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Posted on 07/22/2017 5:56:42 AM PDT by Gamecock
FRIDAY, July 21, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Most women murdered in the United States die at the hands of a current or former intimate partner, a new federal study reports.
In a review of female homicide statistics from 2003 to 2014 in 18 states, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that domestic violence was involved in about 55 percent of the deaths of 10,018 women.
"This was consistent across all racial and ethnic groups, and really highlights that intimate partner violence is a public health problem," said lead researcher Dr. Emiko Petrosky. She is a science officer for the CDC's National Violent Death Reporting System.
According to the CDC, homicide is the fifth leading cause of death for women aged 18 to 44 years. In 2015 in the United States, 3,519 women and girls died by homicide, the authors of the report noted.
The study findings showed that four out of five of the murders related to domestic violence involved a woman's current intimate partner. Another 14 percent of the murders involved a former partner.
In almost one-third of the domestic violence-related homicides, an argument preceded the victim's death. And more than one in 10 cases involved jealousy or a lovers' triangle, the statistics showed. Both of these circumstances occurred more commonly among Hispanic victims than white or black victims, the researchers noted.
In about 11 percent of cases, the victim had experienced violence within the previous month.
These circumstances show the importance of trusting one's instincts when in a relationship, said Ruth Glenn, the executive director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
"If your instincts are saying something is not quite right -- there's too much jealousy, there's too much control, there's too much management, there's too much power -- trust your instincts and begin to think about whether this truly is a healthy relationship," Glenn said.
According to the study, black women had the highest rate of dying by homicide (4.4 per 100,000), followed by American Indian/Alaska Native women (4.3 per 100,000), Hispanic women (1.8 per 100,000), white women (1.5 per 100,000), and Asian/Pacific Islander women (1.2 per 100,000).
Approximately one-third of the victims were between the ages of 18 and 29, and most were black or Hispanic, the investigators found.
Firearms served as the murder weapon in 54 percent of cases. Another 20 percent of the homicide cases involved a sharp instrument, 10 percent involved suffocation or strangulation, and 8 percent a blunt instrument, the CDC researchers reported.
"I firmly believe that guns really cause harm to women in intimate relationships, and we have got to do more about that," Glenn said. "It's an unpopular, controversial topic, but that's why it's even more critical. We have to make something different happen."
The CDC has recommended a series of steps to reduce domestic violence, starting with education of young people, Petrosky said.
"Teaching adolescents and young adults healthy-relationship skills is really key," she said.
Petrosky said other strategies promoted by the CDC include:
Encouraging law enforcement officers to use lethality risk-assessment questionnaires during domestic violence calls. These short questionnaires can help identify victims at risk for future violence. Asking family doctors to screen women for signs of domestic violence, and getting help for suspected victims.
Promoting bystander-education programs that teach people how to intervene in intimate partner violence. "Tackling this problem really involves approaching it from multiple avenues," Petrosky said.
Women in a violent relationship should call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or 1-800-787-3224 (TTY), Glenn said.
"They are skilled at ensuring you are safe, and they can direct you to the best resources and referrals," she explained. Getting help is important, given that "the most lethal time for a domestic violence victim is when they are trying to leave," Glenn added.
"Always assess your own safety," she said. "A victim knows better than anyone when it is -- or if it is -- safe to take that next step."
The report was published in the July 21 issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
If you don't believe me, check the races of the victims, which are overwhelmingly black and Hispanic. Then check the %age of children born out of wedlock in those communities. Blacks and Hispanics are not marrying their sex partners. Period.
This is agenda driven reporting, plain and simple.
That is 100% correct, and it makes you wonder why: 1) Husbands are included in the statistics and 2) Named FIRST in the headline.
As small as the numbers are, we do know this: in 2014, the DoD reported more than half of sexual assaults in the military involved men assaulting other men. More than half, despite male homosexuals being only ~2% of the male population.
The prior question is how much difference is there between the probability of a woman being killed and the probability that a man will be killed. And I think that will be heavily stacked in “favor” of the man. If (reasonable guess) a man is five times more likely to be killed, the answer to your question could be that men are far more likely to be killed by someone other than a spouse - and yet his likelihood of being killed by his spouse could still be greater than a wife’s likelihood of being killed by her husband.IMHO age needs to be factored in, heavily. The article seems to be wanting to strain at “gender” gnats, and swallow race/age camels. Without having gone to the source in this thread.
The real question - how many women are killed by liberals/Democrats?
And my favorite, did you know that 40% of ALL sick days occur on Mondays or Fridays?
Aren’t women murdered at 1/10th the rate of men?
But...muh *tingles* !
(Incidentally, in the interests of exploring all cofounding variables... what about the states not reported? What about female-on-male violence? What about homesexual / lesbian relationships ?)
...and what about (ahem) a) "honor killings" in, umm, err, "the community of the ROP" ?
b) FGM?
c) Cologne- or Rotherham- like events ?
Bet it's a higher percentage among Lesbian partners.
What was his crime again?
Oh, yes, at trial, she testified "He always came first." (as in, climax).
Worth lifelong sexual mutilation? Followed by laughs in public.
Check your privilege.
Before or after their exit from the womb?
Was Ted Kennedy included in the stats? And did they ever decide about Joe Scarborough's (former) intern?
Yeah, and they say the perps are “husbands, boyfriends and exes” but they don’t break that out to show how much is marital and how much is nonmarital.
Not that married (spousal) abuse in insignificant or doesn’t exist, but I’d bet dollars to donuts that the live-ins and fly-by-nights are a lot more dangerous percentage-wise than honest married men.
Statistically, IIRC marriage tends to be protective of both spouses’ health and longevity overall...
I knew you guys would show up!
Thai or Russian?
And there is a group dedicated to making sure that happens!
I think Jocelyn Elders was on the right track about that. Where she failed was in believing anyone needed the Federal government to demonstrate how that's supposed to work. Still when you consider what the LGBTQwerties are up to in schools now, it does make you yearn for "the good old days" when the only taboo public schools were advocating teaching about was masturbation.
States not reported are white, have small urban populations where most of the people are probably married. That takes hubbies out of the statistics, which is not what they want.
As for the Religion of Peace® I'm going to go waaaaaaayyyyy out on a limb and suggest that in (alleged) cultures in which the testimony of a woman is worse less than half that of a dog, and everything inflicted on the fair sex is "for their own good" there is not much reporting available to CDC. There might be some bragging to their cousins about spousal abuse (if they aren't married to them) but certainly no government numbers.
Another round of strawberry for me and my friends! (well, not grammatically-correct, but....)
So I told her: “Tough luck, granny!”
And I sent her to the back of the line.
What are the WOMEN doing to cause such a THING?
Thanks for all of your reference work——— I will check it out.
FWIW,I am NOT a feminist.I have married sons and daughters and also grandkids that are in relationships.
Life CAN be very unfair to all of us,men and women alike.
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