Philip W. Cook

Philip W. Cook maintains in the following viewpoint that although statistics on domestic violence focus on men’s violence against women, women are just as likely to initiate or engage in violence against men. Furthermore, he adds, women are more likely to use knives, guns, or other weapons against men, thereby causing injuries that are frequently more severe in abused men than in battered women. Compounding matters, Cook asserts, is the fact that there is little help available to either battered men or their female abusers. Cook is a journalist and lecturer and the author of Abused Men: The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence.

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1. According to a survey cited by Cook, how many men are victims of domestic violence compared to the number of...