This increased stress leads to a high rate of violence within the family. ... Violence in a relationship may be an attempt to regain control. One of the characteristics of spousal violence is the use and abuse of power. ... Alcohol has been linked to violence time and time again. ... Therefore, allowing drunkenness to be an excuse for violence. ...
Even though there are many different cultures and ethnic groups in the world, many of those people may face the same problems. According to the book Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action, a social problem is be defined as "a social condition that has negative consequences for individ...
Adolescent parenting has multiple consequences on interpersonal relationships. Teenagers are parenting at the age they should be navigating through adolescence. Their relationships with their own mothers, friends, extended family, the child's father, and most importantly, their child are gravely imp...
Communication Studies Research Methods In recent years, as divorce rates have climbed and family structures continue to deviate further from the two-parent household, much has been made of absentee fathers and the impact that it has on children, particularly boys. Many studies have suggested that the absence of a father often causes boys to drop out of school and become delinquent. Research will show that boys raised outside of intact marriages are, on average, more than twice as likely as other boys to wind up in jail -- with each year spent without a dad increasing the odds of futur...
What is the American family? This question was answered by John de Crevecoeur, in "what is the American?" (1782), when he said: "I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have four wives of different nations."1 In fact, Crevecoeur summarized the history of the American family, in particular, and the American man, in general. There are many kinds of family systems in the world; the English family is but one of them. ...
