ABSTRACT
In Los Angeles, arrests of women in domestic battles have almost quadrupled in eight years. In Wisconsin, the number of abusive men referred by the courts for counseling has doubled since 1989, while the number of abusive women referred for counseling increased twelvefold. Under the heading of trickery came the tales of a man who smashed himself over the head with a brick and blamed his wife, a man who bloodied himself by scratching his own ear, and a man, born with an odd bump on his head, who repeatedly showed the bump to police and got his wife arrested three times. Follow the work of the National Family Violence Survey. The second National Family Violence survey in 1985 clearly showed equality in turning to violence: in both low-level assaults and severe assaults, only the wife was violent in a quarter of cases, so was the husband, and in half of the cases both were violent.
