Max and Jason: Still Up | August 10, 2009 | Comment on this video (26)

Reverse Domestic Violence

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Domestic Violence historically implies male on female abuse. In this pod, vc2 producer Rev. Melissa Mummert introduces us to a victim of female on male domestic abuse and hears from experts about how intimate partner violence can go both ways.
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  • mikejeffries
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    • Sadly, I recognized many similarities in this discussion on domestic violence with my work in parental alienation.

      Sometimes an alienating parent will cry abuse when none exists as a way to damage or destroy the previously normal parent/child relationship. And sometimes an abusive parent will scream parental alienation when none exists. These situations are perpetrated by both men and women equally are some of the toughest cases to sort out.

      My recommendation to parents in these cases is to get professionals involved who understand parental alienation and can tell the difference between true alienation and false abuse claims, and vice versa. We talk about this a lot in our book, A Family's Heartbreak: A Parent's Introduction to Parental Alienation. Check it out if you get a chance at http://www.afamilysheartbreak.com.

      mike jeffries
      Author, A Family's Heartbreak: A Parent's Introduction to Parental Alienation

    • 2 years ago
  • Darrick_Scott_Farnsworth
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    • It goes to show that our country really has not gotten past bigotry and bias. The interviewer expects the man to be the abuser. Also you see that most states mandate that the man be arrested and that most states include size as a factor of who is the abuser. Most men I know have been hit by a woman and accept that as OK since they can take it but know that they can not return the violence without facing jail.

    • 2 years ago
  • MotherForTruth
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    • Football star Steve McNair was shot dead by his girlfriend in an apparent murder-suicide. In a recent article for The Baltimore Sun, co-author Ned Holstein points out that many news sources failed to mention that this was a tragic case of domestic violence, in which the male was the victim. Holstein talks about his article, "The Violence We Ignore," and why cases of men victimized by their wives and girlfriends are often overlooked.

    • 2 years ago
  • regjoeschmo
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    • Apparently at the time of this writing the most recent large scale study (11,000 men and women) is one conducted primarily by Harvard researchers and published in the American Journal of Public Health in 2007:

      Almost 25% of the people surveyed — 28% of women and 19% of men — said there was some violence in their relationship. Women admitted perpetrating more violence (25% versus 11%) as well as being victimized more by violence (19% versus 16%) than men did. According to both men and women, 50% of this violence was reciprocal, that is, involved both parties, and in those cases the woman was more likely to have been the first to strike.

    • 2 years ago
  • regjoeschmo
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    • Women who kill their spouses get 6 yrs while men who kill their spouses get life........
      The commonwealth of Pennsylvania statistics say that women are more likely to abuse their children than fathers..........

    • 2 years ago
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    • Miss Hardie said while researching domestic violence refuges she discovered there was virtually no system of support for men who had been beaten by their partners.

    • 2 years ago
  • regjoeschmo
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    • Im glad to have seen this on TV, Thank you Current for posting this. I still would like to point out that the information is still a bit skewed... Why does this "professional" claim 85% of all victims of DV are women?? These false statistics are part of the problem when it comes to gender equal treatment in DV situations.

      Please take the time to go over this; the largest unbiased study on DV.......

      EXAMINING ASSAULTS BY WOMEN ON THEIR SPOUSES OR MALE PARTNERS
      Category: Romance and Relationships
      SUMMARY: This bibliography examines 246 scholarly investigations: 187 empirical studies and 59 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 237,750.

      http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm

    • 2 years ago
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  • timmmay33
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    • scenedrop:

      Here is the link/website that reveals this amazing fact. Despite what groups like N.O.W., the woman in the main video claiming to be an "expert" in domestic violence stating "85% of women are victims of abuse", or the claim of "1 in 3 women are victimized sometime in their lifetime". Yes, taking a survey in one women shelter to come up with the "1 in 3 women abused" is an extreme fars, but also reveals how many women are illegally using the system.

      http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm

    • 2 years ago
  • MotherForTruth
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  • lexo24
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    • REVERSE!?!?!?!? There is no such thing as "reverse" domestic violence , it is just "domestic violence" women need to be held accountable just as much as men. I have seen too many times women hide behind the law because they can. If a woman hits a man she needs to be prosocuted, the same as a man. Your pod says most women are driven to hitting a man. If you interviewed a man that was hit 20 times and he said he was driven to hitting his wife. . .the inverview would have teken place in a prison.

    • 2 years ago
  • versasrev
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    • lexo24:

      Yes double standards apply for women, we all realize this. This does help to raise other questions about society, men, women, their interactions, and really who is the abused at the end of the day. I think the lesson that will be learned when all is said and done is that women and men are truly the same in all ways aside from genitalia.

    • 2 years ago
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  • J_Jammer
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    • lexo24:

      Lex,

      it's comments like yours that feed ignorance. If women can play football and it be ok then they get to have the negative and that is they are capable of abusing men in the relationship and it has NOTHING to do with whether or not the man is masculine and everything to do with the woman taking advantage of the social construct of sociality about men being abused.

    • 2 years ago
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