I've said it before, I'm not in the "should" business.

But if you don't do anything else today, please listen to my conversation with Leslie Morgan Steiner about her new memoir, Crazy Love.

And if you have a young daughter who's just starting to date, give her the book. Or show her the excerpt on our site, or listen to the chapter she read for us.

And if you have a son. Show it to him, too.

The motto of our program is nothing is assumed. People assumed Leslie was fine because, as she puts it so well, she was blond, tall, smart, went to Harvard, her family had a vacation house in Vermont.

But she wasn't fine. Her first husband was beating her routinely and almost killed her (and, yes, she is happily remarried and doing well).

And yes, we know, men are battered, too. But it has to be said that women are more likely to be killed by domestic violence -- women of every race, every ethnicity, every religion.

Let's not get confused. Let's not keep telling ourselves these lies about how "black women put up with this," "white women have no problems we need concern ourselves with," "Asian women are different, this doesn't happen to Latinas" ... and so on.

It's happening right now to someone, somewhere, to someone who looks like you. No matter who you are. Let's try to stop this, people. Please.

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4:09 - March 31, 2009

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