MD1

• Family violence is uncommon • Only poor people are violent • Abused children always become abusive partners or parents • Battered women “ask for it” • Family violence sometimes “just happens” • Minor acts of family violence are always trivial and inconsequential • Alcohol and drugs are the real cause of family violence • Women who claim date rape are “lying,” “Deserve what they got,” or were “asking for it” • Some people cannot be raped, and anyway, coercive sexual contact is not damaging • If he ever laid a hand on me, I would leave