If you believe that domestic violence is a problem created by males (or by male-benefitting social paradigms), you may be surprised to learn that there is a wealth of research revealing that women initiate (not in self-defense) plenty of violence of their own, and by their own admission. Some feminist advocates assert that domestic violence committed by a woman is justified in response to a climate of fear or intimidation attributed to her intimate partner. We at DontMakeHerMad.com believe that initiated violence is not self-defensive. The use of violence is justified only in reaction to imminent physical harm, but not in response to an emotion.
A perceived "climate of fear" is insufficient justification for any woman to assault a man.

Below is a search engine of peer-reviewed and published research on domestic violence against males. It contains over 200 studies, with an aggregate sample size of over 265,000 people:

Further research below...

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• View : Justice Denied:   Arrest Policies for Domestic Violence
  Published by RADAR: Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting
• View : Disabusing the Definition of Domestic Abuse:   How Women Batter Men and the Role of the Feminist State
  2003, Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 30, pp. 791-855, by Linda Kelly, Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law
• View : Map of arrest policies by state
  As of 2004 (United States)

• View : Without Restraint:   The Use and Abuse of Domestic Restraining Orders
  Published by RADAR: Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting

• View : VAWA:   Threat to Families, Children, Men, and Women
  Published by RADAR: Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting

• View : Overwhelming scholarly research – collected over four decades – indicating that women abuse men at least as often as the reverse (Microsoft Excel format)
  Dr. Martin S. Fiebert, California State University at Long Beach
• View : Getting the Facts — Research About Domestic Violence Against Men
  Sponsored by the Men's Activism Network
• View : Dominance and Symmetry in Partner Violence by Male and Female University Students in 32 Nations
  Professor Murray Straus - University of New Hampshire Family Research Laboratory

• View : International Dating Violence Survey — Dating violence victims are more often men than women
  By Professor Murray Straus of the University of New Hampshire
• View : Physical Dating Violence Among High School Students — United States, 2003
  Published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control

• View : Fatalities by Perpetrator Relationship, 2003
  U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children & Families
• View : Victims by Parental Status of Perpetrators, 2003
  U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children & Families