TYPES OF MALE ABUSE:
DESCRIPTIONS AND STATISTICS
SEXUAL ABUSE
Noun S: (n) sexual assault, sexual abuse, sex crime, sex offense (a statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat) “Most states have replaced the common law definition of rape with statutes defining sexual assault.”
Princeton University
1 in 6 boys will be sexually abused before their 16th birthday.
US Deptartment of Justice
As many as 1 in 5 males will be sexually abused before the age of 18. One in five of adult rape victims are male.
Federal Bureau of Investigation in the US, or FBI
Men are often the victims of sexual assault, and women often the perpetrators. In asking 40,000 households about rape and sexual violence, the survey uncovered that 38 percent of incidents were against men.
National Crime Victimization Survey, US Bureau of Justice Statistics 2012
On average, 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States more than 12 million women and men over the course of a year.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US, 2012
In one study of 30 male victims of sexual abuse, the average age at the first time of abuse was 8 years, 4 months.
Dorais, 2002
According to the report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), “Sexual Victimization in State and Federal Prisons Reported by Inmates, 2007,” 4.5 percent of the state and federal prisoners surveyed reported sexual victimization in the past 12 months. Given a national prison population of 1,570,861, the BJS findings suggest that in one year alone more than 70,000 prisoners were sexually abused.
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2007/12/15/us-federal-statistics-show-widespread-prison-rape
80% of men who have experienced sexual abuse have been abused by a female, most often their mother.
Women are responsible for one-third of the sexual abuse of boys, according to the 2 December 1998 CE Journal of the American Medical Association.
Rape is defined on a state-by-state basis. In some states, the rape of men is not defined by law under the same terminology or degree of offense as the rape of women. Some states do not even recognize oral or anal penetration as being rape.
Claudia Rodas, California State University
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND PHYSICAL ABUSE
Noun S: (n) domestic violence, violence or physical abuse directed toward your spouse or domestic partner.
Princeton University
At least 41 percent of the victims of domestic violence are men but other studies and surveys show nearly 50 percent of the victims are men.
Harvey P. Forehand
According to the U.S. Department of Justice [3], in 2013, “15% of all domestic abuse occurred toward men by their significant others,” Houbrick notes. “The DOJ’s latest statistics reveal that, on average, 3 females and 1 male are murdered by a partner each day.”
4% of men and 5% of women reported receiving serious injuries (knife wounds, internal injuries, broken bones, or loss of consciousness. Approximately 1.3 million women and 835,000 men are physically assaulted by an intimate partner annually in the United States.
Patricia Tjaden & Nancy Thoennes, U.S. Dep’t of Just., NCJ 181867, Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence, at iii (2000), available at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/pubs-sum/181867.htm
In a retrospective study of male victims 60% reported being abused by females. The same rate was found also in a sample of college students. In other studies the levels were found as high as 72% o 82%.
Risin and Ross,1987
Why Women Assault:
California State University surveyed 1,000 college women: 30% admitted they assaulted a male partner. Their most common reasons: (1) my partner wasn’t listening to me; (2) my partner wasn’t being sensitive to my needs; and (3) I wished to gain my partner’s attention. As one man said, “I’m supposed to take it like a man.”
Claudia Dias criticizes the different ways domestic violence against men and women is viewed. “When a man hits a woman, it’s abuse and felony. When she does it, it’s because she has a bad temper.”
Claudia Rodas, California State University
Assaults by Women on Their Spouses or Male Partners: Virtually all sociological data shows women initiate domestic violence as often as men, that women use weapons more than men, and that 38% of injured victims are men.
California State University Professor Martin Fiebert
One in six men will be a victim of domestic abuse in their lifetime.
The British Crime Survey 2006/07 figures
ABUSE IN GAY MALES
15% of gay men who had lived with a male partner reported being victimized by a male partner. 15.4% of same-sex cohabiting men reported being raped, physically assaulted and/or stalked by a male partner, but 10.8% reported such violence by a female partner.
