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1. What are the four beliefs associated with the idealized image of the family? Give an example of how these can work to cover up or justify violence.

2. Why is it difficult to draw cause-effect relationships between family structure and abuse? What are other factors correlated with these family structures? What are some characteristics that research has discovered about abusive parents?

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1. What are the four beliefs associated with the idealized image of the family? Give an example of how these can work to cover up or justify violence.

The beliefs entail an idealized image as families consist of a monolithic unit in which the U.S. family has a mother, father, and children that is predicated upon the so-called traditional family unit that is touted as the American idealized image of a family. This idealized unit views another belief that posits that the family serves as a haven with guaranteed love, protection, and traditional roles played by the mother and father within the family unit. The third belief associated with ...

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