Domestic Violence Varies by Ethnicity



Black and Hispanic couples are two to three times more likely to report male-to-female and female-to-male partner violence than white couples, and alcohol plays a role in the increased risk of violence, especially among black couples.

It is probably not surprising that statistics concerning intimate partner violence vary widely from study to study and from year to year. Interpersonal violence is not a topic that either the victim nor the perpetrator is eager to reveal.

Therefore, intimate partner violence is probably vastly under-reported, and the actual percentages reported in research surveys can and do vary widely from study
Domestic Violence More Prevalent Among Ethnic Groups?

Although completely accurate numbers are probably not available, research generally agrees that among ethnic groups in the United States, blacks are the most likely to experience domestic violence - either male-to-female or female-to-male - followed by Hispanics and then whites. Asians are the least likely to experience intimate partner violence.

A five-year University of Texas Houston School of Public Health study in 2000 of 1,025 couples - including 406 white, 232 black, and 387 Hispanic - found that black and Hispanic couples are two to three times more likely to report male-to-female and female-to-male intimate partner violence than white couples.

White couples reported rates of male-to-female and female-to-male partner violence at eight and 10 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, black couples reported rates of 20 percent and 22 percent, respectively; and Hispanic couples reported rates of 21 percent and 20 percent, respectively.
Alcohol Increases Violence More in Blacks

The graph shows that the more the perpetrator drinks, the greater the percentage of violence in all groups. In white females, for example, the rate goes from a little over 10% for nondrinkers to almost 20% for heavy drinkers. But for black females, the rate of violence skyrockets from 22% for nondrinkers to almost 60% for heavy drinkers.

Of all the ethnic groups, heavy alcohol consumption increases the risk the greatest for men who are in a relationship with a frequent or heavy-drinking black female.

In male-to-female violence, the rate for males went from 20% for nondrinkers to more than 40% for frequent-heavy drinkers.

So what you're saying is ; people who tend to have lower educational, social, and economic backgrounds, and who also drink a lot, tend to fight a lot?

Shocking!

Yes Bernie Sanders, it is.

OMG! Good that you saw that. This is probably another fake news story.
Probably those pesky Russians again.

Russian Girl...

No, it's just pertinent to whatever this is about, to note that what is REPORTED isn't the same as what takes place. A small point, but if what you want is to understand unbiased factual information, you need to pay attention to the details.

As for the choice to focus on percentages of members of any given ethnicity, that's a bit dicey in a different way.

The potential implication is to pretend that if one self-identified ethnicity has a higher number of reports, that somehow that ethnicity CAUSES violence.


However, that isn't supported by actual logic at all. Unless you can show that ALL instances of violence are linked exclusively to one ethnicity, which clearly isn't the case, then what you've actually shown by your study or analysis of the data, is that ALL ethnicities suffer the same problem, and you haven't even begun to identify why.

It's just like working on machines. A while back, for example, it was noted that a high number of Sony PC batteries were overheating, some even catching fire. At first there was a rush to assume that somehow Sony was causing the problem during manufacture. Then it was found that actually ALL PC batteries were subject to the symptom, and that the seeming higher number of SOny problems was due to differences in reporting, differences in sales concentrations and various other aspects of the marketplace.


The same thing applies here. I know from the title that the OP wants to pretend that ethnicity CAUSES bad behavior. However, this is really just another example of misleading oneself and others by lack of correct understanding of logical analysis.

"Politics thread has never required nor been concerned with opinions or contributions based on 'scientific studies' alone, and that is not the point here"

Did any of my g.d. tax dollars go towards figuring out the more people drink the more they fight?

Except Hispanics maybe since the picture shows violence declines with increase in consumption? So if I'm kidnapped in Mexico (by a woman) then I should get that Stockholm syndrome to form a relationship, then try to get my captors drunk!


I noticed "Russian" is conspicuously missing from the study.
Maybe they were colluding with the Irish, who are also "coincidentally" left out.
Trump has reddish hair.
That's associated with that whole Ireland/Scotland place over there by the middle east.
Evidence!
Impeach!

Oh Yea, collusion runamuck!

IgorFrankensteen has a valid point.
The aforementioned article is about domestic violence that is reported.

As the article states, "Intimate partner violence is probably vastly under-reported."

But who has the best "make-up sex"?

Oooh, make-up sex!

I think I'm gonna go out, get loaded, and slap my girl around a bit right now so we can "kiss and make-up" later.

Dam, I'm really depressed now.

Perhaps you should take another trip to the Hebei Provence of China.

Thats, the Hebei Provence of NORTHERN China.

(laughing)