There is much data showing men who batter battered their prior partners (if they had any) and will go on to batter their next ones. However, there is not the data showing that women who are battered are more likely to be battered in their next relationships. Whether a woman will be battered depends solely on who her partner is. Statistically, this means that the more partners a woman has increases the chance she will be battered by at least some of them. And statistically, a small no. of women will have more than one abusive partner even if they have few partners. But PLEASE do not blame victims for batterer behavior.
Best, Joan Joan Zorza, Esq. -Editor Domestic Violence Report & Sexual Assault Report 3097 Ordway St., NW Washington, DC 20008-3255 phone: 202-362-3715 fax: 413-513-8582 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.zorza.net At 09:42 AM 1/10/02 -0500, you wrote: >I have a question...Statistics show that women will get themselves into >similar relationships unless counselling helps them break the pattern, but do >men tend to batter successive partners or does their behavior focus on one >particular partner? (Will they repeat this behavior, in other words, with >other partners?) > > ***End-violence is sponsored by UNIFEM and receives generous support from ICAP*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe end-violence OR type: unsubscribe end-violence Archives of previous End-violence messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/end-violence/hypermail/
