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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Men are victims of domestic violence, too |
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Written by MARC E. ANGELUCCI
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Dear Editor:
In the article titled, Group Raises Awareness About Domestic Violence (in the Oct. 5 through Oct. 11 edition), your reporter gave an example of a female victim of domestic violence.
Please let your readers know that men are victims too, and in high numbers. They’re just more hidden and rarely get addressed.
The latest fact sheet from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states, “In the United States every year, about 1.5 million women and more than 800,000 men are raped or physically assaulted by an intimate partner.’’
It also states that one-fourth of intimate partner homicide victims are men, at http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/ipvfacts.htm.
In May 2007, the CDC found half of heterosexual domestic violence was reciprocal and women committed over 70 percent of the reciprocal violence.
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/42/15/31-a
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/5/941.
In fact, although men are less likely to report the violence, virtually all sociological research worldwide shows women initiate domestic violence as often as men, and men suffer one third of the injuries.
California State University Professor Martin Fiebert summarizes over 200 of these studies in an online bibliography. http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm.
Marc E. Angelucci, President
Los Angeles chapter
National Coalition of Free Men
http://www.ncfmla.org
1964 Addison Way
Los Angeles, CA 90041
626-319-3081
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