Ms Wilk

 

Thank you for signing our guest book.  I do appreciate your willingness to consider men who are victims of domestic abuse.  After all, that is all we are asking, that ALL abuse victims are given equal protection and equal services.

 

I do realize you are making an attempt at reaching men by changing the name to Hands of Hope but honestly Ms Wilk, I still contend that it is a well kept secret.  You see, I can see many references in our own area to abused women but I see no public service announcement pointing out that there are far more men who are victims then society is aware of.  In fact, unbiased sources reveal it is about equal although more women get  harmed.  It certainly is not evident by anything other then a name change.  It would still be like expecting a man to go to a women's hospital for health care.

 

Ms Wilk, I am sure you have seen Mayor Seybold's "Mayor's commission on domestic violence" handbook. It starts off with a myth.

 

 Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women between ages 15 and 44 in the United States - more than car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined

 

Ms Wilk, have you contested this myth or do you allow it to go unchallenged because it services a purpose?

These were the leading causes of injury to women between the ages of 15 and 44 in the United States in 1996:

	Number	Per Cent
Motor Vehicle Accidents	1,504,119	21.2%
Accidental Falls	1,243,538	17.5%
Other and unspecified environmental and accidental causes	1,162,272	16.4%
Accidents caused by cutting and piercing instruments or objects	515,986	7.3%
Sports injuries	483,223	6.8%
Injuries purposefully inflicted by other than spouse or intimate	399,240	5.6%
Overexertion and strenuous movements	339,014	4.8%
Drugs, medicinal and biological substances, in therapeutic use	166,687	2.3%
Injuries purposefully inflicted by spouse or other intimate	153,555	2.2%
Injuries caused by animals	137,639	1.9%
Accidental poisoning by drugs	131,928	1.9%
Misadventures during surgical and medical care	124,230	1.7%
Suicide and self-inflicted injuries	102,392	1.4%
Struck accidentally by falling object	87,485	1.2%
Caught accidentally in or between objects	74,995	1.1%
Foreign body accidentally entering orifice other than eye	69,590	1.0%
Accidental poisoning by other solid and liquid substances, gases, and vapors	57,846	0.8%
Non-transport machinery accidents	56,455	0.8%
Venomous animals and plants	50,111	0.7%
Accident caused by hot substance or object	49,766	0.7%
Foreign body accidentally entering eye and adnexa	47,788	0.7%
Other	147,889	2.0%

This data is taken from the 1996 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Data File, which can be downloaded via ftp from the National Center for Health Statistics. Domestic violence, referred to in the table as "Injury purposefully inflicted by spouse or other intimate", accounts for 2.2% of injuries to women in this age group. Rather than being a larger cause of injury than "car accidents and other things combined", domestic violence causes only one-tenth as many injuries as motor vehicle accidents alone. And as any thoughtful person might expect, as a source of injuries domestic violence is well behind such everyday occurences as accidental falls and cuts.

In reality there are far more men being abused then your one or two that seek services from Hands of Hope. 

New 2006 DOJ stats on domestic violence

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/intimate/injury.htm

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/intimate/report.htm

This is from one of the female child advocates in Shattered Men regarding the above:.

Yes, they do cover up the stats on male victims of dv...YES YES
YES....on ALMOST EVERY DV site out there, they have stats up from 96-
98...PLUS they never put the compilation of stats up to say that
FEMALE DV had DECREASED in the past thirty years, male dv has
INCREASED, then it seems to level out...ALTHOUGH MALE VICTIM MURDERS
STEADILY RISE...

Child abuse in the US is mainly perpetrated by females

AND ALTHOUGH they would have you believe that male perpetrated RAPE
CRIMES are HIGH...they are actually STILL ONLY THREE PERCENT OF ALL
ABUSE CASES AGAINST CHILDREN....three percent of ALL abuse against
children is sexual abuse, AND females are also the perps in ONE
PERCENT of that three percent...fathers are LOW ON THE LIST, where
strangers are higher than fathers, AND BOYFRIENDS and stepfathers
are the highest (chosen by the mom of course)

FEMALES are not CRIMINALIZED at the rate that men are, if you
compare the ACTUAL ABUSE statistics from the department of social
and health services with the stats from the Department of Justice
you will see that MOTHERS, and other females are NOT charged but
only ten percent of the time!

 

 

 

Why Do Women Lie About Rape?

The National Organization for Women, radical feminists and Women's Studies departments often deny that women make false accusations about rape by asking the naive, simplistic and self-serving question, "Why would a woman lie?" It turns out that there are plenty of reasons women lie about rape, either deliberately or out of desperation.  

A U.S. Air Force study, The False Rape Allegation in the Military Community (1983), investigated 556 cases of alleged rape, and found a 60% rate of false rape accusations!  As part of the study, women who were found to have made false accusations were asked "Why?"