Death of Steve McNair–Domestic Violence by Women Is Not Uncommon, Says Public Health Specialist

Former NFL star Steve McNair was shot dead in his sleep last week by a 20-year-old girlfriend, police said Wednesday. While there are over 10,000 media entries on Google News for Steve McNair, hardly one of them is paired with the phrase domestic violence. Fathers and Families ' Ned Holstein, MD, a public health specialist with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, explains: Violence by women against their male partners is often ignored or not labeled as domestic violence by the media,