[familyop]

Ping!

"The question ‘When did you stop beating your wife?’ is a well known rhetorical device to illustrate the impossible situation in which whatever answer someone gives traps them into an admission of guilt."

[familyop]

Well, she got most of it right. But domestic violence against women is not most often committed by intimates.

Terrie E. Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi cited from the 1992-96 National Crime Victimization Survey ("Findings About Partner Violence from the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study," U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, Research in Brief, July, 1999) "that in 1996 victimization by intimates--spouses, ex-spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends, and former boyfriends and girlfriends--accounts for about 21 percent of the violent crime experienced by women..." The report also supported data from 1980 which showed that wives hit their husbands at least as often as husbands hit their wives.