European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 04, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 the stars and stripes Friday August 4, 1978 insect i saw Vou 6l/ Marlin a a twitch Evev Moggie regular whacks Jiggs or crowns i. With o Vaso. Batted husbands by Patricia Mccormack United press International in the comic strip bringing up father Maggie regularly Bounce skillets off Jiggs head or crowns him with a Jiggs provokes such uncivilized antics on the part of his wife by playing poker til Dawn with his cronies or incoming Home full of Beer too late to go Tox the opera or some other Boring social eng. Agent that slipped his mind. Sometimes they get to the opera. Once there Maggie will in the ribs or give his ear a painful twist if he dares to snooze and snore. Jiggs is not to be confused with Dagwood Bumstead s treatment at the hands of his wife. Bumstead s wife Hen pecks wife batters him. Authorities expert about the Bat end husband claim females have been conditioned by such comic strips other societal pressures and frayed human nature to try Force when an else Falls in a Stormy domes tic � r when a wife has no other outlet for her. Frustration from whatever source appear t entry she finds it acceptable to whack her mate repeatedly. In America today says or. Suzanne of Steinmetz 250,000 husbands like Jiggs Are 15? a to Waves Many injured Sef Ray Ough to require emergency room 1 treatment. And her estimate does not in elude peccadilloes like Light shoving pus ing or slapping. Win �sttj3.5&their lifestyle. The suing and shoving and pushing is Mutual and that s not Batter , a teacher at the University of Delaware rates As husband battering Only severe attacks like knocking him tothe floor when he s drunk then kicking him almost husband batterer Steinmetz said in an interview would wait until he Walsall soapy in the Shower Back him into a Comer in the tub and strike repeatedly inthe Groin with a shoe or heavy ashtray or just kick him woman would wait until her Hus band was sleeping and tie him to the bed and then beat him. The battered husband does not get Smuch attention As that of the battered wife according to Steinmetz whose investigations of violence in the family receive financial support from the National Institute of mental health. For one thing there Are fewer battered hubbies 250,000 versus 3,500,001. Also some physically beaten husbands Don t complain to authorities they Retreat to a hotel or Mote until the wife cools off an outlet not As often available to a wife. The seriously beaten husband usually does not run away and he does not often seriously strike Back. If i started hitting her i d kill her battered husband told Steinmetz who is co investigator with or. Richard j. Gel Lesof the University of Rhode Island in the the study report due out next year will show serious violence in 3.5 percent of families according to Gelles. Both he an Steinmetz recently testified at congressional hearings on Domestic violence. Nei user takes a Light View of the battered Hus band. A Steinmez tells How one typical battered husband covered up thu Conwy Uteg to the tendency of an . The respondent had been terrorized by a knife wielding spouse and had gone to work with deep Fingernail gashes on his face. But he said i never took the fight outside. I did t want anyone to know. I told the Guys at work that the kids did i with a toy. This fear of stigma also affects the offi Cial statistics on husband wife in her newest Book the Cycle of violence Praeger publisher Stein Metz notes that data on homicide Sug Gest that an almost equal number of wives and husbands kill their spouses. In the year under study 1975,7.8 percent of homicides were committed by wives against their husbands 8 percent by Hus bands against their wives. Thus she said it appears that Menand women might have equal potential to Ward violent interaction in marriage initiate similar acts of violence and when differences of physical strength Are equalized by weapons commit similar amounts of spousal the wife slaps the husband her Lack of physical strength plus his ability to restrain her reduces the physical damage to a minimum. Data on homicide suggest that an almost equal number of wives and husbands kill their spouses. When the 1ever, his strength Strain him results Steinmetz cited banker married for i years his Junior b came but that he i Cal screaming and he had scare i by bore bruises and
