I have also sen myself in where the women here are always slapping or punching a man to me it is shocking as it is something in states we are told as little girls it is not lady like to hit or slap a man it shows that we want provocation.
Abuse comes in many forms....not just physical there is emotional as well as financially left behind and abused....Where did HNU conduct they're survey and who did this survey? Females? Males or other? I had never heard of this survey happening.....??
You're right, abuse does come in many forms.
I think men are most likely to do physical abuse but women probably excel in mental and emotional abuse. I know quite a few, even here, that do that to their husbands. I know one Filipina wife repeatedly tell her American husband to "shut up, you make the least amount of money of all the husbands in the group." Not verbatim but in various wordings, in front of her friends. Me, being one of the "friends".
When I was in Bohol, most of what I hear are Men abusing women and both men and women abusing kids. Their own, or even neices, nephews, heck even students. Maybe because I hang around DSWD too much (since Mama works there) or just how things worked out. When I was attending BWS, some of the corporal punishments our teachers subjected us to were considered abuse. Punching us in the tummy when I was in grade 1. Slapping our faces, making us sit on the trash can (me and a few others), hitting our bottoms with books, enough to make us jump a couple feet forward. Making us stand for an hour in the middle of the quadrangle in the heat of the sun, where all other students can see us and poke fun at us.
Heck, my little brother was in grade 3, he and 7 or 8 others had to undergo counselling in Cebu. There was even one of the others who would get a fever and start shaking when he saw the teacher. Another one peed himself. It was that bad.
When I was in college, one of my closest friends left her boyfriend even when she was pregnant with his child. Their families pressured them to marry but she never succumbed. She said he almost choked her once and that was enough.
Anyway, I could go on and on and on. The point is, there are other things we all can use to get our points across without creating physical, mental and emotional damage. I can say that surviving my BWS Elementary years with some of the more brutal teachers made me tougher and better to able to deal with the crazy world. But I know for sure that I can't say that about a lot of the other kids, specially the ones in my brother's class.
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