I haven't checked out most of these statistics, and so I don't assert that they are true. They we're just put up on various chat rooms that I was on and I thought that they would give folks an insight.
. 'ONE IN FOUR WOMEN RAPED'?
That number was disproved
long ago. Christina
Hoff-Sommers, associate professor of Philosophy at Clark
University, investigative reporters from the Toledo Blade, and others, found
these numbers came from a 1988 MS magazine report by Mary Koss, who used a
definition of rape that was so broad as to be
meaningless.
http://www.leaderu.com/real/ri9502/sommers.html
. Dr Michelle Elliot who runs 'Kidscape' states that 25% of
sexual abuse of
children is by women - mainly mothers.
...The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
in
the UK freely admits that 65% of child abuse is committed by women. It
is
interesting to note that only 8% of child abuse is committed
by
biological fathers i.e. REAL fathers.
. I THINK THIS HAS BEEN POSTED ON MY IUM-NIB
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. =20
NSPCC SHATTERS CHILD ABUSE MYTHS
Common stereotypes
about child abuse are overturned in the NSPCC=92s =
largest ever study of
child maltreatment.=20
a.. Myth: the most common form of abuse suffered by children at home is
=
sexual abuse.=20
Fact: children are seven times more likely to be beaten
badly by their =
parents than sexually abused by them.=20
a.. Myth: most sexual abuse occurs between fathers and their
daughters.=20
Fact: this type of incestuous relationship is rare, occurring
in less =
than four in a thousand children. The most likely relative to abuse
=
within the family is a brother or stepbrother.=20
a.. Myth: adults are responsible for most sexual violence against
=
children and young people outside the family.=20
Fact: children are most
likely to be forced into unwanted sexual =
activity by other young people,
must usually from someone described as a =
=91boyfriend.=92 Less than three
in a thousand of the young people =
reported sexual behaviour against their
wishes with professionals =
working with children.=20
a.. Myth: sexual attacks on children from strangers are common.=20
Fact:
sexual assaults involving contact by strangers are very rare. Even =
with
indecent exposure, only seven per cent of the young people reported =
ever
having been =91flashed at=92, and just over a third of these said =
the
person was a stranger.=20
a.. Myth: most physical abuse is carried out by men, especially fathers.
=
Fact: violent acts towards children are more likely to be meted out by
=
mothers than fathers (49% of the sample experienced this from mothers
=
and 40% from fathers).=20
NSPCC Director Mary Marsh says: Modern myths about child cruelty have
=
emerged from the public attention given to horrific and frightening
=
cases of child abuse by strangers. Other traditional stereotypes come
=
from a historical wellspring of children=92s stories about wicked adult
=
bogey figures. These stereotypes have become part of popular culture.
=
This report challenges us to re-examine preconceived ideas about child
=
cruelty. In some cases it calls on policy-makers and professionals to
=
overhaul thinking and reconsider how to approach different kinds of
=
child maltreatment.=20
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The source was the NSPCC website
itself.
(checked at source)
. Statistics Canada Report on Family Violence 2000 reports that
8% of women
and 7% of men have been the victim of criminal domestic violence
in the
past 5 years. You might also take note that a US 1998 Justice
Department
report, "Violence Against Women Survey,"found that while 1,309,061
women
were assaulted by an intimate partner in the prior year, 834,732 men
were
victims of domestic violence, 39 percent of the total. Clearly
your
1993-1998 statistics quoted on your website at
http://www.gov.on.ca/MCZCR/owd/english/facts/preventing.htm
(checked at source)
Canadian research highlighted the problem of trying to extrapolate
statistics from examples of domestic violence. Their 1993 report on 'Violence
Against Women' was criticized throughout the world for 'politics over real
analysis'. When in 2000 they redid the study they asked men and women exactly
the same questions and the end result was approximately equal rates of violence
between men and women. The Canadian research showed how easy it is to
misinterpret statistics. Although the Home Office research purports to show
figures for domestic violence, as the methodology shows, what the survey
actually measured was 'allegations' of domestic violence by using BCS self
completion questionnaires.
. In the BCS in 1996 the incidence was reported as being 4.2%
of men suffered
physical abuse in the past 12 months and 4.2% of women. Ie
4.2 % of the
population.
. Babies born outside marriage in England and Wales are
much more likely to
die before their first birthday than those born to
married couples.
The infant death rate was 45% higher.
. Posted on IUM NIB
. According to the Lord Chancellor's own research domestic
violence is not a significant factor in the number of relationships which
breakdown.
What is perhaps more surprising is that research in the United States of
America came to the same conclusion. A bibliography by Martin S. Fiebert,
California State University, of 117 scholarly investigations, 94 empirical
studies and 23 reviews and/or analyses, showed that women are as physically
aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their
spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies
exceeded 72,000.
Because of the inherent difficulties in establishing the reliability of
data in this subject it is too easy to connect contact restrictions between
fathers and their children to domestic violence in the home. Attempts to tar men
with the brush of domestic violence on the basis of individual cases in the
press cannot be substantiated. Those who seek to make such allegations lose
sight of the fact that it is in the child's best interests to have strong and
loving bonds with both parents
. Women were less likely to ask for raises and more likely to
request staying in a lower position or to leave the company for kids or other
reasons than men.
It is sad when feminists have to keep
lying when they don't like the choices women make for themselves. They do
it not just with women's careers but also their choice as far as not having an
abortion. It shows those feminists as bullshit artists as far as their
claim to want to give women freedom of choice in life.
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=011109001302&query=women+who+choose#docAnchor011109001302
. Statistics Canada report on July 25th, 2000, that stated women
are
equally guilty of DV.
. >
http://www.vix.com/menmag/batfact.htm>
>
>
>
>
>
Facts and Myths about Domestic Violence
>
>
>
>
Myth
> 95% of the domestic violence is by men against women
>
Fact
> The National Institute of Justice and the Center for
>
Disease Control estimates that 1.3 million women and
> 835,000 men are the
victims of domestic violence
> each year.
>
> According to
this NIJ/CDC National Violence Against
> Women Survey, 37% of the domestic
violence is
> against men. 100% of the federal domestic violence
>
funding under the Violence Against Women Act is to
> be used for domestic
violence against women. 100% of
> the federal domestic violence research
funds
> disbursed to several federal agencies is devoted to
>
domestic violence by men against women.
>
>
> Myth
>
Domestic violence by women against men is not
> serious
>
Fact
> According to the NIJ/CDC National Violence Against
> Women
survey, 10.8% of the women but only 4.1% of
> the men used a knife on the
victim. 21.6% of the
> male victims were threatened with a knife,
while
> only 12.7% of the women were so threatened. 43.2% of
> the
male victims were hit with a hard object capable
> of causing serious
injury, while this was true of
> only 22.6% of the female victims. When
all serious
> forms of domestic assault were added together, as
>
many assaulted men as women were seriously
>
assaulted.
>
>
> Myth
> All or almost all domestic
violence by women is in
> self-defense.
> Fact
> A survey 0f
1,000 women, perhaps the largest survey
> of its kind, found that 20% had
initiated violence.
> The most common reasons for women initiating
>
domestic violence were: "My partner wasn't sensitive
> to my needs,"
(46%), "I wished to gain my partner's
> attention," (44%) and "My partner
was not listening
> to me" (43%). "My partner was being verbally
abusive
> to me" (38%) was a distant fourth.
>
>
>
Myth
> Domestic violence is a "hate crime" against women as
>
women.
>
> Domestic violence is socially-condoned oppression
of
> women
> Fact
> Domestic violence is not a "hate crime"
against
> women or socially-condoned oppression of women
>
>
The myths are statements of ideology, not based on
> any scientific
research. In fact, domestic violence
> is an issue of power and control in
a relationship,
> and women can also be what Erin Pizzey, author
of
> Prone to Violence, calls "family terrorists." In
> fact,
domestic violence is committed by men and
> women with identifiable
psychological pathologies,
> sometimes exacerbated by use of alcohol or
drugs.
>
> Domestic violence against women is not socially
>
condoned. Men who do beat women typically feel shame
> and try to keep it
a secret. Most men have little
> respect for a man who "beats his
woman."
>
>
> Sources:
> Almost 40% of domestic violence
is against men
> Source: Tjaden, P. G., & Thoennes, N. (1998).
>
Prevalence, Incidence and Consequences of Violence
> Against Women:
Findings from the National Violence
> Against Women Survey. U.S.
Department of Justice,
> National Institute of Justice & Centers for
Disease
> Control and Prevention Research in Brief series,
>
November, 1998. NCJ 172837.
>
> Federal funding not to be used for
male DV victims:
> Susan Hannibul, DV program manager for State of
>
Washington, Department of Health and Human Services,
> as reported by the
WA State Office of Child and
> Family Ombudsman.
>
> Federal
funding for research: e-mail from Bernie
> Auchter, domestic violence
research funding
> coordinator with NIJ. Phone call from Diane
Johnson,
> domestic violence research funding coordinator with
>
CDC.
> Domestic violence against men is as serious as DV
> against
women
> Source: Tjaden, P. G., & Thoennes, N. (1998).
>
Prevalence, Incidence and Consequences of Violence
> Against Women:
Findings from the National Violence
> Against Women Survey. U.S.
Department of Justice,
> National Institute of Justice & Centers for
Disease
> Control and Prevention Research in Brief series,
>
November, 1998. NCJ 172837. Data from NVAW Survey,
> Exhibit 8 analyzed at
The Risk of Serious Physical
> Injury from Assault by a Woman Intimate:
A
> Re-Examination of National Violence Against Women
> Survey Data
on Type of Assault by an Intimate See
> Table 1.
> Most DV by women
is not self-defense, but a reaction
> to his not paying attention or
listening
> Source: Fiebert. M. and Gonzalez, D. (1997). College
>
Women Who Initiate Assaults on their Male Partners
> and the Reasons
Offered for Such Behavior.
> Psychological Reports, 80, 583-590
(1997)
> Domestic violence is not a "hate crime" against
> women or
socially-condoned oppression of women
> Source: Dutton, D. (1994).
Patriarchy and Wife
> Assault: The ecological fallacy.
> from
Violence & Victims 1994, Click here to see
> full
article
> Article © 1994 by Donald G. Dutton.
> See also, Erin
Pizzey, "Working With Violent Women."
. Proof that women are not the only victims of domestic
violence appears in the 1998 Justice Department report "Intimate Partner
Violence." Of 1,830 domestic-violence murders, 510, or almost one-third of the
victims, were men. The study also indicated that males are 13 percent less
likely to report being a victim of intimate violence than females.
