20th-July-2008
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CDC report. Men Shouldn't Be Overlooked as Victims of Partner Violence | |
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/c.../42/15/31-a%20 Quote: Clinical & Research News
Men Shouldn't Be Overlooked as Victims of Partner Violence
Joan Arehart-Treichel In addressing intimate partner violence, the focus is usually on women who are physically battered by husbands or boyfriends. However, women sometimes hurt their partners as well.
Women are doing virtually everything these days that men are—working as doctors, lawyers, and rocket scientists; flying helicopters in combat; riding horses in the Kentucky Derby. And physically assaulting their spouses or partners.
In fact, when it comes to nonreciprocal violence between intimate partners, women are more often the perpetrators.
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