THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, July 25, 1994 TAG: 9407210019
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A6 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 32 lines
Don Feder's July 13 column astonished me with its claims, including the following: Women assault their partners at the same rate as men (``although women are more likely to sustain severe injuries,'' ``women cause 54 percent of all severe family violence,'' ``the typical man who physically abuses his wife or girlfriend is a sociopath with a history of violence against men as well as women, drug or alcohol abuse and other criminal conduct.''
Most astonishing was the claim that of abusers ``three-quarters of the men were black, 15 percent Hispanic and 10 percent white'' and that ``someone in a white household with an annual income of less than $7,500 is five times as likely to be abused as a family member from a household with more than $50,000 in annual income.''
Even if they were true, the implication of all of these so-called ``facts'' is that since much of this violence is against poor African-American or Hispanic people, white Christian males don't need to worry about it.
Is this some new version of Christianity? Astonishing.
Why is your newspaper printing this nonsense?
JANET BING
Norfolk, July 15, 1994 by CNB