By News Day on 12/12/2018
“… ZWLA legal officer, Clara Chikohora, said although the majority of domestic violence and sexual abuse victims were women, men were also affected, but the majority suffered in silence.
“We are saying as women let us not shun men who go through abuse,” Chikohora said at a Women Coalition of Zimbabwe public meeting on gender-based violence held in Gweru last Friday. …”
Read the entire article: https://www.newsday.co.zw/2018/12/women-urged-to-help-abused-men/
By Full Fact on 12/06/2018
“… We’ve been asked by a reader to look into what percentage of domestic abuse victims are male.
Males made up 31%, or one in every three, of those aged between 16 and 74 who reported having been the victims of domestic abuse since they were 16. That’s according to a large survey of crime in England and Wales. …”
Read the entire article: https://fullfact.org/crime/are-third-domestic-abuse-victims-men/
By Galion Inquirer on 12/12/2018
“… Where are the male voices? Why aren’t men involved in preventing domestic violence? Will men listen to men?
“Now, when it comes to men and male culture, the goal is to get men who are not abusive to challenge men who are,” proclaimed Jackson Katz. He continued the TED Talk: “We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.” TED.com. …”
Read the entire article: https://www.galioninquirer.com/opinion/36313/column-men-must-speak-out-against-domestic-violence
By Patch on 12/04/2018
“… Despite being one of the most popular states for retirees, Florida ranked only 22nd in a new study of the states that fight hardest for elder protection. Personal finance website WalletHub examined 14 key areas in ranking the 50 states and the District of Columbia. …”
Read the entire article: https://patch.com/florida/miami/florida-ranks-only-so-so-elder-protection-study
By Crains New York Business on 12/03/2018
“… The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Center for Elder Justice, part of the RiverSpring Health’s Hebrew Home at Riverdale, is working on new ways to identify seniors who are victims of financial, physical or emotional abuse or neglect. …”
Read the entire article: https://www.crainsnewyork.com/health-care/local-justice-center-tackles-elder-abuse
By The Journal on 11/24/2018
“… Amen is a support service for male victims of domestic abuse – in heterosexual and same-sex couples. They offer counselling services, outreach programmes, and plan to roll out a piloted group support programme that began in Navan across the country next year.
She says that statistics indicate that just 5% of men who suffer domestic abuse report it. …”
Read the entire article: https://www.thejournal.ie/domestic-abuse-same-sex-couples-4354573-Nov2018/
By Telegraph on 11/22/2018
“… Record numbers of men are reporting domestic abuse by their partners to police – as the proportion of women victims turning to police has fallen, official figures have revealed. …”
Read the entire article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/22/growing-number-men-reporting-domestic-violence-police-ons-figures/
By Fox News on 11/26/2018
“… A Utah high school teacher was booked Monday for allegedly killing her ex-husband’s girlfriend in front of her two 3-year-old children.
Chelsea Watrous Cook, 32, was visiting the apartment of her ex-husband, Travis Cook, in Midvale, to bring cold medicine to one of their children, Fox 13 reported. …”
Read the entire article: https://www.foxnews.com/us/utah-teacher-allegedly-kills-ex-husbands-girlfriend-in-front-of-3-year-old-kids?fbclid=IwAR0gLOpSBRQMjqWudXsY5sQK4w730xShj79vPUrEOGftk8B3upyP2XDPg7k
By The College Fix on 11/29/2018
“… Young black men are being railroaded by campus sexual assault claims. One prominent journalist noted that while black men make up about 6 percent of college undergraduates they are “vastly overrepresented” when it comes to being wrongly accused of sexual assault. …”
Read the entire article: https://www.thecollegefix.com/young-black-men-are-being-railroaded-by-campus-sexual-assault-claims-campus-roundup-ep-34/?fbclid=IwAR2lOXGlQ8KozHXJiWkxACj737MCJDXOSLu2rTnSUNJ_A5UQDmr8uvzpXWc
By Lancashire Post on 11/14/2018
“… Lancashire is one of few counties to have safehouses for men, and though it is acknowledged women are more likely to be abused, there is far less support for men than women. Just seven, compared to 822 women, successfully used the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme in Lancashire last year. …”
Read the entire article:: https://www.lep.co.uk/news/crime/violence-against-lancashire-men-figures-show-worrying-drop-in-men-coming-forward-to-report-abuse-1-9444233
