Comment Re:Economic harship (Score 2, Insightful) 281
Not all abuse is physical, and women have basically the entire government (men with guns) at their disposal to meet out abuse if a relationship turns sour, if they so choose.
I've known men who have had their lives and future prospects ruined by their former mates: family courts are overwhelmingly overseen by female judges, often from (literal) feminist schools of thought. It sometimes results in overly burdensome alimony, child support payments that supports a lavish non-working lifestyle for the former wife (in one case whom rotated through multiple lovers / sugar daddies) and does not go towards raising the children--to the point where the former husband is basically living monastically / on the brink of homelessness. Alimony cannot be discharged under bankruptcy. Primary custody almost always goes towards the woman, regardless of her actual ability to raise a well adjusted child. The justice system as a whole is radically slanted towards favoring the female partner and will default to her story despite any number of insane / impossible tales.
Of course, like the economy and everything else, this has a cooling effect on men's attitudes towards raising a family.