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GOING DEEPER INTO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Part 1
Feminist do not believe that male Violence is a personal problem but a problem of patriarchy and that women committing Violence against men is always out of self defense.
Looking beyond self-defense, studies have found a range of causes for female-perpetrated Violence.
In 2006, Rose A. Medeiros and Murray A. Straus conducted a study using a sample of 854 students (312 men and 542 women) from two American universities.
They identified fourteen specific risk factors common amongst both males and females who had committed IPV; poor anger management, antisocial personality disorders , borderline personality disorders , pattern of dominating relationships, substance abuse, criminal history, posttraumatic stress disorders , depression , communication problems, jealousy , sexual abuse as a child, stress , and a general attitudinal approval of partner violence.
Straus states that most female perpetrated IPV is not motivated by self-defense, but by a desire to control their partners.

Part 2
In 2014, a study involving 1,104 male and female students in their late teens and early twenties found that women are more likely than men to be controlling and aggressive towards their partners, more likely to demonstrate a desire to control their partners, and more likely to use physical aggression in ensuring that control.

The main author of the study, Elizabeth Bates, wrote "this suggests that intimate partner violence may not be motivated by patriarchal values and needs to be studied within the context of other forms of aggression, which has potential implications for interventions."

Other explanations for both male and female-perpetrated IPV include psychopathology, anger, revenge, skill deficiency, head injuries, biochemical imbalances, feelings of powerlessness, lack of resources, and frustration.

Part 3
A 2013 review examined studies from five continents and the correlation between a country's level of gender inequality and rates of domestic violence.
The authors found that when partner abuse is defined broadly to include emotional abuse, any kind of hitting, and who hits first, partner abuse is relatively even(gender symmetry)

VIOLENCE IN SAME SEX R/SHIP
A 2013 study showed that 40.4% of self-identified lesbians and 56.9% of bisexual women have reported being victims of partner violence.
If lesbians can undergo domestic violence it shows women are as violent as men only that when they are in a relationship with men they are intimidated by men size, strength and stature and resort more to using emotional abuse.
If not that men are stronger than women eh, alot of women will beat us lol . Women know they can won't win fighting men physically so they use other means like cutting his penis(penetectomy) , burning him(cremation) , pouring hot water, pouring acid(vitriolage) etc.
There was a time on fb when some one asked women in a group that what will they do if they were to be men for a day. I was expecting to see them say they will develop the world, make inventions etc but i was shocked. The same women that criticize men as dogs and cheats were the same gender saying they will do all the things men have done.

CHILDREN
I consider children as another major victims of Domestic Violence. In this part of the world , Violence against children is not really recognized.
I have observed that male children are beaten more than female children. They are more stubborn lol
While i agree that spare a rod and spoil the child. Some adult use anger and frustrations to torture their children in the guise of discipline.
Men have done it and so do women, women even tend to do worst in most instances.
The way children are tortured is alarming. If you are current on NL, you will see a thread on Nairaland where a woman was torturing her little child for years. See the boy's head.
There are countless stories where a woman use hot iron on her child in anger, another woman used hot water to torture her child for not going on errands. A woman put knife on fire and press it on her Daughter in law because she taught the girl stole her money only to later discovered the girl was innocent.
I notice women tend to hate children that are not their be they their sisters children, cousin, niece etc.
The question now is that, is it the evil patriarchy that is to be blamed for making this women to torture their children and others.

Can male be victims?
Till date people still don't believe that men can be victims. The media made it in such a way that men cannot be viewed as victims.
A man's life is such that he does not conjure up pity unlike women.
Domestic violence against men includes physical , emotional and sexual forms of abuse, including mutual violence.
Male domestic violence victims may be reluctant to get help for various reasons.

STUDIES
One study investigated whether women who assaulted their male partners were more likely to avoid arrest even when the male contacts police, and found that, "police are particularly unlikely to arrest women who assault their male partners."
The reason being that they "assume that the man can protect himself from his female partner and that a woman's violence is not dangerous unless she assaults someone other than her partner".
Another study concluded there is "some support for qualitative research suggesting that court personnel are responsive to the gendered asymmetry of intimate partner violence, and may view female intimate violence perpetrators more as victims than offenders."

Men face additional gender related barriers in reporting, due to social stigmas regarding male victimization, and an increased likelihood of being overlooked by healthcare providers.
Whether physical violence or sexual abuse. A man is not seen as a victim.

Research on men and domestic violence focuses on men as both perpetrators and victims of violence, as well as on how to involve men and boys in anti-violence work.


However, women are not throught to be antiviolent.
It is uncalled for, for a man to Beat up a woman but nothing goes for a woman hitting and beating a man.


It is appropriate that both men and women not hit each other. Not that one gender will hit the other and go scot

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Ardar:
Domestic violence is not gender specific yes but the [s]majority of the people on the receiving end are women. Take it or leave it[/s]

Like Mariam Sanda and the other 2 Edo Women hoes that killed their husbands Last week as carried by Nairaland? or the one that bathed her husband with Sulphuric acid?

Sha no go stab your boyfriend/husband to death Ibeg you.