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

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Taken from the this article:

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

Surely that quoted statistic cannot be correct?!

BBC1 tomorrow at 9pm is a documentary following three women over a year who were suffering domestic violence.

I have to confess I'm staggered by the figures. I had no idea domestic abuse was so prevalent. The numbers are truly shocking. Clearly I'm not paying enough attention, but given these are government figures, I'm surprised this isn't much higher up the agenda for all politicians.

But some of the minimising that goes on on this board is pretty appalling, whether it's the likes of the OP knee-jerkingly doubting statistics that suggest that f-on-m abuse may be a real problem, or the usual refrain that any female abuser had been driven to violence by her partner.

That's a reaction to the tendency of anti-feminists to use "what about the men?" as a method to silence any discussion of the problem of male violence.

I'm pretty sure those numbers are skewed. There are women who commit domestic violence against men, but I doubt there are so many. (And if they include "nagging" ... yeah, that's not exactly convincing me that their numbers are correct)

And if they include "nagging" ... yeah, that's not exactly convincing me that their numbers are correct

The one in four / one in six numbers for partner abuse do include non-physical abuse (emotional, financial) and threats.

Table 4.01 in the ONS stats that I linked to above give:
Non-sexual physical abuse by partner: 17.9% for women and 6.9% for men.
Non-sexual physical abuse by family: 4.9% for women, 4.2% for men,
Sexual assault: 19.1% for women, 2.7% for men.

I lived with a manipulative control freak for several years and I have sympathy for anyone caught in a situation where they are abused. I wish it was easier to leave but when kids are involved or a single bread winner then it is more difficult. Figures are only based on those who admit difficulties and I doubt they are that accurate.

I don't want to make a TAAT but the comments about domestic violence and women should only consider and be interested in when we are victims. Fine well and good for those that believe that but then feminism isn't about equality as I would view it and how can we expect men to be interested in our points of view when we disregard theirs? Just a thought