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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: domestic violence & the super bowl
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:20:07 GMT
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- Ed Matz (ematz@world.std.com) wrote:
- : In article <1993Jan25.231201.21812@informix.com> mcole@sub-40 (Mary Cole) writes:
- : >Announcements on domestic violence during the Super Bowl game. The Super
- : >Bowl is one of the most widely viewed television events of the year; it is
- : >also the day, according to women's shelters, when calls for help increase
- : >by as much as 40%.
- :
- : Domestic violence and other violence between intimates is a very
- : serious problem that needs to be addressed seriously. Yet the popular
- : notion is that domestic violence means men beating women. Yet,
- : consistently, studies that do not rely on crime report statistics
- : (that is, studies that sample a representative cross-section of the
- : population) indicate that violence between intimates is as frequently
- : women-on-men as it is men-on-women. Studies also indicate that
- : consistently domestic homicide is as often women killing men as it is
- : men killing women.
-
- A report of a study recently done, here, shows men more likely than women
- to be injured in domestic violence than women. For the reason that women
- are more likely to use a weapon and men are more likely to be unarmed.
-
- :
- : Okay, calls for help to women's shelters increases 40% on Super Sunday.
- : Any statistics on the effect on calls for help to men's shelters?
-
- Mens shelters are rare here and likely to be ridiculed, as a concept.
-
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