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No thanks RObert, I think I will leave you boys to discuss it all amongst yourselves.
You are all doing fine without any pesky women putting in their opinions.

Susie I didn't really expect you to be adult enough to stop hiding behind your gender and engage constructively on this issue but had to try.

Jay, interesting video. I wish there was an attached fact sheet, some of the studies and metadata work I was familiar with but not all. I'm not at this point convinced by the comments re abusive mothers and wife beaters. Quite possible in some cases but I think the causes of human violence are much more complex than any single factor.

The big point from the video which I'd not seen else where was the drop in male initiated DV over the period compared to the rates of female initiated violence. He summed a lot if stuff up well.

R0bert

Robert, link;
http://www.fdrurl.com/dvsources
Yeah that stuff about male initiated DV surprised me too but you'd expect that all the work that's been done on prevention and offender rehabilitation programs specifically targeted at men would be having some effect.

Certainly has aroused some interesting responses and reactions!

<We now know that women-on-women aggression is far from rare and that women are often
<the initiators of male-female aggression. Surveys of U.S. households have found rates of
<wife-to-husband violence "remarkably similar" to those of husband-to-wife violence. And
<an early cross-cultural survey did not find that men were significantly more aggressive than
<women.
http://womensenews.org/story/books/111203/women-are-aggressors-in-household-violence-too#.U545WMYuKFI