battered wife/woman

retain sex-specific terms: battered wife/woman or battered husband/man. When inclusive terms are needed, use battered spouse/partner, spouse/spousal/domestic abuse, domestic/marital/family violence. Gender-neutral terms obscure the pattern of explicit violence perpetrated on overwhelming numbers of women compared to men. Because violence in the family and household normalizes violence, there is a move to call battering and domestic violence "original violence," but so far, the earlier terms prevail.