Which family scenario presents the greatest risk for family violence?

Question

a. An unemployed husband with low self-esteem, a wife who loses her job, and a developmentally delayed 3-year-old child
b. A husband who finds employment 2 weeks after losing his previous job, a wife with stable employment, and a child doing well in school
c. A single mother with an executive position, a talented child, and a widowed grandmother living in the home to provide child care
d. A single homosexual male parent, an adolescent son who has just begun dating girls, and the father's unmarried sister who has come to visit for 2 weeks

Answer 1

ANS: A
The family with an unemployed husband with low self-esteem, a newly unemployed wife, and a developmentally challenged young child has the greatest number of stressors. The other families described have fewer negative events occurring.