All kinds of women are found in the reports, from all professions and all social classes. The only thing they have in common is the fact that they have been attacked. The same applies to the man, who carries out the attacks. Another myth is that men who attack women as a rule are either drunk or high on drugs. This is wrong, too.
Most men are in full control of their senses when they lash out.
A third myth says that battered women often leave a violent relationship only to get involved in another - that is not true either. Nor is it true that women provoke men into beating them. Most men beat the women to assert their control over her. A common myth is that the bulk of wife battering involves immigrants. But in Sweden, most of the men beating women are Swedes.