If I recall, in the US, there is exactly one men's domestic abuse shelter and it's in Arkansas.
I know the guy who started that. We had a class together.
Women domestic abuse men?
Some studies have suggested it's more common than the reverse but guys just don't report it.
my understanding is more that women hit men as or more often than men hit women -- in fact I think women initiate most domestic disputes -- but women usually get beat up worse
most domestic violence occurs with both parties abusing each other. more women end up with injuries or report injuries when its one party abusing the other, its more common for women to be the abusers by sexualities, lesbians have the highest rates of ipv, followed by hetero, then gay
guys don't report it partially because if you report it as a guy, you are more likely to end up getting arrested.
I know someone who this exact thing almost happened to him. His ex-wife was a violent psycho and the neighbors called the cops once. She had been abusing him, scratching him & hitting him. He hadn't touched her.
When the cops got there, she of course claimed that he was the one who was violent. Once he took off his shirt to show all the marks she'd left (and her without any at all), they stopped and helped him get some things & leave.
She was threatening to destroy a bunch of his stuff, including his work laptop-- and at the time, only he worked, supporting them both of course-- thankfully the cops made her calm the fuck down.
Sadly, it took him a few more years to finally dump that crazy bitch.
Man I really don't want to be "that guy" but it really is crazy how much differently men are treated than women are in our criminal justice system. I couldn't even imagine them not taking him to jail if she was the one with marks and bruises.
I saw a story where a guy broke up with a girl and ever since she had been giving him hell. Showing up at his house, causing trouble, etc. The guy showed video evidence of her trying to run him over and damaging his property despite him being totally calm the entire time and he stated that even with that video evidence, she wasn't taken to jail. All that video evidence did was help get a case frivolous case thrown out that she filed against him. It took video evidence of her damn near killing him just so he could get a lawsuit to go his way, and that's it. ---