Domestic Violence

Intimate relationship conflict in California Legislature was first defined as a crime in 1945. According to the 1945 definition, domestic violence is: "any husband who willfully inflicts upon his wife corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition. . . is guilty of a felony . . ." (Bugarin, 2002, p. 3). During this time period, domestic violence was viewed as a social problem, which only affected a small population of women. By 1970, cruelty against women was seen as a much broader social problem. In response, the definition for domestic violence was expanded to:

The infliction or threat of physical harm against past or present adult or adolescent female intimate partners, and shall include physical, sexual and psychological abuse against the woman, and is a part of a pattern of assaultive coercive, and controlling behaviors, directed at achieving compliance from or control over, that woman (California Health and Safety Code, as cited by Bugarin, 2002).

Intimate partner conflict continues to be the cause of much harm to women today. Specifically, Bugarin (2002) reported that intimate partner conflict causes "three times as many emergency room visits as car crashes and m

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ch to improving the health of Latina immigrants may be for a community to create it's own institutions to produce behavior change, for instance, Latino-centric health education programs. In society from the beginning of times men traditional role has been provider to their families (Taylor, Tucker & Mitchel-Kernan, 1999). Latino culture stresses this responsibility, with Latino men feeling the need to fulfill the role of provider more so than either African American or White men. However, Mexican American men (and for that matter, most Latino men) find that they are classless within their families. Many have financial problems, and feel the pain of not been able to provide for their families. Many studies of Latino society report that, because of the higher cost of living, women often had to work outside the home when they migrated to the United States. This forced their role as wife to change, as it added the responsibility of co-provider to the already existing traditional responsibilities of mother and/or wife. However, according to Taylor et al. (1999), recent immigrating men tend to established communities with kin-based units that maintain traditional role divisions and they are therefore never required to perform fema
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