There are dozens of studies that reveal similar findings. Women initiate most incidents of family violence. Women commit most child abuse and most elder abuse. Women hit their male children more frequently and more severely that they hit their female children. When women murder adults the majority of their victims are men.
Women commit half of spousal murders.
Eighty one per cent of the people interviewed had their first experience of violence at the hands of a women. Source of the False Diagnosis of Family Violence . . . Law enforcement statistics tell us about the activities of law enforcement agencies, not the activities of families. Law enforcement statistics about spousal violence are very misleading, and those who quote them are either misled or deliberately attempting to mislead. Dead Men Are Counted Men don't usually report spousal violence.