Comparing Burgess and Drapers Theory of Family Violence and the Film,

Comparing Burgess and Drapers Theory of Family Violence and the Film, The Burning spang I. Introduction Burgess and Draper argue coercive patterns of family interaction represent the jumper cable causal pathway that connects ecological instability to military group within families. They concur this raises the possibility that some of the common correlates of such personnel are themselves reactions to sudden or chronic ecological instability. For example, alcoholism, depression, and anxiety may be responses to ecological stresses in the family, such as loss of employment, excessive financial debt, or divorce. Burgess and Draper suggest that violence towards ones mate or children may then be a direct result of ecological instability. They argue that indisputable individual traits (e.g. problem drinking), which have previously been assumed to precipitate slam-bang behavior, may actually be the result of the same factors that lead to family violence itself. The movie, The Bur ning Bed, is a made for TV movie centered on the issue of family violence. The main characters were Francine and Mickey Hughes, a battered wife and shameful husband. In the story, Francine struggled with Mickeys violence and intimidation for the better part of twenty days and finally ended up killing him in his sleep. It is a realistic and realistic movie about domestic violence and the way high society viewed such violence in the not so distant past. By comparing the movie to Burgess and Drapers hypothesis, some agreements and some disagreements become apparent. Do Burgess and Draper adequately explain and predict the Hughess pattern of domestic violence? II. Ecological Instability Ecological instability describes when a... ... beaten and afterwards when she was blemish and bruised, I feel that Mickey Hughes deserved what he got only he should have suffered more. The compassion I feel towards any woman who is victimized by a man probably makes me biased in that way. later on reading Burgess and Drapers article, I feel even more justify in my position. They make the reader look for the cause of the abuse someplace other than with the woman or the mans drinking. The way Burgess and Drapers article mirrors the inglorious relationship in the Hughes family helps to put the violence in the right placement where an adult can still be held responsible for his own actions. whole kit and boodle Cited Burning Bed, The (1984) (TV). Directed by Robert Greenwald. Writing credits Rose Lieman Goldemberg. Ohlin, Lloyd and Michael Tonry, eds. Family Violence. University of lucre Press, 1989.