ABSTRACT
The United States would seem to have more laws, regulations, and organizations for preventing and intervening in family violence than all the other countries addressed in this book. However, this does not mean that the problem of family violence has been solved in the United States. Substantial numbers of children, wives, husbands, and people over the age of 65 are abused by family members every year. Corporal punishment, which has been rejected as a childrearing technique in many European countries is still widely defended in the United States. Women tend to be fully employed and have long had equal rights under the law, but they are beaten and murdered at an alarming rate every year. Moreover, men are also subject to abuse by intimate partners, and sibling violence is generally condoned.
