The core philosophy about what should be included in batterers' treatment interventions has remained largely the same over the past twenty-five years. These programs tend to incorporate a profeminist historical and social structural critique about male abusive attitudes and behaviors towards women. That is, the abuse of women is an extension of male sexism: the use of power to subordinate, dominate, control, and victimize women. A goal of batterers ' treatment and educational programs, to use the US terminology, is to reeducate and restructure abusive men's attitudes and behaviors towards their female partner; and to get them to respond to their female partner in a non-sexist, non-abusive, and non-violent manner.