Cherful,

8 women a month? I doubt that. Do you have figures/evidence that would prove me wrong?

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2015/s4215739.htm

Above is a link to the ABC 7.30 show, stating that 35women have been killed in the last
15weeks in Australia by domestic violence.
There are also photos of all the dead women.

Google it. There was another article that said 2women are killed every week.

Dont you people watch the news. It was all over the news a couple of months ago
with politicians saying the number of women killed by domestic violence was shocking and needed to be addressed.

Wont hold my breath waiting for the politicians to really do anything though.

A coverage of domestic/family homicide in Australia http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/rip/21-40/rip38.html

What the media reports don't seem to mention is the men who are killed by intimate partners, nobody seems to really look at contributing factors. What role does the brutality and gender discrimination in our family law system play in intimate partner homicide?

The highly gendered anti DV campaigns do little to stop domestic violence because they are in complete denial about around 1/2 of it. Rates of physical violence have been pretty well researched and when the research does not start out with filters to ignore violence by women against men consistently shows similar rates by men and women other than in some specific areas (eg when all hell breaks women are more likely to end up killed but I think male suicide rates should be taken into account in the types of harm done to men by women).

I don't think there are credible numbers on the verbal/control variants but I'm absolutely certain thats not a one way flow of disrespect and abuse.

R0bert

Not all were involved in domestic violence. There's no excuse for violence against anyone, including women, but they can't all be blamed on spouses and boyfriends. Males are also murdered by women. This is not so well reported, though. It would be good if none of it happened.

Robert,
The difference is that male suicides choose to kill themselves, women who are murdered arent given a choice.

CHERFUL a fairly heartless response.

Anybody who takes their own life other than to escape the worst of a terminal or severely debilitating illness is in a very dark place.

Sometimes that dark place is entirely of their own choosing, at other times forced on them by a variety of circumstances where the factor of choice is not something they feel any control over and driven by circumstances other choices won't change.

The choice issue is in some ways a lot like those people who stay with abusive partners, we all have/had an option to leave but for a variety of reasons that's not the choice many people in abusive relationships feel they can make.

R0bert