Another 1998 Justice Department report, "Violence Against Women Survey,"
found that while 1,309,061 women were assaulted by an intimate partner in
the
prior year, 834,732 men were victims of domestic violence, 39 percent of the
total.
Extensive research concludes that men and women are almost equally likely
to initiate domestic violence. While women may be more severely injured
when
domestic violence escalates, they can and do commit serious crimes of violence
against men. Women's advocates continually downplay the existence of female
violence. This obscures the fact that men are at risk of being victimized, and
leaves them less prepared for the potential for violence against them.
.
. Fact
The National Institute of Justice and the Center for
Disease Control estimates that 1.3 million women and 835,000 men are the victims
of domestic violence each year.
. a 1994 U.S. Department of Justice report that says when a parent
kills a child, 61 percent of the time, it's the mother.
. a 1988 study in which researchers found that men and women
slap, shove and kick at nearly equal rates. The study, conducted by Murray A.
Straus, a sociologist and co-director for the Family Research Laboratory at the
University of New Hampshire, found that in 1,000 couples, 124 wives attacked
husbands compared with 122 husbands who attacked wives.
The rate of ``minor assaults`` by wives was 78 per 1,000 couples; the rate of
similar assaults by husbands was 72 per 1,000. In the category of severe
assaults -- those resulting in serious injury -- the rate was 46 per 1,000 by
wives and 50 per 1,000 by husbands.
. the Voice claims that "four out of five stalking victims
are
women," only 3,466 of those murder victims were female.
[With thanks to VitalSTATS reader Joel Margolis]
. By Glenn Sacks
October is the
seventh annual Domestic Violence Awareness Month, when
activists and
the media focus the nation's attention on violence against
women.
However, October's events only tell half the story. Why? Because the
research on domestic violence overwhelmingly establishes that domestic
assault is not a crime committed by men against women, but instead one
committed by both men and women. By using weapons and the element of
surprise, women are abusing their male partners as often as vice
versa.
For example, veteran domestic violence researchers
Richard Gelles, Murray
Straus, and Susan Steinmetz, who were once hailed by
the women's movement for
their pioneering work on violence against women,
have repeatedly found that
women are just as likely as men to physically
attack their spouses or
partners.
Studies conducted by
the Family Research Laboratory at the University of
New Hampshire in 1975,
1985, and 1992, found that abuse rates were equal
between husbands and
wives. In fact, the evidence suggests that abuse of
wives by husbands
is decreasing, while abuse of husbands by wives is
increasing.
Cal State Long Beach professor
Martin Fiebert has compiled and
summarized 117 different studies with over
72,000 respondents that found that
most domestic violence is mutual and, in
the cases where there was only one
abusive partner, that partner was as
likely to be female as male.
Studies by researchers R.I.
McNeeley and Coramae Richey Mann show that
women are much more likely than
men to use weapons and the element of
surprise. These weapons often include
guns, knives, boiling water, bricks,
fireplace pokers and baseball
bats.
Neither male nor female domestic violence can
generally be dismissed as
self-defense. According to Straus, for example,
roughly 10 percent of women
and 15 percent of men perpetuate partner abuse
in self-defense. Dr. David
Fontes, the director of Stop Abuse for
Everyone (SAFE), has also found that
only a small percentage of female
abusers are acting in self-defense.
Crime statistics do
indicate that women are more likely to suffer serious
injury in domestic
violence than men are. But such statistics are misleading
because surveys
show that an abused woman is nine times as likely to report
abuse as an
abused man. Many men hesitate to call the police because they
assume, often
correctly, that the police will automatically treat them as if
they are the
perpetrator.
Nor do husbands murder their wives
significantly more than wives murder
their husbands. A 1994 Department of
Justice study analyzed 10,000 cases and
found that women make up over 40
percent of those charged in familial
murders. As crime journalist Patricia
Pearson explains, because women who
murder their husbands tend to use less
detectable or traceable methods--such
as poisoning (which are often ruled
"heart attacks") and hiring others to do
the killing (which usually aren't
counted as "murders by wives" in official
crime statistics), these murders
are far less likely to be noticed than
murders by men, which are usually
committed with guns.
Mainstream feminist organizations,
however, have steadfastly maintained
that women are only victims of, but
rarely perpetrators of, domestic
violence. As Pearson points out, such
organizations are not doing women any
favors. By denying the existence
of female batterers, abusive women are not
getting the treatment and
counseling services that they need. Worse, by
allowing them to go
unpunished, they are encouraged to believe that they can
get away with their
abuse indefinitely. This frequently results in
escalating abuse of men
(and children) and, sometimes, abuse of women when
men finally strike
back.
Pearson also notes that because feminists deny
woman's capacity for
violence, the serious problem of lesbian battery--which
research clearly
indicates is at least as common as heterosexual
battery--has been swept under
the rug. Sociology professor Claire Renzetti,
author of Violent Betrayal:
Partner Abuse in Lesbian Relationships, says
that lesbian batterers "display
a terrifying ingenuity in their selection of
abuse tactics, frequently
tailoring the abuse to the specific
vulnerabilities of their partners."
The list of prominent
feminist and female dissidents who are demanding
acknowledgment of, and
accountability from, female batterers is growing.
They include:
Canadian Senator Anne Cools, a former shelter director and a
pioneer of the
battered women's movement; author/activist Erin Pizzey, who
set up the first
battered women's shelter ever in England in 1971; Cathy
Young, author of
Ceasefire: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve
Equality; Donna
Laframboise of the Canadian National Post; author and
columnist Wendy
McElroy, founder of Independent Feminists and herself a
former DV victim;
Patricia Overberg and Carol Ensign, former and current
directors of the
Valley Oasis Shelter in Lancaster, California, one of the
few domestic
violence shelters in the country which accepts men; Christina
Hoff Sommers,
author of Who Stole Feminism?, which details how feminists
obtain
inflated domestic violence numbers by lumping "shouting" and "slamming
doors" with real domestic abuse; former Women's Studies professor Daphne
Patai, author of Professing Feminism; Pearson; Steinmetz; and
Renzetti.
Recently both the American Medical Association and the Center for
Disease
Control have issued statements acknowledging the need for attention
to male
victims of domestic violence.
Familial
violence – by and against both men and women – is a serious
problem in a
violence-wracked America, but it is a problem for which both men
and women
share responsibility. Over the past 30 years, feminist activists
have justly
called abusive men to account for their despicable actions. It's
now time to
do the same for abusive women.
www.GlennJSacks.com
. "State-by-state analysis indicates that a 10 percent
increase in
the percentage of children living in single-parent homes
leads
typically to a 17 percent increase in juvenile crime.5 A
study
conducted by University of Illinois sociologist Robert
Sampson
reported that rates of violent offenses, especially by
juveniles,
are strongly influenced by family structure. More than factors
of
income, region, population density, and race, family structure
has been
shown to have the largest effect on juvenile robbery
and
homicide.6
Heritage Foundation
scholar Patrick Fagan, who specializes
in family issues, underscores the link
between an absence of
parental care and juvenile crime. "The evidence of
the
professional literature is overwhelming: teenage criminal
behavior has
its roots in the habitual deprivation of parental love
and affection, going
back to early infancy," he says. "Future
delinquents invariably have a
chaotic, disintegrating family
life. This frequently leads to aggression and
hostility toward
others outside the
family."
Conversely, Fagan's
research reveals that family stability
functions as a buffer against the
lures of crime and violence:
"Even in high-crime inner-city neighborhoods,
well over 90
percent of children from safe, stable homes do not
become
delinquents. By contrast, only 10 percent of children from
unsafe,
unstable homes in these neighborhoods avoid crime.""
. female unemployment rate dropped relative to
men's,
averaging 12 percent less than the male
unemployment
rate.
(Statistical Abstract of the United States,
1991,
111th
edition, page 403, table 661)
. Homicide or injury purposely inflicted by others (including
strangers and intimates) was the least likely cause, exceeded even by injuries
due to animal bites and venomous plants (National Hospital Ambulatory Medical
Care Survey: 1992 Emergency Department Summary).
1998 Justice
Department report "Intimate Partner Violence." Of 1,830 domestic-violence
murders, 510, or almost one-third of the victims, were men. The study also
indicated that males are 13 percent less likely to report being a victim of
intimate violence than females.
. Information from multiple sources show that only 10% of
all noncustodial fathers fit the "deadbeat dad" category: 90% of the fathers
with joint custody paid the support due. Fathers with visitation rights pay
79.1%; and 44.5% of those with NO visitation rights still financially support
their children. (Source: Census Bureau report. Series P-23, No. 173).
Additionally, of those not paying support, 66% are not doing so because
they lack the financial resources to pay (Source: GAO report:GAO/HRD-92-39
FS).
The following is sourced from: Technical Analysis Paper No. 42, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Income Security Policy, Oct.
1991, Authors: Meyer and Garansky.
Custodial mothers who receive a support award: 79.6%
Custodial fathers who receive a support award: 29.9%
Non-custodial mothers who totally default on support: 46.9%
Non-custodial fathers who totally default on support: 26.9%
Statistics
"Ninety percent of divorced fathers have less than full access to their
children." Jonathan M. Honeycutt, Ph.D.(c), M.P.A., M.A., I.P.C. Director of
Research, Clinical & Consulting Psychotherapist, National Institute for
Divorce Research, Panama City, Florida.
Children from fatherless homes account for:
63% of youth suicides. (Source: US Dept. of Health & Human Services,
Bureau of the Census).
71% of pregnant teenagers. (Source: US Dept. of Health & Human
Services)
90% of all homeless and runaway children.
70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes
(DOJ, Special Report)
85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders. (Source:Center for
Disease Control).
80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger. (Source: Criminal Justice
& Behavior, Vol. 14, p. 403-26).
71% of all high school dropouts. (Source: National Principals Association
Report on the State of High Schools).
75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers. (Source: Rainbows
for all God`s Children).
85% of all youths sitting in prisons. (Source: Fulton Co. Georgia jail
populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections
The State of Fatherhood
37.9% of fathers have no access/visitation rights. (Source: p.6, col.II,
para. 6, lines 4 & 5, Census Bureau P-60, #173, Sept 1991.)
"40% of mothers reported that they had interfered with the non-custodial
father's visitation on at least one occasion, to punish the ex-spouse." (Source:
p. 449, col. II, lines 3-6, (citing Fulton)
Frequency of visitation by Divorced Fathers; Differences in Reports by
Fathers and Mothers. Sanford Braver et al, Am. J. of Orthopsychiatry, 1991.)
