In history, domestic violence has never been a new social phenomenon, it has existed since the family system formed. Among all the domestic violence, marriage violence has been the most serious and unseen problem, even though we enacted the Family Violence Preventive Law in 1998. Six years later, we are still confused with a typical notion - it is a domestic affair, not a public concern. What is the real situation about marriage violence in Peng-hu? What¡¦s their experiences and types? And what¡¦s their generality, age, profession, education , economic situations, and the difference between the urban and the suburb area. In addition, what¡¦s their reacting strategies, needed assistance, and so on, which is the main subject of this research. By studying the theory, essence, process, influence and some cases which happened after the Preventive Law had enacted, we form the theory frame and sort out those 450 cases handled by Domestic Violence Prevention Center of Peng-hu County Government expecting to develop some preventive methods and suggestions for the future cases, which we firmly believe can help the abused women step out of the shadow of violence. In this study not only do we use literature analysis to manage some related literature and form research theory frame but use recalling analysis to study 450 individual cases by sifting, pre-testing, discussing and revoking process. Then, after testing the validity with the first receiver that handled the case, we again use the software, SPSS¡@window 10.0, to make further statistics analysis. Besides, by interviewing the staff who work in some related offices, hoping to gain some precious opinions from their practices. The result of this study and its suggestions are summarized as follows: We have found: 1.During the five years from 2000 to 2004, the number of the domestic violence cases increase gradually, which apparently shows that the implement of the Family Violence Preventive in Law 1999 didn¡¦t cause repressive effect. As to those cases that inform the authority for help, 65.6%, the highest percentage, inform the police, which shows most of the abused women will inform the police if they are assailed. The second highest percentage, 32.9% will go to hospital. Among those five townships and one city , Ma-gong city has the highest percentage, 73.8%, and Hu-hsi Township has 14.9%, which means that the area where Ma-gong Police Precinct is responsible for is the key point. 2.The ages of the women suffered domestic violence: the age 30-39 lists the highest percentage, and age 40-49 lists the second, 39% of all the cases, which shows that most marriage violence cases happen to the middle age and decrease as spouses get older. 3.The educations of the women suffered domestic violence: about 32.2% of the cases have senior high school background, and 30.9% with junior high school diploma, which shows most cases focus on those who have low-level education, which means those low-level educated are apt to become victims. Or the low-level educated are lack of information on Family Violence Preventive Law. 4.The nuptial status of the women suffered domestic violence: about 80.9% of the cases are married, which apparently shows that most assailant are their spouses, and most of the women choose to stay home after being attacked. 5.The professions of the women suffered domestic violence: the highest percentage, 48.7% of the cases, are housekeepers, and the second, 19.1%, work in the service industry, which quite match the society here in Peng-hu: the chance to be hired is rare, and that makes the women here to work out in other places. And those jobs offered by tourist industry are the main chances for women here. That is why most women here have to depend on their husbands economically, which shows the less capable of being independent economically the women are, the easier victims they will become. 6.The peculiarity of the assailants: this study shows that there are many similarities among the assailants. The most apparent difference between them is that about 44.9% are laborers and 67.1% with regular income, 20-30 thousand monthly, which shows that the daily economic pressure is not the cause of marriage violence. But those who have irregular income lists about 20%, which should not be ignored. 7.The history of the assailed women: about 56.2% of the women have three times of being assailed, but we count it lucky that 93.1% of the cases don¡¦t incur to their children to be assailed as well, and 74.2% happens unseen by their minor. 8.The types of the assailment: the highest percentage, 95.3%, is related to body-harm. On the other hand, if suffered mental maltreat, 50% of the cases are by way of economic-controlling and 45.3% threatened by words. 9.The cause of being assailed: most of the cases are due to ill-assorted characters and bad communication, as a result, which cause quarrels and assailments ensued. About 32% of the cases are caused by bad communication, and 23%, ill-assorted characters, both of which have reached over the half of the cases. In addition, the study shows 99% don¡¦t have any experience of being assailed when they were young. 10.The differences between this study and the sampling research on marriage violence in Taiwan made by the Taiwan University focus on: body injury, searching for help formally and assistance by law, and so on.

Research suggests that infants progress from discrimination to recognition of emotions in faces during the first half year of life. It is whether the perception of emotions from bodies develops in a similar manner. In the current study, when presented with happy and angry body videos and voices, 5-month-olds looked longer at the matching video when they were presented upright but not when they were inverted. In contrast, 3.5-month-olds failed to match even with upright videos. Thus, 5-month-olds but not 3.5-month-olds exhibited evidence of recognition of emotions from bodies by demonstrating intermodal matching. In a subsequent experiment, younger infants did discriminate between body emotion videos but failed to exhibit an inversion effect, suggesting that discrimination may be based on low-level stimulus features. These results document a developmental change from discrimination based on non-emotional information at 3.5 months to recognition of body emotions at 5 months. This pattern of development is similar to face emotion knowledge development and suggests that both the face and body emotion perception systems develop rapidly during the first half year of life.