The Super Bowl Sunday Battering Myth

ronn submitted this link and sent us the following quotations, which are appropriate to keep in mind this weekend: "We know that on Super bowl Sunday, for the last 10 years, that I've been keeping data, that there's an increase in the number of women who are seriously hurt, who call battered women shelter's and who use the police." -Lenore Walker, Denver psychologist and author of The Battered Woman, Good Morning America, (1/23/93). "You think maybe we have one of these myth things here?…You know, I hate this. I've devoted 14 years of my life trying to bring to the public's attention the very serious problem of battered women. And when people make crazy statements like this, the credibility of the whole cause can go right out the window." -Michael Lindsey, Denver psychotherapist and authority on Battered Women, The Washington Post (1/31/93)."

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