In approximately
60% of the cases where
the woman is being abused,
so are the children.
As estimated 3 million
children
are exposed to adult-to-adult
domestic violence annually.
Rape is a significant
form
of abuse in 54% of
violent marriages.
More than twice
as many
women are killed by their
husbands or boyfriends
as are murdered by strangers.
10% of the women
who are
divorced or separated compose
75% of the victims of domestic abuse.
30% of battered
women are
beaten while they are pregnant.
Abuse of children
by the batterer
is more likely when the marriage is
dissolving, the couple has separated,
and the husband/father is highly
committed to continued dominance
and control of the mother and children.
One if five high
school girls
has been physically or sexually abused
by a dating partner.
An Ohio study showed
the 80%
of violent juvenile offenders
and adult prisoners come from
domestic violence homes.
"Domestic violence
is a patter of
coercive control in an intimate
relationship which may be characterized
by physical, emotional, verbal, sexual, or
financial abuse or isolating and
controlling behaviors on the part of
the perpetrator." - Susan Schecter
Abuse by husbands
and partners
was ranked by the US Surgeon General
as the leading cause of injuries
to women aged 13-44
Forty percent of
teenage girls
age 14-17 report knowing
someone their age who has been
hit or beaten by a boyfriend.
Up to 50% of all
homeless women
and children are fleeing domestic violence.
"If you want to attack me or my artwork then confront me with discussion...that is the purpose of this type of art. Debate fuels enlightenment and by stealing personal property on display in a space reserved for art, that was taken away."
Oh really? Ms. Walker
continues to refuse
to speak with the media. So much for enlightened debate.
A quick glimpse at the other side of the story:
As Erin Pizzey has repeatedly tried to tell people, these women's shelters have become nothing but a bunker to wage war on men and children and to help break up families. All at the expense of the Canadian taxpayer of course!
http://sharedparent.freeyellow.com/990209.pdf
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One of the widely believed myths of our society is that domestic violence is something men do to women. Solid scientific research reveals that domestic violence is something women do to men more frequently than men do it to women. While it is true that men account for most violence outside the home, women instigate most domestic violence and they assault men more frequently and more severely.
http://www.abs-comptech.com/DVMETAht.html
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Consider recent studies on family violence. In 1975, and again in 1985, researchers Murray A. Straus, Ph.D., and Richard J. Gelles, Ph.D., et al., conducted the National Family Violence Survey, one of the largest and most respected studies of family violence ever done in this country. The Survey showed that men are just as likely to be the victims of domestic violence as women.
http://www.eon.anglia.ac.uk/DOVI/articles/article08.htm
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Conventional wisdom says that in cases of domestic violence, men attack and women are victims. But a University of Pittsburgh psychologist believes it may be the other way around- that women hit first, and men hit back because they're provoked.
http://www.abs-comptech.com/domestic.html#Pitt
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What motivates this zealous denial of violence by women against men? Some gender-feminists repeat police statistics over and over in supposed reasoning that these self-selected samples negate the statistics of scientific studies with unbiased representative sampling techniques. Some gender-feminists resort to violent threats in attempt to silence scientific inquiry. These threats and denials stand to deny help to battered men. The actions of these gender-feminists are damnable and dangerous.
http://www.vix.com/pub/men/battery/damnabledenial.html
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"As is evidenced in [the above Table], equal or greater percentages of women than men reported engaging in all types of physical aggression assessed at each assessment period... Interestingly, the lower rates of overall aggression for men were not offset by higher rates of the more severe types of aggression..."
http://www.vix.com/pub/men/battery/studies/oleary-etal.html
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Safe House self definition: "BELIEFS Domestic violence affects women and children of all cultures, classes, races, religions, and sexual orientations. It pervades all of society,.." (emphasis mine)
http://www.safehouse-denver.org/sh.html
Erin Pizzy, founder of the SafeHouse movement:
The final feminist utopia thirty years ago was the idea that there would be no family life, I.e. a father and mother with their children under one roof but rather there would be a mother - a worker unit, the children in the care of the state, and the fathers absent and destroyed. We face the twenty-first century with much of the utopia in place. The only problem is that the vision has become a nightmare and the public are only beginning to wake up. Because it has taken so long, the core of the evil lies deep within our judicial and our caring agencies so righting the injustice will be an immense task. Truly 'it only takes good to do nothing for evil to flourish' if ever there was an example of this - we have it now. erin - Erin Pizzy, founder of the SafeHouse movement.
Additional Articles on Battered Husbands
"There are as many violent women as men, but there's a lot of money in hating men, particularly in the United States -- millions of dollars. It isn't a politically good idea to threaten the huge budgets for women's refuges by saying that some of the women who go into them aren't total victims."
-- Erin Pizzey, quoted in David Thomas, Men: Not Guilty.
From "As Good As It Gets"Secretary: "How do you write women so well?"
Writer: "I think of a man. Then I take away reason and accountability."
