extraterrestrials

             Domestic Violence Against Men
             In the United States, many women cry out about domestic violence in their
             homes, but are the men always to blame? The idea that men would claim domestic
             violence against their spouse is practically unheard of. To men it may be a sign of
             weakness or just flat out embarrassing. The statistics show that in 100 cases of domestic
             violence, 40% is inflicted by the woman. In a year about 400,000 women are abused, and
             by doing the math, about 300,000 to 350,000 men are abused by their spouse each year.
             Men are abused almost as equally as men because, statistics back it up, men are not as
             outspoken as women are, and women are more emotional causing them to be more violent.
             From the Detroit News the statistics show that men were:
             32% of the aggravated assault victims
             10% of miscellaneous other offenses in crimes
             As stated before, it was said that 40% of men out of 100 cases were the victim of domestic violence, however, in 1998 the Department of Justice report on National Violence showed that only 36% of men were the victims of domestic violence. The numbers are still pretty close. In Murray Strauss' and Richard Gelles' "Conflict Tactics Scales," their research showed that women are more likely to:
             assault with an object other than a knife or gun
             The current myth is that women are assaulted by men 90-95% of the time. The actual facts were that 1.5 million women and 835,000 men are the victims of domestic violence each year. The percentage of men abused for that fact is about 38-50%, which was according to major studies from Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. Another myth is that 20-35% of women's emergency room visits are there because of domestic viol
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