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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: \"Why not send the men home?\"
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 22:32:16 EDT
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> 
>  Now that we have heard from the women on the issue of wife beatings etc. etc.
>  I was wondering if the reverse exists - maybe not in an identical fashion
>  but in a similar way ? Is there a study done or anything to support that
>  wives also abuse their husbands.
> 

	It is in fact true that there is a fair amount of husband-beating
going on out there somewhere. It's hard to say how prevelant this is, mostly
because the majority of male victims are too ashamed to say anything. One
should keep in mind that many spouse-abusers were abused as children, and
learn that violence is an acceptable means to deal with members of one's
family, and that this applies to both sexes. Women are probably abused more
because they are often physically weaker and because society teaches women
to submit. 
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jcpatilla

"'Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill !'"