tened of each other, without much basis in fact. In 1985 fifty-three percent of Americans believed that crime was increasing in the area in which they live, while the actual crime rate had gone down sixteen percent. Forty-five percent of Americans never read books, thirty-nine percent never go to the movies. But the television is on seven hours per day in the average American home (Harper's Index Book). All over the world the pace of change is increasing and societies feel as if they are spinning out of control, as every 8 years the total amount of information stored in the libraries and computers of the world doubles (Harper's Index Book). These are just few of the forces behind the increased pressure on relationships in the U.S. In the industrialized world, the United States has twice the unmarried teenage birthrate as the next two highest contenders, Great Britain and Canada, and seven times the rate of the lowest, The Netherlands. The U.S. also has a huge social movement to prevent teens, (and adults) both male and female, from acquiring accurate and realistic information about sexuality, workable contraception or access to medically supervised abortion. The increase in population worldwide is highest in the countries with the least healthcare, education and living conditions for both women and men. Many of those same countries also have the fewest rights for women, and the most brutal conditions for all their citizens, with women and children often suffering the most. In the opinion of many people, this increasing world population may lead to the collapse of world environment.THE HISTORY OF THE MODERN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE MOVEMENT IN THE U.S.The modern response to domestic violence came out of the Women's Liberation Movement which began in the 1960's. As the women who participated in the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-Vietnam war movement began to apply the same class analysis to their own status in society, all hell broke loose. ...
