Meier in Huff Post: "Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics"

In her first piece for The Huffington Post, Professor Joan Meier, GW Law Domestic Violence Project Director, responds to a recent Washington Post op-ed that claims a good way to end violence against women is to marry the children's fathers. Professor Meier examines and evaluates the statistics and shows that the authors came to the wrong conclusion with the data: "(One) would have to conclude from (the data the authors cite) that protective mothers should neither marry nor live with men if they want to raise children."