by Richard L. Davis

About the author: Richard L. Davis is a contributor to the website Domestic Violence Against Men in Colorado (www.dvmen.org) and the author of Domestic Violence: Facts and Fallacies.

No, this is not an Andy Rooney Sixty Minutes piece. However, “have you ever wondered” why we are constantly bombarded with dramatically different numbers of women who are being beaten and battered by an intimate partner? Is it 188,000, 876,340, 1.3 million, 1.8 million, 4.8 million, 18 million, 27 million, or 60 million? I’m sure that I am not the only person who has wondered just what the heck is going on here? And, I didn’t make these numbers up. These are real numbers presented to us by real people who expect us to...