US Deptartment of Justice
78% of gay and bisexual men who have experienced domestic abuse have never reported incidents to the police. Of those who did report it, 53% were not happy with how the police dealt with the situation.
gactupdate.wordpress.com
Gay and bisexual men experience abuse in intimate partner relationship at a rate of 2 in 5.
UK survivors.org
Same-sex batterers use forms of abuse similar to those of heterosexual batterers. They have an additional weapon in the threat of “outing” their partner to family, friends, employers or community.
Lundy, Abuse That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Assisting Victims of Lesbian and Gay Domestic Violence in Massachusetts, 28 New Eng. L. Rev. 273 (Winter 1993)
OTHER MALE ABUSE SITUATIONS
Emotional Abuse: For all kinds of reasons men are less likely than women to be the victims of those kinds of abuse that leave obvious physical evidence. In other words, abusive women tend to prefer forms of abuse that don’t involve physical violence. The hurt, the injury caused by the habitual use of vicious mockery, frequent emotional blackmail, spreading odious lies and so on aren’t visible.
Harvey P. Forehand
Mental (Abuse): 91% are shouted at : 91% are controlled : 93% are verbally denigrated:76% suffer from false allegations : 66% are threatened with a police callout: 72% suffer from sleep deprivation : 64% suffer from physical threats : 46% suffer from police callouts : 31% suffer from death threats : 14% suffer from ex-partner injunctions.
Runaways: Percent of homeless youth that ran away to escape abuse: 46%
Children’s Bureau, National Children’s Alliance, Child Help, 2014
Financial Control: 53% suffer from their partner’s debt: 59% suffer from financial control by partner.
Use of Children(Abuse): 39% of mothers threaten to remove the children: 40% encourage the children to ignore or undermine him: 9% encourage the children to assault him.
Children (Witnessing Abuse): 78% of callers have children: 71% are aged under 12: 48% witnessed the physical abuse: 59% witnessed the mental abuse : 64% heard the abuse : 16% were physically abused by the mother.
Mankindinnitiative.org
Covert Incest: Occurs when a parent is unable or unwilling to maintain a relationship with another adult and forces the emotional role of a spouse onto their child instead. The child’s needs are ignored and instead the relationship exists solely to meet the needs of the parent and the adult may not be aware of the issues created by their actions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_incest
Bullying: What Is The Definition of Bullying? A lot of young people have a good idea of what bullying is because they see it every day! Bullying happens when someone hurts or scares another person on purpose and the person being bullied has a hard time defending himself or herself. Usually, bullying happens over and over.
Nearly a fifth of students are physically assaulted because of their sexual orientation and over a tenth because of their gender expression.
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays of New York City, 2014
Bullying is: Punching, shoving, and other acts that hurt people physically, spreading bad rumors about people, Keeping certain people out of a “group”, Teasing people in a mean way, and getting certain people to “gang up” on others
Cyberbullying: Bullying also can happen online or electronically. Cyberbullying is when children or teens bully each other using the Internet, mobile phones or other cyber technology. This can include: Sending mean text, email, or instant messages, posting nasty pictures or messages about others in blogs or on Web sites and using someone else’s user name to spread rumors or lies about someone
http://stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/kids/what-is-bullying.aspx
Male Sexual Harassment; Article: Male Sexual Harassment in the Work Place on the Rise; According to a report by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission there were a record amount of harassment complaints filed by men in 2006. The figures given in the report state that of the 12,025 sexual harassment claims made in 2006 15.4 percent of these claims came from men. This shows a significant increase of male harassment cases made in the last ten years of 4.5.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/175980/male_sexual_harassment_in_the_work.html
Child Obesity: The case has attracted national attention. With childhood obesity on the rise across the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Gray’s attorney says it could open the door to more criminal action against parents whose children have become dangerously overweight.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/weightloss/2009-07-20-obesityboy_N.htm
Report: MeMe Roth- NAAO- Child Obesity Child Abuse- CNN Paula Zahn