Most batterers exhibit a combination of behaviors and attitudes that include lacking skills and confidence to communicate non-threateningly, having family backgrounds where problems are solved through violence, and minimizing or denying their violent actions often by blaming the victim. These characteristics are not isolated but tend to coexist, making "all of the above" the correct answer.

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Most Batterers

Question 102

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Most batterers:

A) lack the skills and confidence to ask their spouses for anything in a non-threatening manner.
B) have family scripts that involve solving problems by physical force and psychological battering.
C) minimize and deny the amount of violence that occurred because of a loss of memory during the rage and because they blame the victim for causing the violence.
D) are characterized by all of the above.

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