Battered Man Syndrome in Quito Ecuador

The most representative type of violence at the national level is domestic violence, however, for years, men have been considered as the generators of violence, leaving aside the fact that both men and women can be victims of mistreatment by their spouses or partners; the literature reviewed for this study deals mostly with violence against women, with few documents on violence against men. The mistreatment of the partner towards the man has often been conjugated under threats of abandonment and separating him from his family such as his children and his material goods, many of them do not take responsibility and attribute their fault to their partner, the man in this sense takes the blame as his own and feels that it is just the mistreatment that he is receiving. Many of them do not separate from their wives because of their children, for fear of losing them and above all that their mother will turn them against them and end the good relationship that exists between them. Violence against men is hidden and under-recorded in Ecuador, which is why this study is being carried out to raise awareness and promote gender equality.