It's good to see an author dealing with financial circumstances of domestic violence.

Virtual terrorism applied to borrowers by finance companies has consequences including chronic stress, argument and DV.
Increase in sdebt over the years has coincided with increase in DV.

Wealthy people also suffer stress from debt and lack of cashflow, sometime huge debt and huge stress.

But of course debt at the top or bottom of the economy is no excuse for DV.

DV in the cycle of violence is however not always controlled.
Stress causes momentary out of control behavior.
There are also long lasting or ongoing consequences of stress.
Still there is no excuse for domestic violence.

Education about impact of stress should be mandatory.

Daphne Patai, in Heterophobia, points out a technique that is used to link events together, the use of emotive analogies, it tricks our brain by getting the emotions to override more logical thinking. This is the same technique used to stir up the lynch mob mentality.

This involves using an emotional hook, (young boy wakes up, parents covered in blood)

There is also a difference in the way the genders are portrayed in writing, a recent newspaper article about a woman murdering her own child, is written in a much softer way, than when the offender is a male.

The is no mention in this of the alleged perpetrators state of mind, level of intoxication. etc.

Has the alleged offender had a long history of violence, or been in the justice system.

All the above are used as predictors of a persons likely hood to commit violence.

Violence within our own public hospitals is also on the increase and this can be attributed to mental illness, intoxication, brain injury, or psychosis associated with fever, etc.

It is a pity that this article repeats so many misleading cliches.

"Domestic violence is evident in the homes of those with wealth, and those living in poverty. Domestic violence does not discriminate, as perpetrators of domestic violence come from all backgrounds and walks of life".

While perpetrators do indeed come from all backgrounds, the evidence is very clear that perpetrators are much more likely to come from the lower stratas of society. For example, the sky high rates of domestic violence in Indigenous communities are well knowm. Some ethnic groups also suffer a much higher incidence of domestic violence. Violence rates are also much higher amongst de facto couples than for married couples.

The article claims to be a review, yet it leaves out some of the biggest issues. The role of both mental illness and substance abuse in attacks/homicide of partners gets no mention, despite being a huge issue.

The article equates domestic violence with violence perpetrated by men against women. The reality is that attacks by women against male partners accounts for about 30 per cent of all domestic violence and men account for about a quarter of the victims of intimate partner homicides. It is also well documented that a large proportion of instances of domestic violence involve mutual violence.

I think it is a mistake to single out violence against women or even domestic violence generally as being issues that can be dealt with on their own. The problem is one of VIOLENCE in all its manifestations. It is hypocritical for society to single out violence in the home, while at the same time having vey low penalties for serious public assaults. How often do we see the perpetrators of quite serious unprovoked assaults get off with just a bond?

Yes Jenny and all true!

While much is cultural and learned behavior, there surely has to be some predisposition?

I had an inlaw who was a habitual drunk, everybody's charismatic and generous new best friend, outside the house and a surly never ever pleased wifebeater and recidivist rapist inside it!

However, and not to make excuses, he was a migrant and spent time in Hitler youth!

And assault and remorse followed each other as night follows day!

Eventually he beat my sister within an inch of her young life. With enough dental damage inflicted in the assault to require remedial dental surgery and complete replacement dentures.

WE just ignored his entreaties, got her, her belongs and the also bruised kids into a car and out of town!

He eventually followed full of smiles and butter wouldn't melt in the mouth contrition! But lost all his bravado, when he saw me and heard the locked and loaded action of the jungle carbine 303 I held in my grimly determined hands.

I'm told he died of a heart attack aged just forty three? No loss, the world's a better place!

And only his new and immediate family attended the funeral? And far more than he deserved!

I have no time for any of these cretins, neither should anyone who wants to be judged a man!

Particularly when a few sweet words or unexpected act of kindness will melt almost any loving lady.

Imagine a working wife comes home beat from pounding the hospital corridors and arrives home to a nice hot tub, a cold drink (a soft beausoleil) her favorite, her choice of music on the turntable and a candlelit dinner on the table when she finishes luxuriating in the tub! And putty in the right caring hands?

I mean play your cards right and you'll be the one needing to claim you're too tired! Or climb up on the roof and pull the ladder up after yourself, ha,ha.

And given that possible outcome why would anyone feel the need to resort to dumber than dumb, relationship harming violence?
Rhrosty.

@Wolly B, Friday, 18 March 2016 9:22:22 AM

+1

I am so very tired of feminists' shonky research 'facts'. The credibility of Science is taking quite a beating. That must ultimately diminish the quality and number of students taking up science.

Bren, ive said all along, if you take away the indigenous, the ethnic groups who disrespect women and the drug effected relationships, perhaps we don't have such an out of control situation as some suggest.

Just another way of pissing away our taxes on a preventable issue that has somehow become everyone's issue.

People have to understand that our tax dollars only go so far.