one of the lesbians from the study said in a heterosexual relationship there is a subconscious belief that women are suppose to do housework.
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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domestic violence is considered to be too widespread to be the work of a few disturped people
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Domestic violence does not randomly occur and follows social patterns such as the violence is mainly from men against women.
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MIRRLEES-BLACK found that most victims are women, 99% of incidents against women are committed by men. 1 in 4 women have been assaulted by her partner in her life and 1 in 8 continuously assaulted.
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arguements say that marriage legitimates violence against women by giving men power and women have to be dependent.
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there is also often reluctance to report these cases put foreward nor to investigate or prosecute them, CHEAL says that this is because police and other state agencies are not prepared to invade family life and they have three assumptions about it.
