An Ignored Truth About Domestic Violence

By Quadrant, 08/19/24

“…That women can be as abusive as men is something that Erin Pizzey, a British ex-feminist and advocate against domestic violence who set up the first refuge for battered women, in 1971, knew from the very beginning. Pizzey was raised by a violent mother who often called her ‘lazy, useless, and ugly’. Her mother took some pleasure in also abusing her father by often calling him ‘an oaf and an idiot’. …”

Read the entire article: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2024/08/241083/