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I am on the Fathers4JusticeInternational board, and someone wanted a source for the 60% of child abuse is perpetrated by women. I don't remember where I got it from, can anyone help? Thanks, The Biscuit Queen
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Some sources:
"When She Was Bad: Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence. " - Patricia Pearson
"A study by the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System found that approximately 879,000 children were victims of child maltreatment in 2000. Based on reports provided by U.S. child protective services agencies, 60 percent of perpetrators were females and 40 percent were males. The Department of Health and Human Services reached a similar conclusion for the prior year: "Female parents were identified as the perpetrators of neglect and physical abuse for the highest percentage of child victims." "
Dave K - A Radical Moderate
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by Anonymous User on Monday December 01, @04:46PM EST (#4)
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Warren Farrell has some additional data as well in Father & Child Reunion, which takes into account the higher number of single moms.
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U.S. News & World Report (a magazine that I won't be getting after December) has a feature called "The End of Heart Disease" in its December 1 edition. While it is good that a major killer disease is being covered in this issue, I couldn't help but notice a very misleading graphic.
This particular graphic appears at the bottom of page 42, and is titled "SEX AND DEATH - a gender gap in cardiovascular disease." However, this graphic is misleading in that it shows the TOTAL NUMBER of deaths for cardiovascular disease for men and women from 1980 to 2000 (not AGE ADJUSTED death rates). The numbers started out at roughly 500,000 cardiovascular deaths annually for both sexes, but by 2000 the number of deaths for men declined to about 440,000 while those for women remained at about 500,000. This suggests to readers that women are at a disadvantage with regard to medical care for heart disease.
However, this neglects the fact that while more women may die of heart disease annually, they are dying perhaps 10 years later than men on average. Hence the importance of age adjusted death rates. Specifically, the age adjusted death rate from heart disease is 1.8 times greater for men than women. Also, the age adjusted death rate for strokes (which is also lumped in with "cardiovascular deaths") is 1.1 times greater for men than for women.
Another misleading feature of this graphic is that it has no zero point, but starts at 400,000. Superficially, it looks like men had half the number of fatal heart attacks and strokes that women had in 2000 (supposedly due to discrimination), while the real figure is more like 12% less. And that’s overlooking the fact that men are dying of cardiovascular disease perhaps 10 years before women.
To get U.S. News & World report online, go to:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm
[Note: I could not find the graphic in question on the website]
To contact U. S. News & World Report, go to:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/usinfo/infomain.htm
Steve
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Re: “The End of Heart Disease” [December 1].
Your graphic on page 42 titled "SEX AND DEATH - a gender gap in cardiovascular disease" is misleading as it implies that women are at a disadvantage because they suffer more cardiovascular deaths than men. This overlooks the fact that men (on average) die of cardiovascular disease several years before women do. In fact, the age adjusted rate of heart disease death is 1.8 times greater in men than in women.
Steven G. Van Valkenburg
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