One in Three (or One in Two): The untold story of male victims of family/domestic violence

[4c4sale]

This is a seriously undertold story, and this website is a good place to learn the truth about the staggering number of male victims of domestic abuse in Australia:

http://www.oneinthree.com.au/

Men are MUCH less likely (three times less likely it seems) to report being battered and attacked by their female partners than women who are attacked by men, and further, men have less support if they do speak out.

Men may face scorn, derision and disbelief when they report being abused.

If one considers the vastly lower reporting of these incidents by men, and combines this with the higher number of women who abuse children, it arises that women - not men - are the majority domestic abusers in Australia, Great Britain and the United States.

Time to start spreading this truth, and working for change on BOTH sides of the gender equation.

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

Of men who reported that they had experienced physical violence in the 12 months before the survey, 73.7% said that the perpetrator

was a male.

[4c4sale]

We're talking about DOMESTIC/FAMILY violence, not ALL violence.

[love*today · Accepted solution]

I've told the story of a male we knew on here a few times now. His misses would bash the carp out of him. He had to go home at smoko and lunch everyday to make sure their kids were ok.
His misses was not a big girl either and he was not exactly small, I never understood why he didn't just ko the situation.

Battered syndrome and loving them is more powerful then anything anyone outside can do to help.

[ruloinfovoter · Accepted solution]

From the article:

...Research from the 2012 ABS Personal Safety Survey and Australian Institute of Criminology shows that both men and women in Australia experience substantial levels of violence. Males make up a significant proportion of victims of family and sexual violence, yet are excluded from government anti-violence programs such as Our Watch and ANROWS.

75 males were killed in domestic homicide incidents between 2008-10. This equates to one death every 10 days...

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

Australian Bureau of Statistics....from above post...

"females are more likely than males to experience an act of physical or sexual violence (actual, attempted or threatened) at the hands

of a current or former partner:"..

But don't let real research/ evidence get in your way......... sigh......

[katydidthat]

Does any of the research show how many of those 75 men were killed by battered wives?

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

Highlighting other posts, doesn't change the statistics, or make your statement correct....lol.....

[love*today]

Got to go to work so haven't checked the link.....but if those program's are for women and kids only then that's how it is. Do you think women that have been bashed by men want to seek refuge and help when there are men around?
Also they would be considering the kids too. There are reasons as to why some groups exclude people and they do so to only help those who the group aims to help not for any other reason.
During my research I never looked for help for men in my area, I will at lunch.

[4c4sale]

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@love*today wrote:
Got to go to work so haven't checked the link.....but if those program's are for women and kids only then that's how it is. Do you think women that have been bashed by men want to seek refuge and help when there are men around?
Also they would be considering the kids too. There are reasons as to why some groups exclude people and they do so to only help those who the group aims to help not for any other reason.
During my research I never looked for help for men in my area, I will at lunch.

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This is a good point, but I think Step was just saying there's a paucity of support for men.

[4c4sale]

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@katydidthat wrote:
Does any of the research show how many of those 75 men were killed by battered wives?

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Or how many of the women were killed by battered husbands?