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So what does it mean to be a man? : Comments
By Mark Christensen, published 29/3/2005Mark Christensen poses the question: what does it mean to be a man?
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Rather than dismiss DV against men as a sick joke please have a look at the child abuse stats or read the Heady, Scott, de Vaus paper mentioned in previous post. My understanding is that the stats for hospital treatment for serious injury resulting from DV is not extremely genderised, there is some difference but not to the level you might expect from the manner DV is publicised or from your experience.
Some excerpts from the Headey, Scott, de Vaus paper
"The hypotheses we test are thus based on ‘majority’ professional and public opinion: (6)
- Men are significantly more likely to physically assault their female partners than vice-versa.
- The injuries inflicted by male partners are significantly more serious than those inflicted by female partners.
- Men who physically assault their partners are likely to be the sons of fathers who were violent to their own wives.
- Women who are physically assaulted are likely to be the daughters of violent fathers and of mothers who were assaulted."
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"To sum up:
- Men were just as likely to report being physically assaulted by their partners as women. Further, women and men were about equally likely to admit being violent themselves.
- Men and women report experiencing about the same levels of pain and need for medical attention resulting from domestic violence.
- Violence runs in couples. In over 50% of partnerships in which violence occurred both partners struck each other.
- People who had violent parents were significantly more likely than others to be violent to their own partners and to be victims of violence themselves. On the other hand, a huge majority of people whose parents were violent do not assault their own partners. Moreover, the vast majority of those who are violent did not have violent parents.
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