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From: todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Marriage in "Th' Good Ol' Days"
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 13:31:38 EDT
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> In article <3690@dartvax.UUCP> waltervj@dartvax.UUCP (walter jeffries) writes:
> >What about husband beaters, Tom.  People, don't forget that Spouse Abuse goes
> >both ways.
> 
> GIVE ME A BREAK!  How many couples do you know where the woman is significantly
> stronger than the man?  A few perhaps.  In most of the rest, the man is
> significantly stronger, and there is NO possibility of husband-beating.
> 
> Your kind of argument is very silly.  The MAIN social problem is wife-beating.

Two points:

	1. Abuse can take non-physical forms- emotional abuse, neglect, etc...

	2. Superior strength is non necessarily a deterent to abuse. Many
	   abused spouses (male and female) have the physical capability
	   to thwart an abusive partner but don't.

I think husband abuse may be more prevalent than we imagine.

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