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COMMON SENSE & DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

We know that throughout history men have put the lives of women and
children over their own.  At the sinking of the Titanic, men helped
women and children to their seats in the life boats.  Most of the
women and children who traveled on the Titanic survived, men in turn
comprised the vast majority of the people who perished then in the icy
waters of the Atlantic.

Alistair MacLean tells in his collection of short stories The
Lonely Sea, how men time and again repeated such heroic performances
and sacrificed their lives to save those of women and children, when
ships sank beneath the waves of the ocean.

The survivors of the armed forces who returned from the first
three great wars of this century, W.W. I, W.W. II and the Korean War
were welcomed home as heroes.  The young men and boys who returned
from Vietnam, who served there for their homeland and to protect the
world from the advances of Communism, were drafted on the basis of the
laws of their country.  Few of them served voluntarily, although many
did so willingly, as was expected of them.  Many were spat upon by
women when they returned home, whether they were still whole or not.

Throughout history, morals and moral laws varied.  We know that
time and again ethnic minorities were singled out for persecution, but
never before in history was it that men as a group were actively
vilified and demeaned.  Today it is alleged that men are responsible
for virtually all of the evils of the world, everything from starting
and perpetuating wars to beating up pregnant women and thereby being
one of the primary causes of birth defects.

Did men really change that much during just one decade that they
deserve the wrath of the people for whom they put their lives on the
line?  Not really.  Men still sacrifice their lives for women and
children. Men still are expected to serve their country, their
communities and their families, especially in times of war.  Military
draft still applies only to men and boys. Men still live by the motto
"Women and Children First!"

What has changed then to give men the reputation that they have
today?  Nothing really other than that Feminism has given men a bad
name.  In the Sixties, Feminism became a powerful influence in our
society, with the active support by men, because without any doubt,
men were in position of political power then.  Without the active
support of men, women would not have been able to achieve the
prominent influence in politics that they have reached today.  What
has changed too is the disparity in the average life expectancies of
the sexes.  At the end of World War I men had on average one year less
in the expected life than women had.  Today men's life expectancy is
on average seven years less than that of women.

With the active support of the media, the bureaucracies and the
majority of our politicians, who all appear to be in a permanent
huddle with feminists, men are being pilloried today--all of them.
According to politically correct personalities, today's men are in a
position of power. In an all-out propaganda war, second to none in
modern history, men are alleged to be brutes, rapists, batterers and
deadbeat dads.

Although scores of studies by reputable sociologists tell us that
both sexes grew up on the same planet and were raised by the same
mothers, women's violence is glossed over in the propaganda war
against men and largely ignored by the media. The result in Canada is
that although men and women are at best equally likely to commit
violence, with women in reality slightly more likely to commit violent
acts, men are 100 times more likely to be incarcerated for violent
crimes than women who commit crimes of equal severity.

Violence is becoming an increasingly grave concern in our
society, with teenagers becoming more and more likely to perpetrate
violent acts, and girls more so than boys. The age of the perpetrators
of violence is dropping steadily. Should anyone be surprised? No!
Never before did society try so hard to remove fathers from the lives
of their families and children and never before were so many children
raised without the benevolent influence of their fathers.

What unifies the majority of our prison inmates is that they grew
up fatherless.
Domestic Violence Statistics

Note: The statistics on this page were extracted from the text
on the subsequent pages of this newsletter. The citations of the
sources are given in the text contained at the HTML links indicated in
brackets following the quotations.

1.

The same study which found that a woman is abused by her
spouse every 15 seconds, also found that a man is abused by his spouse
every 14 seconds.[1]
2.

In the USA, wives or girlfriends assault 2 million men
every year, 1.8 million women are assaulted by their spouses or
boyfriends.[2]
3.

54% of all domestic violence termed 'severe' is committed
by women against their husbands or boyfriends.[3]
4.

Over 2/3 of the child abuse committed by a parent is
committed by the mother.[4]
5.

Mothers (55%) are more likely than fathers (45%) to murder
their children.[5]
6.

Mothers kill sons (64%) more often than daughters (36%)
and 78% of the child victims are under age 11.[6]
7.

A study of inner city child abuse found that 49% of all
child abuse is committed by single parent mothers.[7]
8.

Studies of domestic violence . . . . . have shown both
sexes to be equally culpable. Some of the research, such as a recent
Canadian national survey, "left out data on women abusing men...
because it's politically embarrassing." [8]
9.

Women and men are almost identical in terms of the
frequency of attacks such a slapping, shoving, and kicking. [9]
10.

The rate for assaults by wives is 124 per 1,000 couples,
compared with 122 per 1,000 for assaults by husbands. [10]
11.

The rate of minor assaults by wives was 78 per 1,000
couples, and the rate of minor assaults by husbands was 72 per 1,000.
[11]
12.

The rate for severe assaults is 46 per 1,000 couples for
assaults by wives and 50 per 1,000 for assaults by husbands. [12]
[Note: With respect to the preceding five items, Mr. Strauss wrote in
the journal Issues in Definition and Measurement. "As these rates are
based exclusively on information provided by women respondents, the
near equality in assault rates cannot be attributed to a gender bias
in reporting."]
13.

Half of spousal murders are committed by wives, a
statistic that has been stable over time. Wives reported that they
were more often the aggressors. Using weapons to make up for physical
disadvantage, they were not just fighting back. [13]
14.

The Journal for the National Association of Social Workers
found in 1986 that among teenagers who date, girls were violent more
frequently than boys. [14]
15.

Mothers abuse their children at a rate approaching twice
that of fathers.[15]
16.

ALL violence is responsible for about 3% of women's INJURY-
RELATED visits to emergency rooms, and domestic violence for about 1%.
Since fewer than a third of women's emergency-room visits are injury-
related, this means that domestic violence accounts for fewer than
0.3% of these visits. While it is possible that some domestic violence
cases were not identified in the study, it is noteworthy that its
estimates include not only positively established but probable cases
of violence from injuries. [16] [That means that even these low
numbers are quite likely over-estimated with respect to them being
caused by domestic violence -WHS]
17.

The leading cause of injury, to both women and men, is
accidental falls, followed by motor vehicle accidents. 13.6% of
injuries to women seen in emergency room are from car accidents-a
total of nearly 2 million, or almost 10 times the number of injuries
from domestic violence. [17]
18.

More than twice as many women visit emergency rooms due to
being injured by an animal (459,000 a year) than by a male partner.
[18]
19.

The primary victims of interpersonal violence in the
United States are men: Men account for 60% of patients with injuries
from violence. [19]
20.

Of the first hundred women coming into the first battered
women's refuge in the world in Chiswick, London, 62 were as violent as
the partner they left. [20]

http://fathersforlife.org/fv/DV_news_letter_971223.htm

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