Christine Wicker

While no one refutes that some women do batter and abuse men, the extent and seriousness of the abuse is not as severe as some men’s advocates claim, according to Christine Wicker in the following viewpoint. Men are physically stronger than women and are therefore able to inflict more damaging injuries than women can, she reports. Wicker adds that some women deliberately provoke men into assaulting them, while others attack men out of self-defense or in retaliation for earlier abuse. Men are much more likely to dominate women through violence than women are, she concludes. Wicker is a staff writer for the Dallas Morning News.

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1. What three reasons does Wicker give to explain why men do not report that they are victims...