Don't be too judgmental The worst thing that can happen to a person is to be ignored. Even the child that gets beat prefers the beating to being ignored. Plenty of women leave their men, and plenty of the men are "whipped".
I think half the girls on the street are there as a result of being kicked out of their house at 14 after refusing to cooperate with house rules (boyfriend vs. Mommy). Then when the boyfriends that they ran off with gave them their first pounding, they were out of there, but too proud to crawl home with their head hung low. To the streets. From what I've seen, wife-beaters when reported, get picked up lickety split by the cops, way faster than in the USA, and I know a few chicas that have had their man's asses stomped by a bigger guy (sometimes one of their side men) or arranged a jumping staged to look like a robbery by a few entrepreneur tigueres.
Dominican woman are every bit as hot blooded as Dominican men. And sometimes the only thing they understand is a raised hand (no need to do the golpes, raising one's hand is all it takes to get one's attention, sometimes the eyes of fury in a man alone will do it).
I'll never forget walking with a German tourist to the jailhouse as I tried to talk him out of pressing charges for his bleeding arm. He kept say, no, this is not "all right". She cut me, she cut me with a knife. It was her finger nails and he had gotten freco with a waitress he thought he could treat like .... He dropped the charges before arriving at the station after he got it through his head that they were both to be arrested for assaulting the other. I was there to help both, the girl being a friend and they man being naive and surprised, and now off his high horse.
Another guy I know was attacked once by his jealous girlfriend. Once back home, she attacked him with a knife. After he got the knife from her, she threw everything in the house at him. Those glass ashtrays can be dangerous when used as a full speed as a trajectory.
He pinned her against the wall. He had her subdued. So he thought. He has a scar on his chest in the shape of a pair of teeth. Then they had fireworks, and the best lay ever.
Last year, the owner of a Boca Chica pelucaria could not take that her husband had another and dowsed herself and him with fuel. She lit herself on fire and then jumped him. She died, he survived (barely). The same girl somewhere in her 40's had been making a strong move on a friend of mine just weeks earlier, bragging how she wanted nothing because she already had money.
5% of abusers recover after therapy? That must be some damaging therapy. Everybody I know that has been abused, at one time or another, be it a boyfriend, father, uncle, or boss, which is just about every Dominicana I've ever met, has recovered. They are tougher than you might think. Dominicanas will rip each other's heads off very quickly in confrontation with each other.
Recall a post I made about the tourist, who was dismayed that she would just up and slam him in the face with a beer bottle like that, as he bled and was being carried away to the hospital. What comes around, goes around.
Anybody that beats a Dominicana lives a dangerous life. Between the police, boyfriends, propensity for revenge, their own violent tempers, their "grab the nearest weapon" mentality, and the imminent danger of someone pushed to the end of their rope, you'd have to be crazy to do any substantial hitting.
And like I say, when I hear woman talk of getting hit by the man and when asked why, they tell of getting their own shots in, of their plan for revenge, and of the hotness of the sex when they makeup.