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bob_2

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Female Domestic Violence

<blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1><b>quote:</b></font><p>Controlling Domestic Violence Against Men <BR> <BR> <BR>People hit and abuse family members because they can. In today&#39;s society, as reflected in TV, movies, law enforcement, courts, and feminist propaganda, women are openly given permission to hit men. Presently 25%-30% of all intimate violence is exclusively female on male. <BR> <BR>&#34;Primary aggressor&#34; laws usually result in arrest of the male and ignore research showing 50% of domestic assaults are mutual combat. The woman is thus encouraged to abuse her partner further until finally he will take no more. Such provocation of the human male is dangerous. Studies consistently find women use weapons more often in assaults than do men &#40;~80% for women; ~25% for men&#41;. Women are significantly more likely to throw an object, slap, kick, bite, or hit with their fist or an object. <BR> <BR>There is no support in the present data for the hypothesis that women use violence only in self defense. Three common reasons women give for male abuse are: to resolve the argument; to respond to family crisis; and to &#34; stop him bothering me.&#34; Male abuse of a woman, requiring self defense, is one of the less-frequently stated reasons by women for their assaults. <BR> <BR>Our research shows that a gender-balanced approach to domestic violence is essential in order to reduce both the frequency and severity of such incidents for both men and women. Present laws and practices appear to commonly have the opposite effect. <BR> <BR>... <BR> <BR>Many of the present methods for intervening in domestic disturbances are as much a problem of correcting injustices and practices of the current legal system as it is of protecting men from violence and abuse by their intimate partner. <BR> <BR>New approaches to minimizing domestic violence and abuse are needed for both men and women as the current systems are demonstrably flawed. <BR> <BR>In our view, these advances would include at least the following: <BR> <BR><ul><li>Recognition that domestic violence and abuse are human problems, not a gender issue.  <LI>Restoration of civil liberties, notably due process, the bedrock issue of any democratic nation.  <LI>Revising mandatory arrest laws to state an officer &#34;may&#34; arrest rather than &#34;shall&#34; arrest.  <LI>Eliminate attempts to designate one person, primarily the male, as the primary aggressor.  <LI>Recognition of, and treatment for medical and mental health problems in domestic situations for either or both partners.  <LI>Recognition that domestic violence and abuse are often mutual, and equal justice demands equal treatment.  <LI>Take women in danger to a place of safety.</li></ul>  <BR><!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote> <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.menstuff.org/issues/byissue/femaledv.html" target=_top>http://www.menstuff.org/issues/byissue/femaledv.ht ml</a> <BR> <BR>Believe it or not women get their licks in also, sometimes using money instead of fists.