as yet neglect important issues. Power theories focus on the strains of everyday interaction in a relationship that generate conflict that leads to abuse. The family system responds to broad social-structural conditions that produce stress and conflict. This reveals that low-income families, and families where one or more adults are unemployed, or when the husband has a low-status job all experience high levels of stress. It is situations like these where violence against women is used as a coping method for men.
             The feminist response to power theories believe that the power theory evaluate the family with isolation from the patriarchal system of which it is largely a part of. Through historical case studies feminists argue that male dominance is a key factor in wife abuse. The primary source of wife abuse is believed to be due to the wife's failure to live up to her husbands' expectations of being a good wife. This theory emphasizes how men learn abusive behavior through a male culture that encourages violence through a patriarc
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