Now, since EH is picking on the muslims for domestic violence against women, I invite him to explain why violence is so high in industrialized countries despite majority citizens being non-muslims?
Why does that happen even though average people are highly educated and conscious, live in raised standards and the fact that there is strict law and order to control affairs...
Table 2 - Domestic Violence against Women
INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES
Canada 29% of women (a nationally representative sample of 12,300 women) reported being physically assaulted by a current or former partner since the age of 16.
Japan 59% of 796 women surveyed in 1993 reported being physically abused by their partner.
New Zealand 20% of 314 women surveyed reported being hit or physically abused by a male partner.
Switzerland 20% of 1,500 women reported being physically assaulted according to a 1997 survey.
United Kingdom 25% of women (a random sample of women from one district) had been punched or slapped by a partner or ex-partner in their lifetime.
United States 28% of women (a nationally representative sample of women) reported at least one episode of physical violence from their partner.
ASIA AND PACIFIC
Cambodia 16% of women (a nationally representative sample of women) reported being physically abused by a spouse; 8% report being injured.
India Up to 45% of married men acknowledged physically abusing their wives, according to a 1996 survey of 6,902 men in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Korea 38% of wives reported being physically abused by their spouse, based on a survey of a random sample of women.
Thailand 20% of husbands (a representative sample of 619 husbands) acknowledged physically abusing their wives at least once in their marriage.
MIDDLE EAST
Egypt 35% of women (a nationally representative sample of women) reported being beaten by their husband at some point in their marriage.
Israel 32% of women reported at least one episode of physical abuse by their partner and 30% report sexual coercion by their husbands in the previous year, according to a 1997 survey of 1,826 Arab women.
AFRICA
Kenya 42% of 612 women surveyed in one district reported having been beaten by a partner; of those 58% reported that they were beaten often or sometimes.
Uganda 41% of women reported being beaten or physically harmed by a partner; 41% of men reported beating their partner (representative sample of women and their partners in two districts).
Zimbabwe 32% of 966 women in one province reported physical abuse by a family or household member since the age of 16, according to a 1996 survey.
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Chile 26% of women (representative sample of women from Santiago) reported at least one episode of violence by a partner, 11% reported at least one episode of severe violence and 15% of women reported at least one episode of less severe violence.
Colombia 19% of 6,097 women surveyed have been physically assaulted by their partner in their lifetime.
Mexico 30% of 650 women surveyed in Guadalajara reported at least one episode of physical violence by a partner; 13% reported physical violence within the previous year, according to a 1997 report.
Nicaragua 52% of women (representative sample of women in León) reported being physically abused by a partner at least once; 27% reported physical abuse in the previous year, according to a 1996 report.
CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Estonia 29% of women aged 18-24 fear domestic violence, and the share rises with age, affecting 52% of women 65 or older, according to a 1994 survey of 2,315 women.
Poland 60% of divorced women surveyed in 1993 by the Centre for the Examination of Public Opinion reported having been hit at least once by their ex-husbands; an additional 25% reported repeated violence.
Russia (St. Petersburg) 25% of girls (and 11% of boys) reported unwanted sexual contact, according to a survey of 174 boys and 172 girls in grade 10 (aged 14-17).
Tajikistan 23% of 550 women aged 18-40 reported physical abuse, according to a survey.
(Adapted from “Violence Against Women,” WHO, FRH/WHD/97.8, “Women in Transition,” Regional Monitoring Report, UNICEF 1999, and a study by Domestic Violence Research Centre, Japan.)
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