Deck 11: Violence in Families

Question 1

The term "intimate partner violence" arose in response to

A) the rise in concern about emotional abuse.
B) the increasing attention to incest.
C) seeing violence as a criminal problem rather than a health problem.
D) the increasing attention to violence among cohabiters, dating couples, and same-sex couples.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Victims of incest often suffer serious effects well into adulthood.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Experts believe most parents who abuse their children have severe personality disorders.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The battered women's shelter movement emerged from the concerns of the Religious Right.

Question 5

Which of the following is considered a negative consequence of family privacy?

A) Family members are insulated from the protection of society.
B) The police are prohibited from involvement in family matters.
C) Men are legally allowed to use corporal punishment to discipline their wives.
D) all of the above

Question 6

The majority of abused children grow up to be abusive adults.

Question 7

Violence by wives against husbands

A) never occurs.
B) is usually perpetrated by wives with higher status than their husbands.
C) is as common as incidents of fathers abusing their children.
D) occurs infrequently compared to violence by husbands against wives.

Question 8

Research on the organization of families suggests that

A) middle-class families are essentially egalitarian, and thus, less prone to exhibit violence.
B) violence is less likely to occur in extended families than in nuclear families.
C) the family is a power system in which the greater the inequality, the greater the risk of violence.
D) contemporary families are actually less violent than those of the past.

Question 9

The risk of family violence is far greater in homes in which men have been laid off from their jobs.

Question 10

A major explanation for the prevalence of domestic violence in the United States is

A) a lack of discipline in children.
B) the promotion of violence in major societal institutions.
C) lower-class status
D) all of the above

Question 11

Women are the victims of approximately what percentage of spousal homicides?

A) 30%
B) 50%
C) 80%
D) 90%

Question 12

According to the text,family violence is a logical outcome of

A) the social glorification of violence.
B) the pairing of men and women.
C) human nature.
D) all of the above

Question 13

Intimate terrorism is the use of violence and other control tactics to dominate a partner.

Question 14

Child abuse is more common than intimate partner violence.

Question 15

Studies of the U.S.population's attitudes about physical punishment within the family suggest that it is generally considered

A) illegal.
B) normal violence.
C) reprehensible.
D) a last resort.

Question 16

Spouse abuse would be most likely to occur in which of the following situations?

A) A couple has just gotten married.
B) A husband has been laid off from his job.
C) A husband has been promoted.
D) A death in the family has occurred.

Question 17

Women are more likely than men to be perpetrators of physical abuse against children.

Question 18

Abuse against male elderly family members is more common than abuse against female elderly family members.

Question 19

Viewing violence in the media

A) is not associated with more aggressive behavior among children.
B) tends to desensitize people to real violence.
C) tends to decrease one's fear of real violence.
D) all of the above

Question 20

Research suggests that cultural images of violence desensitize people to the seriousness of violence.

Question 21

The text makes which of the following points about domestic violence in same-sex relationships?

A) Domestic violence has never been documented in these relationships.
B) The rate of abuse in these relationships is approximately the same as in heterosexual relationships.
C) The rate of abuse is much higher in same-sex relationships than in heterosexual relationships.
D) Victims of abuse in same-sex relationships have many more resources at their disposal than do women who are abused by their husbands.

Question 22

Which of the following factors is strongly associated with wife abuse?

A) verbally aggressive interaction patterns
B) alcohol abuse
C) inadequacy of husbands
D) all of the above

Question 23

The most prevalent form of domestic violence is

A) spouse battering.
B) child abuse by parents.
C) elder abuse.
D) marital rape.

Question 24

Which of the following does not appear to be a common factor in episodes of child abuse?

A) intergenerational cycles of violence
B) failure of abusers to learn appropriate parenting skills
C) unemployment
D) mental illness in abusing parents

Question 25

The relationship between men's occupations and domestic violence is

A) nonexistent.
B) men in occupations involving the use of violence are not more likely to engage in domestic violence.
C) much stronger now than it was in the past.
D) men in occupations involving the use of violence are more likely to engage in domestic violence.

Question 26

Intimate terrorism is

A) the attempt to dominate an intimate partner completely, using many tactics, including violence.
B) another term for situational couple violence.
C) violent abuse that leads to death.
D) limited to a single incident in which conflict gets out of hand.

