We're getting more and more resources for battered women too. I think the public is slowly understanding what goes on in these relationships and actually will try to help a woman who has fled. More and more judges have to answer to why they didn't help the victim. This is because of email campaigns, etc. that can target a bad judge...I've started a few in my day.

We have to remember that men are also abused and we look down on them like they are either lying or something else. I received a very long email from a man who has been verbally and physically abused by his wife for eight years. He would never hit her back but tried to deflect her blows. He called the police and they told him to leave or hide in the bathroom all night. She should have been arrested.