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Domestic-Partner Violence in U.S. Fell Sharply
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No,the real reason is that people hate Bush so much it takes their mind off their hatred for their spouses. By Chalco | Dec 29, 2006 6:34:35 AM | Request Removal Try to tell the dead or maimed women that domestic violence rates dropped. I am sure they would disagree with you. Seems like to me that setting the spouse on fire is the new trend. By mbrumble | Dec 29, 2006 7:45:33 AM | Request Removal The reporter did a very poor job of analyzing the facts behind this story. Scientific studies of randomly based samples have CONSISTENTLY shown that women assault men as often as men assault women. Yet, the reporter 1 gave no percentage breakdown at all, 2 cited only the misleading percentage of intimate to stranger violence for each gender – of course, the percentage of intimate violence is lower for men because the OVERALL rate of victimization is so much HIGHER for men, and 3 gave no source for his statistics – meaning they measure police action, not incidence. This last one is important – for example, I went to the police STILL BLEEDING from a womans assaults on two occasions, and they did nothing at all – other than warn me not to hit her back. More : washingtonpost.com |
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