[burzum]

This survey is BS and has been debunked at Sound Politics.

[driftdiver]

A quick search shows that this group does a lot of studies. In fact that appears to be all they do. On their website they proclaim a $22 million dollar grant to conduct research on "vaccine safety, obesity & depression, colorectal cancer screening, breast cancer recurrence, and yoga for back pain"

Their site http://www.centerforhealthstudies.org/

They look to be a non-profit formed by a medical group with the intent of capturing grants to conduct "research". Their definition of research is walking around Seattle, stopping at Starbucks of course, and asking 3400 women extremely broad questions. This is a questionable use of tax dollars at best, IMO.

[Chanticleer]

You call that debunking? Follow the link it provides to the CDC for some other statistics on Intimate Partner Violence (including statistics for male partner violence):

• Nearly 5.3 million incidents of IPV occur each year among U.S. women ages 18 and older, and 3.2 million occur among men. Most assaults are relatively minor and consist of pushing, grabbing, shoving, slapping, and hitting (Tjaden and Thoennes 2000a).
• 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. This translates into about 47 IPV assaults per 1,000 women and 32 assaults per 1,000 men (Tjaden and Thoennes 2000a).
• IPV results in nearly 2 million injuries and 1,300 deaths nationwide every year (CDC 2003). Estimates indicate more than 1 million women and 371,000 men are stalked by intimate partners each year (Tjaden and Thoennes 2000a).
• IPV accounted for 20% of nonfatal violence against women in 2001 and 3% against men (Rennison 2003). From 1976 to 2002, about 11% of homicide victims were killed by an intimate partner (Fox and Zawitz 2004). In 2002, 76% of IPV homicide victims were female; 24% were male (Fox and Zawitz 2004).
• The number of intimate partner homicides decreased 14% overall for men and women in the span of about 20 years, with a 67% decrease for men (from 1,357 to 388) vs. 25% for women (from 1,600 to 1,202; Fox and Zawitz 2004). One study found that 44% of women murdered by their intimate partner had visited an emergency department within 2 years of the homicide. Of these women, 93% had at least one injury visit (Crandall et al. 2004).
• Previous literature suggests that women who have separated from their abusive partners often remain at risk of violence (Campbell et al. 2003; Fleury, Sullivan and Bybee 2000).
• Firearms were the major weapon type used in intimate partner homicides from 1981 to 1998 (Paulozzi et al. 2001).
• A national study found that 29% of women and 22% of men had experienced physical, sexual, or psychological IPV during their lifetime (Coker et al. 2002).
• Between 4% and 8% of pregnant women are abused at least once during the pregnancy (Gazmararian et al. 2000).

  This may not be evidence of a burgeoning problem -- only of a problem not yet solved. In my opinion, one case of abuse is one too many. But of course, none of these instances are of good, conservative Americans. They only involve liberal, drug-abusing, heathen hippy-types with poor diets. (/sarcasm)

  Keep believing this if you wish . . . keep whistling in the graveyard. May God help our daughters, sisters, nieces and granddaughters.

[Alia]

Thank you for posting that link. My disgust at yet another BS "women as victims" propoganda piece is gone. Others, over the years Straus and Gelles analyzed the "domestic violence Studies" late 80s/early 90s. These two men were the pioneers in debunking feminist myths.

Gloria Steinem worked hard on groups who had been funding Straus and Gelles' work, cut. And Gloria Steinem succeeded.

[okiecon]

Thanks for the info.

[hocndoc]

"Sound Politics" mixes apples and oranges, just as some articles on domestic violence do. However, look at the hospitalization rates, death rates, and even the conviction rates and sentences. There's a huge disparity.

Men and women should teach physics to both boys and girls: There are laws that have to be taken into account in any situation, force is related to mass and displacement, and that for actions there are reactions.