"Overall, approximately 50% of mothers "see no value in the father`s continued
contact with his children...." (Source: Surviving the Breakup, Joan Kelly &
Judith Wallerstein, p. 125)
Only 11% of mothers value their husband's input when it comes to handling
problems with their kids. Teachers & doctors rated 45%, and close friends
& relatives rated %16.(Source: EDK Associates survey of 500 women for
Redbook Magazine. Redbook, November 1994, p. 36)
"The former spouse (mother) was the greatest obstacle to having more
frequent contact with the children." (Source: Increasing our understanding of
fathers who have infrequent contact with their children, James Dudley, Family
Relations, Vol. 4, p. 281, July 1991.)
"A clear majority (70%) of fathers felt that they had too little time
with=their children." (Source: Visitation and the Noncustodial Father, Mary Ann
Kock & Carol Lowery, Journal of Divorce, Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 54)
"Very few of the children were satisfied with the amount of contact with
their fathers, after divorce." (Source: Visitation and the Noncustodial Father,
Koch & Lowery, Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, Vol. 8, No. 2, p.
50)
"Feelings of anger towards their former spouses hindered effective
involvement on the part of fathers; angry mothers would sometimes sabotage
father's efforts to visit their children." (Source: Ahrons and Miller, Am.
Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Vol. 63. p. 442, July `93.)
"Mothers may prevent visits to retaliate against fathers for problems in
their marital or post-marital relationship." (Source: Seltzer, Shaeffer &
Charing, Journal of Marriage & the Family, Vol. 51, p. 1015, November
1989.)
In a study: "Visitational Interference - A National Study" by Ms. J Annette
Vanini, M.S.W. and Edward Nichols, M.S.W., it was found that 77% of
non-custodial fathers are NOT able to "visit" their children, as ordered by the
court, as a result of "visitation interference" perpetuated by the custodial
parent. In other words, non-compliance with court ordered visitation is three
times the problem of non-compliance with court ordered child support and impacts
the children of divorce even more. Oripken_forthelamb
This note goes from bottom to top. Oldest at bottom and getting
progressively younger till reaching youngest at top.
. SAVED TO
DISK................................................
. domestic homicide rates
confirm that women perpetrate
lethal injury as often as do men (Rosenfeld,
1997).'
Suicide Leading Cause of Injury-Related Deaths
Among Middle-Aged Men
in Ontario, Reports
CIHI
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November
28, 2001
Executive Summary
(Ottawa) – Suicides account for one-third of all injury-related deaths
in
Ontario, reports the Canadian Institute for Health Information
(CIHI).
According to the Institute’s latest report, there were 1,012 deaths
due to
suicides and self-inflicted injuries (including poisonings) in
1998-99. The
majority (79%) of these suicide-related deaths was among men and
the mean
age of death was 44.
The statistics released today are from the Ontario Trauma Registry
report,
Injury Deaths in Ontario, 1998/99 Data. CIHI’s report
( note,
this piece was so spread as to be hard to read)
. Piece and some paraphrasing(by Spencer Mewha) from J Waltes;
Irish Times
Last year, feminist groups such as Women's Aid received about £10 million
of taxpayers' money from the Department of Health and Children, a considerable
proportion of which was spent on disseminating propaganda which showed the lie
that domestic violence is mainly a man against women problem.
That same Department also spent a more modest sum of £10,000 on a study of
the factual position concerning domestic violence.
This research revealed that the Department's policy of supporting only
groups holding that men are the sole perpetrators of domestic violence is
morally bankrupt. The Department responded by continuing that policy and burying
its report.
The report I have in mind is entitled Men and Domestic Violence: What
Research Tells Us. It was produced by Kieran McKeown and Phillippa Kidd of
Kieran McKeown Limited, Social and Economic Research Consultants. McKeown and
Kidd studied research in the US, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, with
particular reference to violence against men.
Their report comprises 125 pages, but its central finding is: ". . . the
results of representative studies are fairly consistent in showing that, in
approximately half of all intimate relationships where domestic violence occurs,
both partners use violent acts, with the remainder divided equally between
male-only violence and female-only violence.
. The Bureau of Justice Statistics Fact book, 1998: "Violence
by Intimates" reported on nearly 52,000 men and women who were murdered over a
span of two decades 1976-1996 by those with whom they shared an intimate
relationship. The investigators found that:
Of 20,311 males murdered by an intimate
partner:
62% were killed by
wives,
4% were killed by
ex-wives,
34% were killed by
non-marital partners such as girlfriends.
Of 31,260 female victims murdered by an intimate
partner:
64% killed by
husbands,
5% by
ex-husbands,
32% by non-marital
partners such as boyfriends
. £30bn cost of families falling apart
BY KIRSTY WALKER
SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
DIVORCE is costing taxpayers an average of £11 a week each, a report
claims
today. The breakdown of the traditional family has left society facing
an
annual bill of £30 billion - putting an intolerable strain on the
national
purse.
The biggest burden is welfare payments for children and single
parents,
which amounts to just under £9 billion a year. But the report,
commissioned
by the Lords and Commons Family and Child Protection Group,
found that
family breakdown also has a huge impact on the criminal justice
system,
education and health budgets, and on the economy. Apart from the
social
consequences, the report says divorce also takes its toll on parents
and
children. It claims: "The whole of society is affected by the
social
consequences of family breakdown.
The bill for legal aid and dealing with crime and domestic violence
is
put at nearly £3 billion. The NHS has to pay out an extra £1.5 billion
to
deal with such problems as alcoholism, sexually transmitted diseases
and
other illnesses linked to the breakdown of a marriage, while schools
have
to find an extra £500 million for staff to help low achievers.
The report, by the Christian group Family Matters, says children who
grow
up in broken homes are more likely to suffer poor health and to
have
emotional and behavioural problems.
Author David Lindsay said: "They have higher rates of suicide and they
are
more frequently involved in drug abuse and crime. Half of all
young
offenders come from broken homes. They also perform badly at school,
are
less likely to go on to further education and more likely to get
low
paid jobs.
"They are twice as likely to suffer divorce or relationship breakdown
in
adult life than children from intact families." There were 145,000
divorces
in Britain in 1998 and this affected just over 150,000 children.
According
the Office for National Statistics, nearly half of all marriages
are now
estimated to end in the law courts.
The Family Matters report adds that the direct £15billion annual cost
of
divorce equates to about a third of Government expenditure on
education,
just over a quarter of what it spends on the NHS, or the combined
total
that is spent on industry, agriculture, and employment.
. The 1998 Justice
Department
report "Intimate
Partner Violence" indicates that males are 13 percent less
likely to report
being a victim of intimate partner violence. The reason?
Many male victims
fear being ignored or ridiculed by a system that seems to
recognize only
women as victims of abuse at the hands of a spouse or lover.
The Boulder
Public Library doesn't have a problem presenting a one-sided
approach to
intimate partner violence and encouraging hatred against men.
Make no mistake
about it: Displaying male sex organs strung up like trout
caught on a fishing
trip encourages people to view all men as angry
wife-beaters.
. according to a suicide report below just released in
Ontario,
79% ( 4 out of every 5 ) suicide deaths in Ontario are men
with a
mean age of 44.
Statistically, a man commits suicide in Ontario every 10 hours..
17 men
per week
66 men per month
800 men per year.
The report indicates the top 2 reasons for male suicide:
* loss of job
and
* loss of family and children through separation and divorce
Suicide Leading Cause of Injury-Related Deaths
Among Middle-Aged Men in
Ontario, Reports CIHI.
November 28, 2001
(Ottawa) - Suicides account for one-third of all injury-related deaths
in
Ontario, reports the Canadian Institute for Health Information
(CIHI).
According to the Institute's latest report, there were 1,012 deaths
due to
suicides and self-inflicted injuries (including poisonings) in
1998-99. The
majority (79%) of these suicide-related deaths was among men and
the mean
age of death was 44.
"The statistics show that, on average, three people die of suicide
and
self-inflicted injuries every day in Ontario".
. The Truth About Child Murder
The Relationship between Sex, Household Incomes, Families, and Child
Abuse
The Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-3)
US Department of Health and Human Services, page 6-11, table 6-4
NIS-3 is a comprehensive, credible nationwide study of the extent of child
abuse and who the perpetrators are.
It reports that in 1993 children were 59 times more likely to be fatally
abused [read: murdered] by natural mothers than by natural fathers.
. The US federal government conducted a study that really
embarrasses the heck
out of feminists. It shows that mothers are more
than 59 times as likely as
fathers to MURDER their children.
http://christianparty.net/nis3.htm
. Professor Ed Mitchell, of the Auckland Medical School, said
around 74 Sids
cases are diagnosed a year.
. For those not aware of it, this is the most recent government
study on
the mistreatment of children from the U.S.A. some useful ammo for
those
who will persist in targeting fathers. Although the date is 1999.
It
was, in fact, only published this year.
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/publications/cm99/index.htm
Richard
Chapter 3: Perpetrators
State CPS systems collect NCANDS data on "perpetrators" of child
maltreatment, the people who have abused or neglected children or have allowed
children in their care to be abused or neglected.
It is important to note that States define child maltreatment as the abuse
or neglect of children by their parents or by other "caretakers" responsible for
the children's care. States differ in their definitions of who count as
caretakers. Some States define a babysitter or a daycare worker as a caretaker
and would record abuse by a babysitter or daycare worker as maltreatment and
list the abuser as a maltreatment perpetrator. Other States have a stricter
definition of caretaker and would not count this abuse as maltreatment or abuser
as a perpetrator.
This chapter describes the characteristics of those who abused and
neglected children in 1999.
3.1 AGE AND SEX OF MALTREATMENT PERPETRATORS (DCDC)
Data on perpetrators from 21 States indicate that, of the 554,047
perpetrators identified, 61.8 percent were female and 38.2 percent were male. As
shown in figure 3-1, female perpetrators were typically younger than male
perpetrators. Of female perpetrators, 41.5 percent were younger than 30 years of
age, but only 31.2 percent of male perpetrators fell within this age
group.
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3.2 PERPETRATORS BY
RELATIONSHIP TO THEIR VICTIMS (DCDC)
As shown in Figure 3-2, the most common pattern of maltreatment was a child
victimized by a female parent acting alone (44.7%). Both parents were identified
as perpetrators for 17.7 percent of the child victims, and male parents acting
alone were identified as perpetrators for 15.9 percent of the victims. Thus, at
least one parent was identified as the perpetrator for 87.3 percent of the
victims. Substitute care providers and family relatives were infrequently
identified as perpetrators; these two categories combined were identified as
perpetrators for only 5.4 percent of the victims. These percentages are similar
to the percentages reported for 1998. (Note that the SDC also collects data on
perpetrators' relationships to their victims. The SDC data is presented in table
3-3.)
