By Keighley News, 04/03/2024
“…The true figures could be even higher as the gender of the victim is not always recorded, said Accident Claims Advice.West Yorkshire Police said it understands there may be “additional barriers” when it comes to male victims reporting abuse…”
Read the entire article: https://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/24228518.16-000-domestic-abuse-reports-west-yorkshire-males-year/
By Sarah Hooper – Metro, 02/05/2024
“…A mum-of-two who helped run a refuge for domestic abuse victims has been jailed after driving her own wife to the brink of suicide. Rita Araujo, 31, who worked for a domestic violence charity, was arrested after police had to talk her wife Rose Garnock-Jones down from a bridge…”
Read the entire article: https://metro.co.uk/2024/02/05/mum-helped-run-womens-refuge-jailed-domestic-abuse-20225324/
By WIBM, 02/08/2024
“Ending domestic violence should no longer be framed as a matter of teaching boys and men not to harm women and girls, but rather teaching individuals not to harm individuals. We need to go gender-neutral on this issue, and finally put to rest the idea that domestic violence abusers are invariably male and victims are invariably female…”
Watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN6bmzzDPjo
By GMU Public Health, 01/31/2024
“…Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work Denise Hines was the keynote speaker for an FBI event for Domestic Violence Awareness Month (October) dedicated to bringing awareness to male victims of intimate partner violence (IPV), a historically under-recognized population of IPV victims…”
Read the entire article: https://publichealth.gmu.edu/news/2024-01/associate-professor-denise-hines-educates-fbi-personnel-realities-male-victims
By Psychology Today, 12/05/2023
“…Domestic violence happens at any age and in both heterosexual and same-sex relationships. It’s driven by the behavior of one intimate partner to achieve control over their significant other…”
Read the entire article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-games/202312/domestic-violence-some-us-states-residents-at-higher-risk
By News Nation, 01/15/2024
“…The family of Christian Obumseli, who was the boyfriend of an online model accused of fatally stabbing him, wants to raise domestic violence awareness for men who are victims…”
Read the entire article: https://www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/family-of-man-killed-by-model-men-also-domestic-violence-victims/
By The Star, 01/26/2024
“…“When a women is verbally abused (eg shouted at) by their spouse, it is easily recognised as domestic violence. But for men, the awareness isn’t there yet and it takes time to develop this awareness. Even for women, it took such a long time. Feminism started in the 70s, it took 50 years to educate women on what gender-based violence is,” says Ng…”
Read the entire article: https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/family/2024/01/26/men-who-experience-domestic-violence-often-suffer-in-silence
By Those Nerdy Girls, 10/30/2023
“…While IPV in the LGBTQ+ community is more likely and more complex, it is often ignored and underreported. A major reason is that the tools that assess IPV are based on cisgender, heterosexual people. Identifying IPV among lesbian partners is often missed because of the assumption that women are not violent…”
Read the entire article: https://thosenerdygirls.org/ipv-and-the-lgbtq-community/
By Independent, 12/01/2023
“…As many as 95% of male sexual violations go unreported, according to research cited in a review of scientific literature about male victims of sexual assault, published in April in the journal Behavioral Sciences. Four of five men who reported assaults regretted doing so, saying that police were often unsympathetic and disinterested and that the process just added more trauma…”
Read the entire article: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ap-men-anthony-edwards-rice-university-houston-b2456610.html
By Fox 29, 11/30/2023
“…A well-known Philadelphia family is grieving the loss of their 20-year-old loved one, and choosing to use what happened to him to help others suffering in silence as victims of domestic violence…”
Read the entire article: https://www.fox29.com/news/well-known-philadelphia-family-raise-awareness-for-male-victims-of-domestic-violence-after-sons-murder
