Female to Male Domestic Violence Domestic Violence against males is a subject that is often not talked about due to the notion that all of domestic abuse is male to female. Although most of it is, the statistics showing that 85% of women are victims of domestic violence, violence against males is often overlooked. Reasons why it is overlooked is because when it does happen there are very few men that will report it, skepticism, and the lack of support from society. In reality male domestic violence is just as important as female domestic violence, as it effects 16% of males in today. Prevalence (Intimate Partner Violence)
For females many times they claim it is self-defense, which makes identifying male domestic violence difficult. But In many cases, society has accepted that women are allowed to hit or strike men, believing that most of the time it is done in self-defense. Victimization of the female is another important cause of Intimate partner Violence against males. Women that have been abused in the past are slightly more inclined to aggression, and being defensive against their partner. These women are more likely to use violence to dominate the relationship to their pleasing. Out of IPV towards men only 6.5% has been in self-defense. |
Violence against Veterans
"Rates of IPV across these military populations range from 13.5% to 58%, with considerably lower rates obtained among samples not selected on the basis of psychopathology. For both military veterans and active duty servicemen, IPV results in significant victim injury and negative child outcomes, and problematic substance use, depression, and antisocial characteristics represent psychiatric correlates of IPV perpetration. For veterans, posttraumatic stress disorder also is an important correlate that largely accounts for the relationship between combat exposure and IPV perpetration. Additional correlates include military service factors, relationship adjustment, childhood trauma, and demographic factors. The only experimentally controlled IPV treatment study indicates that standard treatments are ineffective for active duty servicemen. Further research is needed to advance the development of etiological models of IPV among military populations, to determine whether such models necessarily differ from those developed among civilians, and to rigorously test IPV interventions tailored to the specific characteristics of these individuals,” (Taft, Marshall, Panuzio). · “The researchers examined a 1990-1992 study of psychiatric disorders of 2,583 men who were then between the ages of 18 and 54. About 7 percent -- 179 -- reported combat experience. The study was published in the Archives of General Psychiatry in 1994,”(Dotinga 2014). · “The combat vets were 4.4 times more likely to have abused a spouse or partner as other men, and were 6.4 times more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, the researchers found. They were also two to three times more likely to suffer from depression, substance abuse, unemployment and divorce or separation”, (Dotinga2014). · “Researchers determined that if there were no veterans in this country with combat experience, the number of domestic violence cases would drop by an estimated 21 percent”, (Dotinga 2014). · “Research has found that veterans diagnosed with PTSD were ‘significantly more likely to perpetrate violence toward their partners,’ with over 80 percent committing at least one act of violence in the previous year, and almost half at least one severe act, including strangulation, stabbing and shooting. This is more than 14 times higher than the general civilian population,” (Bannerman 2014). |