A Social Learning Theory Model of Marital Violence

A social learning theory model of minor and severe marital violence offending and victimization among males and females was tested. Results support social learning as an important perspective in marital violence. However, males and females are impacted differently by their experiences with violence in childhood and adolescence. Prior experiences with violence have a more dramatic impact in the lives of females than males, both during adolescence and adulthood.     

A Question of Survival

I ’M writing this from South Africa’s Cape Province, where I’m lucky enough to be taking a few days’ holiday among the vineyards of Stellenbosch and Franschhoek and the animals and flowers of the Sanbona Wildlife Reserve. Yesterday, I found myself face to face with a pair of white lionesses. The fact that they were white was unusual enough, but