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3.3
RELATIONSHIP OF PERPETRATORS TO VICTIMS OF SPECIFIC TYPES OF MALTREATMENT
(DCDC)
The data in figure 3-3 are based on the association of perpetrators with
specific types of maltreatment. The relationship of the perpetrator(s) to the
child is reported more than once if the child was a victim of more than one type
of maltreatment.
As reported in previous years, female parents acting alone were identified
as the perpetrators of neglect and physical abuse for the highest percentage of
child victims. In contrast, male parents acting alone were identified as the
perpetrators for the highest percentage of sexual abuse victims.
Parents were perpetrators for 91.8 percent and 85.0 percent of victims of
neglect and victims of physical abuse, respectively. However, parents were
perpetrators for only 50.0 percent of victims of sexual abuse.
. Here's something I found on the statistics of Domestic
Violence:
And here is the hompage of the website that it is on:
Ed
The Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire,
under grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, recently finished the
last of three national studies on domestic violence. The first two studies
revealed results similar to the latest study. Anyone who would like a copy of it
may order it from the University of New Hampshire (ask for Document V55). The
data tape and documentation of the 1975 and 1985 studies are available from the
Interuniversity Consortium For Political and Social Research at the University
of Michingan.
Original data is also available on CD-ROM from Sociometrics,
Inc. in Palo Alto, CA.
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The average results in the 'severe assault' category are reported
below:
Wives report they have been severely assaulted by husband 22 per 1000
Wives report they have severely assaulted husband 59 per 1000
Husbands report they have been severely assaulted by wives 32 per
1000
Husbands report they have severely assaulted wives 18 per 1000
Husbands & wives both report wife has been assaulted 20 per 1000
Husbands & wives both report husband has been assaulted 44 per
1000
There are dozens of other studies that reveal similar findings. For
instance:
* Women are three times more likely than men to use weapons in domestic
violence.
* Women initiate most incidents of domestic violence.
* Women commit most child abuse and elder abuse.
* Women hit their male children more frequently and more severely than they
hit their female children.
* Women commit most child murders and 64% of their victims are male
children.
* When women murder adults, the majority of their victims are men.
* Women commit 50% of spousal murders.
* Eighty-two per cent of all people have their first experience of violence
at the hands of a woman.
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Wives
report they have been severely assaulted by husband 22 per 1000
Wives report they have severely assaulted husband 59 per 1000
Husbands report they have been severely assaulted by wives 32 per
1000
Husbands report they have severely assaulted wives 18 per 1000
Husbands & wives both report wife has been assaulted 20 per 1000
Husbands & wives both report husband has been assaulted 44 per
1000
There are dozens of other studies that reveal similar findings. For
instance:
* Women are three times more likely than men to use weapons in domestic
violence.
* Women initiate most incidents of domestic violence.
* Women commit most child abuse and elder abuse.
* Women hit their male children more frequently and more severely than they
hit their female children.
* Women commit most child murders and 64% of their victims are male
children.
* When women murder adults, the majority of their victims are men.
* Women commit 50% of spousal murders.
* Eighty-two per cent of all people have their first experience of violence
at the hands of a woman.
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There is so much confusion about whom to believe in the debate about
domestic violence. On one side we have women's shelter advocates and feminists
who rely on law enforcement statistics. On the other side we have social
scientists who rely on scientifically structured studies.
Unfortunately, the
results of scientific studies do not receive media attention. America's press is
seemingly more interested in political correctness rather than scientific
accuracy. Therefore the public perception, and the perception of many well
intentioned domestic violence activists, is radically skewed away from the more
balanced perception of social scientists.
The typical response of the abuse
shelter feminists upon first hearing the results of the scientific studies is to
'shoot the messenger'. You can almost hear their minds snap closed. On the other
hand, abuse shelter personnel who have not accepted the feminist 'party line'
are grateful to have accurate information upon which to implement rational
programmes for prevention, intervention, and treatment of abusers and their
victims.
What is happening in the abuse shelter in your
community?
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN OTHER COUNTRIES
We think it is
important to note that there have been the same kind of studies done in many
countries. There is cross cultural verification that women are more violent than
men in domestic settings. When behaviour has cross- cultural verification it
means that it is part of human nature rather than a result of cultural
conditioning. Females are most often the perpetrators of domestic violence in
all cultures that have been studied so far. That leads many professionals to
conclude that there is something biological about violent females in family
situations.
Researchers are now exploring the role of the 'territorial
imperative' as a factor in women's violence against men. Women see the home as
their territory. Like many other species on the planet, we humans will ignore
size difference when we experience conflict on our own territory. So, the
scientific results that reveal the violence of American women are not unique to
our culture, and do not indicate a special pathology among American women. World
wide, women are more violent than men in domestic settings.
Below is a
summary of the most recent and significant studies we could find about domestic
violence in Canada. There were two waves of data collection. The first was done
in 1990; the second was finished in 1992.
The study was done by 'Ms' Reena
Sommer, a research associate with the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and
Evaluation. We emphasise the 'Ms' to call attention to the fact that scientific
studies of DV are dominated by female social scientists. Someone mentioned that
the figures might reveal a gender bias as if all scientists are male. In this
field, many of the recognised experts are women.
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FEMALE VS. MALE PERPETRATED VIOLENCE AS A PERCENTAGE OF ALL
RESPONDENTS:
% of females % of males
Minor violence
threw an object (not at
partner) 23.6 15.8
threaten to throw object 14.9 7.3
threw object at
partner 16.2 4.6
pushed or grabbed 19.8 17.2
Severe violence
slapped, punched, kicked 15.8 7.3
used weapon 3.1 0.9
A survey of couples in Calgary, Canada, found that the rate of severe
husband-to-wife violence was 4.8%, while severe wife-to-husband violence was
10%. (Brinkerhoff & Lupri, Canadian Journal of Sociology, 13:4 [1989])
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THE
PROPAGANDA PROBLEM AND THE SCIENTIFIC SOLUTION
Abuse shelter advocates and feminists have severely distorted the DV
picture and deliberately produce fraudulent statistics and disinformation. Even
when they quote well grounded statistics, they misuse the information.
Here is an example: one of the favourite statistics quoted by abuse shelter
advocates is that a woman is the victim of domestic violence every 15 seconds.
This statistic is deduced from a well conducted piece of research which was
published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, a well respected professional
journal of marriage and family therapists. The Abuse Shelter advocates arrived
at this figure by using one of the conclusions from this study, i.e. 1.8 million
women suffer an assault from a husband or boyfriend per year.
What abuse shelter advocates always ignore is another finding of the same
study, i.e. 2 million men are assaulted by a wife or girl friend per year, which
translates as, a man is the victim of domestic violence every 14 seconds.
This is typical of the widespread deception practised by abuse shelter
advocates. America's press establishment is a party to this deception and must
share the blame for exacerbating the DV problem by perpetuating a false
diagnosis.
statistics two, 19 Nov 2001
.
. In an exhaustive -- and exhausting -- book on
motherhood,
anthropologist Sara Blaffer Hrdy breaks some big news:
There
is no such thing as maternal instinct.
By Susan Caba - Dec. 9, 1999
put in ukmm 28 feb 2002
. Article from:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_1844000/1844766.stm Fathers
improve school results
Fathers who are closely involved in their children's
upbringing have a positive impact on academic achievement, say researchers.
A study over four decades has found that the involvement of fathers when
children are aged seven is "strongly related to later educational attainment".
The research from Oxford University, due to be published next month, also
says that strong father-child relationships can reduce the incidence of mental
health problems in later life.
Criminality and homelessness in adulthood were also less likely when a
father had been involved in children's upbringing, reported Ann Buchanan and
Eirini Flouri at the university's Centre for Research into Parenting and
Children.
Helping with homework
But this did not necessarily mean that parents had to stay together -
separated fathers could exert a positive influence by becoming involved in
activities such as listening to children read or helping with homework.
And step fathers were also found to provide a boost to children's learning.
The findings were based on a study of 17,000 children born in 1958, who
were tracked through stages of their lives.
Involvement was identified by factors such as sharing an equal role to
mothers in managing children, taking an interest in their children's education
and going on outings with their children.
The researchers say the findings have "important implications for work-life
balance" and that workplaces should be more "father-friendly" in allowing
parents to have time with their children.
The findings of the Oxford researchers echo a report from the University of
Lancaster last year which found that the active involvement of fathers was
linked to pupils performing better at GCSEs.
There was also a link with children being more sociable and less likely to
become involved in crime in adulthood.
. In an exhaustive -- and exhausting -- book on
motherhood,
anthropologist Sara Blaffer Hrdy breaks some big news:
There
is no such thing as maternal instinct.
By Susan Caba - Dec. 9, 1999
put in ukmm 28 feb 2002
. Lionel Richards wrote that Stephen Baskerville wrote:
The Nazis made the alienation and removal of children from their parents on
ideological grounds a cornerstone of their program. It was also Hitler who
urged that “the state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of
the people” and who said that “as long as government is perceived as working for
the benefit of children, the people happily will endure almost any curtailment
of liberty.” We seem to have learned nothing.
I found this article on the web page of the German Embassy in
London.
. Last November, Men's Health America published three Special
Reports
that detailed the selective brutalization of Afghan men, and
documented
the neglect of these atrocities by organizations such as Amnesty
International and the United Nations.
These reports have been widely disseminated on the Internet. Now,
two
of these reports, "The Invisibility of Afghan Men at Amnesty
International," and "The UN Neglect of Afghan Men's Human Rights," have
been reprinted in the February/March 2002 issue of Everyman magazine.
. For example in the British Home Office Report
Home Office Research Study
191
Domestic Violence: Findings from a new
British Crime Survey self-completion
questionnaire By Catriona
Mirrlees-Black
It was found that the incidence of threats or domestic
assaults varied
dramatically with current marital status as shown in the
following
table
Table A.4.1 Proportion of women aged 16-59 victims of domestic violence
in
last year, by socio-demographic characteristics
-
married 2.4
- cohabiting 4.7
-
separated 29.3
- divorced 11.0
-
never married 11.7
When you add up the married 2.4 and non-married components 56.7 it should
be
obvious to everyone that what we are dealing with is EXACTLY WHAT
WALTER
SCHNEIDER SAYS .IE
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS NON-MARITAL VIOLENCE
. Twice as many divorced men kill themselves, compared to single and
married ones
San Grewal
Life Writer
Why do men kill themselves? One factor that statistics point to is a
significant connection between these suicides and divorce. The national suicide
rate among divorced men was 41.2 per 100,000, according to a 1995 Statistics
Canada report, the most recent of its kind. This is about four times the overall
national suicide rate and more than twice as high as the rate for single or
married men. The figure excludes Quebec, which has the highest suicide rate
among divorced men in the country, 46.6 per 100,000.
