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The other major thrust of research considers the causes and preconditions of domestic violence. Most such studies utilize social learning theory to discover or explain the causes of battery. In one such study, some of the more disturbing implications of spousal abuse were found by Walker (1979), who discovered that 53% of batterers examined in the study had also sexually or physically abused their children as well. Other studies have shown that this is part of a vicious circle, as most batterers and abusers were themselves abused as children (e.g. , Rosenbaum & O'Leary, 1987), representing a sort of ongoing, dysfunctional procreation of a battering class.
In addition to this social learning theory of learned domestic abuse, several other theories have been proposed. Some studies (e.g., Davidson, 1977; Dobash & Dobash, 1979; Spitzer, 1985) have focused on feminist cultural theories, wherein what is claimed to be a Western tradition of violence and subjugation of women actively
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