Survey: Wives admit to abusing husbands

Domestic violence cases in which husbands are the victims are on the rise, according to a survey taken after the country's first anti-domestic violence law took effect on Tuesday.

In some provinces, more females than males admitted they had inflicted violence on a spouse, according to a national survey published by Chinese child care portal Babytree.com.

In Guizhou province, nearly 70 percent of the female respondents in the poll said they had engaged in verbal abuse, physical violence or cold wars against their husbands, while only 52 percent of the male respondents said they had engaged in such behaviors, including scolding or humiliating or forcing sex on their wives.