Times & Daily Democrat cites the *accurate* data on gender and domestic violence

Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2007-10-03 13:21

Posted on behalf of Marc A. Story here. Excerpt:

'Citizens by and large deduce that women are the primary victims -- and that remains true. But in solving the problem of domestic violence, there must be realism about its nature.

The same CDC study concludes that in about half of the cases, the violence is reciprocal between a man and woman. That's not hard to believe in examining police incident reports, where woman most times do the reporting as a victim but in which men frequently state they were attacked during the incident as well.

What surprised CDC researchers even more was that "in non-reciprocally violent relationships, women were the perpetrators in more than 70 percent of the cases," and men incurred significant injuries.'

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1) Bogus CDC study (2005 press release):

click here

Notice the study doesn't mention the fact, that women are more likely than men, and encouraged by the police, to seek care for their injuries (see below for more detail on this). It also pretends that the "true impact" of DV is money spent on injuries. Note that the article is written by a woman.

2) More accurate CDC study done in 2007 (abstract - American Journal of Public Health):

click here

3) Maybe someone can find the full 2007 study results on CDC website:

CDC home page

I myself was unsuccessful, but I only spent about 15 minutes searching for it.

However, here's another study which suggests that the CDC can't even agree with itself:

Intimate Partner Violence study

In fact, there are many studies on their site which seem to conflict with each other.

Here's a dandy of a statistic from the above study: "IPV accounted for 20% of nonfatal violence against women in 2001 and 3% against men (Rennison 2003)"

Yeah, no kidding..since men are the great preponderance of victims of almost all other forms of violence (gangs, drug-related, etc. etc.)

Here's another statement from the same article: "Most IPV incidents are not reported to the police. About 20% of IPV rapes or sexual assaults, 25% of physical assaults, and 50% of stalkings directed toward women are reported. Even fewer IPV incidents against men are reported (Tjaden and Thoennes 2000a). "

In other places/studies, they seem to admit that violence against men is more likely under-reported than that against women. Yet, I notice in virtually all these study abstracts, which are what the public gets to see, that the language used indicates that the focus is on violence against women. Old stereotypes die hard.

In sum, the CDC should be lauded for presenting data that is closer to the truth, but they need to step away from being politically correct, and need to stop succumbing to pressure from feminists, to give us a completely accurate picture of what is going on..instead of using language, and presenting their numbers in such a way, that results from a bias in favor of women.

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Thu, 2007-10-04 21:52