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...author of a book on family fighting called The Cycle of Violence. Extrapolating from her studies of domestic quarreling in Delaware's New Castle County, she estimates that each year at least 250,000 American husbands are severely thrashed by their wives. University of New Hampshire Sociologist Murray Straus projects an equally grim picture of this battle of the sexes. On the basis of his 1976 national survey of violence in 2,143 representative American families, he concludes that about 2 million husbands and about the same number of wives commit at least one serious attack a year...
...estimates infuriate some feminists, who feel that these figures distract from what they believe with considerable justice to be the far more serious problem of the battered wife. Indeed, it is women who are usually on the receiving end of the worst batterings in the home. Says Straus: "When there is a fight, the woman, on the average, comes out the loser...
...both Steinmetz and Straus point out that women are as prone as men to use violence on their mates. Whatever the result, most battered wives-and husbands-fight back. But about 600,000 husbands and 600,000 wives do not retaliate...
...likely to seem helpful. When the Virginia TV personality, now divorced, finally retaliated and knocked his wife unconscious with a single punch, he was ostracized as a wife beater, lost his TV show and was ordered by the court to stay away from his home for three months. Says Straus: "Some people figure it would be worse if they hit back. They need the good things the marriage has to offer and put up with the violence because they don't have much alternative." Others restrain themselves because they have been brought up never to strike a woman...
...profits of future Haldemans -and worthier authors-may indeed be crimped as a consequence of the Scranton caper. "This will blow the syndication market to hell," says Roger Straus Jr., president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Straus predicts that newspapers and magazines will now lower the amounts they are willing to pay for reprint rights. Even at the Post, William B. Dickinson Jr., head of the company's syndicate and book publishing arm, frets: "There's a question of whether there's a balance evolving in favor of public disclosure, as opposed to copyright and property right...