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Conecticut Q&A: Anne Menard; ’95 Percent of the Victims Are Women’

ANNE MENARD is executive director of the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence, which was formed in 1976. The coalition represents 18 programs across the state that provide services to women, who are the primary victims of domestic violence. ANNE MENARD is executive director of the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence, which was formed in 1976. The coalition represents 18 programs across the state that provide services to women, who are the primary victims of domestic violence. The coalition's goals include formulating public policy to address domestic violence, providing services to victims and their families, and increasing public awareness of the

Men, Too, Are Victims of Domestic Violence

You begin, "What happened to Mrs. Bobbitt happens, in varying degrees, to more than a million American women every year." You then state that, according to a 1992 Senate Judiciary Committee staff report on violence against women, "The victims are women; the perpetrators are, for the most part, their husbands and lovers." You also state that Mrs. Bobbitt "is, quite simply, one of a crowd." Let me add some facts you omitted. Suzanne K. Steinmetz found in "The Cycle of Violence," a 1977 study of 57 families from a wide range of socioeconomic status categories and age groups that "60

Report: Nations are not sufficiently preventing widespread violence against women

UNITED NATIONS Nearly 60 percent of women in Ethiopia are subject to sexual violence by a partner. Domestic violence and rape account for 19 percent of disease in women in developed countries. And in Colombia, a woman is killed by an intimate partner every six days, a study from the United Nations said Tuesday. Violence against women persists at high rates around the world, and governments are not doing enough to prevent it, according to the report from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The report, which synthesized information from various studies conducted in several countries, said while violence against women has been recognized

Congress Should Kill Discriminatory Domestic Violence Act

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) will expire this September if it is not reauthorized by Congress. Largely viewed as an anti-domestic violence measure, VAWA has become a flashpoint for the men's rights advocates who see it instead as the living symbol of anti-male bias in law. Although a significant number of domestic violence victims are male, VAWA defines victims as female. As one result, tax-funded domestic violence shelters and services assist women and routinely turn away men, often including older male children. Estimates vary on the prevalence of male victims. Professor Martin Fiebert of California State University at Long Beach offers

Study Shows a Racial Divide in Domestic Violence Cases

Confirming a longstanding trend in crime and society, a new Justice Department study released yesterday shows a sharp drop in domestic murders, particularly the killings of black men by their black women partners, which fell 74 percent over the last two decades. But the report also underscored how the face of domestic violence in America has changed. Even as the number of black victims has fallen, the number of white women killed by their husbands and boyfriends in fact rose slightly, to 876 in 1998 from 849 in 1976. The report itself did not address the reasons for this discrepancy