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- From: ematz@world.std.com (Ed Matz)
- Newsgroups: soc.men
- Subject: Re: domestic violence & the super bowl
- Message-ID: <C1HE1p.70w@world.std.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:51:24 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.231201.21812@informix.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- 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.
-
- 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?
-
- Ed Matz ematz@world.std.com
-