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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
Men's shelters will never get equal funding in Canada, and nor should they, so long as women get murdered in domestic disputes at three times the rate men do.
I think it's wrong men's shelters get no funding (apparently women's shelters are supposed to handle some of the burden, though I doubt they do much in practice), but I also wonder if the type of treatment women get in these situations is the same as what men need. How many men actually go to these shelters? Are there statistics on this? Perhaps a different type of treatment would be more effective?
The statistics and studies done on this are so rudimentary that it's ridiculous that you've already concluded men's shelters deserve the exact same funding as women's. The fact that you don't take into account the severity of different types of domestic violence, and only look at the rate of domestic violence unqualified, betrays an oversimplified way of looking at this.
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Wow... Men get zero funding. No funding. No place to go for there kids or themselves if she is abusive. It happens just as often.
How can there be statistics if there are no shelters? There is only one shelter for men and that has never received funding. There is no money to inform others that there is a shelter. I've been working to get the information out there over the last three months. The only society in Calgary that is trying to get funding to help Men with or without children was excluded in the discussion at the "Calgary Domestic Violence Collective".