Wife Beating - The Truth

Marital Bliss?

There is a public service radio advertisement being aired in my area that claims one-in-four women have been "violently" assaulted by their husbands [1].

Whether or not this claim is true, which seems improbable, what is true is that a veritable industry has sprung up in the United States surrounding domestic abuse, with most participants signing the same song - "We care the most about women, we are here to help; we are here to shelter you from your big, bad husband.". The bottom line of this spiel is the allegation that all men are suspect; only a few are worthy to be steady companions to women. Lesbians have a significant voice in the anti-domestic abuse industry.

Any thinking person ought sit up and take notice that after so much attention has been showered on domestic abuse over the decades, the problem is alleged to remain so severe. Why should that be?

I think I have the answer - at the end of the day all these persons and organizations clamouring to provide succor for the abused woman are no substitute for an intimate relationship with a flesh and blood male, even an abusive one. The Bible makes it clear that more injurious than blows are words. This is supported by an abundance of testimony of victims of the Soviet secret police - the victims stated that severe beatings were among the least feared methods employed by the KGB.

Which is better, to be physically struck by someone who remains involved in your life, or to be patronized by a domestic abuse worker who is not there to greet you when you come home for work every night, and who isn't there to curl up on the couch with you for a movie and a bag of popcorn at 10:00 p.m. on a Saturday night?
In our present age, when a man strikes his wife, it's case over - the man is in the wrong, the woman in the right. How many domestic abuse workers force a woman to come to terms with what she, the victim, might have done to provoke the assault? We can all agree that murder is unacceptable, but is every murder victim innocent of provoking the assault that caused his demise?

Disagreements, sometimes serious disagreements, are part of, not foreign to, intimate relationships. Men are prone to lash out physically when upset; women are prone to lash out with cutting words. In all my years  I can only remember a handful of the serious physical blows I received through organized sports, accidents, etc. I remember far more of the hurtful remarks that were directed at me, and many of them still smart.

Rather than run to a domestic abuse counselor, women would be far better advised to pick up a Bible and find out what it has to say about living harmoniously within holy matrimony. It takes two to tango.



[1] "Quarter of U.S. women suffer violent attacks by their partners - and one in FIVE is raped, shocking new figures reveal"; read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2074239/Domestic-violence-Study-reveals-1-4-women-violently-attacked-significant-others.html#ixzz1gp5ffKA7