Yesterday I discussed two cases of domestic violence. In the first case, a mother of three had forced the father out of the family, and then memory hacked their children to hate or ignore him. In the other, a woman told a story of her early upbringing, with a mother who physically abused her to the degree that she now, in her forties, has brain damage. Research on domestic violence shows that it's typically a female phenomena. The prevalence is much higher in Finland compared to Sweden. Women's domestic violence is a global issue, but Finland seem to have significantly more relational aggressive women that for example Sweden. Women's domestic violence is typically explained by a high degree of neuroticism and borderline personality disorder, but aggression is also a precursor to Alzheimers; Finland is the world leader. That seems to be explained by malnutrition, tribalism, and language.
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Yesterday I discussed two cases of domestic violence. In the first case, a mother of three had forced the father out of the family, and then memory hacked (Shaw, 2016) their children to alienate, hate or ignore him. In the other case, a woman told a story of her early upbringing, with a mother who physically abused her to the degree that she now, in her forties, has brain damage.
The commonality between the cases is honor culture/tribalism; the woman who was beaten by her mother at an early age migrated from a country where honor culture is prevalent. And Finland, as opposed to its neighbor Sweden, is marked by tribalism (Pagel, 2019).
During the conversation about the first case, a woman who worked with interventions for Finnish kids showed up. We started a conversation about why these kids have issues. That led to domestic violence and early upbringing. I, the expert, told her that kid's issues was partly explained by the situation in Finland, where the police and a woman who leads an organization which hosts an annual conference about children's rights, both point to Finnish women's relational aggressiveness (psychological domestic violence; Crick och Grotpeter, 1995, Hyde, 2005) as the big issue; 40% of the Finnish school kids are said to be victims (Estlander, Bensow, November, 2023; Helsingfors Police department, April, 2022; February, 2024). This is known as facts and figures.
But the lady who worked with the intervention for kids disagreed.
So, we had a case of heterodoxy – viewpoint diversity, which, if there's acceptance for viewpoint diversity, is key to progress (Karadzhov et al. 2024; Pinker, 2011; Strudwicke et al. 2023).
But this lady also refused to accept the facts I put forward. Instead, she applied what is known as argumentation – talk to win (Mercier and Sperber, 2011).
So, which are the facts and figures about domestic violence and early upbringing?
Studies using validated models such as the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS; Straus, 1979; Straus et al. 1996) or similar, show the following distribution:
Ergo. Domestic violence is a typically female phenomenon, and big challenge in Finland.
(Archer, 2000, 2004; Bates, Graham-Kevan och Archer , 2014; Bates och Graham-Kevan, 2016; Bates, 2018; Bates, Kaye, Pennington och Hamlin, 2019; Bergkvist, 2002; Crick och Grotpeter, 1995; Hyde, 2005; Thornton et al. 2012).
Listen to Dr Elizabeth Bates: Intimate Partner Violence: Intimate Partner Violence (34 minuter).
Custody conflict is thus a female conflict that is explained by relational aggression (psychological violence) which is also typically female (Hyde, 2005). The explanation for women's custody conflicts is often high levels of neuroticism and Borderline personality disorder (Jiang, Dong och Wang, 2022; Ode et al. 2009; Ruffalo, 2024; Weisberg et al. 2011; Zalewski et al. 2014).
But, research demonstrates that children who grow up with both parents or with the father have better executive functions, i.e. emotional and social adjustment and cognitive development, compared to children who grow up with a mother.
It is good that the father is at home with the children (LaFlamme et al. 2012). A research team at Imperial College has published a study showing that children who interact with their father at three months have better cognitive ability at the age of two (Sethna et al. 2017). A systematic review shows a positive effect of the father-relationship on the cognitive development of school children (Rolle et al. 2019). The father-relationship benefits children's emotional and social adjustment (Vieno et al. 2009, 2014). My own master's thesis in social psychology, which deals with children's emotional relationships with their respective parents, indicates that children who grow up with both parents or only with their father have better emotional and social adjustment and cognitive development (including visuospatial perception and numeracy) compared to children who grow up with only their mother (Österberg, 2004):
But in Finland, 40% of the school kids are affected by women's domestic violence.
Every year, ~55 000 kids are born in Finland. If we apply a time span including kindergarten, elementary, and high school, that's a total of 55 000*(1+9+3)=715 000 kids. 40% of 715 000=286 000 kids.
If we assume that violent mothers also start custodial conflicts (only women do), we can compare the data with Sweden.
25 years ago, the Swedish socialstyrelsen made an estimate about how many children was deprived of their father realtion. It was a staggering 350 000 kids (Carlberg et al. 2001). Extrapolating that number, and add an estimated increase in divorce rates and women's custodial conflict, its likely to estimate that ~400 000 Swedish children are currently suffering from mother's domestic violence.
