Battered women and America’s secret shame

It’s easy to be smug and secure in our own preconceptions about our country and culture. We are, after all, America – that shining city on a hill, as Ronald Reagan called it. That beacon of life, liberty and justice for all. That bastion of freedom and equality in a world filled by extremism, socialism (irony alert!), and inequality.

But the reality is that America is still very much an inequal society. And you don’t have to look any further than the statistics on battered women in this country to see that inequality take shape.

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