The awkward truth about spousal abuse
Honest researchers were surprised by the results of their own objective inquiries. They were all finding, independently, that intimate partner violence (IPV) is mostly bidirectional.
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Man’s scrotum ‘hacked by wife’ during argument
A MAN has been flown out of a remote Australian town after his wife allegedly tried to hack off his testicles during an argument about his fidelity.
National Geographic documentary maker seeking Male Victims of Domestic Violence
Sarah Isaac is currently researching the topic of men as victims of domestic violence at National Geographic and is looking for a younger male victim/survivor who is happy to talk on camera.
British woman ‘bites off’ boyfriend’s testicles
A BRITISH man had surgery to reattach his testicles after his girlfriend allegedly bit them off, the Daily Mirror reported yesterday.
Gender-based Approach Misses the Mark in Tackling Family Violence
Firstly, the gender-centric message gives the impression – perhaps unintentionally – that domestic violence and partner abuse is only committed by men. The best evidence suggests that this is far from the truth. When the Australian Bureau of Statistics in its Personal Safety Survey, Australia, 2006 (ABS Catalogue No. 4906.0) surveyed the extent to which respondents had experienced physical assault in the home within the previous 12 months, it found that 60,900 men (compared to 125,100 women) had experienced such domestic violence by a perpetrator of the opposite sex.
Men are also victims of violence
But what offends me is that it seems little is said or done to raise the issue of domestic violence against MEN. That’s right, where women are the perpetrators and men are the victims.
For harassed men, Independence Day will be sugarless
To show that men also get hounded in society, men’s rights organisation Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF) is organising a ‘Sugarless Independence Day’ conference Aug 15 at Yercaud in Tamil Nadu, a hill station 32km from the steel town of Salem.
A Hidden Crime: Domestic Violence Against Men Is a Growing Problem
More than 200 survey-based studies show that domestic violence is just as likely to strike men as women. In fact, the overwhelming mass of evidence indicates that half of all domestic violence cases involve an exchange of blows and the remaining 50% is evenly split between men and women who are brutalized by their partners.
Elderly man imprisoned by his young wife for 1 year in the laundry
An 80-year-old Frenchman was recovering in a state of shock in hospital on Saturday after being freed from a year locked in a laundry room by a wife half his age and her alleged lover.
Domestic Violence Strikes Men Hard
The Australian Bureau of Statistics ran the largest and most recent survey of violence in Australia. It found that 29.8 per cent of victims of current partner violence and 29.4 per cent of victims of sexual assault were male. In a South Australian report the figure was 32.3 per cent.
