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Domestic Violence: A Danger To Men And Women Alike
Anna Blaise
Issue date: 10/31/07 Section: News
Whitaker said these conflicts that involve violence happen because some people in relationships do not have any communications strategies.
"[These violence] happen because of conflicts that escalate out of control," he said in the report. "If people can learn relationship and communication strategies, it would decrease a great amount."
The president and attorney of the National Coalition of Free Men, Los Angeles chapter, Marc E. Angelucci, said he is not surprised at all by the findings. Angelucci, who started the chapter, said he is angry that the media does not cover the fact that men are as much victims in violence of relationships as women are.
"[The study] does not surprise me at all because as far back as 1975 the National Family of Violence industry, which is feminist leaning, has not yet publicized the male victims and has only cited the figures for female victims. That has gone on decades and there is a long history to this, documented by Professor Linda Kelly of Indiana State University School of Law. Today, almost 200 similar studies have already been done and confirmed the same [findings as Dr. Whitaker's study] more or less."
He added, "When you look at the social science instead of just the crime data, you find the only serious differences between the sexes with regard to domestic abuse is that men are much less likely to report it and that women suffer more physical injury on average.
"But men sustain about one-third of the injuries and children are psychologically damaged by witnessing it regardless of injuries. So the difference in injuries should not be an excuse to ignore any victims or downplay female violence at all as some try to do," Whitaker said.
Contact Anna Blaise at
Anna.Blaise@UConn.edu.
"[These violence] happen because of conflicts that escalate out of control," he said in the report. "If people can learn relationship and communication strategies, it would decrease a great amount."
The president and attorney of the National Coalition of Free Men, Los Angeles chapter, Marc E. Angelucci, said he is not surprised at all by the findings. Angelucci, who started the chapter, said he is angry that the media does not cover the fact that men are as much victims in violence of relationships as women are.
"[The study] does not surprise me at all because as far back as 1975 the National Family of Violence industry, which is feminist leaning, has not yet publicized the male victims and has only cited the figures for female victims. That has gone on decades and there is a long history to this, documented by Professor Linda Kelly of Indiana State University School of Law. Today, almost 200 similar studies have already been done and confirmed the same [findings as Dr. Whitaker's study] more or less."
He added, "When you look at the social science instead of just the crime data, you find the only serious differences between the sexes with regard to domestic abuse is that men are much less likely to report it and that women suffer more physical injury on average.
"But men sustain about one-third of the injuries and children are psychologically damaged by witnessing it regardless of injuries. So the difference in injuries should not be an excuse to ignore any victims or downplay female violence at all as some try to do," Whitaker said.
Contact Anna Blaise at
Anna.Blaise@UConn.edu.
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Bilal
posted 10/31/07 @ 2:35 PM EST
The Centers for Disease Control study mentioned in the article has been publicized by Harvard Medical School at
http://www.patienteducationcenter.org/aspx/HealthELibrary/HealthETopic. (Continued…)
Alan Millard
posted 11/01/07 @ 4:14 PM EST
Excellent article! Prejudiced propaganda is all that we see otherwise.
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