From the article “The new system works by highlighting medical clues - such as higher than average hospital visits and certain mental health diagnoses - that are more common among battered MEN and women”.
Did you read the whole article? It says nothing about ‘wife’ abuse. It says men and women.
But any man that abuses his wife or child is rotten. The same goes for a woman who beats her husband.
If something is bothersome, it’s that they base it on a “diagnosis” of abuse. Sounds like circular reasoning to me, that the computer model is only formalizing presuppositions that were in doctors’ minds before. I’d want to see it based on firmer evidence, such as confessions, witnesses, and forensic data.
The best solution to domestic violence I have heard of was, once a restraining order was issued by the judge, most often against the man, to be fair, he then issued a bench order to the *woman*, *requiring* that she be armed with a functional handgun, and to carry it when in public.
And the judge was so sick of seeing the same women repeatedly, that if they were too poor to afford a handgun and ammo, he would buy one for her out of his own pocket.
He was crafty enough to also ask the local police to “bump” into her, informally, once or twice, and ask her about her court ordered gun. To make sure they were in the habit of carrying it with them.
The judge was exceptionally proud of the fact that after he started doing this, the number of women appearing before him a second time dropped to zero.