[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

This was my first thought. For every 10 incidents of domestic violence against women, there are 6.5 by women against men. It's fewer, yes, but not really significantly so. Men are abused too. It's not something the mainstream media really likes to talk about. Or the law either, apparently.

I would be interested to see where you get those stats, I used these..
Murder

'(10) Murder

(i) In 2008/09, 31 men and 101 were murdered by a partner/ex-partner (where the main
suspect is a partner/ex-partner), a gender-victim ratio of 24% male: 76% women. For
every four murder victims, 1 will be a male and 3 will be female. Over man per fortnight is
murdered.
Source: British Crime Survey (2008/09) – Statistical Volume 2 (England and Wales) – see Chapter 3
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/hosb0110.pdf (Table 1.05 page 25)
(ii) Over a 10-year period (1999/00 to 2008/09) – 290 men have been murdered by their
partner/ex-partner as have 1,261 women. The average proportion of male victims over
period - 23.0% (where the main suspect is a partner/ex-partner)

http://www.mankind.org.uk/pdfs/Stati...il%202010).pdf

It does not state if the abusers are women or men.