Husband Battering, A Serious Issue

Title: Husband Battering, A Serious Issue
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Husband Battering, A Serious Issue

Husband Battering: A Serious Problem Billboards, radio, and TVads across the country proclaim that “every fifteen seconds a women is beatenby a man.” Violence against women is clearly a problem of national importance,but has anyone ever asked how often men are beaten by women? The unfortunatefact is that men are the victims of domestic violence at least as often aswomen are. While the very idea of men being beaten by their wives runs contraryto …showed first 75 words of 1945 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1945 total…problem. Domestic violence is aneither a male or a female issue – it’s simply a human issue. References Farrell, W. (1986). Why men are the way they are.New York: McGraw-Hill. Gelles, R. (1974). The violent home: a study ofphysical aggression between husbands and wives. Beverly Hills: Sage. Langley, R., Levy, R. (1977). Wife beating: thesilent crisis. New York: Pocket Books. Mercy, J., Saltzman, L. (1989, May) “Fatal violenceamong spouses in the United States, 1976-85” American Journal of Public Health,79, 595-599.

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