They're taught to bare their throats to the knife. They're taught to place his needs above their own. Most women's magazines reinforce this belief system, and it's a difficult one to overcome. Despite their vehement denials, this culture encourages men to believe and insist that women should cater to them. If the women don't tow the line, they should be punished.
Domestic violence is rampant in America.
So is child abuse. Even though murders across the board are dropping, murder of women by intimates is on the increase. Those two boys in Jonesboro didn't grow up in a vacuum. At 11 and 13, they've long ago incorporated the abhorrent belief system that aviolence against women is allowable into their lives. I am purposefully not naming the two boys who committed this atrocity.