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Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest

Alright, I have heard back from one individual. Not the original writer as the original website is strictly voluntary and I am on their time, but I think this is great. It's a good way to help me clear things on rebuilding the familyofmen website for the future.

Most of the studys I have looked at are either Canada, USA, or England. The problem isn't just in Canada.

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:

There are actually hundreds.
*Cal State Psychology Professor Martin Fiebert has assembled a bibliography of 175 scholarly investigations: 139 empirical studies & 36 reviews &/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships w/ their spouses or male partners.
*An international survey of violence between dating partners in 16 countries concluded: “Perhaps the most important similarity is the high rate of assault perpetrated by both male and female students in all the countries.” [Source: Murray Straus: Prevalence of violence against dating partners by male and female university students worldwide. Violence Against Women, Vol. 10, No. 7, 2001].
*The National Youth Survey (NYS) which surveyed 1,725 individuals periodically over 17 years starting in 1976 found that incarcerated women commit acts of violence toward intimates at a rate slightly higher than men. Moreover many other researchers such as Straus & Gelles (National Family Violence Survey) established the same fact. This fundamental fact is reconfirmed in the exhaustive research of Philip W. Cook in his book, "Abused Men: The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence".
*Law professor Linda Kelly noted, "leading sociologists have repeatedly found that men and women commit violence at similar rates." [Source: Linda Kelly: Disabusing the definition of domestic abuse. Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 30, pages 791-855, 2003. Accessible at: http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawr.../304/kelly.pdf ]

* Women are three times more likely than men to use weapons in spousal violence.
Drew Bass is a 6’-3”, 350 lbs former commando & a victim of domestic violence. Twice, Drew’s wife tried to run him down with a car, & on numerous other occasions, she poisoned his food. Women usually use weapons, or poisons or strike when men are asleep to even the odds.

"Violence by Intimates Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current or Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends". US Department of Justice. Retrieved 2010-09-10.


* Women initiate most incidents of spousal violence.
*The U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention report, "In non reciprocally violent relationships, women were the perpetrators in more than 70% of the cases. Reciprocity was associated w/ more frequent violence among women, but not men.”[Source: Whitaker, Haileyesus, Swahn & Saltzman, Differences in Frequency of Violence & Reported Injury Between
Relationships W/ Reciprocal & Nonreciprocal Intimate Partner Violence, American Journal of Public Health, May 2007, Vol.
97, No. 5, pp. 941-947
*In a representative sample of 2,603 women & 2,105 men it was found that 37% of the men & 35% of women inflicted some form of physical aggression, while 39% of the men & 32% of the women received some form of physical aggression.)-White, J. W., & Koss, M. P. (1991). Courtship violence: Incidence in a national sample of higher education students. Violence and
Victims, 6, 247-256.


* Women commit most child abuse and most elder abuse.
*Women are more likely to commit major physical abuse of their children than are men. (56.8% to 43.3% respectively).-RADAR report.
*Child Sexual Abuse is 40% more likely to occur in single-mother households. -David Finkelhor Family Research Laboratory.
*94% of sexually abused youth in correctional facilities reported being abused by female staff. From: Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities, 2008-09. http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/svjfry09.pdf
*Among inmates reporting staff sexual misconduct, 65% reported a female aggressor. From: Sexual Victimization in Prisons & Jails Reported by Inmates, 2008-09. http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/svpjri0809.pdf
*50% of homeless youth reported being sexually abused by a female. From: It’s Not What You Think: Sexually Exploited Youth in British Columbia. http://www.nursing.ubc.ca/PDFs/ItsNotWhatYouThink.pdf

* Women hit their male children more frequently and more severely than they hit their female children.
*According to one Canadian study, boys are 50% more likely to be physically abused by their parents than girls.”-Bernard Chapin (Chapin’s Inferno)

* Women commit most child murders and 64% of their victims are male children.
Still looking for this one.

* When women murder adults the majority of their victims are men.

* When women murder adults the majority of their victims are men.
Not sure where you got that one. Sounds likely to me though, given the DV stats & the fact men are the majority of homicide & abuse victims.
*Men are 76% of homicide victims-DOJ
*Murder rate of men is 4X that of women. Assault rate of men is 8X that of women.-(US Statistical Abstract, 1992)

So I am going to remove this on the website. It is not clear and by its wording it is not factual.

* Women commit 52% of spousal killings and are convicted of 41% of spousal murders.

Still hunting for this information.

* Eighty two percent of the general population had their first experience of violence at the hands of women.

Still hunting for this information however there is a good talk on this with Girl Writes What.

LOL

According to 'The League of Terrified Men' this epidemic of violence by women is the biggest scourge on society. Somehow in my 52 years on this planet, I've bucked the overwhelming odds and not been a victim of physical abuse by a monstrous woman.

I love this 'stat' the most.

* Eighty two percent of the general population had their first experience of violence at the hands of women.

"My Mommy punished me!"