Unfortunately, citing NOMAS for such information is akin to referencing Chavez for free and fair elections. NOMAS ,if you review its mission, appears to be suffering from the "experimenter effect", the tendency to bias any data, accurate or not, in the direction of that person's or organization's intensely -held beliefs. NOMAS possesses intensely-held beliefs on steroids.
Now, it is important to consult reputable studies such as the 1985 National Family Violence Survey, sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, archived at Cornell (see link to complete study), which was based on a Louis Harris scientific , national poll. The findings were that women and men were abusing each other in about equal numbers. Men typically do more damage, but the numbers of attacks were the same.
Cornell link:
http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/NDACAN...Fs/055user.pdf
There are other studies indicating the same results, including research published in
The Journal of Marriage and Family.
Moreover,
The Journal for the National Association of Social Workers found in a 1986 study among dating teenagers that girls were more frequently violent than boys.
Some PCers do not appreciate scientific studies because they level the incidents of abuse between women and men. As Harris or Gallup would explain, self-reporting (calling the local t.v. station's call-in poll of the day) is not reliable; scientific, random sampling is. Also, see the book and studies by R. L. McNeeley ( a professor at the School of Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin) titled
The Truth About Domestic Violence: A Falsely Framed Issue and Susan Steinmetz ( director at the Indiana U-Purdue U Family Research Institute), whose book
The Battered Husband Syndrome led to threats of harm from certain radical groups (the experimenter effect at extremes).
None of this exonerates any abuser of any sex.
If we are to effectively combat such abuse , we must be honest in exposing distortions . The
truth often leads to solutions.
Best wishes---Blueprofessor