The Combination of Domestic Abuse and Alcohol

统计数据似乎表明酒精和酒精之间有联系drug abuse与家庭暴力有关，但也有研究者质疑因果关系。

对家庭暴力的研究经常记录了高比率的酒精和其他药物（AOD）的参与，而AOD的使用已知会损害判断力、减少抑制和增加攻击性。酗酒和虐待儿童，包括乱伦，似乎也有联系。

High Rate of Alcohol Use

On the surface, it seems hard to argue with the numbers reported indomestic violence research studies.

在一项关于亲密伴侣暴力的全球研究中，在世界范围内，一方或双方都有酗酒问题的关系中，与双方都没有酗酒问题的关系相比，这种可能性更高。

No Cause-and-Effect Relationship?

但是那些研究家庭虐待动态的人说，没有真正的研究表明酒精中毒和药物滥用会导致家庭暴力domestic violence. Although research indicates that among men who drink heavily, there is a higher rate of assaults resulting in injury, the majority of men classified as high-level drinkers do not abuse their partners. Also, many of the physically abusive incidents occur in the absence of alcohol use.

社会问题的重叠

根据Women's Rural Advocacy Program, no evidence supports a cause-and-effect relationship between the two problems. The relatively high incidence of alcohol abuse among men who batter must be viewed as the overlap of two separate social problems, it claims.

According to The Safety Zone, there is no evidence to suggest酒精的使用or dependence is linked to the other forms of coercive behaviors that are part of the pattern of domestic violence. "Economic control, sexual violence, and intimidation, for example, are often part of a batterer's ongoing pattern of abuse, with little or no identifiable connection to his use of ordependence on alcohol."

殴打是后天习得的行为

Battering is a socially learned behavior, and is not the result of substance abuse or精神病, advocacy groups claim. "Men who batter frequently use alcohol abuse as an excuse for their violence. They attempt to rid themselves of responsibility for the problem by blaming it on the effects of alcohol," they say.

Many men drink and do not abuse anyone as a result. On the other hand, many men abuse women when they are sober. It can be easier for some men and for some women to believe that the violence would not have happened if a drink had not been taken.

拒绝和最小化

It's part of the denial process. Alcoholism and battering do share some similar characteristics. Both may be passed from generation to generation, both involve denial or minimization of the problem, both involve isolation of the family.

So,why do batterers do it? How can you tell if you are at risk? If you are in an abusive relationship, what can you do?