ABSTRACT
Rosenbaum and Leisring (2003) found a significant relationship between growing up in a violent home and future perpetration. In addition, they found that the presence of a defective or impaired parent-child bond also increased the likelihood of becoming a batterer. Specifically, batterers tended to receive less love and more punishment from mothers and less attention from their fathers. Walker (1979) suggested that the relationship between the batterer and his mother as an “ambivalent love-hate relationship” and indicated that the mother exercised a great deal of control over her son.
