While there is no single answer to the question of what causes violence against women, experts throughout the world agree that family violence is primarily a learned behavior. Children who grow up witnessing abuse, even if they are not the direct targets of the abuse, will internalize abusive behavior. They will learn that violence solves problems, and that men must be controlling, possessive, and abusive. Research over the past twenty years has shown that the most consistent risk factor for men being abusive to their own female partners is growing up in a home where they witnessed their father (or father-figure) abusing their mother (or mother-figure). When female children witness violence by their fathers against their mothers, they come to believe that it is normal for a woman to suffer abuse in a marriage. As Alan Rosenbaum, professor of psychology at Northern...