Responding to accusations of gender bias, Strauss re-computed the assault rates based solely on the responses of the women in the 1985 study and confirmed that even according to women, men are the ones more likely to be assaulted by their partner. There is no question that while men on average are bigger and stronger than women, they can do more damage in a fistfight. The Battered Women's Clemency Project, headed by District Judge F. Rae Swent, will present evidence of abuse to the State Pardon Board in hopes of reducing sentences for the women. The project will not challenge the women's convictions but rather will present the Pardon Board with evidence of abuse that was not available or not considered in the women's trials. Free legal representation will be provided jointly by Legal Services of Central Louisiana in Alexandria and it's sister organiztion, Acadiana Legal Services in Lafayette.
Mothers abuse children at a rate twice that of fathers.
The government is not allowed to take it upon itself to kill someone first and declare him or her an abuser later - only a woman can do that to a man. I am starting with the innocent woman defense because it underlies all twelve defenses. However, even when women admitted making false allegations that they were raped or that their husbands abused them, for example, their admission that they lied was often NOT believed. Therefore the belief in the innocent woman ran even deeper than the tendency to believe women. In 1970, when Dr. Edgar Berman said women's hormones during menstruation and menopause could have a detrimental influence on women's decision making, feminists were outraged.