Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i wonder to what extent the prevalence of domestic violence differs between different sorts of family structure - whether there's less among extended families or kinship networks who live nearby each other, or more among nuclear families who have few or no nearby relatives (which is what i'd suspect on my gut instinct): and whether there is more in places where families haven't lived long (eg the new towns in their early decades) in comparison to families with long established links to an area.I think there were other factors at play, not least a lot of people had been brought up with violent Dads, and violence towards kids was also becoming less normalised and publicly acceptable. But I don't think it's rose tinted to suggest that working class women played a significant role in changing attitudes towards domestic violence in working class communities throughout the last century even if the problem remains endemic and horrifying.
i don't know: and i don't expect an answer, just throwing it out there as a couple of possible factors which may affect dv