About this Website

WHBW exists to serve all victims of domestic violence regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, religion or socio-economic level. However, to reflect the fact that at least 95% of all cases reported to police or domestic violence hotlines involve heterosexual men battering heterosexual women, this website uses the pronoun "he" for the batterer and "she" for the victim/survivor. This does not mean that women cannot batter men or other women, or that men cannot batter their male intimate partners.