4,000 Taiwan men reported abuse by wives

More than 4,000 Taiwan men sought help after being abused by wives last year, the Central News Agency said yesterday.
In 2009, 4,428 men called the family abuse hot line set up by the interior ministry to seek help, after being abused by their wives, up from 1,325 in 2002, it said.
'These men suffered verbal or physical abuse from their wives. One reason is that some women earn more money than men, so they play a dominant role at home and begin to curse or beat their husbands,' the agency quoted Chang Hsiu-yuan, a ministry official in charge of domestic violence, as saying.