"one in four women and one in six men suffer domestic abuse in their lifetime"

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blueandgreendots · 08/03/2016 15:18

Taken from the this article:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-35742799

Surely that quoted statistic cannot be correct?!

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FesterAddams · 08/03/2016 15:32

The most comprehensive and detailed stats that I'm aware of are from the CDC in the US, which give higher rates than this for both men and women:
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6308a1.htm?s_cid=ss6308a1_e#Table6

Their numbers for "Any severe physical violence" are roughly in line with the one in four and one in six figure.

dimots · 08/03/2016 15:31

If a man is abused by another man either a gay partner or a father-son relationship that goes on the stats as domestic abuse. As do the cases of men killed or injured by a man because they are present when he beats or kills his female partner. Eg. A father beaten while trying to protect his daughter from abuse. So the stats may be correct, but it would be interesting to know the sex of the perpetrators.

UmbongoUnchained · 08/03/2016 15:29

Does it include things like emotional abuse and manipulation? Because I can see that probably makes a difference to the stats.

BeyondTellsEveryoneRealFacts · 08/03/2016 15:26

If its the same quoted stats from the other day...

sexual violence is not counted at all
it included such gems as including "nagging" (gendered much?) as domestic abuse

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blueandgreendots · 08/03/2016 15:19

By that I mean, do that many men suffer domestic abuse and I thought that a greater proportion of women than one in four experience it?

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