Sentences with phrase «preference for violence»

The argument fails immediately on this point and this is a major reason for such an early preference for violence.

Richard Slotkin's Regeneration Through Violence (Wesleyan University Press, 1973) is only the most noteworthy contribution to a small library of studies depicting a moral preference for violence in the American past.

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Masculine stupidity» on that subject is a deep mystery to me, as is masculine violence and preference for irrational ways of dealing with disagreements.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

Excellent (3.5 stars) Rated R for pervasive profanity, ethnic and sexual preference slurs, drug use and violence.

The formal system can in theory hold perpetrators of violence to account, yet in practice sexual violence cases are rare due the preference of women for more accessible and culturally relevant customary law.

The Fussy Librarian has an interesting spin on the business of providing readers with book recommendations — readers can sign up to receive email notifications of ebooks based not only on genres of interest to them (à la BookBub), but also based on content preferences for language, violence, and sexual content, rated as None, Mild, or Extensive / Extreme.

He was the co-founder of Greenpeace, but had evidently been kicked out because of his preference for using violence to achieve his goals.

(1) the temperament and developmental needs of the child; (2) the capacity and the disposition of the parents to understand and meet the needs of the child; (3) the preferences of each child; (4) the wishes of the parents as to custody; (5) the past and current interaction and relationship of the child with each parent, the child's siblings, and any other person, including a grandparent, who may significantly affect the best interest of the child; (6) the actions of each parent to encourage the continuing parent child relationship between the child and the other parent, as is appropriate, including compliance with court orders; (7) the manipulation by or coercive behavior of the parents in an effort to involve the child in the parents» dispute; (8) any effort by one parent to disparage the other parent in front of the child; (9) the ability of each parent to be actively involved in the life of the child; (10) the child's adjustment to his or her home, school, and community environments; (11) the stability of the child's existing and proposed residences; (12) the mental and physical health of all individuals involved, except that a disability of a proposed custodial parent or other party, in and of itself, must not be determinative of custody unless the proposed custodial arrangement is not in the best interest of the child; (13) the child's cultural and spiritual background; (14) whether the child or a sibling of the child has been abused or neglected; (15) whether one parent has perpetrated domestic violence or child abuse or the effect on the child of the actions of an abuser if any domestic violence has occurred between the parents or between a parent and another individual or between the parent and the child; (16) whether one parent has relocated more than one hundred miles from the child's primary residence in the past year, unless the parent relocated for safety reasons; and (17) other factors as the court considers necessary.

Factors Considered • Relationships between the children and each parent • Financial ability of each parent to provide for the child or children • Each parents home environment and whether it is safe and suitable for children • How well the child adjusts to the home, school or community environment where they will live • Both physical and mental health of both parents and child • Medical needs of the children • A history of violence by either parent • Criminal history of either parent • Abuse or neglect of the child • Parent's wishes • Children's preferences, if the child is over age 12 • Recommendations from expert witnesses

Individual risk factors for perpetration include alcohol and drug use, delinquency, empathic deficits, general aggressiveness and acceptance of violence, early sexual initiation, coercive sexual fantasies, preference for impersonal sex and sexual - risk taking, exposure to sexually explicit media, hostility towards women, adherence to traditional gender role norms, hyper - masculinity, suicidal behavior, and prior sexual victimization or perpetration.

Programs targeting males and the incarcerated population about domestic violence and child sexual abuse (for example the Good Touch Bad Touch program) should have elderly Indigenous women involved in the delivery; this was a preference that came out very strongly in the Forum.

A focus group was conducted to identify stakeholders» preferences and specifications for standardized, computerized reports of workplace violence data to be generated by the central database.

However, no published research to date has examined stakeholders» preferences for workplace violence data reports in healthcare settings.

The court decides custody based on the best interests of a child, which means consideration of the relationship between the child and each parent, the ability of each parent to care for the child, the child's preference, mental and physical health of all parties, and any history of domestic violence.

(1) the temperament and developmental needs of the child; (2) the capacity and the disposition of the parents to understand and meet the needs of the child; (3) the preferences of each child; (4) the wishes of the parents as to custody; (5) the past and current interaction and relationship of the child with each parent, the child's siblings, and any other person, including a grandparent, who may significantly affect the best interest of the child; (6) the actions of each parent to encourage the continuing parent child relationship between the child and the other parent, as is appropriate, including compliance with court orders; (7) the manipulation by or coercive behavior of the parents in an effort to involve the child in the parents» dispute; (8) any effort by one parent to disparage the other parent in front of the child; (9) the ability of each parent to be actively involved in the life of the child; (10) the child's adjustment to his or her home, school, and community environments; (11) the stability of the child's existing and proposed residences; (12) the mental and physical health of all individuals involved, except that a disability of a proposed custodial parent or other party, in and of itself, must not be determinative of custody unless the proposed custodial arrangement is not in the best interest of the child; (13) the child's cultural and spiritual background; (14) whether the child or a sibling of the child has been abused or neglected; (15) whether one parent has perpetrated domestic violence or child abuse or the effect on the child of the actions of an abuser if any domestic violence has occurred between the parents or between a parent and another individual or between the parent and the child; (16) whether one parent has relocated more than one hundred miles from the child's primary residence in the past year, unless the parent relocated for safety reasons; and (17) other factors as the court considers necessary

1996)-RRB-; Barry, supra note 45 (specifying a preference for granting sole custody to the parent who is not abusive and requiring that safety concerns be specifically considered in granting visitation where there is evidence of domestic violence).

The study hypothesized that: 1) children's exposure to violence would be associated positively with self - reported violent behaviors; 2) parental monitoring would be associated negatively with children's violent behaviors; and 3) the number of daily television - viewing hours and a preference for watching violent television shows would be associated positively with children's violent behaviors.