Roger, a father of 6 children, expressed shock to his fellow jurors that the psychiatrist declared the defendant, who had repeatedly plunged her three-year-old's hand in scalding water, mentally competent
Roger is operating under the common belief that
(a) family violence is rare.
(b) psychiatrists do not understand family violence.
(c) only mentally ill or "sick" people abuse family members.
(d) only fathers abuse their children.
(c)
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