Of course, this number has gone up quite a bit, but still not enough. .
Although not as rare as you may think, wives beat there husbands around as well. In 1994 there were 48,983 cases heard where a women beats her husband. As low as a number as this may seem, it is quite deceiving. If you ponder about this for a while, this is only the number of cases heard, not all of them. You must think about all of the men who are embarrassed and have entirely too much pride to proclaim that his wife physically abuses him. So theoretically, there are possibly tens of thousands of more cases of domestic violence, where as men are the victims. Out of all male homicides, approximately 3.3% were committed by the victim's spouse. While men who commit domestic violence use there bodies to harm the victim, women will usually use weapons such as cooking knifes, bats, guns, and on some occasions forks.
On many occasions, children are not even considered to be an attacker when it comes to domestic violence. However one must think about fights with siblings and on a rare occasion hitting their parents but mainly their mother. When siblings fight as much as it is, the injury may vary from, a bruise on the knee, to a broken arm, or even accidental death. As hard as it is to believe it, an ignorant sibling fight over the remote has actually ended up in the result in death. An estimated $1.28 billion are spent in hospitals to treat children that were engaged in fights with their siblings. Children fighting their siblings aren't the only forms domestic violence that was to do with children were they are the attacker. Although it doesn't happen nearly as much as children physically abusing their sibling's, they also abuse their parents, but mainly their mothers. This is only referring to children who constantly beat their mothers and are over 12. Mothers of these abusive and disrespectful children are usually in the hospital for broken bones.