NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to drastically lower domestic violence.

It turns out that the safest place for women of all is in the marital home [PDF], living with their husbands. This goes for women with or without children, and the differences are dramatic. A single mother living alone with her children is almost thirteen times as likely to be a victim of domestic violence as a married mother. Married women without children at home are safest of all; their risk is about 3% that faced by single mothers and 10% that of single, childless women. . . .

It seems that the typical battered woman is not an oppressed, timid wife in a patriarchal household, but an “empowered single mother.” The typical batterer is not a controlling husband, but a badboy lover.

How often do we hear of this reality from feminist domestic violence advocates? Hardly ever. In fact, their primary goal seems to be to create as many single mothers as possible, which will necessarily drive up the rate of domestic violence by putting women in unsafe situations.