             have also discovered that men and women are intrinsically unlike in
             aggressive situations, and in developing aggressive tendencies. Men tend
             to have more aggressive tendencies than women do, and these tendencies can
             lead to aggressive and violent behavior throughout their lives. Certainly,
             biological differences are important in these tendencies, as this
             Since the biological anatomies of the two sexes differ, both the
             nature and the resolution of the developmental conflicts they undergo
             are hypothesized to differ. These differences produce more
             aggression, competition, guilt, and outer-directedness in males; and
             more passivity, shame, inner-directedness, jealousy, and masochism in
             Thus, females tend to be victims of more abusive behavior than men are, and
             men tend to be more aggressive and dominant. These researchers continue,
             "The reality of domination at the societal level is the most crucial factor
             contributing to, and maintaining, wife abuse at the individual level"
             (Hamberger & Renzetti, 1996, p. 127). In addition, men contain a gene that
             is hyperaggressive, so this violent aggression is known as a part of every
             man. Researchers note, "A Dutch team even identified a gene for
             hyperaggression in men. But even normal men are born killers" (Ghiglieri,
             2000, p. 30). Males tend to dominate and subjugate their partners more,
             and more effectively, and this is one of the main societal factors that
             leads to the continuation of abuse. Our society indeed encourages these
             male dominant behaviors in a wide variety of ways, from violent football
             games seen as "harmless" Sunday afternoon ent...