title: Men's talk: men's understandings of violence against women and motivations for change.
abstract: This article reports research undertaken to inform a social marketing campaign targeting men's violence toward women in a city in northern England. Eighty-four men drawn from community groups participated in 15 focus groups. Participants struggled with wider definitions of domestic abuse and resisted depictions of men as wholly responsible for domestic violence. The potential loss of the relationship with children and, to a lesser degree, the relationship with their partner were identified as powerful incentives for changing abusive behavior. Men were particularly affected by the prospect of damage to their own self-image that children's perceptions of their fathers' violence conveyed.
authors: University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK. NStanley@uclan.ac.uk
authors: Nicky
authors: N
authors: Stanley
authors: Benedict
authors: B
authors: Fell
authors: Pam
authors: P
authors: Miller
authors: Gill
authors: G
authors: Thomson
authors: John
authors: J
authors: Watson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D032882:Comprehension; D057237:Criminals; D004739:England; D005220:Fathers; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008571:Men; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D010465:Perception; D011902:Rape / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012649:Self Concept; D040241:Social Marketing; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control*; D055815:Young Adult