Letters to the Editor
Parson Jim
Published Letters: 582 Editor's Choice: 7
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FYI
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Every year, 1,510,455 women and 834,732 men are victims of physical violence by an intimate. This is according to a Nov. 1998 Department of Justice report on the National Violence Against Women Survey. What does that mean? Every 37.8 seconds, somewhere in America a man is battered. Every 20.9 seconds, somewhere in America a woman is battered. Every 20.6 minutes another man in Washington is battered.
http://www.batteredmen.com/nvawsurv.pdf
Every year, 1,510,455 women and 834,732 men are victims of physical violence by an intimate. This is according to a Nov. 1998 Department of Justice report on the National Violence Against Women Survey. What does that mean? Every 37.8 seconds, somewhere in America a man is battered. Every 20.9 seconds, somewhere in America a woman is battered. Every 20.6 minutes another man in Washington is battered.
In Washington, that's 42,824 women and 25,473 men. That includes 2,754 men on whom a knife was used, 5,508 men threatened with a knife and 11,016 men hit with an object.
There may be a trend toward less violence against women, more violence against men, or both. While 76.5% of the people reporting physical violence by an intimate in their lifetime were women, only 62.5% of the people reporting physical violence by an intimate in the last year were women, and 37.5% were men.
The data show that men are more likely to have a knife used on them or to be threatened with a knife, hit with an object, kicked, bitten or have something thrown at them. Women are more likely to beaten up, threatened with a gun, choked, victims of drowning attempts, have their hair pulled or be pushed, grabbed or shoved.
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Canuckistan Horseshit
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your Canadian horseshit anecdote doesn't apply in the least to California, CB.
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Canuckistan Bob - Fact-free, Self-hating, Sexist and Proud
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The California Research Bureau reports that nearly 10% of people who seek domestic violence shelter services are men, and that one Los Angeles shelter in a predominantly gay/lesbian neighborhood reported even more male victims than female victims.
See www.library.ca.gov/crb/02/16/02-016.pdf.
That is without any outreach to men and without referrals services sending men to the shelters. We believe it would otherwise be much higher.
California Health & Safety Code Section 124250, which funds the DV programs in California, defines DV so only women can be victims. Male victims are literally shut out of state-funded and other services throughout the State including hotel vouchers, counseling, shelter and legal advocacy. The only known exception is Valley Oasis in Lancaster, where men travel hundreds of miles for shelter because nobody else will help them.
Declaration by former Valley Oasis' former director www.ncfmla.org/pdf/overberg.pdf