[Hugin]

I will acknowledge that generally speaking men are more physically dominant and usually are more likely to abuse some one.

Women initiate domestic violence as often as men. Plus they tend to pick things up and throw or hit with them. But if a man eventually hits back, it's the man who will be arrested and prosecuted.

[youngphys01]

If they file for divorce, the possibility that they will lose the kids and more than half of the joint property, I imagine, also comes into play on the subject of men who ultimately do not leave abusive wives.