TY - JOUR AU1 - Levine, Montague B. AB - 17 2 Med. Sei. Law (1975) Vol. 15, No. 3 Interparental Violence and its Effect on the Children: a Study of 5 0 Families in General Practice MONTAGUE B. LEVINE, MRCP(I) , MRCGP , DMJ(Ciin) It should be recognized that there is always bruises and teeth knocked out. These injur­ an accepted amount of aggression in families. ies, it was alleged, were caused by punching, Society accepts this state of aggression within kicking and using household furniture as weapons. the family unit as part of everyday life and behaviour. No doubt it is essential to the Ver y often a woman wearing dark tinted development of the children and to the glasses in the middle of winter might indeed evolution of the family as a whole. When this be the only hint to a family involved in aggression exceeds the limits society has violence. With diplomatic and gentle ques­ accepted, violence begins, and assumes a new tioning there is unleashed a history of home dimension outside the realm of accepted violence extending back a number of years, family behaviour. This ingredient of un­ and this may be the first time an agency has restrained physical hostility sprinkled upon been TI - Interparental Violence and its Effect on the Children: A Study of 50 Families in General Practice JF - Medicine, Science and the Law DO - 10.1177/002580247501500305 DA - 1975-07-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/interparental-violence-and-its-effect-on-the-children-a-study-of-50-MOD4svq1ft SP - 172 EP - 176 VL - 15 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -