In a message dated 12/4/2006 7:29:17 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
icain1 at student.gsu.edu writes:

One  of
the interesting issues that came up when I was reading about literacy  was
the observation that some women might drop out of adult literacy  classes
because the power balance at home got upset and domestic abuse  escalated. 
So far I only have found people who think this makes sense, and  have heard
that this might be the case more often than we know, but no one  who can
say for sure. 


Mary Gleason:
 
Your hypothesis makes sense, but that does not make it right. Any change in  
the established order (balance of power) in a relationship can have  negative 
(or positive) consequences. 
 
One path that might help you find more data is to look for differences in  
the drop out rates of women (alone) versus women with a male partner who  
participated in adult literacy classes. This would still only be an  indicator, but 
if you had a large enough sample (perhaps by getting others to  share their 
data with you) you would have more to work  with.
 
Paul Tracey
_www.learningaboutdiabetes.org_ (http://www.learningaboutdiabetes.org)   
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