ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies families’ violence which is most likely to occur in America families. Research on violence in the United States indicates that some regions are more violent than others. New England reports fewer homicides and violent crimes than any of the other places in the United States. City hospitals, such as Children’s Hospital in Boston or Children’s’ Hospital in Los Angeles, see more cases of abused children than do country hospitals. Official statistics on child abuse show that blacks and other racial minorities are overrepresented as child abusers. Differences in income and occupation, rather than religion, could be causing the rates of violence to vary. One of the more common views about family violence is that it is typically confined to families who have minimum education. The chapter suggests that it would certainly not be unreasonable to expect that the rates, and deadly toll, of family violence would fluctuate with national and local rates of unemployment.