. 1.6 "4.2% of women and 4.2% of men were said to have been
physically assaulted by their current or former partner in the last year".
Source of quotes 1.2 to 1.6: Appendix C, UK Home Office Study, Domestic
Violence Jan. 1999.
. MEN DO MORE WORK THAN WOMEN.
The Age (Melbourne)
13 February 2002
Spouse wars: who wins the battle for leisure time?
By Ross Gittins
(a paraphrase but correct) (checked at source)
Jewish World Review
12 February 2002 / Rosh Chodesh Adar, 5762
Finding a glass ceiling where there is none
By Betsy Hart
In the last five years, the wage gap between men and women has ...
.widened, according to the surprising results of a congressional study recently
released to gasping press attention.
A General Accounting Office report commissioned by two Democratic members
of Congress, Reps. Carolyn Maloney of New York and John Dingell of Michigan,
claimed that in a survey of 10 major industries the wages of women managers have
on average fallen dramatically in relation to those of men in the last five
years. In almost the same breath as the members bemoan the results they call for
more studies, and suggest increased federal regulation might be needed to "fix"
whatever the problem is.
But it turns out the problem is the "study." The taxpayer funded analysis
was really little more than a biased and highly-emotionalized reinterpretation
of the original GAO data, done by. . .staff members of Maloney and Dingell. So
for instance the title of the GAO report "Women in Management: Analysis of
Selected Data from the Current Population Survey" becomes, in the creative hands
of the Maloney/Dingell staff, "A New Look Through the Glass Ceiling: Where are
the Women?"
And creative they had to be. The GAO data was straight forward in
highlighting the fact that while it controlled for some variables like
education, age and marital status, it did not control for significant factors
like levels of experience, managerial responsibility and the all important
continuous years in the workforce. (The Maloney/Dingell analysis in effect
dismissed these shortcomings.)
But, studies which do control for all relevant factors continually show
that the wage gap between men and women virtually or totally disappears.
That's the finding of scholars Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba
in their new book, "The Feminist Dilemma: When Success is Not Enough." The
authors, who have for years tracked the progress of women in the American
workforce, review a wide range of data that shows that when women pursue career
paths with a resume and a resolve equal to that of their male colleagues, they
close the wage gap.
The problem is only one for feminists who cannot conceive of women
preferring to forgo or cutback careers for a time (or altogether) to care for
children, or choosing slower-paced careers at the outset, like pediatrics as
opposed to neurosurgery, even when they know this might affect their long-term
earnings potential. At best, feminists frame this dynamic as featuring a
"choice" women shouldn't have to make - because it's a choice feminists don't
want them to make.
. from Dr. Fiebert's bibliography, women are 1.3 times
as likely as men to initiate physical violence, and from that and other
research, men and women are equally culpable both in frequency and degree of
harm inflicted.
. Divorce really is bad for children
By: Tony Humphreys
The
Irish Times
Tue, Feb 05, 02
. THURSDAY JANUARY 31 2002
Children suffer mental fallout
from decline of nuclear family
BY ALEXANDRA FREAN, SOCIAL AFFAIRS
CORRESPONDENT
THE proportion of families headed by two parents has fallen
below 75 per
cent for the first time and children are bearing the brunt of
the fallout,
official figures show.
Two-parent families made up only 74 per cent of all households
with
dependent children in 2001, down from 92 per cent in 1971, according
to
figures published today by the Office for National Statistics.
Rates of mental disorder among children in lone parent families
and
stepfamilies are double those among children living with both their
parents,
while children in lone parent households are twice as likely as
the
population at large to live in poverty.
The report suggests that the driving force behind the change in the last
15
years has been a big increase in mothers who have never married and
not
marriage breakdown.
. Of the almost 1 million divorces each year involving
children, at least two-thirds to three-fourths are initiated by mothers,
according to Sanford Braver of Arizona State University and other scholars. In
the largest federally-funded study ever undertaken on the subject, Braver
confirmed previous studies showing that overwhelmingly it is mothers, not
fathers, who are walking away from marriages without legal grounds. These
divorcing mothers have virtual certainty of getting the children and a large
portion of the father's income, regardless of any fault on their part.
. Rape does exist; no one's denying that.
But was it rape?
And are women virtuous angels who always tell the truth? - as
sexists,
feminists and paternalists would have you believe.
========================================================
In a survey of 610 female college students who's average age was 19
years
old, 39 percent said they had said no to sex when they meant yes, and
69
percent said they had said no when they meant maybe. Of
sexually
experienced women, 61 percent had engaged in token resistance.
- Muehlenhard, Charlene L., and Hollabaugh, Lisa C. "Do Women Sometimes
Say
No When They Mean Yes? The Prevalence and Correlates of Women's
Token
Resistance to Sex." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol.
54,
No. 5 (1988), pp 872-879.
---
Of 556 accusations of rape examined in an Air Force study, 27 percent
of
the accusers admitted, either just before taking a polygraph test or
after
failing one, that they had lied.
- McDowell, Charles P., Ph.D. "False Allegations." Forensic Science
Digest,
(publication of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations),
Vol.
11, No. 4 (December 1985), p. 64.
---
In a nine-year study of all resolved rape cases in a Midwestern U.S.
city
of 70,000, the accusers recanted their charges 41 percent of the time.
The
41 percent figure does not include the other accusations that the
police
department recorded as unfounded, for which there was insufficient
evidence
to establish the assault.
- Kanin, Eugene J., Ph.D. "False Rape Allegations." Archives of
Sexual
Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 1 (1994), pp 81-92.
---
A survey of all the forcible rape complaints during a three-year period
at
two large Midwestern state universities found that 50 percent of
the
accusations were false. At each university, the complaints
and
investigations were the responsibility of a ranking female officer, and
no
complaint was declared false unless there was a recantation by the
accuser.
Fifty-three percent of the accusations were motivated by a need for
an
alibi; revenge was the motive for 44 percent.
- Kanin, Eugene J., Ph.D. "False Rape Allegations." Archives of
Sexual
Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 1 (1994), pp 81-92.
In the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit's study of False Allegations
conducted
in 1983 of 556 rape investigations, a total of 220 (40%) of these
reported
rapes turned out to be false. Over one fourth of these 556 turned
out to be
hoaxes. And yet, some feminists and rape counselors claim that only
two
percent of rape reports are false.
---
Linda Fairstein, who directs the prosecution of sexual assault in New
York,
says that there are approximately 4,000 reports of rape each year
in
Manhattan. Of these, about half simply did not happen. Says
Fairstein,
"It's my job to bring justice to the man who has been falsely
accused by a
woman who has a grudge against him, just as it's my job to
prosecute the
real thing."
---
In New Zealand, police officials have stated that 64 percent of
rape
reports are false and that some women are making a business out of
being
raped, collecting sometimes up to $10,000 compensation per case.
---
The FBI stated that in 1990 over 8,500 of the rapes reported proved to
be
false. False reports of child abuse were twice that figure.
. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare: Media
Release
http://www.aihw.gov.au/media/2000/mr000711.html----
Male
suicides more common than road deaths
Australian men are more likely to die
from suicide than road crashes,
according to a bulletin released today by the
Australian Institute of Health
and Welfare (AIHW).
. The International Committee of the Red Cross has also
reported that
93% of landmine victims are male. Almost one-third of these
victims are
boys under the age of 16 years of age.
. PAS was accepted in the European Court Of Human
Rights almost 2 years ago in the case Egbert Elsholz vs. Germany. Please go to
Richard A Gadners Homepage
www.rgardner.com
. Table 1. Historical Filing Rates for Women in the
United States
Locale and Year Percent where Wife Plaintiff
U.S.
1867* 62
U.S. 1880* 67
U.S. 1890* 66
U.S.
1900* 67
U.S. 1908* 67
U.S. 1922* 68
U.S.
1931* 72.8
U.S. 1960* 70.3
Dade County, Florida,
1962-63** 71
Fulton County, Georgia, 1962-63** 73
U.S.
1965 71.4
California 1966 78.3
New Jersey
1966 68.1
Florida, 1969 (Sample) 73.4
Polk County Iowa,
1969 80.7
California 1970* 71.5
New Jersey
1970* 70.2
Polk County, Iowa, 1972 78.3
Dade County, Florida,
1972-73** 32
Fulton County, Georgia, 1972-73** 70
California
1974* 67.3
New Jersey 1974* 64.1
Florida, 1974
(Sample)* 71.5
Connecticut, 1995 69.4
Connecticut, 1995, with
children (85% of all) 71.3
*Friedman and Percival,
1976
** Gunter and Johnson, 1978
source:
http://forever.freeshell.org/doc/tables10.doc
. Comments : approximately 3 times as many women
petitioned for divorce as men. The unreasonable behaviour grounds were used in
more than two-thirds of cases. Most men denied the allegations, although few
women denied them, as reported by the man responding. An interpretation of the
data for grounds and denial is that it was unnecessary for women to deny, while
men found it necessary in order to defend themselves.
. Women confess to lying to their men
Almost a quarter of British women would try to conceive without their
partner's consent if they wanted a baby, says a new survey.
The Scruples and Lies Survey found that modern women are willing to lie
about everything from contraception to the size of their bank balance.
Whether it's little white lies or serious porkies, 94% of the 5,000
respondents confessed to telling fibs, with 48% lying on a daily basis.
The survey was commissioned by women's magazine That's Life!.
The Sydney Morning Herald
Monday, January 14, 2002
National
No kidding, working dads whinge and get scant sympathy from mothers
by
Karen Ingram
More than a quarter of Australian fathers believe they are expected
to
sacrifice time with their children to put in more hours at work, but their
female co-workers are not sympathetic, a survey has found.
The TMP Worldwide survey, released yesterday, showed 27 per cent of male
workers believed their bosses discouraged them from taking time off work to
spend with their children, but 80.5 per cent of women surveyed said this was not
the case.
Though 35.5 per cent of men said working fathers were
discriminated
against in the workplace, more than 80 per cent of women
disagreed.
