Violence against family members is something women do at least as often as men. There are dozens of solid scientific studies that reveal in a startlingly different picture of family violence than what we usually see in the media. For instance, Murray Straus, a sociologist and co-director for the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire gave some statistics that blew my mind away. He concluded saying that women were three times more …showed first 75 words of 1679 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1679 total…men get more abused than women. There probably will never be media coverage of such things, because the media has influenced the society so much in regard to women being the victim and the man being the abuser that people would not take a case seriously if the man was the victim. People would laugh or make fun of the individual and that would make other men scared to come forth. This problem must cease. . .