Word: spousal
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...Simpson case: "I'm working on points of appeal, legal strategy and constitutional issues. I'm working on whether evidence of alleged spousal abuse should be allowed to be introduced in court. I also have a television in my office now--and I can watch two channels at once...
...resolve every domestic grievance, or is it just the quickest way to get on TV? With the Bobbitts, the Jacksons, the Menendez clan and that favorite new horror sitcom, The (O.J.) Simpsons, the American family has entered its postnuclear stage. Talk shows offer quack catharsis from every form of spousal and parental abuse. We're shouting at each other in National Enquirer headlines and have promoted tabloid newspapers and TV programs, once on the fringe of journalism, up to its hot center. It's Armageddon with commercial breaks. Why, the whole bloody mess could be straight out of an Oliver...
...race controversy is vying with the issue of spousal abuse for attention. As in the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill showdown over sexual harassment, many black women feel caught between the pressure to stand loyally by a black man perceived to be under attack by the white establishment and the need to assert their rights as women. Last week, after black male leaders urged Garcetti not to pursue the death penalty against Simpson, Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred wrote to the district attorney on behalf of the Women's Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund: "Since you have chosen...
Your story failed to acknowledge that men also suffer abuse. However, a recent editorial in the Dallas Morning News cited the following statistics: Women commit half the spousal murders in the U.S. A survey funded by the National Institute of Mental Health found that men and women abuse each other at about the same rate, with women more inclined to use weapons to compensate for their smaller size. And several studies indicate that domestic violence against males occurs at a rate nearly identical to that of violence against women, yet women are nine times as likely to report the abuse...
...homosexuals during the post-Stonewall years. Gays are not allowed to marry. They may have trouble adopting, and risk losing custody of their biological children. In 23 states their private lovemaking remains technically illegal. While a growing number of companies offer some form of benefits for same-sex "spousal equivalents," all but eight states allow employers to fire people just for being gay. Sexually active gays remain unwelcome in many mainstream Christian churches. Denominations that are more accommodating face fractious internal dissent -- as happened last week, when an Episcopal congregation in Arlington, Texas, voted to switch to Roman Catholicism...