After sighting this website, he has decided to decline further debate to this subject. Not suprisingly as many of the fathers groups have reinvented statistics to suit their agenda in the family court processes. What is most interesting is that the email was sent to him through the, "feedback" area of the website, "fathers4equality". The real sad part about it is whilst many victoms of domestic violence are deprived of their rights as an equal parent, accused of making it up in spite of the ex whilst the perpetrators band together finding ways to make it harder in womens and childrens safety. No wonder Mr Patil could not answer the brutality that some of us have had to endure - only to face it all over again through the family court and watch our children suffer again.
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"Such domestic abuse is well documented to be equally purpetrated by women
against men as well. "
Perpetrator of physical assault in previous 12 months | Male stranger | Female stranger | Male current or previous partner | Female current or previous partner |
Male victims | 65% | *3% | – | *4% |
Female victims | 15% | 9% | 30% | – |
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2006 Personal Safety Survey Australia, ABS, Canberra *estimate has a relative standard error of 25% to 50% and should be used with caution.
Thus, of all males physically assaulted in the previous 12 months, only 3% were assaulted by a female stranger, and only 4% by a current or previous female partner.
Gender isn’t everything
Another criticism often offered by anti-feminist advocates is that domestic violence efforts focus too much on gendered causes of violence. Again, this representation is ill-informed. Addressing contextual factors which contribute to relationship violence such as alcohol and substance abuse and poverty is a routine element in contemporary policies and interventions regarding domestic and family violence in Australia. Feminist scholarship on men’s violence against women takes it as given that gender alone does not and cannot account for violence, and that explanations and interventions must address the intersections...
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