wife battering

He's been yanked in a few times for wife battering."

One typical day recently, the judge ruled on nine cases of delinquency, child abuse or neglect and wife battering.

Responding to what state officials have called a crisis of wife battering, Governor Weld has taken several actions.

Child abuse, wife battering, family break-up, delinquency and alcoholism are no respecters of beautiful surroundings.

In this country alone, woman-crushing poverty, racism, employment discrimination, incest, rape, sexual harassment and wife battering have not disappeared.

The new series will tackle subjects ranging from the sexual abuse of children, surrogate pregnancy, organ donation, wife battering and a chilling nuclear power accident.

There is a high rate of wife battering and child abuse on the estate, and a concentration of problems such as drug addiction and alcoholism.

Is O. J. Simpson's history of wife battering an indication that he murdered his wife, as the prosecution suggests?

The Bill 's interesting, I think, because they do have quite a few isolated episodes, like that issue of wife battering, which can be quite progressive.

It suggests that the patriarchal model is at the root of rape, wife battering, teen-age pregnancy, sexual harassment of adults and abuse of children.

Healing from incest violation, from rape and from wife battering name female experiences of violence that remain unmentionable in patriarchal religion.

Alcohol is a factor in about half of all robberies, homicides and rapes, as it is in many cases of child abuse and wife battering.

OK, that's an isolated episode, but had a feminist film crew gone out to make a documentary about wife battering I don't think it could have been done more successfully.

There are traffic accidents, and drunk and disorderlies, and theft, and wife battering, and some vandalism, and recently, drugs have become a presence.

The most recent state legislation addressing the problem of wife battering was passed last month, requiring that police officers arrest anyone suspected of seriously beating his spouse or domestic partner.

The problem with prediction is that while a history of wife battering typifies men who kill their wives, the clues are elusive when it comes to identifying those who will do so.

Much the same was true of wife battering in England until Erin Pizzey and others exposed the phenomenon in the 1970s and legislation was introduced to combat it.

In cultures where machismo is prevalent and where men are considered the head of households in control of their family, wife battering may be not perceived as a serious behavior that needs to report.

Within doors, Headquarters was kept on the go much as on any other day, break-ins and wife battering, as usual, largely replacing other business which had fallen off on account of the holiday.

In focusing the country's attention on the problem of wife battering, the O. J. Simpson case may have provided an unexpected boost in state legislatures around the country for tougher measures against domestic violence.

Before the 1970s, one reason why wife battering was not perceived as a social problem was because it was argued that those who suffered it could leave and those who stayed could not be suffering.

Clifford and Starr ended their connection shortly afterwards, and Clifford later used background material to fuel the media story lines around Starr's later revelations during his divorce of wife battering, alcoholism, and drug taking.

There's been a very interesting episode of The Bill which is about wife battering and makes all kinds of progressive points that wife batterers are not, in fact, the sort of British lower-class people of the stereotype.

We hear next to nothing about this group, although it is greater in absolute numbers, because of its great inaccessibility, the less observable nature of its vices (such as wife battering, incest and alcoholism) and the media's pandering to their audience's presumed conviction that only blacks behave pathologically.