The Irish Savant : Mud sharks and coal burners beware.

Mud sharks and coal burners beware.

The July 2003 issue of the American Journal of Public Health published a massive study of spousal homicide. It was conducted by 18 experts in the medical field. The study states “Femicide, the homicide of women, is the leading cause of death in the United States among young African American women aged 15 to 45 years.” Most women are murdered by a male partner.

According to the study, white females married to black males are 12.4 times more likely to be murdered by their husbands than white females married to white males. Now that's a pretty scary statistic. Would you not expect that to be emblazoned over the door of every church, social club, and media outlet?

Of course you wouldn't.

The same study shows that white men married to black women are 21.4 times more likely to be murdered by their wife than white men married to white women. The study shows that white women married to black men have the single highest risk of death by femicide of any married women in the US.

Source: J A Mercy and L E Saltzman. Fatal violence among spouses in the United States, 1976-85.. American Journal of Public Health: May 1989, Vol. 79, No. 5, pp. 595-599.