Of nearly 6000 Australian workers surveyed, 32.5 per cent of men
aged
between 35 and 54 felt fathers were disadvantaged when they wanted
to
fulfil parental responsibilities.
A spokeswoman from TMP, Lisa Donohoe, said many employees,
particularly
women, were so comfortable with traditional gender roles in the
workplace that they might not be aware of the problems faced by working fathers.
"A lot of women ... do feel it's their role to be the primary carer...," she
said.
"Employers probably have a similar traditional view and it may be that dad
is [seen as] the breadwinner and mum is the carer, and therefore
[employers]
are not as open or as willing to allow that flexibility for
fathers."
Workers in the legal and construction areas felt hardest done by,
with
47.2 per cent of male employees saying they felt working fathers
faced
discrimination.
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission last financial
year
received 280 complaints under the Sex Discrimination Act from
women
compared with 58 from men. Only 2 per cent of all complaints
concerned
family responsibility.
Men complaining about family responsibility discrimination were likely to
be sole parents.
Employers should examine their policies and ensure they were
"applying
them fairly to people who have parental responsibilities, rather
than
making gender-based decisions", Miss Donohoe said.
. Home Office Research Study 191 entitled
Domestic Violence.
Copies are available from HMSO. This was reported in The
Guardian on 22nd
January 1999 by Alan Travis (Home Affairs Editor). I quote
:-
"Men are
increasingly the victims of domestic violence, and are just as
likely as
women to be assaulted by a partner, according to Home Office
research
published yesterday".
. On January 25, 2001, Men's Health America isssued its report,
Men's Health Programs Lag by a 5:1 Margin at DHHS. The report concluded that
while DHHS funds women's health research and development programs at the level
of $5 billion per year, men's health is allocated only $963.6 million per
year.
. A 1984 issue of the Justice Quarterly says that in domestic
violence, women compensate for their size by using weapons. In 6,200 domestic
abuse cases, 86 percent of women who assaulted men used weapons: guns, knives,
boiling water, bricks, fireplace pokers and baseball bats. Only a quarter of men
who assaulted women used weapons.
. The National Family Violence Council says: "The fact that
women had higher mean and median rates for severe violence suggests that female
aggression is not merely a response to male aggression."
. In Straus and Gels' second
study, in 1986, 1.8 million
women suffered assaults from a husband or
boyfriend, but two million men were
assaulted by a wife or girlfriend.
. Half of spousal murders are committed by wives A 1985
National Family Violence Survey of 6,000 cases, funded by the National
Institutes of Mental Health, conducted by Murray A. Straus and Richard J. Gels
at the University of New Hampshire.
Statistics supporting the Equal Shared Parenting / Kids Need
Both
Parents Bill
Wisconsin SB 202 and AB442
Listed are problems our children suffer from lack of two
parent
households:
PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
1.GREAT PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
A.single parent children 3 to 4 times more likely to have emotional
or
behavioral problems
( Zill and Schoenborn, National Center for Health Statistics, 1990)
B.84% of teens hospitalized for psychiatric care come from single
parent
homes (1989 study, cited by Hewlett, When the Bough Breaks)
2.HIGHER SUICIDE RATE
A.teens who attempt suicide similar to non-suicidal teens in age,
income,
race or religion, are more likely to have little or minimal contact
with
their father (Study of 752 families by New York Psychiatric
Institute,
cited by Hewlett)
B.75% of teens who commit suicide are from single parent
homes
(Elshtain, The Christian Century, 1993)
3.MORE ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE
A.18% of children with strict and involved fathers used drugs
B.35% of children without fathers used drugs (1988 UCLA study, cited
by
Hewlett)
C.Children in father-absent homes are 4.3 times more likely to smoke
as
children in father-present (Stanton, Oci, and Silva, 1994 survey of
1037
15-year-olds)
4.GREAT FREQUENCY OF SLEEP DISORDERS
A.more trouble falling asleep, more nightmares, and night
terrors
(Psychiatrist Alfred Messer, cited by Hewlett)
5.PERSISTENT FEELINGS OF BETRAYAL, REJECTION, RAGE, GUILT, PAIN
A.lasting for years with a renewed intensity at adolescence
B.Two-thirds [of father-absent children] yearned for the absent
parent,
one-half of those with an intensity we found profoundly
moving.
(Wallerstein and Kelly, 1980, Surviving the Breakup)
6.LOWER SELF-ESTEEM
A.especially true for girls (Dr. Robert Fay presentation at
NCMC
conference, 1992) (Davidson, Life Without Father: America's Greatest
Social
Catastrophe, Policy Review, 1990)
COGNITIVE/ACADEMIC ABILITY
1.LOWER ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
A.38% of elementary students from single parent homes were low
achieving,
while 23 % of both parent children were low achieving (Nat'l
Assoc. of
Elementary School Principals report, city by Hewlett)
B.30% of children from father-present homes were high achieving, while
only
17% of children from father-absent homes were high achieving.
2.LOWER MATH SCORES
A.(Yale University study by Carlsmith, cited by Hewlett) (Cortes
and
Fleming, 1968)
3.GREATER FAILURE RATE
A.elementary students from fatherless homes or homes with mother and
a
stepfather have to repeat
B. (National Center for Health Statistics study of 47,000 households
by
Deborah grades at a rate 2-3 times higher than children with
both
biological parents Dawson,1991)
4.LOWER SAT SCORES
A."dramatic" lower scores for students from father-absent homes
(Columbia
University and Bowling Green State University study of 295
from
father-absent homes and 760 from father-present homes, cited by
Hewlett)
5.LOWER IQ AND ACHIEVEMENT
A.children who lost fathers before age 5 scored lower on Otis Quick
Test
and Stanford Achievement Test as junior-high and high-school
students
(Santrock, 1972) (Hetherington, Cox, and Cox study, 1978) (Cortes
and
Fleming, 1968)
6.MORE LIKELY TO DROP OUT OF SCHOOL
A.children from fatherless homes twice as likely to drop out of school (
US
Department of Health and Human Services, Survey on Child Health,
1993)
7.LESS LIKELY TO ATTEND COLLEGE
A.(Wallerstein, Family Law Quarterly, 1986)
ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR
1.HIGHER RATES OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
A.fatherless children are twice as likely to become criminally
involved
(Margaret Wynn, 1964) -72% of adolescent murderers, 60% of rapists,
and 70%
of long-term prisoners grew up in father-absent homes (US Department
of
Justice data, 1991)
2.GREATER DELINQUENCY FOR BOYS
A.87% of Wisconsin juvenile delinquents are a product of
father-absent
homes (Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services,
1994)
B.70% of juveniles in state reform institutions grew up in
father-absent
homes (US Department of Justice data, 1988) C.young black men
raised
without a father are twice as likely to engage in criminal activities
(Hill
and O'Neill, 1993) (Matlock in Adolescence) (Siegman, 1966; Anderson,
1968;
Kelly and Baer, 1969)
3.GREATER DELINQUENCY FOR GIRLS A.(Monahan, 1957; Toby, 1957)
4.MORE VIOLENT MISBEHAVIOR IN SCHOOL
A.Children who exhibited violent misbehavior in school were 11 times
as
likely to live without their father than children who did not
violently
misbehave (Sheline, Skipper, Broadhead, Aamerican Journal of Public
Health,
1994)
CHILD ABUSE
1.GREATER CHANCE OF BEING PHYSICALLY ABUSED
A.preschoolers living without their biological father were 40 times
more
likely to be a victim of child abuse as compared to like-aged
children
living with their father (Wilson and Daly in Child Abuse and
Neglect:
Biosocial Dimensions, 1987)
B.premarital pregnancy, out-of-wedlock childbearing, and absent fathers
are
the most common predictors of child abuse (Smith, Hanson, and Noble,
Child
Abuse: Commission and Omission, 1980)
2.GREATER CHANCE OF BEING SEXUALLY ABUSED
A.69% of victims of child sexual abuse came from homes where
the
biological father was absent (Gomes-Schwartz, Horowitz, and
Cardarelli,
Child Sexual Abuse Victims and their Treatment, 1988)
HETEROSEXUAL ADJUSTMENT FOR DAUGHTERS
1.MORE DIFFICULTY IN INTERACTING WITH MEN AND MALE PEERS A.daughters
of
divorcees aggressive, forward with boys and men B.daughters of widows
shy
and timid with boys and men (Hetherington, 1972)
2.YOUNGER MARRIAGES
A.daughter of divorcees marry at younger age
(Hetherington, 1972)
3.MORE
UNWED PREGNANCY
A.girls from fatherless homes 111% (over 2X) more likely to have
unwed
pregnancy (Warren Farrell presentation at NCMC conference,
1992;
Hetherington, 1972)
4.HIGHER DIVORCE RATES A.girls from fatherless home 92% (nearly 2X)
more
likely to divorce (Warren Farrell presentation at NCMC conference,
1992;
Hetherington,1972)
HETEROSEXUAL ADJUSTMENT FOR SONS
1.LESS MASCULINE, MORE DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR
A.(Santrock's study of 4- and 5-year old, father-absent boys) (Rogers
and
Long's study of 6- too 15-year-old boys where father employed away
from
home community, 1968) (Hetherington's study of 9- to
12-year-old,
father-absent boys, 1966)
GENERAL HEALTH
1.MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES
A.fatherless children 20-30% more likely to experience
accidents,
injuries, and poisonings that did father-present children (Remez,
Family
Planning Perspectives, 1992)
B.compared to children living with father, fatherless
children
experience more accidental injury, asthma, frequent headaches,
and
speech defects (Dawson, Journal of Marriage and Family, 1991)
. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A father's love--or the lack of
it--contributes as much to the development of a child's personality and behavior
as the love of a mother, according to researchers. In some respects, they add, a
father's love is even more influential.
``Probably the most important and most surprising finding of all is that
the importance of mother love seems to drop out altogether in some of the
analyses we have done,'' said study co-author Dr. Ronald P. Rohner of the
University of Connecticut. ``It's pretty remarkable.''
Rohner and his colleague Robert A. Veneziano reviewed almost 100 US
and
European studies investigating the effects of parenting on the psychology
and behavior of children as they grew older. The earliest study was conducted in
1949, and the most recent was completed in 2001.
. • According to the US Department of Justice, 70% of
confirmed cases of
child abuse and 65% of parental murders of children are
committed by
mothers.
. "the Department of Health and Human Services reported that
mothers
perpetrate 78% of fatal child abuse."
