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Why Does AARP Have No Compassion for Elderly Abused Men?
This is yet another egregious example of a nationally published
article by authors and publishers who have little to no real
understanding of domestic violence. What the authors of that Boston
study actually document is that 43% of the physical violence cases
were of the wife assaulting the husband,
whereas only 17% were of the husband assaulting the wife [Pillemer, K.
and D. Finkelor. (1988) The Prevalence of Elder Abuse: A Random Sample
Survey. Gerontologist, Vol. 28, No. 1, 51-57].
This clearly documents that the author and the publisher of the AARP magazine,
similar to the majority of members of the media, mislead their readers, and mislead policymakers as well, by printing untruths about domestic violence as if they were the truth.
Please contact the publisher of AARP magazine, and tell
him:
- By misrepresenting the number of woman-on-man incidents of
domestic violence as “negligible”, they have put a great number of
elderly at risk -- many of them AARP magazine's very own
readers!
- A first step in rectifying the harm AARP has done would be for
them to
publish an unbiased article that emphasizes the plight of elder male
domestic violence victims who, because they're male, find that
virtually no services are available to them.
Here's the contact info:
Date of RADAR Release: February 26, 2006
R.A.D.A.R. – Respecting Accuracy in Domestic
Abuse Reporting – is a network of concerned
men and women working to assure that the problem of
domestic violence is treated in a balanced and
effective manner. http://www.mediaradar.org/.
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The article