[Can Dance]

"One study has found that are more likely to experience physical abuse in traditional marriages (where the husband is dominant) than in egalitarian marriages. Evangelicals disagree whether or not the Bible support a traditional or an egalitarian marriage. But it is almost certainly the case that a higher percentage of evangelicals than the general public live in tradtional marriages. So where are wives more likely to be beaten?
One important study found that "less than 3 percent of wives in egalitarian marriages has been beaten by their husband in the previous year. In traditional marriages where the husband was dominant, 10.7 percent of wives had been beaten, a rate more than 300 percent higher than for egalitarian marriages." Another study that included over 20000 couples found similar results. In this study, spousal abuse was 400 percent higher in traditional marriages....Theologically conservatives Christians, according to these studies, commit domestic abuse at least as often as the general public."

Ron Sider, pg 26-27, the Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience.