
Male victims of domestic violence still under-reported
Article here. Excerpt:
'While most people are aware of the abuse some women face in domestic violence situations, perhaps not as well known is that men also experience this form of abuse.
Since Portage la Prairie’s Real Men Live Abuse Free committee put up their banner at City Hall, the Portage Family Abuse Prevention Centre (PFAPC) has received a few calls from men asking where they can go in situations of partner abuse.
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Although the PFAPC will offer resources and can facilitate aid to men facing domestic and family abuse, currently, there are no specialized centres for those men to go to in Portage. Schrader said the PFAPC will direct men to organizations in larger urban centres.
One of the organizations abused men can go to in Winnipeg is the Men’s Resource Centre (MRC).
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According to the 1999 Statistics Canada General Social Survey (GSS), almost equal proportions of men and women (seven per cent and eight per cent respectively) had been the victims of intimate partner physical and psychological abuse (18 per cent and 19 per cent respectively). The study also found that while men underreport the abuse they have sustained and inflicted, women underreport perpetrating abuse as their age and education increase.'
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