Every year, ~110 000 kids are born in Sweden, which, using the same range is for Finland, give a total of 110 000* (1+9+3)=1430 000 kids. 400 000/1430 000=28% of Swedish kids. That is consistent with previous estimates from England (Doughty, 2014).
But, the number of Finnish kids who suffer from mother's domestic violence i 40%.
40%/25%=>48% higher rate of mother's domestic violent in Finland compared to England and Sweden.
What are the consequences of women's domestic violence, especially psychological violence against children, and why is the prevalence of women's domestic violence so much higher in Finland compared to Sweden?
Three years ago (2022), and in April this year (2025), the Finnish ministry of education and numeracy claimed that too many Finnish children failed reading compression and numeracy – the ability to understand, reason with, and apply simple numerical concepts; it is the numerical counterpart of literacy (Brooks and Pui, 2010).
Numeracy is the foundation for Instrumental and Epistemic rational thinking (Stanovich, 2011, 2016).
Science demonstrate that women's custodial conflicts are caused by high degree of neuroticism and borderline personality disorder. But why are these mental injuries so common, and 48% more common in Finland compared to Sweden?
Studies find that aggression is the precursor of Alzheimers, and Finland is the world leader in Alzheimers. The prevalence is twice compared to Sweden (EU/OECD, 2023). The Finnish Brain foundation predicts that 50% of all finnish women, and 30% of all Finnish men over 45 years of age, will suffer from a serious brain disease. They mean Alzheimers/dementia.
But the shared academic understanding – consensus – in Finland is that Alzheimers has a biological explanation.
In Agust 2023, Helsingin Sanomat reported about Finland's school crises, and that the research at the university of Helsingfors had collapsed.
It seems like Finland's mental health crises is explained by malnutrition, and that malnutrition is explained by tribalism, which probably is explained by Russia's imposition of a Uralic language, to compete with the trade language, which originally was common within the Swedish kingdom, which between at least Vendel period (540 – 750 AD) to 1809, included what since 1917 is called Finland. Common knowledge: language explain culture (Reich, 2019).
Conclusion. Women's domestic violence is a global issue, but Finland seem to have significantly more relational aggressive women that for example Sweden. Women's domestic violence is typically explained by a high degree of neuroticism and borderline personality disorder, but aggression is also a precursor to Alzheimers; Finland is the world leader. That seems to be explained by malnutrition, tribalism, and language.
Also read.
Österberg (2022). Nutrition psychology. Is Alzheimer's Disease just another form of diabetes? The case of Finland
Österberg (2023 a). Finland retains many titles: Life-satisfaction, highest: (1) suicide rate, (2) Alzheimer's rate, and children have mental issues due to [women's] home conflicts and misandry
Österberg (2023 b).Nutrition psychology. Finns' ability to function is weakening (HS). Finnish Fpa and THL confirms my warnings from 2019. The case for language and nutrition
Österberg (2024 a). Nutrition psychology. Why are depression and loneliness big issues in Finland? (Why isn't entrepreneurial thinking more prevalent?)
Österberg (2024 b). Nutrition psychology. Is women's relational aggressiveness a precursor to Alzheimer's? A comparison between Finland and Sweden
Österberg (2024 c). Nutrition psychology. ADHD and Alzheimer's disease in Finland. Nurture is more likely explanation compared to nature
Österberg (2024 d). Nutrition psychology. Meat, fat, and health. The case for Continued Influence bias.
Österberg (2024 e). Nutrition psychology. Dementia (Alzheimer's disease). The case for intermittent fasting
Österberg (2024 f). Nutrition psychology. Österberg (2025). “A forgotten disease is raging in Finland, which takes away the work efficiency of working-age People”(Örn).
Österberg (2024 g). Women's domestic violence, diet-heart hypothesis, and ADHD. The case for Typ 1 & 2 errors and malnutrition
Österberg (2025).Intimate Partner violence. The case for Finnish women's “hanger”
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Executive coaching for CEOs/managers and workshops to facilitate Organizational Performance, Learning, and Creativity for Problem Solving | Lectures: Nutrition for physical and mental health | Course/lecture: children's emotional and social adjustment and cognitive development | Language training - Swedish | Academy Competency | CV | Teaching skills and experience | Summary of research project | Instagram | Linkedin | YouTube-channel | TikTok | Twitter
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Yesterday I discussed two cases of domestic violence. In the first case, a mother of three had forced the father out of the family, and then memory hacked (Shaw, 2016) their children to alienate, hate or ignore him. In the other case, a woman told a story of her early upbringing, with a mother who physically abused her to the degree that she now, in her forties, has brain damage.
