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Women responsible for more than 70% of nonreciprocal domestic violence

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Given the amount of money spent of advertising domestic abuse against women and the complete lack of funding regarding domestic abuse against men maybe this study should be given more weight.

We are forever told by the media that domestic abuse is more often initiated by men but this study shows that women are more likely to be the initiator in nonreciprocal domestic violence (which is important as it means the man has not responded violently, this goes against what feminists would have you believe).

Should we be doing more to combat this? What are the ways we can change the image of domestic violence being primarily started by men?

As for physical injury due to intimate partner violence, it was more likely to occur when the violence was reciprocal than nonreciprocal. And while injury was more likely when violence was perpetrated by men, in relationships with reciprocal violence it was the men who were injured more often (25 percent of the time) than were women (20 percent of the time). "This is important as violence perpetrated by women is often seen as not serious," Whitaker and his group stressed.

American Journal of Public Health

Results. Almost 24% of all relationships had some violence, and half (49.7%) of those were reciprocally violent. In nonreciprocally violent relationships, women were the perpetrators in more than 70% of the cases. Reciprocity was associated with more frequent violence among women (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]=2.3; 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.9, 2.8), but not men (AOR=1.26; 95% CI=0.9, 1.7). Regarding injury, men were more likely to inflict injury than were women (AOR=1.3; 95% CI=1.1, 1.5), and reciprocal intimate partner violence was associated with greater injury than was nonreciprocal intimate partner violence regardless of the gender of the perpetrator (AOR=4.4; 95% CI=3.6, 5.5).

Source :

http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/5/941

Reply 1

ToysRUs

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Whooo, sexual equality in action!!

Reply 2

manderlay in flames

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The bit about women being more likely to be in "non-reciprocal" is probably because of the taboo in our society against hitting women. I should beat my girlfriend more :/

Reply 3

ToysRUs

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To elaborate, I doubt there is much that can be done. Non reciprocal will imply that the man thinks he deserved it, so in court it will never hold up. In truth, there is still the social conditioning that "you should never hit a woman" - but of course it's perfectly fine if the roles were reversed.

Women's Rights has really put men on the backfoot, and so many things have changed as a result; women have babies later (or not at all) as it means they can fully expand in their career; they live longer lives, have less stress, men are more suicidal, women have better support networks (friends, families, community specialist groups), and there are an increasing number of "alpha females" who is the breadwinner in the family.

Sad to say, most men in the future will simply be made useless. Women who otherwise would be raising kids will take their jobs, while higher up the the chain women may replace men on the board, so that men will stay in lower professional jobs. It's all rather depressing from a male point of view.

The rise in power for women is great in terms of equality, but also there is a huge risk of leaving men behind, especially those who need help. I'm afraid that instead of those men being supported by specialist groups as women have been in the past, they will simply be forgotten and made way for the continual status and wellbeing rise concentrated on women.

Reply 4

L i b

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Och, they're probably just getting hysterical as usual.

No need to worry about this variety of 'domestic violence'. If it bothered anyone too much, then it would hopefully be very quickly reciprocated.

Reply 5

lifeispie

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Because of social conditioning not many men will come foreward about it anyway, as they don't want to be embaressed about it from what I gather.

Reply 6

Tufts

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Here's some statistics for you.

Nearly half of women (46%) killed in 2003 were killed by their partner or former partner.

Only 5% of men were killed by their partner of former partner.

2 women are killed every week by their current of former partner.

Reply 7

kjstar

hey that really is a scary thought!

Reply 8

fscksleep

Cromulent

We are forever told by the media that domestic abuse is more often initiated by men but this study shows that women are more likely to be the initiator in nonreciprocal domestic violence (which is important as it means the man has not responded violently, this goes against what feminists would have you believe).

My mom used to punch my father whenever she was angry.
He would just laugh and ignore her.
He never hit her back.
He eventually got a divorce when the violence got too bad.

Reply 9

L i b

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^ He could've fixed that by just punching her back. Once or twice is all they need for them to learn.

Reply 10

Tyler Durden

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Tufts

Here's some statistics for you.

Nearly half of women (46%) killed in 2003 were killed by their partner or former partner.

Only 5% of men were killed by their partner of former partner.

2 women are killed every week by their current of former partner.

Source please.

Reply 11

Cromulent

OP

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Tufts

Here's some statistics for you.

Nearly half of women (46%) killed in 2003 were killed by their partner or former partner.

Only 5% of men were killed by their partner of former partner.

2 women are killed every week by their current of former partner.

I'd like a source on that too please. Also take into account that there are more male murder victims than female.

Reply 12

bright star

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it's probably not the original source, but there's many a statistic here for you to look at.

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10309

Reply 13

Tufts

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Sehnsucht

Source please.

My criminal law lecture and its associated handout. But I shall email the lecturer now for the source :smile:

Reply 14

Tufts

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bright star

it's probably not the original source, but there's many a statistic here for you to look at.

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10309

That's a pretty reliable source. I suspect this is where my lecturer got the stats from.

Reply 15

Tufts

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Cromulent

I'd like a source on that too please. Also take into account that there are more male murder victims than female.

Who murders the majority of male victims?

Reply 16

Tufts

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Sehnsucht

Source please.

Cromulent

I'd like a source on that too please. Also take into account that there are more male murder victims than female.

ToysRUs

The source was probably lesbian.

In response to all of the above:

Here is the official sources

http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/dv/dv01.htm

Statistics on Women and the Criminal Justice System 2003: Home Office, 2003
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/s95women03.pdf

Reply 17

dyslexic_banana

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Tufts

Here's some statistics for you.

Nearly half of women (46%) killed in 2003 were killed by their partner or former partner.

Only 5% of men were killed by their partner of former partner.

2 women are killed every week by their current of former partner.

And how is this relevant to the original points raised in the thread? Also, as has been said, far more men than women are murdered, which distorts somewhat your statistics.

Tufts

Who murders the majority of male victims?

Oh, great, the feminist justification of things. I suppose it's more acceptable for a man to get murdered by a man, than for a woman to be, simply because he also happens to be a man? Most violent acts and acts of murder are perpetrated by men, yes, but these acts are most commonly against other men. It is only a small minority of men who commit such acts, and as far as I'm concerned, the gender of the victim is of little or no significance; a non-violent, non-murderous man (i.e. the majority of men) deserves no more to be attacked or murdered, than does a non-violent, non-murderous woman.

Reply 18

Dream_Catcher

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Tufts

Here's some statistics for you.

Nearly half of women (46%) killed in 2003 were killed by their partner or former partner.

Only 5% of men were killed by their partner of former partner.

2 women are killed every week by their current of former partner.

Wow that's terrible.

But just because it doesn't happen that much to men doesn't mean it should just be pushed aside. No matter how much men like to portray themselves as strong etc they are still only human and can be hurt. Women shouldn’t be allowed to be protected from domestic violence while men are told to deal with it as their male.

Edit: Also sorry if I missed it but I can't seem to find the stats for males. Ok it would be hard to gather and probably not reliable, due to males not reporting them, but still nice to have.

Reply 19

dyslexic_banana

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Dream_Catcher

Edit: Also sorry if I missed it but I can't seem to find the stats for males. Ok it would be hard to gather and probably not reliable, due to males not reporting them, but still nice to have.

Yeah, men will definitely be less likely to report it; it's become a subject of comedy, for females to hit/physically abuse males, thus undermiming considerably the seriousness of such acts.

Women responsible for more than 70% of nonreciprocal domestic violence

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