Newsgroups: soc.men,soc.women
Subject: Re: Violent Di Batters Charles
From: rivero@mdcbbs.com
Date: 5 Oct 92 10:12:37 GMT
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In article <1992Oct2.132202.142@news.nd.edu>, slarsen@berlin.helios.nd.edu (susan larsen) writes:
> In article <1992Oct2.004930.16563@netcom.com> sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer) writes:
> 
>>From the National Enquirer, Sept. 26 (approx), 1992:
>>
>>"VIOLENT DI  BATTERS CHARLES"
>>
>> [ ... ]
>>        Lady Colin Campbell, author of the blockbuster book "Diana in
>>    Private," recently revealed that Di even tried to kill Charles by
>>    pushing him down a flight of stairs.
> 
> The National Enquirer?  Lady Colin Campbell?  Come on, Robert, you've got 
> to be joking.......
> 
> Sue Larsen
> slarsen@berlin.helios.nd.edu 

  Why is he joking? Over the particular sources he uses, or over
the idea that a woman can be abusive to her husband. If the former, one has
to look at the preponderance of stories from sources other than the Enquirer
(and in the wake of several recent lawsuits, the Enquirer doesn't print
stories about celebrities unless they can prove them in court) to see
that something is Bonkers in Buckingham.

  If he is joking bcause women aren't supposed to abuse their husbands,
I would like to refer you to the following studies which show women are every
bit as likely to initiate spousal violence as are men.

        Daly, M. & Wilson, M. "Parent-Offspring Homicides in Canada,
    1974-1983" Science v. 242, pp. 519-524, 1988

        Farrell, Warren Why Men Are the Way They Are McGraw-Hill, New York,
    1986, p. 231

        Garcia, Jane "The Cost of Escaping Domestic Violence" Los Angeles
    Times May 6, 1991

        Gelles, R.J. The violent home:  A study of physical aggression
    between husbands and wives Sage, Beverly Hills CA, 1974

        Marriage and Divorce Today "First Large-Scale Study Reveals Elder
    Abuse is Primarily by Wives Against Husbands" December 15, 1986

        Mercy, J.A. & Saltzman, L.E. "Fatal violence among spouses in the
    United States, 1976-85" American Journal of Public Health 79(5):
    595-9 May 1989

        Nagi, Saad Child Maltreatment in the United States Columbia
    University Press, New York, p. 47, 1977

        Nisonoff, L. & Bitman, I "Spouse Abuse:  Incidence and Relationship
    to Selected Demographic Variables" Victimology 4, 1979, pp. 131-140

        Saenger, G. "Male and female relation in the American comic strips"
    in The funnies:  An American idiom M. White & R.H. Abel editors, The
    Free Press, Glencoe IL, 1963, p. 219-223

        Steinmetz, Suzanne K. "The Battered Husband Syndrome" Victimology
    2, 1977-1978, p. 499

        Steinmetz, Suzanne K. and Lucca, Joseph S. "Husband Battering" in
    Handbook of Family Violence Van Hasselt, Vincent B. et al. editors,
    Plenum Press, New York 1988, p. 233-246






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