29% of US men are domestic abuse victims

I'm glad this study is getting media coverage, but it's really telling of our media how a 400 person study that shows 29% of the victims are men gets all this media attention when numerous major nationwide and worldwide studies that use the same method as this study but cover thousands of people and find women are at least as violent as men in relationships, gets no coverage at all. A sample size of 400 is hardly reliable at all compared to the much larger ones out there that show 50/50.

The "Fiebert Bibliography" is constantly updated and summarizes almost 200 of these empircal studies at http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm

Why isn't mainstream media covering that?

In 2007, Harvard Medical School announced a national survey by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control that randomly examined *11,000* men and women ages 18-28 (FAR more than 400). The results: "Women admitted perpetrating more violence (25% versus 11%) as well as being victimized more by violence (19% versus 16%) than men did. According to both men and women, 50% of this violence was reciprocal, that is, involved both parties, and in those cases the woman was more likely to have been the first to strike. Violence was more frequent when both partners were involved, and so was injury — to either partner. In these relationships, men were more likely than women to inflict injury (29% versus 19%). When the violence was one-sided, both women and men said that women were the perpetrators about 70% of the time. Men were more likely to be injured in reciprocally violent relationships (25%) than were women when the violence was one-sided (20%)."

http://www.patienteducationcenter.org/aspx/HealthELibrary/HealthETopic.aspx?cid=M0907d
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/42/15/31-a
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/5/941

That is WAY more reliable than a 400-person study. Where's the mass media coverage on that?

A recent 32-nation study by the University of New Hampshire found women are as violent and controlling as men in relationships worldwide. http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2006/may/em_060519male.cfm?type=n
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/ID41E2.pdf

The University of Florida recently found women are more likely than men to “stalk, attack and abuse” their partners.
http://news.ufl.edu/2006/07/13/women-attackers/

The University of Washington recently found similar results. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070625111433.htm

Again, where's the massive media coverage of those studies? We've had some small media cover them here and there but essentially nothing from major media. Again, I'm happy this study has gotten attention and I think this is some progress, but as I said on another site, I can't help but shake my head at the total incompetence and ineptness, not to mention PC-ness and bias, of the mass media for giving so much attention to a 400 person study showing 29% male victims but ignoring numerous studies of thousands of people showing 50/50.

Excerpt:

"The researchers defined domestic violence to include nonphysical abuse — threats, chronic disparaging remarks, or controlling behavior — as well as physical abuse — slapping, hitting, kicking, or forced sex."

They say "10% in the last 5 years"? (proportion of men who have suffered the above)

That's way too low. The guy who did the survey is full of crap - his questions were obviously not designed and/or asked properly.
The poor sap must not have too much real world experience either. Typical ivory tower dick head.

ax

The 29% figure that men are the victims of domistic violence is way to low.I read that the "stats" are actually higher then that of women...A Woman is a victim every 16 seconds.And a man is a victim every 15 seconds.And further more a mans injurys are generally more serious then womens injurys,because women use weapons more often, like objects to hit with and knives,even guns.These are the physical abuse "stats".The verbal abuse are even higher.I think just about every man has been "bitched" out a least once,for no reason sometime's maybe by a woman who is even a stranger,over some trivial shit.The problem again is that it's hard to get reliable statistics on this subject because it is considerd so politically incorrect.That means the truth would be suppressed even distorted by the justice dept,and other government agencys who will always pander to the politically correct. So it goes on and on,with absolutely no help from the media,just the feminist double standard proproganda about womens abuse.

http://www.rediff.com/getahead/2008/may/20abuse.htm

This was also reported in rediff

that's what's driving this crippled mule.

billions $$ every year based on feminist lies and what a
gullible public has bought into.

i've said it before and it bears repeating until it sinks in.

you would do better trying to get a bone away from a starving
pit bull than stopping the gravy train that is amerikan feminism.

If it was a starving female pit bull, a feminist animal rights activist might get involved; so even they you're contributing to the gravy train (and you're a meanie to boot).

-ax

I don't believe this for one second. 29%? That's way exaggerated. What people with common sense would call "violence" will surely be pretty rare among couples.

Same exaggeration as from the feminist side.

The article in part says,

"The study defined domestic violence to include nonphysical abuse — threats, chronic disparaging remarks, or controlling behaviour — as well as physical abuse: slapping, hitting, kicking, or forced sex. " (my emphasis)

Knowing those are the criteria they are using, are you still saying the numbers for men are too high/low? Maybe I'm not understanding your comment.

-ax