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Recently England has mandated that children from the age of 5 would be taught “how to prevent violent relationships“.
One could explain nearly any “odd” but prevalent human behavior through evolutionary psychology. You would think it would be strange to attack someone you were living with and providing benefits. But I found it hard to be surprised when I found a paper that explained domestic abuse as mate retention behavior.
In a 2002 study by Peters, Shackleford, and Buss, around 4000 cases of wife abuse in New York was analyzed. They found that abuse was positively correlated with fecundity. Fertile and younger women were 10 times more likely to suffer domestic violence compared to older women. Large decreases in risk were found after the females were 45 years of age when menopause is likely to occur.
http://www.toddkshackelford.com/downloads/Peters-VV-2002.pdf
If domestic abuse truly serves an evolutionary purpose, schooling might not be enough to curb tendencies.
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