CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

Cultural Perspectives

Cultural Perspectives

Family violence is an issue that has been around since the beginning of time. Family violence is not discriminatory in relation to culture, gender or age, and only recently it has been recognized as a social problem. The woman movement of the nineteen-seventies helped organize a revolt of shelters to protect battered women and children. The increase in police reports of Family violence also increased public and professional concern. There are many factors that are said to influence Family violence, such as drugs, alcohol, and unemployment. The idea that Family violence is passed from one generation to another, ...