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Originally Posted by Boshi
Yeah.. socially we're more in-tune with women in need and I think it all comes down to the notion that men are the strong and aggressive ones whereas the women are more fragile and emotionally vulnerable. There's some truth in it but it shouldn't be cast in stone.. as there are always exceptions.
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There is no truth to it at all. Men and Women are equal in violence it's just Men can't "talk" about it. In 2010 Domestic Violence against women dropped to 6.4% while Domestic Violence against men is still holding at 6%.
A current issue - second hand but true.
Family of Men tried protecting a small boy and the Father from an abusive Wife/Mother and the "Policy" was to arrest the father. They came to the shelter and tried to corner him to provoke the father to "assault" the officers. They slowly moved toward him and tried cornering and trapping him into the open back seat of a squad car. Until the mans only option was to assault them (by trying to escape and shoving them out of the way) or get in the car. The Man at Family of Men saw what they were doing and stopped it in time. There is currently communication in the works to correct this issue but the CPS are trying to sweep it under the rug. After all, it was a man and not a woman they were bullying. Even though the man requested help of CPS and to protect the boy and himself. If a woman did what would have happened?
Violence against family members is something women do at least as often as men! There are dozens of solid scientific studies that reveal a startlingly different picture of family violence than what we usually see in the media. For instance:
* Women are three times more likely than men to use weapons in spousal violence.
* Women initiate most incidents of spousal violence.
* Women commit most child abuse and most elder abuse.
* Women hit their male children more frequently and more severely than they hit their female children.
* Women commit most child murders and 64% of their victims are male children.
* When women murder adults the majority of their victims are men.
* Women commit 52% of spousal killings and are convicted of 41% of spousal murders.
* Eighty two percent of the general population had their first experience of violence at the hands of women.
I'm going to clean up the website (One of my many tasks that I am doing alone) and link the facts but right now they are not, but they are accurate. I just don't have time to dig them up right now.
update - Links added on post 243