Häusliche Gewalt

Nach wie vor ist in den Köpfen der Menschen unausrottbar die Vorstellung bei häuslicher Gewalt handele es sich um das Phänomen: besoffener brutaler Mann prügelt hilflose schwache Frau.
Die Wahrheit ist eine andere. In Wirklichkeit ist es tatsächlich so, dass wesentlich mehr Männer Opfer von prügelnden Frauen sind, wie umgekehrt und in der Hälfte der Fälle sich beide gegenseitig prügeln.
Hierzu gibt es inzwischen weltweit mehr als 200 wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen mit eindeutigem Ergebnis. Die Neueste wurde gerade in der "psychiatric news" veröffentlicht:

Men Shouldn't Be Overlooked as Victims of Partner Violence

"Whitaker discovered, of the 24 percent of relationships that had been violent, half had been reciprocal and half had not. Although more men than women (53 percent versus 49 percent) had experienced nonreciprocal violent relationships, more women than men (52 percent versus 47 percent) had taken part in ones involving reciprocal violence.

Regarding perpetration of violence, more women than men (25 percent versus 11 percent) were responsible. In fact, 71 percent of the instigators in nonreciprocal partner violence were women. This finding surprised Whitaker and his colleagues, they admitted in their study report.

As for physical injury due to intimate partner violence, it was more likely to occur when the violence was reciprocal than nonreciprocal. And while injury was more likely when violence was perpetrated by men, in relationships with reciprocal violence it was the men who were injured more often (25 percent of the time) than were women (20 percent of the time). "This is important as violence perpetrated by women is often seen as not serious," Whitaker and his group stressed."

Bei 71% Frauen als TÄTER bei häuslicher Gewalt und gleichzeitig sind die meisten Verletzten Männer, bleibt von dem Mythos der schwachen und sanften Frau und dem rohen und gewalttätigen Mann nicht mehr viel übrig, oder?