Violence Against....Men?

I'm lifting some fantastically eye-opening stats that you can use when stuck in court, defending your husband (who maybe denied abuse before realizing), or simply trying to explain logic to your girlfriends or female family members.  The below was gathered in a National Coalition For Men article regarding Joe Biden's uneducated, unsupported comments regarding the Violence Against Women Act. The article is more of a commentary blog post, so I recommend these nice pieces of golden info instead (emphasis added):

"2009 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey, 10% of teenage boys were victimized by dating violence compared to 9% of teenage girls (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/ss/ss5905.pdf – Table 12).

As reported in a respected journal a national survey of young adults ages 18-25 and on-way violence, females initiated the violence in over 70% of the cases. (Whitaker DJ et al. American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 97, No. 5, 2007)

According to the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Justice, single mothers are twice more likely to commit child abuse and child murder than are fathers.

University of New Hampshire conducted a 34 nation study and found women are as violent and controlling as men in dating relationships worldwide. www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2006/may/em_060519male.cfm?type=n
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/ID41E2.pdf

About 300 studies now confirm “women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners,” as California State University Professor Martin Fiebert shows in his online bibliography www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm

The Centers for Disease Control recently funded a major study of heterosexual relationships throughout the U.S. and found: “Almost 24% of all relationships had some violence, and half (49.7%) of those were reciprocally violent. In nonreciprocal violent relationships, women were the perpetrators in more than 70% of the cases,” and both sexes suffered significant injuries. http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/5/941

The same study also found: “More women than men (25% versus 11%) were responsible. In fact, 71 percent of the instigators in nonreciprocal partner violence were women” and “while injury was more likely when violence was perpetrated by men, in relationships with reciprocal violence it was the men who were injured more often (25% of the time) than were women (20% of the time).” http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/42/15/31-a

Well, at least some people out there have their facts straight. I hope you do now, too.

(Full Article at ncfm.org: http://ncfm.org/2011/09/news/discrimination-against-men-news/more-vawa-biden-babble/)