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Are men suffering in silence?



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Published Date: 25 August 2008
By John Forsyth
LAW enforcement agencies across the UK have a definition of domestic abuse. Give or take a comma or two, it refers to "the systematic misuse of power and the exercise of control by one adult person over another within the context of a close personal relationship. Abuse can be physical, emotional, psychological, sexual or financial".
The wording is carefully gender neutral to acknowledge the possibility that both men and women can be perpetrators as well as victims of abuse and that it can develop in same-sex as well as heterosexual relationships.

In Wales they appear to take ...



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  • Last Updated: 24 August 2008 7:10 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Legal Issues
 
1

ennerdale27,

sale cheshire 25/08/2008 07:17:43
Paxman always did do a good line in Home Couties gutless self pity
2

Spoot,

Third rock pool on the left 25/08/2008 08:39:00
#1

That'll be those Home Couthies of whom Paxo is such a fine example.
3

Horrible Cankers @Cyber Shebeen,

25/08/2008 10:44:29
Any woman employed by "Women's Aid" who does not believe that women can be violent needs to be retrained. That is crass stupidity...if it is true.
4

Jeff, Surrey,

25/08/2008 14:19:30
http://www.equalities.gov.uk/domestic_violence/index.htm

'Domestic violence currently claims 104 lives a year, 83 women and 21 men'

1.6 women killed each week

0.4 men killed each week

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article587546.ece

'Of 24,000 partners who suffered serious wounding with a weapon, 11,000 were men.'

In other words, 45.8% were men, and 54.2% were women.

www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs04/hors276.pdf

Title: Domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking: Findings from the British Crime Survey

The BCS estimates that 13% of women and 9% of men had been subject to domestic violence (abuse, threats or force), sexual victimisation or stalking in the twelve months prior to interview.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5092100.stm

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60% (women) said it was acceptable for women to hit their husbands while 35% admitted assaulting their partner.

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Survey finds male abuse approval

BBC Sunday, 18 June 2006, 12:39 GMT 13:39 UK

Many of the Glasgow women admitted assaulting a partner

More than half of women questioned at a Glasgow university said they approved of wives hitting their husbands. The Glasgow Caledonian students were among 6,500 women surveyed from 36 universities for an international study into attitudes on domestic violence.

Of the 200 women, 60% said it was acceptable for women to hit their husbands while 35% admitted assaulting their partner.

A total of 8% admitted injuring them - the highest rate in the study.

The injured men suffered bruises, cuts or broken bones.

Among European students, only English women were more likely to have carried out assaults, with 41% admitting that they had punched or kicked their partners.

We need make the same 'big deal' about violence by women as we do about men who behave violently.
5

Funnyoldworld,

Edinburgh 25/08/2008 23:48:29
For Scotsman. online response to article 25/08/08

Applicants for jobs with Women’s Aid and other related government funded organisations are expected to hold a ‘gendered analysis’ of domestic abuse. Public sector staff who work with families are openly offered training in the ‘gendered’ approach. This states that domestic violence is overwhelmingly about male perpetrators and female victims; that it is just one symptom of male domination of women, and that the rare woman who is ‘violent’ to her partner is simply reacting against the suppression of women. For further information on this approach look no further than the Scottish Government’s Domestic Abuse Web pages. The gendered approach to domestic abuse is used to justify a ‘different‘ approach to male and female victims – exemplified by the recent £44.5 awarded to Women’s groups. It was not considered necessary to provide any funding for the support of male victims.

There have been claims that groups set up to protect women will also help men, but my own enquiries have found this not to be so. In any case why would an abused man think to contact a violence against women’s organisation for help?

Well done the Scotsman for publishing this brave article, and the other related one today. I sincerely hope the inevitable backlash from those who would wish to suppress the uncomfortable truths about domestic abuse will not discourage you from printing further revelations on this subject.

 

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