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When Merle H. Weiner was hired as a law professor at the University of Oregon, she was told that one of her duties was to write articles and books -- and she did just that, publishing extensively on her areas of expertise, one of which is domestic violence.

The article was pulled from publication, even though the facts were apparently straight. This is disturbing for those who publish articles that may be controversial.

She said that the incident has hurt her ability to do her work on domestic violence and raises issues for any scholar who may publish on works that might lead someone to want to sue them.

This very recent fact sheet from the Centers for Disease Control on domestic
violence re-affirms the 36%-of-DV-victims-are-men figure ("1.5 million
women, over 800,000 men") from the 1998 Violence Against Women Survey. As
Dr. Gelles and others explain, even this figure is low for various reasons,
and the more reliable studies consistently show 50% (see
www.ncfmla.org/gelles.html and http://www.ncfmla.org/dv_data.html).
Nonetheless, this is still very helpful as an updated re-affirmation of the
36% figure from the CDC.

Marc A.

The report title:
Violence and Victims CDC Study Gender IPV Cost Aug 2005.pdf

For information on Ileana Arias, search her name at:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/whatsnew/whatnew.htm

The 2005 report is a contrast to the 2003 CDC report,
"Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States":
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/ipv_cost/ipv.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r030428.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/ipv_cost/IPVBook-Final-Feb18.pdf

To see where the journal, Violence and Victims, is coming from, see:
http://www.springerpub.com/JournalSamples/6708-20-2.pdf

The United Nations today marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women with calls for states to take legal action against the global scourge, for societies to change a mindset that permits such abuse, and for women themselves to stand up and speak out against a culture of shame.

Yes, let's call for an end to violence against women, and after that perhaps we should call for an end to all family violence?

Here is a link to the original report:
http://www.who.int/gender/violence/who_multicountry_study/en/

Anyone have the time to take a look at it?

Another arrest for domestic violence husband slaps wife, boyfriend punches out girlfriend, 290-pound pro football player throws 120-pound woman from balcony same old story, right? The male is always the aggressor and the female is always the victim. Not necessarily. According to some surveys, government statistic's confirm that almost 40 percent of all domestic violence victims in the United States are men.

Groundbreaking!

Nobody, it appears, cares for abused men. And abused men themselves are too ashamed to talk about being beaten up or manhandled by women. They see it as a further bruising to their battered ego.

That, perhaps, explains the closing down today of the only centre established to help abused and abusive men.

I attended the Domestic Violence Survivors’ Recognition Day event The
Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence Survivors’ Caucus,
of which I am a member.
http://wscadv.org/Networks/sis_page.htm

The event was held in the rotunda of the Washington State capitol in
Olympia.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/249050070/249051535BnreTu
http://community.webshots.com/album/249050070CJBcoa

Here is the newspapeer report of the event:
http://www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051016/NEWS01/510160333/1006

On display, indoors and outdoors on the steps of the capitol, were 20
newly-created female images in the Silent Witness Project.
On a board in the rotunda were 11 statements describing men who had been
murdered in domestic violence situations.

http://www.silentwitness.net/sub/photo_washington.htm

I spoke with Linda Olsen, Executive Director of the Eastside Domestic
Violence Program (EDVP).
http://edvp.org/AboutEDVP/default.htm
She told me that they are in the process of creating the life-size
wooden cutouts for these 11 male victims.
I thanked her for her use of inclusive language in her presentation and
that I appreciated the move towards inclusiveness which the male figures
in the updated Silent Witness Project represent.
She told me that her contact with me (I spoke at an EDVP event last
year) has been part of her inspiration for moving in this direction.

I found that the Silent Witness Project for Southwestern Washington
includes a male victim:
http://www.silentwitness.net/sub/photo_washington.htm