Question 27

Research on gender and perpetration of child abuse suggests that

A) women are more likely than men to physically abuse their children.
B) women and men are equally likely to physically abuse their children.
C) men are more likely than women to physically abuse their children.

Question 28

According to the text,authorities who observe potential child abuse

A) are usually more suspicious of violence in poor families than middle-class families.
B) are the best potential source of data about child abuse.
C) are usually correct in their assessments of child abuse across social class.
D) have no power to protect the children they suspect of being abused.

Question 29

The social stigma associated with incest contributes to

A) underreporting.
B) lack of adequate support to victims.
C) difficulties in family relationships.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 30

Victims of battering often stay in abusive situations because they

A) blame themselves for the condition.
B) like the attention they are receiving from their husbands.
C) are alcoholics.
D) exhibit masochistic traits.

Question 31

Which of the following factors may help explain differences in child abuse patterns across race?

A) differing rates of alcoholism
B) Variation may represent social class differences more than racial differences.
C) Racial minorities may place a lower value on children than do Whites.
D) all of the above

Question 32

The Watchful Shepherd Program uses

A) neighbors to identify child abuse.
B) electronic monitoring devices to protect children.
C) teachers to report possible cases of abuse.
D) more visits from social workers to protect children.

Question 33

Research on abusive husbands indicates that such men tend to

A) be underachievers; for example, less successful or less intelligent than their wives.
B) be overachievers; for example, more successful or more intelligent than their wives.
C) compare equally to wives in intelligence and success.
D) have no interest in being superior to their wives.

Question 34

The most common type of incest is

A) between parents and children.
B) between grandparents and their grandchildren.
C) between siblings.
D) unknown.

Question 35

According to the text,the relationship between excessive use of alcohol and wife abuse is best described as

A) causal.
B) negligible.
C) hypothetical.
D) contributory.

Question 36

Which of the following may explain the higher rates of spouse abuse for people of color?

A) Cultural norms may support the use of coercive power in some groups.
B) People of color are more likely to experience economic hardship.
C) As a result of institutional racism, minorities may be more likely to be labeled as abusers.
D) all of the above

Question 37

The family stressor model of spouse abuse explains violence as a consequence of

A) men's inability to handle excessive stress.
B) factors such as low income, poor employment, and low educational attainment.
C) incompatibility of married couples.
D) all of the above

Question 38

Research on the incidence of incest in the United States suggests that

A) women are equally likely to be the perpetrators of incest as males.
B) most child victims of incest attempt to report the behavior to authorities.
C) most incest victims are female.
D) the incidence of child sexual abuse appears to be declining in the 1990s.

Question 39

Research shows that which of the following fears are serious concerns in a woman's decision to leave an abusive situation?

A) fear of being alone
B) fear of not being able to survive without a partner
C) fear of the violent partner
D) all of the above

Question 40

The characteristic most often shared by husbands who beat their wives is

A) having been abused as a child.
B) unemployment.
C) excessive use of alcohol.
D) psychosexual problems.

Question 41

Discuss the thesis that violence in the larger society legitimates domestic violence.What research supports such an argument?

Question 42

Under what types of conditions is wife-abuse most likely to occur? Discuss both contextual and personal factors.

Question 43

The authors of the text believe that minorities are over-represented in official statistics on family violence.What explains this? Is it likely that middle-class Whites are under-represented in such statistics? Why or why not?

Question 44

New efforts are underway to prevent and detect elder abuse through routine screening by

A) family members.
B) social workers.
C) neighbors.
D) medical doctors.

Question 45

Sibling abuse is most likely to occur in families where

A) siblings are at least two years apart in age.
B) there is physical abuse by the parents.
C) parents are not home in the ʺafter-schoolʺ hours.
D) the siblings consist of one male and one female.

Question 46

How do the norms of family privacy contribute to the proliferation of family violence?

Question 47

Which of the following is a factor that contributes to the abuse of the elderly?

A) the ageism found in U.S. society
B) the stress that is generated by the responsibilities of caregiving
C) the financial burden of providing for the needs of an elderly family member
D) all of the above

Question 48

What personal and social factors make it difficult for battered wives to leave abusive relationships?