The commonality between the cases is honor culture/tribalism; the woman who was beaten by her mother at an early age migrated from a country where honor culture is prevalent. And Finland, as opposed to its neighbor Sweden, is marked by tribalism (Pagel, 2019).
During the conversation about the first case, a woman who worked with interventions for Finnish kids showed up. We started a conversation about why these kids have issues. That led to domestic violence and early upbringing. I, the expert, told her that kid's issues was partly explained by the situation in Finland, where the police and a woman who leads an organization which hosts an annual conference about children's rights, both point to Finnish women's relational aggressiveness (psychological domestic violence; Crick och Grotpeter, 1995, Hyde, 2005) as the big issue; 40% of the Finnish school kids are said to be victims (Estlander, Bensow, November, 2023; Helsingfors Police department, April, 2022; February, 2024). This is known as facts and figures.
But the lady who worked with the intervention for kids disagreed.
So, we had a case of heterodoxy – viewpoint diversity, which, if there's acceptance for viewpoint diversity, is key to progress (Karadzhov et al. 2024; Pinker, 2011; Strudwicke et al. 2023).
But this lady also refused to accept the facts I put forward. Instead, she applied what is known as argumentation – talk to win (Mercier and Sperber, 2011).
So, which are the facts and figures about domestic violence and early upbringing?
Studies using validated models such as the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS; Straus, 1979; Straus et al. 1996) or similar, show the following distribution:
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Physical intimate partner violence – women are responsible for slightly more than half of the incidence and injuries.
- Lethal domestic violence – is equally unlikely (0.000005) to affect children, men or women (Liem och Koenraadt, 2008).
- Psychological violence (relational aggression (Crick och Grotpeter, 1995, Hyde, 2005) – typically female. Remember, Finnish women’s relational aggression (psychological domestic violence) is the big challenge – 40% of Finnish schoolchildren are are victims.
Ergo. Domestic violence is a typically female phenomenon, and big challenge in Finland.
(Archer, 2000, 2004; Bates, Graham-Kevan och Archer , 2014; Bates och Graham-Kevan, 2016; Bates, 2018; Bates, Kaye, Pennington och Hamlin, 2019; Bergkvist, 2002; Crick och Grotpeter, 1995; Hyde, 2005; Thornton et al. 2012).
Listen to Dr Elizabeth Bates: Intimate Partner Violence: Intimate Partner Violence (34 minuter).
Custody conflict is thus a female conflict that is explained by relational aggression (psychological violence) which is also typically female (Hyde, 2005). The explanation for women's custody conflicts is often high levels of neuroticism and Borderline personality disorder (Jiang, Dong och Wang, 2022; Ode et al. 2009; Ruffalo, 2024; Weisberg et al. 2011; Zalewski et al. 2014).
But, research demonstrates that children who grow up with both parents or with the father have better executive functions, i.e. emotional and social adjustment and cognitive development, compared to children who grow up with a mother.
It is good that the father is at home with the children (LaFlamme et al. 2012). A research team at Imperial College has published a study showing that children who interact with their father at three months have better cognitive ability at the age of two (Sethna et al. 2017). A systematic review shows a positive effect of the father-relationship on the cognitive development of school children (Rolle et al. 2019). The father-relationship benefits children's emotional and social adjustment (Vieno et al. 2009, 2014). My own master's thesis in social psychology, which deals with children's emotional relationships with their respective parents, indicates that children who grow up with both parents or only with their father have better emotional and social adjustment and cognitive development (including visuospatial perception and numeracy) compared to children who grow up with only their mother (Österberg, 2004):
“A compilation of 28 studies on the effects of father absence on children's cognitive ability (Shinn, 1978) indicates that father absence as a function of divorce is negatively related to intellectual competence in children; which has also been demonstrated in previous studies (Blanchard & Biller, 1971; Crescimbeni, 1965; Ferri, 1976; Hetherington et al., 1978, 1982; Radin, 1976; Radin et al., 1994; Santrock, 1972; Sutton–Smith et al., 1978). Shinn (1978) "The results of the comparative study are consistent with the hypothesis that children's interaction with their parents forms a platform for cognitive development, and that a reduction in this interaction inhibits cognitive development” (p.2).Forcing a child to abandon the father increases the risk of Parental alienation (Bernet, 2008, 2023; Bernet et al. 2010; Kruk, 2015; Rand, 1997 a, b, 2011; Seltzer & Brandreth, 1994; Sikström, 2024; Warshak, 2014, 2015).
But in Finland, 40% of the school kids are affected by women's domestic violence.
Every year, ~55 000 kids are born in Finland. If we apply a time span including kindergarten, elementary, and high school, that's a total of 55 000*(1+9+3)=715 000 kids. 40% of 715 000=286 000 kids.
If we assume that violent mothers also start custodial conflicts (only women do), we can compare the data with Sweden.
