The Battered Husband: from the Volksgaren Project

This scenario describes a common pattern for abusive women and battered husbands. Not all parts of this scenario are present in every case of husband abuse: Yet most cases of abused men contain the majority of these points:

1. The abusive woman is a serial abuser who, if stopped, is stopped by a violent man.
2. The abusive mother abuses the children as well as her husband.
3. The abused man fails to protect the children from his wife's abuse.
4. The abused man refuses to speak publicly about the abuse.
5. The abused man misrepresents his injuries to doctors and nurses.
6. The abusive mother uses the justice system as a weapon to further abuse the father.
7. The abusive woman has the victim arrested.
8. The abusive mother gains custody of any children at divorce.
9. The family courts refuse to protect the children or the man from the abusive woman.
10. The abusive mother lies to artificially inflate the father s income and therefore, her child support.
11. The justice system and the abuse create the conditions for the abused man's suicide.