The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System tracks various risk behaviors among high school students.
The 2003 survey found almost identical rates of partner aggression among
teenagers:
Male victims: 8.9%
Female victims: 8.8%
The 2007 survey reported male victimization increased by 24%, while female victimization remained steady:
Male victims: 11.0%
Female victims: 8.8%
So in four short years, female aggression increased by nearly a quarter, while male aggression remained the same.
Now go to the website of the Office of Violence Against Women, and view the Dating Violence webpage.
It directs you to “The Prosecutor’s Resource on Violence Against Women”!
Why don’t we all ask OVW acting director Catherine Pierce to explain why she’s whitewashing violence against men and boys?
Catherine.pierce@usdoj.gov .
6 responses so far ↓
1 Claudia McNeilly // Dec 16, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Since faulty stats are usually a reason given by those advocating that violence against men is more predominant than violence against women, wouldn’t it be reasonable to wonder if the increase in the above males as victim stats (for 2007) might simply be a result of women reporting less, at least for that year? After all, this is the same reasoning used to refute the stats indicating higher levels of male on female violence. You know, the “Well, the stats are wrong because men underreport.” Same could be said for women that year.
2 Claudia McNeilly // Dec 16, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Another question: Are you concerned only with female on male violence in the US or are you also concerned with female on male violence world-wide? I’m assuming that it would be world-wide: why only be concerned for your brethren here? Trying to refute the argument that females are mainly victims shouldn’t stop at national borders.
Is your argument that only US males are marginalized by the violence perpetrated against them? Or are you arguing that violence against men, by women, is a world-wide phenomenon?
If you’re taking your argument to encompass violence against men on a global scale; do you have any stats for muslim countries? Saudi Arabia? Pakistan? Iran? India? Are there mercy killings for men who go out unchaperoned too many times? Are there stats that reflect the prevalence of men getting “acid facials” for disobeying their wives’ orders?
I’d be interested in these stats, if you have access to them.
3 TheJKH // Dec 16, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I really wish people would stop bringing in other countries, do we live there? is it a sad thing, YEAH but not alot we can do on this site.
What makes you so certain we dont fight ALL violence but what we are fighting here, on this one site that we come to every day is the unjustices that men receive on court house’s every day.
You should know what we are after is equality. does violence against women go unreported, yes some does, does violence against women suck, YES it all does.
Every day a man that has suffered attacks from his wife is told that he is not allowed in his house, he is not allowed to see his child and he is loosing his job, friends and being convicted of not only something he never did but the person that did do it is the making the acussations and incharge of the children that he now has to pay for.
Why does this happen? MONEY, court house’s make money, shelters make money and its a popular news item so they make money.
everyday men are attacked, children are beaten and once its found out it was by a women nobody cares. Funny, the same thing happens to me from her and noone cares all of a sudden, they were asking for my checks to pay for classes, they were asking for my head on a stick, they were trying to get me imprisoned for years, once the witnesses came out and set the record straight that I never hit her and she beat me unconscious and spit in my face now its not a big deal, really?
So when wemon get hit its a crime against humanity, but when that same women hits her lover or her son its really not that bad?
4 Mariner // Dec 21, 2009 at 2:09 pm
@ Claudia
“Trying to refute the argument that females are mainly victims shouldn’t stop at national borders.”
Well DUH!
You happen to be one of the most cossetted, protected and privileged persons on earth and you bring up other countries? Just what do you think YOU can do to influence what goes on in Saudi or India or anywhere for that matter? If you believe that women are victims in those countries, why isn’t YOUR ass over there shaking things up?
5 jlukas // Dec 21, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Claudia, my dear.
We can’t even get the law close to working over here in the USA, where my concerns lay.
Why should something across our borders be used to to portray something that is not happening here?
Please come back. I’d like to debate those “facts”.
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6 Joel Gamache // Dec 27, 2009 at 3:57 am
Holy crap,We live in the US.My children that I cant see anymore live in the US.I HAD TO GO TO JAIL,FOR SOMETHING I DIDNT DO……IN THE US. earthlink.net/~elnunes.htm
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