As awareness of domestic violence continues to grow, the myth of mutual abuse hopefully will be perpetuated less and less.


“As it stands now, if someone reports ‘I hit my partner 20 times’ and the other said ‘I hit him once,’ it is likely to get reported as mutual violence even though it’s still very one-sided,” Hamby says. But in true domestic violence situations, there is always a primary aggressor— someone who controls the relationship, makes the most serious threats and causes the most inju- ry.


“Fortunately, there are some new measures of domestic violence that are coming out that will better reflect actual violence rates,” she says. New measures are being designed that apply weight to each act of violence. In other words, the number of instances of violence and the severity of acts will be weighted so it will be easier to determine who the aggressor is in a relationship.


Source: domesticshelters.org


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