Number of UK women convicted of domestic abuse doubles

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I think we are talking about abuse of men by women, generally, and at this point in particular, whether women use mental abuse in preference to physical abuse in contrast with men who would tend to abuse a woman physically.

I still do not think so - one dead a day...

Of course it all depends on how you define mental abuse. Would you like to take a go at that? it might clarify things.

The suggestion that mental injury always accompanies physical injury in cases of domestic abuse seems to be an attempt to lessen the seriousness of these crimes by women by elevating the crimes of men (ie, male abusers cause a double injury, female abusers only one).

With all due respect, that sounds weird. You cannot deny that being hit by a partner or parent will not leave scars.
It is not a competition.

We were also considering whether a female abuser would take advantage of her sex to avoid punishment by putting the blame on her victim.

And that is a theory with so far nothing to back it up, unless you have personal or near-personal experience.

'women' are not like this, and 'men' are not like that. We are individuals.