Whenever I talk about men being the victims of domestic violence, some people chuckle. For years I have been discussing this with people and, like clockwork, I have to challenge people on why they find this funny whether it is real laughter or nervous laughter.
This is another reminder that men are also victims of domestic violence (in woman-man and man-man relationships). It does not make it okay just because they are men. It does not make it a "nondomestic violence topic" just because they are men. This is still domestic violence and this is part of the topic of domestic violence even if women are a higher percentage of domestic violence victims.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by elev8 article
Did you know that men are also victims of domestic abuse? While most attention is given to women who are abused by men, men are often overlooked victims of domestic violence. Victims of domestic violence come from all walks of life — all cultures, all income groups, all ages, all religions. Men are silent sufferers. We easily believe a woman who claims abuse, but a man is expected to always hold be the one giving the abuse. This is not the case.
Read these facts:
- Every 38 seconds, somewhere in America a man is battered.
- Center For Disease Control estimates 835,000 men are the victims of domestic violence each year.
- A survey 0f 1,000 women, perhaps the largest survey of its kind, found that 20% had initiated violence. The most common reasons for women initiating domestic violence were: “My partner wasn’t sensitive to my needs,” (46%), “I wished to gain my partner’s attention,” (44%) and “My partner was not listening to me” (43%). “My partner was being verbally abusive to me” (38%) was a distant fourth. ( Source: Fiebert. M. and Gonzalez, D. (1997). College Women Who Initiate Assaults on their Male Partners and the Reasons Offered for Such Behavior. Psychological Reports, 80, 583-590 (1997) |
http://elev8.com/health/orethawinsto...tic-abuse-men/
Threaded Mode
