STANDING UP WITH DADS
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                                                                  RELEVANT STATISTICS AND COMMENT

Statistics Canada Report on Family Violence 2000 reports that 8% of women and 7% of men have been the victim of criminal domestic violence in the past 5 years. …The survey was conducted between February and December 1999. A total of 25,874 people were interviewed
Source: http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/000725/d000725b.htm

The Home Office Research Report No.191, published Jan.2000 announced that men are equally likely to be victims of domestic violence, the British Crime Survey 1999 also indicated near parity. As have other reports that are produced across the Atlantic. Despite this the Government devotes virtually all its propaganda and funding to female victims. Why is it that the government is so determined to ignore its own research showing that men are just as likely to be victims ? 10,844 people were interviewed This report also states that 'clearly the police are not aware of the vast majority of incidents or victims.'… of domestic violence.
Source: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/domesticviolence/pubslist.htm

REFERENCES EXAMINING ASSAULTS BY WOMEN ON THEIR SPOUSES OR MALE PARTNERS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Martin S. Fiebert Department of Psychology California State University, Long Beach SUMMARY: This bibliography examines 130 scholarly investigations: 104 empirical studies and 26 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 77,000.
Source: http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm

'ONE IN FOUR WOMEN RAPED'?
That number was disproved long ago. Christina Hoff-Sommers, associate professor of Philosophy at Clark University, investigative reporters from the Toledo Blade, and others, found these numbers came from a 1988 MS magazine report by Mary Koss, who used a definition of rape that was so broad as to be totally meaningless.
Source: http://www.leaderu.com/real/ri9502/sommers.html
(a paraphrase but completely correct)

The Truth About Child Murder
The Relationship between Sex, Household Incomes, Families, and Child Abuse The Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-3) US Department of Health and Human Services, page 6-11, table 6-4 NIS-3 is a comprehensive, credible nationwide study of the extent of child abuse and who the perpetrators are. It reports that in 1993 children were 59 times more likely to be fatally abused [read: murdered] by natural mothers than by natural fathers.
Source: http://christianparty.net/nis3.htm

NSPCC SHATTERS CHILD ABUSE MYTHS
Common stereotypes about child abuse are overturned in the NSPCC largest ever study of child maltreatment. a.. Myth: the most common form of abuse suffered by children at home is sexual abuse. Fact: children are seven times more likely to be beaten badly by their parents than sexually abused by them. a.. Myth: most sexual abuse occurs between fathers and their daughters. Fact: this type of incestuous relationship is rare, occurring in less than four in a thousand children... a.. Myth: adults are responsible for most sexual violence against children and young people outside the family. Fact: children are most likely to be forced into unwanted sexual activity by other young people, most usually from someone described as a boyfriend. Less than three in a thousand of the young people reported sexual behaviour against their wishes with professionals working with children. a.. Myth: sexual attacks on children from strangers are common. Fact: sexual assaults involving contact by strangers are very rare... NSPCC Director Mary Marsh says: Modern myths about child cruelty have emerged from the public attention given to horrific and frightening cases of child abuse by strangers. Other traditional stereotypes come from a historical wellspring of children stories about wicked adult bogey figures. These stereotypes have become part of popular culture. This report challenges us to re-examine preconceived ideas about child cruelty. In some cases it calls on policy-makers and professionals to overhaul thinking and reconsider how to approach different kinds of child maltreatment.
Source: http://www.nspcc.org.uk/scripts/showprj.pl?story=3840&prj=547

Mothers kill six times as many children as husbands kill wives, yet Congress enacted VAWA ('Violence Against Women Act') to "protect women".
Source: http://christianparty.net/ca.htm

While the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates that 2600 people suicide each year, a 2001 report released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) showed that This represented nine male suicides to every female suicide.
Source: http://www.suite101.com/mypage.cfm/opensesame/16869

One thing that we can show is that there is a clear link between men who are going through divorce and suicide. One study showed divorced men "Seventy per cent of the fathers I talk to seriously think of suicide," said Paul Hidlebaugh, who used to run an advocacy group for children in custody battles and is an advocate of fathers' rights.