I agree with all the comments from the fellas below. DV is a tricky issue and one that i have seen from all sides... I grew up in a violent home and saw my mother beaten on many occasions. As an adult i have a male friend who once had a steaming hot iron put across his back - his crime? He was late for work and hadn't made his girlfriend her cup of tea. What did the police do? Nothing. If the genders had been the other way around, all hell would have broken loose. Also, my partner is a police officer and regularly attends DV incidents where the male is the victim. In all DV situations, officers are required to remove one of the involved parties. Where children are involved, this pretty much always means removing the man from the premises, even if he is the victim. It's wrong and needs overhauling.

   The serious problem of domestic abuse will never be tackled effectively while it is presented as a gender specific issue. Men are also victims. Many children are victims of female abusers.

The image of the male perpetrator and the female victim is a sexist stereotype and it is time it was binned. The statistic quoted is false: an average of 89 children are murdered each year, 43% by their primary carer, 53% of whom are male. This does not equate to 2 a week.

Stop spreading this damaging prejudice.

    I am tired of Men being labeled like this by the police and refuge groups.

Women beat up men, the only trouble is that they don't shout about it, so they don't get the help they need.

I am a large built man of 23 stone, I have been hit with lamps, pans, knives, bottles etc., and on each occasion I was the one removed from the situation, put in a cell.

It only took a stabbing for it to be accepted that I was the victim!

So, please GMP, work both sides of the coin, support the men as well, as this country is supposed to be equal but as we all know, that the women must be right, correct and believable.

   As the stats show just as many men are victims of women attackers regarding DV -

Will the Police be visiting women DV perpetrators?

More importantly will they start taking men and children victims of DV/abuse seriously?

Enough of this gender prejudice and sexism.