Waneta Dawn

TL,
The info about clergy being the #1 perpetrators of domestic violence can be found on a you-tube clip on Hannah’s “Emotional Abuse and Your Faith” blog, March 17, 2009, the second Caryn Burton clip, which is 8.33 min.
http://eaandfaith.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html
Note that clergy and faith leaders includes all faiths. However, (my addition) Christianity is still the majority faith here in the USA.

The speaker, Caryn Burton, is the training director for the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Inc

Interestingly, if you listen to the first clip, you will hear that when women do abuse men, they often do more damage, because they have to compensate for the size/strength difference.

My comment: In spite of this, for the most part it is still women who end up in emergency rooms or dead. If I recall correctly, according to statistics, women are doing 15% of the abuse, while men are doing 85%. I bring this up for those who want to beat the “women are abusers, too” drum. Most of the time, the women who do abuse are doing so to protect themselves against an abusive husband/partner.