According to Medical News Today,
“A first-ever, national study conducted in South Africa found that 27.5 percent of men who have ever been married or lived with a partner report perpetrating physical violence against their current or most recent female partner. This study, led by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health, Yale School of Public Health, and the University of Cape Town in South Africa, appears in the September 9, 2008, issue of CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal.)
Globally, some 15 to 75% of women report experiencing intimate partner violence in their lifetime. This new South African study is one of the very few public health investigations to examine risk factors for men’s perpetration of violence against female intimate partners on a national level. It highlights the importance of men’s exposure to violence during childhood in increasing their risk for perpetrating intimate partner violence. Men who witnessed parental violence as children were almost 4 times as likely to be physically violent against their partners as those who had not. Those who experienced abuse as children also had an elevated risk of using violence against their partners.”
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