25 years ago, the Swedish socialstyrelsen made an estimate about how many children was deprived of their father realtion. It was a staggering 350 000 kids (Carlberg et al. 2001). Extrapolating that number, and add an estimated increase in divorce rates and women's custodial conflict, its likely to estimate that ~400 000 Swedish children are currently suffering from mother's domestic violence.
Every year, ~110 000 kids are born in Sweden, which, using the same range is for Finland, give a total of 110 000* (1+9+3)=1430 000 kids. 400 000/1430 000=28% of Swedish kids. That is consistent with previous estimates from England (Doughty, 2014).
But, the number of Finnish kids who suffer from mother's domestic violence i 40%.
40%/25%=>48% higher rate of mother's domestic violent in Finland compared to England and Sweden.
What are the consequences of women's domestic violence, especially psychological violence against children, and why is the prevalence of women's domestic violence so much higher in Finland compared to Sweden?
Three years ago (2022), and in April this year (2025), the Finnish ministry of education and numeracy claimed that too many Finnish children failed reading compression and numeracy – the ability to understand, reason with, and apply simple numerical concepts; it is the numerical counterpart of literacy (Brooks and Pui, 2010).
Numeracy is the foundation for Instrumental and Epistemic rational thinking (Stanovich, 2011, 2016).
Science demonstrate that women's custodial conflicts are caused by high degree of neuroticism and borderline personality disorder. But why are these mental injuries so common, and 48% more common in Finland compared to Sweden?
Studies find that aggression is the precursor of Alzheimers, and Finland is the world leader in Alzheimers. The prevalence is twice compared to Sweden (EU/OECD, 2023). The Finnish Brain foundation predicts that 50% of all finnish women, and 30% of all Finnish men over 45 years of age, will suffer from a serious brain disease. They mean Alzheimers/dementia.
But the shared academic understanding – consensus – in Finland is that Alzheimers has a biological explanation.
In Agust 2023, Helsingin Sanomat reported about Finland's school crises, and that the research at the university of Helsingfors had collapsed.
It seems like Finland's mental health crises is explained by malnutrition, and that malnutrition is explained by tribalism, which probably is explained by Russia's imposition of a Uralic language, to compete with the trade language, which originally was common within the Swedish kingdom, which between at least Vendel period (540 – 750 AD) to 1809, included what since 1917 is called Finland. Common knowledge: language explain culture (Reich, 2019).
Conclusion. Women's domestic violence is a global issue, but Finland seem to have significantly more relational aggressive women that for example Sweden. Women's domestic violence is typically explained by a high degree of neuroticism and borderline personality disorder, but aggression is also a precursor to Alzheimers; Finland is the world leader. That seems to be explained by malnutrition, tribalism, and language.
Also read.
Österberg (2022). Nutrition psychology. Is Alzheimer's Disease just another form of diabetes? The case of Finland
Österberg (2023 a). Finland retains many titles: Life-satisfaction, highest: (1) suicide rate, (2) Alzheimer's rate, and children have mental issues due to [women's] home conflicts and misandry
Österberg (2023 b).Nutrition psychology. Finns' ability to function is weakening (HS). Finnish Fpa and THL confirms my warnings from 2019. The case for language and nutrition
Österberg (2024 a). Nutrition psychology. Why are depression and loneliness big issues in Finland? (Why isn't entrepreneurial thinking more prevalent?)
Österberg (2024 b). Nutrition psychology. Is women's relational aggressiveness a precursor to Alzheimer's? A comparison between Finland and Sweden
Österberg (2024 c). Nutrition psychology. ADHD and Alzheimer's disease in Finland. Nurture is more likely explanation compared to nature
Österberg (2024 d). Nutrition psychology. Meat, fat, and health. The case for Continued Influence bias.
Österberg (2024 e). Nutrition psychology. Dementia (Alzheimer's disease). The case for intermittent fasting
Österberg (2024 f). Nutrition psychology. Österberg (2025). “A forgotten disease is raging in Finland, which takes away the work efficiency of working-age People”(Örn).
Österberg (2024 g). Women's domestic violence, diet-heart hypothesis, and ADHD. The case for Typ 1 & 2 errors and malnutrition
Österberg (2025).Intimate Partner violence. The case for Finnish women's “hanger”
Please support the blog via Swish (Sweden), MobilePay (Finland) or Wise.
More about my expertise:
Executive coaching for CEOs/managers and workshops to facilitate Organizational Performance, Learning, and Creativity for Problem Solving | Lectures: Nutrition for physical and mental health | Course/lecture: children's emotional and social adjustment and cognitive development | Language training - Swedish | Academy Competency | CV | Teaching skills and experience | Summary of research project | Instagram | Linkedin | YouTube-channel | TikTok | Twitter
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