So now you are saying its the victims fault because they fail to respected, honor, and love the man? That is silly, but ether way you undercut your original premise which "The breakdown of family values came with the redefining of roles and responsibilities, primarily for economic reasons." Since that breakdown didn't occur in the 'caves' as you put it, your theory of cause and effect doesn't hold up. All that has changed is we know about domestic abuse when it occurs a lot more than we did in the past. The prevalence of it is the same as it was 50 years ago, or if anything has gone down as men have become more enlightened.