Reply #28: Because many women believe it is their right to hit, slap, kick men. [View All]

[TexasObserver]

This is the dirty underbelly of domestic violence that is not given full coverage. Most of the violence by women against men is unreported, and unprosecuted. Many women simply believe that hitting, slapping, kicking a man is their right as a woman.

The man should walk away, go somewhere else, and have the perp arrested, but they usually don't, because (1) she'll lie and say he hit her first, and then he'll be arrested, since the police usually believe the woman in such situations, and (2) the man will be ridiculed for reporting their victimhood.

There has been a strong effort to reduce domestic violence by men against women, and that has been a wise effort. We need a similar effort to attack the rampant domestic violence by women against men. Domestic violence is a way of life for many - a bad way of life - in which both parties use violence to express their anger.

If you really want to stop domestic violence, take the children away from both partners and have them raised by others, because children learn domestic violence from their parents.

Exposing children to domestic violence is one of the worst kinds of child abuse.