Agony of the Abuser

I grew up in the forties and fifties, when the news was local. We didn’t know much about what was going on outside our town for two or three days. There was no multimedia, and today’s front-page news was on page 20 the next day. But when a man beat his wife or if the wife beat her husband, it was the talk of the town; everybody knew it. It has always been considered a disgrace for a man to beat a ...