Please actually read the post before replying!

Academically inclined blue pillers, as the title states, I am looking for HARD, meaning QUANTITATIVE, evidence for the prevalence of domestic violence during these decades.

I know that according to the feminist narrative it was not recorded by the police because they did not take it seriously. Please do not write this in comments. I already know.

However, feminist academics after 1970 had decades to survey women who were married in the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s to see the rate of domestic violence that they experienced. Did they do it? I have not seen any data of this sort. If it is buried some place and you have some idea of where that place may be please let me know.

If it doesnt exist. It begs the question, why? Were they not smart enough to have this obvious idea? -- no chance. Did they survey these women, find results they did not like, and chose not to publish (as often happens)? -- a lot more likely.

Female murder rate shot up dramatically in the late 60s and 70s as did all crime when the New Left undermined the social fabric of society. https://www.statista.com/statistics/187597/death-rate-for-homicide-in-the-us-by-gender-since-1950/

Since about 30% of female murder victims are killed by their intimate partner, it likely means that domestic violence also shot up -- not a good look for the feminists, so they would naturally try to hide it. It has since went down in the mid-90s, along with violent crime as a whole, and is back to the 1950s levels. Does that mean that we have the same rate of domestic violence that we did in the 50s? I don't know. This is what I am trying to figure out.

Please do not reply to this post with your anecdotal stories of what your grandma went though in the dark times before 1970. I don't trust the tales people tell on Reddit because anyone can make anything up and anyway this is anecdotal. I am not denying that wife beating happened then as it happens now. I want to know the *rate** at which it happens. Which means I need stats*

Please don't reply telling me that it was legal to beat your wife then. It had been illegal in all states since 1920.

Please don't reply with "but what about those sexist ads?" Some of the ads you see are fake and the rest were meant to be jokes.