I ma doing a paper on Battered Men of Domestic Violence. I have found many sites for the U.S. but few for other countries. I also would like to find some documented surveys done. If anyone knows how to obtain this information - please respond via email. I need to have this information by April 15th in enough time to read and include the information in my May final paper.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2003

Answers

See http://www.amen.ie. Mary Cleary is a marvelous person, and is very dedicated to the cause.

As for surveys, check on Murray Straus' website: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2. Straus has been researching this since the early 1970s. He's currently doing an international study of dating violence.

In http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/ID2.pdf, page 6, it states, "Females were slightly less likely to use minor violence than males. One fourth (25%) of male respondents committed a minor assault on their partner versus a little more than one fifth (21%) of the female respondents. Females had a slightly higher rate of severe assaults on their partners than males (10.5% versus 12%). Overall, the chi square test of independence indicated that there were no significant gender differences in the type of violence on intimate partners."

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2003