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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Battered Men? Battered Facts Husbands are battered as much as wives in the U.S.? John Leo, syndicated U.S. News & World Report columnist, is sure of it. "There's no doubt about this," Leo said as a guest on CNN's Crossfire (7/2/94). "It was established in 1980 by a female researcher." When co-host Michael Kinsley asked him if it seemed plausible that women were as violent as men, Leo dismissed the question. "We don't have to cogitate this," he said. "The evidence is in. All these studies have established this." Leo is not alone in insisting on parity between battered men and battered women. Domestic violence "is not either the man's fault or the woman's," Judith Sherven and James Sniechowski wrote in an L.A. Times op-ed (6/21/94). "Both the male and the female are bound in their dance of mutual destructiveness." "Why do we protest domestic violence against women and not even know about violence against men?" men's advocate Warren Farrell wrote in a USA Today column (6/29/94), arguing that women's violence is as bad as men's-- if not worse. Alan Dershowitz, part of O.J. Simpson's defense team, used his syndicated column (L.A. Times, 7/21/94) to argue that spousal murder is "primarily a psychological issue of pervasive familial violence on all sides, generated by the passions of family interaction." All these claims and suggestions about "battered men" being as pervasive and serious a problem as battered women are based on studies that are either discredited or taken out of context. To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1247 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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