Stats
Hi guys!
I vaguely remember discussion online about the "higher rates of domestic violence in lesbian relationships" being because women are more likely to be victims of violence at the hands of men, so if both women had previously dated men there may be reports of higher domestic violence. I say lesbian relationships because I was pretty sure that the data used completely ignored if they are bisexual / pansexual / asexual etc and just classified as lesbian because it was 2 women.
Woman (victim of domestic violence) + woman (victim of domestic violence) = higher rate of domestic violence.
Ive been able to google to confirm that a huge issue with that stat is that the sampling methods were not random and had a small sample size so that needs to be considered when applying it broadly to all lesbian couples.
If anyone can point me in a direction to where those discussions were and any data that would be fab! Thank you 🩷