What is swept under the carpet is the fact that it is the female who is the main instigator of violence and it is noticeable that it’s the worst cases of domestic violence by males that is used as a yardstick to portray males as the violent ones.
The claims that emotional and psychological abuses are forms of domestic violence are true, however there are no visible signs of such behaviour, whereas because men hit harder a bruise is there for all to see.
The male suicide rate is generally accepted to be seven times the female rate and males are behind at every area of society.
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