::scrolling back up the thread:: If you want simple bullets this is the site you want.
This list is remarkably simialr to the one the YWCA gave me to give to my friend and to the American Bar Association list I posted mmm I forget if it was yesterday or the day before. These inventories are meant to confirm someone's suspicion that gee, if hubby breaks your arm and gives you a black eye, this might be abuse. http://www.whatsgoodaboutanger.com/abusive.asp And again, the fact that someone does *one* of these things *once* means very little. It's the repeated pattern that matters. Dana On 4/14/05, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dana wrote: > > In dysfunctional families, the husband sees himself as the absolute > > individual power within the family system. He strongly believes that > > Here's the question I'm NOT asking: > > "Given that we know Joe Blow smacks his wife around, what can say > about his life that may have caused him to do that?" > > Everything you've posted addresses that question. That's > psychoanalysis and to use my car insurance analogy it'd be like saying > this: > > "Gruss speeds a lot because he feels that it gives him a sense of > power. He needs that because at an early age he lost his father and > blah, blah, blah." > > The car insurance guys aren't going to ask a bunch of psychologists > who's a speeder, they're going to ask actuaries and actuaries are > going to get hard data: age, sex, marital status, etc. > > I'm not trying to annoy you - I respect your opinion, but I can't > believe in a probabilistic profile you refuse to define. Can't you > just skip all of the links and mumbo jumbo and post the simple > bullets? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:154152 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54