While it is true that men account for most violence outside the home, women instigate most domestic violence and they injure men more frequently and more severely. The Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire, under grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, recently finished the last of three national studies on domestic violence. The first two studies revealed results similar to the latest study. The data tape and documentation of the 1975 and 1985 studies are available from the Interuniversity Consortium For Political and Social Research at the University of Michingan. There are dozens of other studies that reveal similar findings.
Women initiate most incidents of domestic violence.
Women commit most child abuse and elder abuse. Women hit their male children more frequently and more severely than they hit their female children. When women murder adults, the majority of their victims are men. Eighty-two per cent of all people have their first experience of violence at the hands of a woman. There are dozens of other studies that reveal similar findings.