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...19th century composer John Howard Payne, it was Home Sweet Home. In today's America it is all too often an arena for shoving, pushing, punching, kicking, screaming, torture and death. Says Sociologist Murray A. Straus: "For any typical American citizen, rich or poor, the most dangerous place is home-from slaps to murder." Straus reckons that as many as 8 million Americans are assaulted each year by members of their own families...
...expert on this almost taboo subject, it was the cop on the beat, who often found himself intervening in family scraps, much to his chagrin: more policemen get killed or wounded while trying to settle such disputes than in any other line of duty. But lately social scientists like Straus, who heads the University of New Hampshire's Family Violence Research Program, have been taking a closer look at the subject. What they are finding is grim...
...Straus and two colleagues, Richard Gelles of the University of Rhode Island and Susanne Steinmetz of the University of Delaware, began what they believe is the first national survey of all types of family violence. They picked their subjects from every walk of life and all parts of the country; 2,143 family members were interviewed. Out of this study, which will be published in the fall as an eleven-chapter book titled Behind Closed Doors: A Survey of Family Violence in America (Doubleday), they offer a dismal statistical portrait of American family life. Highlights...
Companies are bringing out new products or repositioning existing ones specifically for these older consumers. Says Roy Johns Jr., a vice president at Levi Straus & Co.: "As the baby-boom kids continue up the age ladder, either we will go with them or somebody else will." Thus Levi's has already sold some 15 million pairs of new, wider jeans "cut to fit a man's build with a little more room in the seat and thigh," as the ads say. The jeans have spawned a whole rack of clothes for the aging male body, ravaged by roast...
...CAJUNS: FROM ACADIA TO LOUISIANA by William Faulkner Rushton Farrar, Straus & Giroux 342 pages...