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Date Posted: 10:02:43 02/09/08 Sat
Author: JMR (It's a "two" way street.)
Subject: Domestic violence also hurts men

Domestic violence also hurts men

In "Patriots - take a stand against domestic violence" (Daily News, Jan. 30), local columnist Ben Atherton-Zeman says "men abuse women at startling rates in this country," but he fails to mention that women abuse their male partners at startling rates as well, and the crime data he cites are misleading because men are much less likely than women to report it or see it as a crime when responding to a crime survey.

Sociological data, which is much more reliable than crime data because it randomly surveys the population without using crime terminology, consistently shows that women initiate domestic violence at least as often as men and that men suffer one-third of domestic violence injuries, as California State University Professor Martin Fiebert demonstrates in his online bibliography.

Harvard Medical School, for example, recently announced a major national study that found half of heterosexual domestic violence is reciprocal and that women initiate most of the reciprocal violence and 71 percent of the nonreciprocal violence, while men sustained significant injuries.

I work with men who have been stabbed, cut with glass and had their teeth knocked out with an ashtray by female partners. It is unfair to downplay their numbers just because they don't report as often. And children are damaged just by witnessing the violence. That's why a global coalition of concerned experts has formed to combat this politically driven problem. Their Web site is at www.nfvlrc.org.

MARC E. ANGELUCCI, Los Angeles

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