Test Your Domestic Violence IQ
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- People are more likely to be hit, beat up, physically injured, or even killed in their own homes by another family member than anywhere else, and by anyone else in our society.
- True
- False
- Research by Richard Gelles, Family Violence, 1979 supports this statement.
- Up to 60% of all married women experience physical violence by their husbands at some time during the marriage.
- True
- False
- The Ohio Governor's Task Force on Family Violence.
- Battering is more common in lower income families.
- True
- False
- Battering crosses all socio-economic lines. Battering is sometimes reported more in lower income families because these families may have fewer resources, less privacy, and more likely to be taken to emergency rooms than an expensive private physician.
- According to a Harris poll, 20% of all Americans approve of hitting a spouse on appropriate occasions.
- True
- False
- Poll done in 1986.
- In the study cited in #4, the percentage approving hitting decreased among college educated Americans.
- True
- False
- Up to 25% of college educated Americans approved.
- In 1979, 40% of female homicide victims were killed by a family member or boyfriend.
- True
- False
- The Ohio Governor's Task Force on Family Violence.
- Household violence is most likely to happen in the evenings and on the weekends.
- True
- False
- Ninety-one percent of the women in U. S. prisons experienced an episode of domestic violence three months or less prior to committing the crime for which they were incarcerated, regardless of the crime.
- True
- False
- Findings from the National Clearing House For The Defense of Battered Women, Philadelphia, PA.
- Police officers experience the greatest likelihood of injury when responding to domestic violence.
- True
- False
- Research gathered since the 70's states that 5.7% of police deaths are sustained when responding to domestic violence. Domestic Violence calls were consistently the least or next to the least dangerous category of calls. 1982 FBI study.
- According to studies, most physical abuse is preceded by verbal arguments.
- True
- False
- In a British study, 77% of the women said physical abuse was not preceded by verbal abuse or arguments.
- The Hazleton Foundation found that 63% of young men between ages 11 and 20 doing time for homicide killed their mother's abuser.
- True
- False
- The Hazleton Foundation found that 63% of young men between ages 11 and 20 doing time for homicide killed their mother's abuser.
- Ninety percent of abusive or neglectful parents were abused or neglected as children.
- True
- False
- There are many factors that determine whether a child will be abused or not; behavior of the child plays only a small part.
- Men are more likely to help a woman being attacked by a man than a man being attacked by a woman.
- True
- False
- Men are less likely to interfere in a fight between a man and his female partner.
- Hitting your wife is against the law in Ohio.
- True
- False
- Spouse abuse has been illegal in Ohio since 1979. It is a crime punishable by a $1, 000 fine and up to six months in jail. The first conviction is considered a misdemeanor while the second conviction automatically becomes a felony.
- Most women who leave a situation where they have been battered do not return to live in the home.
- True
- False
- Many women return to their husband/partner for a variety of reasons.
- Results of college surveys showed that up to 60% of both male and female students had experienced violence in dating relationships.
- True
- False
- Co-ed colleges surveyed in 1981 reported between 21 and 60%incidence of dating violence for both male and female students.
- Men who batter or abuse their wives or girlfriends can not help themselves.
- True
- False
- Violence is a learned response to frustration and a way of releasing tension. Most men don't see their violent behavior as their fault. They blame the victims for causing them to behave in a certain way.
- A person can help their partner change their behavior if they really love them enough.
- True
- False
- Only the individual who wants to change can change his own behavior.
- Early life experiences are the single greatest factor contributing to abusive relationships.
- True
- False
- Strauss, Gelles & Steinmetz,1981, reported that marriages of persons who grew up in violent homes as objects of abuse were 5 to 9 times more likely to be violent, and violent husbands and wives were 77% more likely to be abusive parents
- Physical abuse has been shown to be a factor in 40% of all divorces.
- True
- False
- Most spouse abusers feel no guilt or shame for their actions.
- True
- False
- In a home with spousal abuse, it is likely that the children will also be abused or neglected.
- True
- False
- A study done with children of women who were residents of battered women's shelters found that 45% of the children had been physically abused, seriously neglected or both; a rate of 1500% higher than that for the general population.
- Four and one-half billion dollars are lost nationally in time off work for workers living in violent homes.
- True
- False
- The Ohio Governor's Task Force on Family Violence.
- Eighty percent of violent juvenile offenders and adult prisoners come from homes where family violence occurred
- True
- False
- The Ohio Governor's Task Force on Family Violence.
- Violence is a learned behavior.
- True
- False
- Violence is a learned response to frustration and a way of releasing tension. Most men don't see their violent behavior as their fault.
