Source: http://www.safe4all.org/essays/2page.html
How many know that the same research which is used to say that a woman is severely assaulted by her husband/boyfriend every 15 second in this country, also indicated that a man is severely assaulted by his wife/girlfriend every 14.6 seconds?
TUESDAY, April 12 (HealthDay News) -- Men who are victims of domestic abuse by their female partners can develop psychological trauma, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and suicidal thoughts, new research finds.
Read more: Male Victims of Domestic Abuse May Show Signs of PTSD
Source: http://new.vawnet.org/Assoc_Files_VAWnet/GenderSymmetry.pdf
Webmaster's note: I do not agree with this author's theories, but I am publishing his paper here because he attempts to address female violence toward men, and I believe it is important to provide multiple perspectives in order to arrive at the truth.
Male Victims of Domestic Violence:
A Substantive and Methodological Research Review
A report to:
The Equality Committee of the Department of Education and Science
by: Michael S. Kimmel
Professor of Sociology
SUNY at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA 2001
(Please note that this has since been been published as: Kimmel, Michael S. (2002). ‘Gender symmetry’ in domestic violence: A substantive and methodological research review. Violence Against Women, Special Issue: Women’s Use of Violence in Intimate Relationships, Part 1. 8(11), November.)
Read more: Male Victims of Domestic Violence: A Substantive and Methodological Research Review
Source: http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
REFERENCES EXAMINING ASSAULTS BY WOMEN ON THEIR SPOUSES OR MALE PARTNERS:
AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Martin S. Fiebert
Department of Psychology
California State University, Long Beach
Last updated: May 2011
| SUMMARY: This bibliography examines 282 scholarly investigations: 218 empirical studies and 64 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 369,800. |
