If I was to walk into a maternity ward and see your newborn, male child in your arms and say: "He is a violent, abusive person, because he is a boy!"

Most people hearing such words would be offended.

Intimate partner violence occurs in relationships irrespective of age, sexual orientation, gender, income or ethnicity and domestic violence is observed in both same-sex and opposite-sex relationships.

A complex range of attributes and circumstances contribute to someone acting in a violent or abusive manner, with many of the characteristics able to be modified via programs, which is often the most successful way of bringing the violence to an end.

https://theconversation.com/family-violence-response-must-tackle-all-forms-of-abuse-29267

So why is there a constant link to men and violence, when a range of complex factors, including one's mindset contributes to violence worldwide?

Link corrected.

http://theconversation.com/family-violence-response-must-tackle-all-forms-of-abuse-29267

Quote "So why is there a constant link to men and violence, when a range of complex factors, including one's mindset contributes to violence worldwide?"

Simple answer, statistically men are more often the perpetrators of violence.

Sociological research of the past two decades
has revealed an astonishing amount of family
violence - between spouses, between parents
and offspring, and among the offspring themselves.

It's been said that the police detest "disturbance
calls"- usually family fights - because of the
vicious and dangerous nature of so many of these
conflicts. In most non-fatal physical violence
between the spouses, wives are very much the
victims, wife-beating is a widespread and very
serious problem.

Each year, too, parents kick, punch, or batter
children. Child-abuse involving such acts as
burning children with cigarettes, locking them
up in sheds or closets, tying them up for hours
or days, breaking their bones - is alarmingly
common, and probably cause many runaways that
happen each year. And the sexual abuse of children
now a recognised national problem is rarely a matter
of molestation by a stranger. It is usually
perpetrated by one family member on another.

One source of this violence may lie in the dynamics
of the family as an intimate environment - close
relationships are likely to involve more conflict than
less intimate ones, since there are more occasions
for tensions to arise and more likelihood that
deep emotions will be provoked. Another source may be
outside the the family, for violence is frequently a
response to frustration. If the person affected cannot
strike back at the source of the problem - the
arrogance of an employer, say, or the lack of a job -
the aggression may be readily redirected at family members.

Perhaps the most important, violence between husband
and wife takes place in a general social context that
has traditionally emphasised male dominance and female
subservience.

In any event, the extent of violence in groups whose
members are supposed to love and care for one another is
not easily explained and suggests that the modern family
may sometimes be under greater pressure than it can
easily bear.

In most ways how you live is driven by your mindset.

Your mindset can be very closed, but it can also be open to change.

It can also be medically defined, and as a result one's mindset can be very difficult to determine how it is to function, for example with one having a mental illness for example.

A person's particular way of thinking, attitude or set of opinions about something do not simply come into play in terms of violence because they are born male or female.

A complex array of factors will come into play, to why someone is violent.

http://www.facebook.com/InsightSBS/videos/violent-femmes/10151365673107050/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEZH6YSQvwA

In other ways, violence can come from a politically driven mindset and can be very simplistic and populist. After all, all of the violent acts have to be undertaken by someone else! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R9eZ8c1EDo

Strange how society has become much more violent since kids stopped being smacked. Another thing social engineers failed on miserbly

Everyone uses the tools at their disposal to get more stuff- whether men, women or children. Some are just more powerful in their sphere. A swordsman wants to get sword distance from the archer because that puts him into the more powerful position. Most will avoid conflict when it's not in their interest. Sometimes they don't understand what is in their interest. Some will try to maximise their advantage in serial relationships- this has predictably bad results- but is one of the results of Liberalism and freedom.