Like most people of the world, Americans too like to beat the absolute shit out of those they love, or once loved :
Absolute carnage.Every year in the United States, such violence accounts for some 1,200 deaths and 2 million injuries among women, and almost 600,000 injuries among men, according to new statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday.
"One in four women and one of seven men experience physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime..."