More recently the whole John Rosemund thing has been real big in Promise Keeper/fundamentalist households. There's a hierarchy, with the Dad at the top, the Mom reporting to Dad, and Mom in charge of the kids. As odious as that can be, if it's followed from a position of greater detachment and less rage, at least it's predictable for the kids, who can one day grow out of it.
The violent authoritarianism--really, it's not a conscious philosophy so much as a state of abusive chaos into which control freak alcoholics and batterers will naturally fall--is much worse for kids. That's the kind where the mere fact that one's child is a human being with a perspective, a subjectivity, separate from the crazy parent means that child has offended that parent. Either the nutzo parent goes around looking for a scapegoat (or the battered spouse tries to get the kids to "behave" before Parent 1 goes nuts), or the child by just being human and having these selfish things like basic needs, will trigger crazy-Parent to bark orders, "punish," verbally abuse, destroy personal property, isolate them from anyone who can help, that sort of thing.
I hope this article doesn't conflate the two.
Alcoholism can be separate from or intertwined with battering. Most batterers are men but moms can be abusive and authoritarian parents, either because they're narcissists, alcoholics, or otherwise abusive whether in relationship to a batterer or because of their own upbringing.
Females in an overall patriarchal society who are raised by abusers are pre-trained to not comprehend when their boundaries are being violated by male partners in adulthood. Men may have that too, but there's not an entire cultural edifice of predators and institutions (plus the burden of having children) that make it so easy for them to fall into the role of victim. But it certainly happens.
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