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Now let him get the batterer out of the house.

He was put on a waiting list for a batterers group.

No one, women, children or batterers, can be helped until they are identified and in the system, she said.

Still goes to a batterers' group at the counseling center.

"I'm not going to have someone represent me who is a batterer."

The goal of a batterer is power and control over a woman."

It was the first time Michael had ever identified himself to the authorities as a batterer.

Will battered women find the courage to leave their batterers?

The batterers are put on notice and the victims given easier access to help.

This concept holds true for both the batterer and the victim.

"For the batterer, she vanished off the face of the earth," he said.

"Batterers use the courts as a way to maintain control," she said.

This keeps us from holding batterers accountable for their violence.

A third woman said: "My husband is going to therapy in a batterers' group.

As for the batterers, she continued, they always say: "You made me do it.

Keeping an eye on the batterer, for example, is easier said than done, as countless local police forces have learned in recent years.

This is a pain that will inevitably turn to anger and might even make them wife or child batterers themselves.

The few programs for batterers have long waiting lists.

Carl, one of the men in the batterers' group, explained what the sessions meant to him.

Batterers, usually men, use physical violence to coerce and control their partners.

Batterers who do not obey the order issued against them are subject to arrest.

Their parents and other relatives often think they should take the batterer back and get on with things.

Batterers who go through the legal system should be more carefully screened, he says, and some confined.

Our emphasis is on taking the batterer, not the victim, out of the house."

Batterers come from all socioeconomic groups, she pointed out.