See:
MENS MENTAL HEALTH
Suicides by men comprise 75% of all
suicides in the UK
Older men have the highest suicide rates in the
UK
Young men have the fastest rising suicide rates in the UK
Doctors are
less likely to diagnose men with depression than women
Studies suggest that
depression occurs as often in men as in women
Men are less likely to seek
medical attention than women
Physical illness is a major contributory factor
in men developing mental
distress
1 in 7 men who become unemployed will
develop depression within 6 months
Men are more likely than women to
experience long term unemployment
Unemployment is a major cause of depression
and suicide in men
50% of victims of domestic violence are men
Men make up
96% of the UK prison population
Men are more likely to be given custodial
sentences than women for the same
offence
58% of remand prisoners have
been assessed as having mental health problems
39% of sentenced prisoners
have been assessed as having mental health
problems
Alcohol and substance
abuse is 5 times more common in men than in women
Men tend to have an earlier
onset of schizophrenia and a poorer prognosis
than women
. Here are some more statistics:
90% of runaway and
homeless children are from fatherless homes.
(D.H.H.S)
71% of pregnant teenagers are from fatherless homes (D.H.H.S)
63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (D.H.H.S)
85% of children with behavioural disorders are from fatherless
homes.
(Centre for Disease Control)
75% of teenagers in drug abuse rehab are from fatherless
homes.
(National Principles Report on High Schools)
85% of youths in prison are from fatherless homes (Texas Dept.
of
Corrections)
From Richard @tv etc.
.
. Suicide see statistics and reports 05 05 2002
According to
Price, the emotional fallout from all this is a major factor in
the high
rate of depression and male suicide in Australia. Of the 2500
suicides in
Australia each year, 80 per cent of them are men and he estimates
that
somewhere between 40 and 70 per cent are related to separation. For
every
female suicide associated with separation, there are 12 male suicides
and
research from the Family Court shows that many men are still struggling
with
problems related to separation 10 years on.
Dr. Chris Cantor
Researcher, AISRAP
Qualifications:
MB, BS, MRCPsych, FRANZCP
Research Interests:
Epidemiology of suicide
Marital breakdown and suicide
Mass
murder/suicide
Public health approaches to suicide prevention
. the World Health Organization for the period 1979 through
1994 and the National Center for Health Statistic for the same period, the ratio
of suicides between males and females in the United States was 4.9 to 1.0.
. Lord Justice Mathew Thorpe said - and this is the
radical bit - that the
application seemed "to ignore the realities involving
the different roles
and functions of men and women"...27 04 2002 ukmm
. A new study by the Heritage Foundation confirms that children
are up to 33
times more likely to be abused in a single-parent home than in
an intact
family... See statistics and reports 28 04 2002
. ...murder of male partners or intimates by women is actually
as
prevalent as the murder of female intimates by men. Official
Department
of Justice (DOJ) statistics disguise this, however, through what
men's
issues author Warren Farrell calls the "blinders" to female murder
of
men.
One of Farrell's blinders is the fact that women generally use
less
detectable methods to murder intimates than men do. One of the
most
popular female methods is to poison the victim, and these
poisonings
are often mistakenly recorded as "heart attacks" and
"accidents"
instead of murder.
Another blinder is that women are much more likely than men to
use
"contract" killers, and contract killers often disguise murders
as
accidents or suicides. Even when a paid killer is caught and the
truth
is known, the DOJ counts the murder as a "multiple-offender"
killing
instead of as a murder of a man by a female intimate.
Farrell also notes that men who murder women tend to come from
lower
class backgrounds, whereas women who murder men are more likely to
come
from middle-class backgrounds. Thus the financial disparities
allow
for women to have better legal representation, resulting in
more
acquittals. In fact, according to a Justice Department study,
women
were nine times as likely men to be acquitted in a trial for the
murder
of a spouse, and 10 times as likely to receive probation instead
of
prison time.
Official statistics are further distorted by what Farrell calls
the
"Chivalry Factor" and the "Innocent Woman Factor," both of which
make
it less likely that women will even be suspected of murder, and
more
likely that the murders they commit will be ruled as "self-defense."
Despite these large distortions, men still comprise roughly 30% of
those
officially classified as being murdered by an intimate. According
to the DOJ,
each year men murder about 1,275 female intimates and women
murder around 500
male intimates (excluding self-defense). In addition,
according to the US
Department of Justice's Special Report--Violence
Against Women, there are
roughly 7,800 unsolved murders of men and
1,500 unsolved murders of women
each year.
Now let's do the math. Because roughly 33% of all female murder
victims
are killed by male intimates, whenever a woman is murdered,
the
immediate suspect is always a husband or male intimate. This
means
that in these 1,500 unsolved murders, police have already either
ruled
these men out or decided that the evidence against them is weak.
Thus the percentage of those 1,500 women who are murdered by a
male
intimate has to be much lower than 33%. Let's say the percentage
is
15%, though it is quite possibly much lower than that. Fifteen
percent
of 1,500 is 225 which, added to 1,275 (the confirmed total), makes
a
total of 1,500 female victims of male intimates a year.
Now let's do the math for male murder victims. Obviously the
vast
majority of these unsolved murders were not committed by
female
intimates, though police erroneously do not view female intimates
as
suspects as often as they should. Let's say that only 7% of
these
murders were committed by female intimates which, considering
the
blinders, seems quite low. Seven percent of 7,800 is 550 which,
when
added to the 500 known murders, bring us to 1,050--over 40% of
all
intimate murder victims.
This is consistent with the numbers from the US Department of
Justices
survey Murder in Families, which analyzed 10,000 cases and found
that
women make up over 40 percent of those charged in familial murders.
If, instead of 7%, the percentage was a still-reasonable 12.8%,
the
intimate murder rates between the genders would be equal. In
addition,
as Farrell notes, since many murders of men by female intimates are
not
even recorded as murders, including them would push the total of
male
victims even higher.
. It is interesting that since the introduction of DNA evidence
in the U.S. there have been MORE cases of false allegation uncovered and LESS
convictions for rape relative to allegations.
. Females
% of murder victims in domestic
violence
55.5% 44.5%
% of spouses acquitted for murder of a
spouse
1.4% 12.9%
% of spouses who receive probation for murdering a spouse
1.6% 16.0%
Average sentence (in years) for murdering a
spouse
17 6
---
Source: "Murder in Families" - Dept. of Justice, July
1994
.
. Department of Justice figures show that being male increases
a murderer's
chance of receiving a death sentence by more than 20 times. And
the data
repeatedly confirms that men receive higher sentences than women for
the
exact same crime.
One study, published in Justice Quarterly in 1986, examined
181,197
felonies in California and found that, for the same crime, being
male
increased the chance of incarceration by 165 percent. Being black,
in
comparison, increased the chance of incarceration by 19 percent.
Another study, published in Crime & Delinquency in 1989,
examined
non-accomplice crimes and factored together the number of
charges,
convicted offenses, prior felony convictions, as well as the race,
age,
work history and family situation of the accused and found that
"gender
differences, favoring women, are more often found than race
differences,
favoring whites."
In yet another study, published in the International Journal of
the
Sociology of Law, researchers Mathew Zingraff and Randall Thomson
found
that being male increases sentence lengths more than any
other
discriminatory variable.
The bias applies to victims as well as the accused. When Edward Glaeser
of
Harvard University and Bruce Sacerdote of Dartmouth College examined
2,800
homicide cases randomly drawn from 33 urban counties by the Bureau
of
Justice Statistics, they found that killing a female instead of a
male
increased sentences by 40.6 percent. Killing a white instead of a black,
in
comparison, increased sentences by 26.8 percent.
Even when the exact same type of crime is accounted for, the
disparities
still persist. For example, a drunk driver who kills a black male
receives
an average sentence of two years. A drunk driver who kills a white
male,
four years. A drunk driver who kills a white female, six years.
To those who recognize the problem, gender stereotypes are a major
culprit.
In a 1991 NCFM report titled "Gender and Injustice," researchers
John Ryan
and Ian Wilson suggest the problem stems from stereotypes about
women being
more innocent, more reformable and less dangerous than men.
Barbara Swartz,
former Director of New York's Women's Prison Project, called
it the
"chivalry factor" and says, "If there were more women judges, more
women
would go to jail."
Others attribute the problem to the devaluing of male lives.
But addressing the causes does little good when the public does not
even
recognize the problem. One reason we don't is that the task forces
we
appoint to investigate the problem are just as biased as the legal
system
they are supposed to monitor, so a full picture of the bias never gets
drawn.
In 1980, the National Organization for Women and the National
Association
of Women Judges formed the National Judicial Education Program to
Promote
Equality for Women and Men in the Courts (NJEP). In 1986, they
wrote
"Operating a Task Force on Gender Bias in the Courts: A Manual for
Action,"
which became the manual used by gender bias task forces nationwide.
The
manual opens by stating that gender bias operates more frequently
against
women and that it is not a contradiction for task forces to focus
primarily
on bias against women in courts.
As one might guess, this is exactly what the task forces do.
"None of (the commissions) study bias against men," said Ramanathan.
For example, even though men are more likely to get prison and women to
get
probation for the same crime, a New York task force claimed that it
is
women who were discriminated against because - get this - they
receive
longer probation periods.
One commission recently justified giving women shorter sentences
because
women are often custodial parents. But the sentencing disparities
persisted
in the above studies that took family situations into account. So
even if
custodial parenthood justifies a shorter sentence, courts are giving
men
longer sentences than women even when neither (or both) are
custodial
parents. Needless to say, when a father commits a crime, the courts
have no
trouble calling him an unfit parent and removing him from his kids.
The gender bias in our courts and in our gender bias task forces is
not
just an injustice to the victims; it is a tragic betrayal of public
trust.
In fact, as embarrassing as it sounds, we may need to create task
forces to
investigate the gender bias of the task forces that we created
to
investigate gender bias in the first place.
---
Marc Angelucci is a public interest attorney in Los Angeles and is the
Los
Angeles Chapter president of the National Coalition of Free Men
<
http://www.ncfm.org/> .
. The sudden infant death rate was lowest for
babies
born inside marriage. The sudden infant death rate for
babies born
outside marriage where only the mother
registered the birth was over five
times higher
compared to babies born inside marriage."
...Speaking before the British Association for Counselling and
Psychotherapy
conference in Nottingham yesterday, he said that his staff were
seeing vast
changes in the way people view marriage...
. a 1999 study by the American Assn. of Blood Banks.
That
study found that of 280,000 blood tests performed to determine the
paternity of
children, 30% excluded the subject tested as being the
father.
