Sharonreinbott,

Covering the police beat as a newspaper reporter was a real eye-opener for me when it came to domestic abuse. We typically think of men as the offenders and women as the victims when the opposite is also true. Cops on the beat will tell you that today women increasingly are the offenders to where, in some neighborhoods they are the offender as often as men. Still, people have a hard time believing that because the stereotype is so strongly believed. A friend who runs a shelter for abused women saw the problem developing and tried to raise funds for a men's shelter but couldn't get any support because nobody believed her.

So, instead of focusing on men abusing women, what if we focused instead on being more effective in teaching people about God's great love for them so they will be more loving to their spouses and significant others?