To the editor:
It’s unfortunate that a domestic violence awareness forum would call itself “her story” so as to leave male victims of domestic violence and their children invisible. (“'Her Story' part of Domestic Violence awareness programs,” 10/13.)
The latest fact sheet from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 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,” and also states that one-fourth of intimate partner homicide victims are men, at http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/ipvfacts.htm
More recently, the CDC found half of heterosexual domestic violence was reciprocal and that women committed over 70 percent of the non-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 studies of these studies in an online bibliography.http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm.
When we ignore male victims, we ignore their children too, who suffer long-term damage by the exposure regardless of the severity. This is a serious but hidden problem. How much longer will male victims and their children be kept invisible like this?
Marc E. Angelucci, President
Los Angeles chapter
National Coalition of Free Men
Los Angeles, Calif.
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