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In reply to the discussion: Why HAVE Democratic mayors been so hardline towards Occupy? [View all]4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)but no, you're wrong.
You're talking conviction rates. For some reason the evil law is far more likely to convict men who hit their wives than wives who hit their husbands.
But the rates of it occurring are about equal:
http://www.dvrc-or.org/domestic/violence/resources/C61/
Between 600,000 and 6 million women are victims of domestic violence each year, and between 100,000 and 6 million men, depending on the type of survey used to obtain the data.
(Rennison, C. (2003, Feb). Intimate partner violence. Us. Dpt. of Justice/Office of Justice Programs. NXJ 197838.
Straus, M. & Gelles, R. (1990). Physical violence in American families. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers.
Tjaden, P., & Thoennes, N. (2000). Extent, nature, and consequences of intimate partner violence. National Institute of Justice, NCJ 181867.)