This automatically disadvantages women in terms of their economic status, educational level, and legal representativeness. ... Although these findings are important and relative to our analysis, it is important to be aware that violence against women is poorly theorized and deserves a broader focus in order to answer why it occurs, to whom it happens, and who is most likely to abuse their spouse. ... This allows for a focused analysis of the impact that stress related factors associated with class and patriarchal ideologies have on wife abuse. ... Some shortcomings have been found in the VAWS ...

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Biblical laws are part of the indigenous legal traditions of the ancient Near East. ... " Through linguistic analysis scholars maintain that the "rib creation" is about 450 years older than the creation in Genesis 1. ... Some interpret Teraphim as house gods and possession of house gods signified legal title to the property. Thus Rachel, believing her father would deny her husband legal share in his estate, took the Teraphim. ...

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According to Marital Happiness and Marital Duration and the U-Shaped Curve: Evidence from a Five-Wave Panel Study authors Amato, Johnson and Van Laningham show that "analysis indicates that certain life-course transitions, primarily those involving changes in the number of children at various ages, are associated with changes in marital happiness that the presence of children--regardless of age--is associated negatively with marital happiness ( Amato, Johnson, Van Laningham 2001:1333-4)."" ...

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