'The silenced minority'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Because October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, I’d like to address the strain of domestic abuse people are the least aware of: abuse directed at men.
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A study by the Centers for Disease Control indicates more men than women were victims of intimate partner physical violence and more than 40 percent of severe physical violence victims were men in 2010.

The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey reported that in 2011, an estimated 5,365,000 men and 4,741,000 women were victims of intimate partner physical violence.
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These statistics aren’t commonly known. Women are the stereotypical victims of domestic violence, so it can be difficult for a man to share his story. Male victims who seek help often report that hotline workers say they only help women, imply the men must be the instigators, ridicule men or refer them to batterers’ programs. Police, meanwhile, are reluctant to take action against a woman who is accused of abusing her partner.

Even when men attempt to seek help, there are few places for them to go. England and Wales are home to approximately 7,500 battered women’s shelters. There are only 60 for men. In the U.S., the same phenomenon is observable, and many shelters have age limits that deny sanctuary to boys older than 13.

Despite all of this, when a man brings up the issue of male victims, there is an expectation that he would be pejoratively labeled as a men’s rights activist. Domestic violence, however, isn’t a sexually restrictive or gender-restrictive term. Although it’s most commonly associated with women, the number of male victims is substantial.'