Re: A Moment That Changed Me…
Men can also be victims, and the big bad West offers them the same protections and the same access to justice.
Why do you assume that DV victims are all women? They are children, who are bullied or abused by an offending parent or relative, or an elderly person being abused physically or financially by a son/daughter/nephew/niece/other. Many LGBT people are also DV victims.
As terebina786 said, it is not easy to get out an abusive relationship. DV victims often become emotionally dependent on their abusers, they do not believe they can survive on their own because they have been told so often that they amount to nothing, or because they have no resources - familial/social/financial that they can count on. DV victims, men as much as women, suffer from denial and self stigma. It’s not easy to admit to being abused by a husband or wife or close relative.