. Anti-man prejudice, in fact, runs through government
thinking. Baroness Jay
and her Women's Unit constantly fork out the old
chestnut that one woman in
four is assaulted by her partner. In fact, most
British domestic violence
studies on which the government relies for such
claims are effectively
rigged; they ask only women, not men, for their
domestic violence
experiences, mainly from self-selecting samples of
abused
women. Yet reputable international research shows overwhelmingly that
acts
of domestic violence are initiated by women upon men at least as
frequently
as vice versa.
Sunday Times. Melanie Phillips See ukmm 24 03
02
. ' When Dr. Suzanne Steinmetz had the audacity to publish
"The
Battered Husband Syndrome" in 1978, a study that found that more women
then
men initiated domestic violence, feminist groups were on her like
animals.
Dr. Steinmetz recalls receiving anonymous phone calls from feminist
groups
threatening to harm her family.'
see ukmm 23 mar 02
. Analysis: Lone Parents.
Impact of
Fatherlessness on Children - an occasional series of
papers,
1998 (updated 7/99)
5. Child Murder and Child Abuse - by family type.
There is an implicit assumption that children are best cared for by
women,
and preferably their mothers. Unconsciously and unerringly we all
subscribe
to that assumption. We never question why and we never inquire if
the
assumption is valid (today or ever) - it has simply always has been
that
way.
Women are seen as better equipped than men to care for young children
and
that under their supervision less harm will come to them. Men are seen
as
lacking the ability to comprehend or adjust to children's needs and,
almost
biologically, to lack the necessary patience, commitment and
understanding.
Our unquestioning conviction pre-determines much of what we do and how
we
decide matters. This singular blind faith puts the custody of children
in
divorce hearings permanently out of reach of fathers. It immutably
precludes
fatherly involvement in child development in the years after the
divorce.
But do the facts bear out our trust - or is it all illusory ? Are
we
prepared to face a prospect where cosy reassuring myths explode
into
fictions ? Society and institutions often cannot come to terms with
the
concept of female aggression. They cannot comprehend woman as
aggressor
either in the home or in the nursery (Appendix C).
The truth is
that mothers kill more babies and young children than fathers.
Women also
abuse more children than fathers. Contentiously, some
commentators see a
striking relationship between rapists and mother
domination or molestation in
childhood ("The Development Antecedents and
Adult Adaptations of Rapists",
Knight & Prentky, Criminal Justice and
Behavior 403-426, US.1987).
In fact, the highest probability of being murdered is not as an
adolescent
in a pub brawl or being 'mugged' in your 20's or being attacked in
your own
home - it's in the first months and years of life. The likelihood of
infant
death is 27 per million compared with the national average of 14
per
million. The usually assumed highest risk category, the 18-25 year
olds,
comes somewhere between the two figures.1
However, closer
examination reveals that baby boys under 12 months old are
more likely to be
murdered than girls - 55 and 42 per million respectively.
"In 1992 only 385
deaths of under 1 year olds were reported as homicides".2
This would seem to
suggest that further deaths were ascribed to other
causes. It is
interesting to note that the indictments for Infanticide (an
exclusively
female defence for child murder) totalled no more than 4
in
that
year.3
Figures for other years, for example 1995 when there
were 754 deaths in
England and Wales initially recorded as homicides, show a
clear 66:33 spilt
between male and female victims and one is left to wonder
where the infant
homicides have gone.4
In Oct 1997 surveillance cameras in
a baby ward video-ed 34 women out of 39
attempting to smother or seriously
harm their babies.5 Approximately 60% of
all women murderers premeditated
their act.6 The figures for child abuse
are
similarly disturbing. It is
estimated that some 35,000 suffer abuse every
year with many thousands being
taken into care every year (see Appendix A).
Of the children on the NSPCC
Protection Register 60% lived either with
their
mother alone or mother
with her boyfriend or mother and father substitute.
Almost all the high
profile newspaper reports we are familiar with
involving
a child's death /
murder fail to mention that where the culprit was not the
mother, the
'father' was not the biological father.
Not only does 60% of abuse and
neglect stem from mothers but the figure
seem
almost the "standard" in
many developed countries, e.g. UK, US, Canada and
Australia (see Appendix A,
B & C).
At last some of the few remaining taboos have been broken and
researchers
are now asking about child sexual abuse by women -now estimated
at 35% or
more of all reported child sexual abuse.7 More and more data
from North
America (Canada and the USA) would indicate that at least 25% of
child
sexual abuse is perpetrated by mothers - uncomfortable findings that
find
echoes in the UK.8
This compares with the more openly admitted and
traditional non--sexual
abuse/neglect of children by women where the
incidence rate is around 60%.
Child abuse, whether physical or sexual, is a
minefield for the researcher.
The clear pattern, once so prominent, is now
becoming clouded as modes of
abuse more usually ascribed as 'mothers only'
types of offence are now being
re-defined (perhaps, for Politically Correct
reasons) as "both-parent"
abuse.9
All types of child abuse have increased since 1980 but the trend to
sanitise
survey results, in the name of Political Correctness does nothing to
help us
understand the dynamics at work within diverse family
structures.
A seminal British study, the Family Court Reporter Survey 1982-88
for
England and Wales, confirms that a child is safest when his
biological
parents are married and least safe when his mother is cohabiting
with a man
other then her husband.10
Specifically, the Family Court Reporter Survey presents concrete
evidence
that children are between 20 to 33 times safer living with
their
biologically married parents than in any other family
configuration.11
The rate of abuse is 33 times higher if the child is living with a
mother
who is cohabiting with another man.12 Similar risks apply in cases of
fatal
child abuse where the overwhelming number of child deaths occurred
in
households in which the child's biological mother was cohabiting
with
someone who was unrelated to the child.13
Some commentators continue to insist lone parenthood is superior to both
the
traditional two-parent family and father custody and that child abuse
and
female subjugation are merely by-products of the male-dominated
conjugal
family. In reply to all we have to do is ask "Show us
the outcomes".
We must expect outbursts such as "There is more abuse of children in
a
traditional family where there is a man", from Claire Rainier, and
others,
who may prefer to be economical with the truth. They omit that,
numerically,
far more children live in the traditional two-parent family.
Therefore a,
say, 1%, abuse rate may give rise to a large number whereas LMH
(lone mother
households), in comparison, with, say, a 25%, abuse rate pose
a
significantly greater danger to children. Leaving aside the abuse
rate
percentages, nowhere more pronounced is the danger than in the
actual
numbers of children on the "at risk register" or offered up for
'care'. Few
are from the traditional two-parent family backgrounds.
The assertion that "To assume that having two parents together
is
necessarily better is one of the fantasies", 14 thereby becomes
just
another part of the myth.
The only single parent household which is safer for children and
which
delivers better 'outcomes', comparable to the traditional 2 parent
family
unit, is the household headed by a single father.
However, with the state increasingly becoming a parent, the outcomes
for
children who are parented by the state are far worse than any type
of
household including single female parent households.
Notes:-
1 Criminal Statistics England and Wales 1996. (Home
Office)
2 ibid
3
ibid
4 ibid
5 BBC TV News & Channel 4 News.
28th Oct 1997. Prof. Southall paediatrician
at North Staffordshire Hospital
Videoed women attempting to kill their
babies in hospital wards (34 out of 39
were later prosecuted). See also Sir
Roy Meadows (BBC News Feb 1999).
6
Coramae Richey Mann,"Getting Even ? Women Who Kill in
Domestic
Encounters". Justice Quarterly.
March 1988.
7 BBC
Panorama - child sexual abuse by women.
8 a). "National Incidence of Child
Abuse and Neglect", Frinkel & Russell,
1984 USA, (24% of boys and 13% of
girls abused by females). b).
Gonisiorek,
Bera & Le Tourneau,
1989 and 1994 (33% of sexual abusers were female).
Figures supplied by David
Yarwood.
9 NSPCC statistics
10 Family Court Reporter Survey,
1982-88.
11
ibid
12
ibid
13 ibid
14 Article in the
Jewish Chronicle, 17/06/1994.
Appendix A.
The UK:
[] Child murders and abuse of children are higher ....... in
disrupted
families. - Patricia Morgan, Farewell to the Family ?" p125,
IEA.
[] 60% of children on the NSPCC protection register lived either with
their
mother alone or mother with her boyfriend or mother and father
substitute.
Patricia Morgan, Farewell to the Family ?"
[] Lone mothers do not received feedback that would moderate
their
behaviour. Patricia Morgan, Farewell to the Family ?"
IEA.
Children in Care - England & Wales 1993 (%)
Table 3.17. NCH &
HMSO statistics. page 45. Child Protection
Register.
_________________________________Boys________________Girls____________Total
Physical
Injury___________________40___________________33_______________37
Neglect___________________________28___________________24_______________26
Sex
Abuse_________________________19___________________32_______________25
Emotional
Abuse___________________11___________________10_______________11
Grave
Concern______________________9____________________8________________9
(includes
1,200 aged 16+)
All children
on
Register_____________________17,000_______________17,2000__________34,300
Rate
per 1000 under 16 y.o.a.______3.1_________________3.3______________3.2
HOME OFFICE STATISTICS:-
Only 385 of the 600 + deaths of children aged under 1 year olds
are
reported as homicides (1992). Boys are more likely to be murdered - 55
per
million-than girls - 42 per million. Children under 1 year old were
the
highest risk category for being murdered at 27 per 1 million as against
14
per million for the average population. (see Table 4.6 & Fig
4.4)
Overall, in 1995 there were 754 deaths initially recorded as
homicides.
This includes murder, manslaughter and infanticide. This is the
highest
receded total this century. Over the past 20 years there has been an
annual
increase of 1.5% pa.
Female Aggression / Violence.
Table 9.22 Offences Against Prison
Discipline in GB.(%) page
170.
Rate per 100 prison population.
MEN_____________________________1981________________1991________________1994
Disorder/Disrespect______________75__________________100_________________111
Violence__________________________8___________________21__________________24
Unauthorised
possession__________19___________________26__________________40
Wilful
damage____________________11___________________13__________________15
Escape/abscond____________________5____________________4___________________3
others___________________________47___________________37__________________40
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
___________________Total________165__________________200_________________232
WOMEN:
Disorder/Disrespect_____________132__________________143_________________142
Violence_________________________16___________________29__________________39
Unauthorised
possession__________29___________________30__________________37
Wilful
damage____________________37___________________12__________________14
Escape/abscon_____________________6____________________9__________________10
others___________________________98___________________72__________________93
__________________Total_________318__________________295_________________335
"Maintaining discipline in prison is a vital but difficult task. In
1994,
there were 2.3 offences committed and proved for
