Thursday, March 05, 2009
The government campaign on violence against women that wanted Ms. David, by Anne Humphreys
In the famous book of ethics and religious culture that was a complaisant Ms. David, the only politician enjoying this privilege, we returned several times on violence against women.
It could read: "Thousands of women each year are victims of physical abuse, sexual or emotional abuse from a spouse or former spouse, a co-worker or anyone else."(P. 197, Dialogue II, Editions de la Pensée)
At the bottom of page 198 of the same book, Ms. David said that students "will need a feminist analysis in their lives. To understand why women are more likely to be abused by a man, why it is women who have less good salaries." We have already responded to some false ideas or simplistic peddled by feminists on the wage gap here.
With regard to domestic violence, the new manual presents an incomplete reality. It said nothing about the men could be victims of such violence, nor does it speak of the magnitude of this phenomenon. These omissions will not allow students to understand the facts, this book does that part of the truth because it is true, of course, that violence against women exists.
However, as we learn from numerous studies including a report of the Institut de la statistique du Québec in 2007, domestic violence is bidirectional and shared:
"Bidirectionality of violence
Furthermore, the similarity of prevalence rates of violence reported by men and women may reflect largely the fact that violence between spouses or partners is a widespread phenomenon bidirectional or mutual, as evidenced by several studies ( Capaldi, Kim, and Shortt, 2007: 107; Straus, 2006a: 8; Archer and Graham-Kevan, 2005: 274; Fergusson, Horwood and Ridder, 2005a: 1110; Field and Caetano, 2005: 504; Williams and Frieze, 2005: 775; Linder and Collins, 2005: 257; Arriaga and Foshee, 2004: 179; Ehrensaft, Cohen, Brown, Smailes, Chen and Johnson, 2003: 745, 749-750; Saudino and Hines, 2003: 204-206; Kwong, Bartholomew, Henderson and Trink, 2003: 294-295; Anderson, 2002: 851, 856; Harned, 2002: 1189; Straus and Ramirez, 2002: 6; Capaldi & Owen, 2001: 431; Kessler, Molnar, Feurer and Appelbaum, 2001: 492-493; Archer, 2000: 660; Bradbury and Lawrence, 1999: 188; Kwong, Bartholomew, and Dutton, 1999: 155; Magdol, Moffitt, Caspi, Newman, Fagan, and Silva, 1997: 73; Sorenson, Upchurch and Shen, 1996: 37; Morse, 1995: 263; O'Leary, Malone, and Tyree, 1994: 594; Straus, 1993: 74, Brush, 1990: 61). "
http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca/publications/conditions/violence_h-f04_pdf.htm
How to explain that violence against men has been long underestimated and even ignored? This issue remains unresolved. But it can be assumed that one of the explanations is that men do not rush to the shelter (for women), they remain silent to avoid shame, he said no woman who drinks too much, which the threat, he prefers to divorce and put an end to the suffering.
Analysis of the government campaign
As to Ms. David, she cites (p. 199, op. Cit.) Among the most urgent things to solve "a campaign on violence against women is necessary, so that means that on the drinking and driving."
It seems that his wish has been heard by the Quebec government (all with sub).
Watch the following videos for a discussion of this campaign.
Supplement:
Price to pay: unoccupied shelters to almost $ 500 000 room
As Barbara Kay, National Post recalled recently about one hundred six (106) shelters for abused women or difficulty:
"This year, the report of the Auditor General of Quebec has thrown light on the alleged waste and lack of financial controls that are prevalent in the industry of violence against women. The grants for projects related to violence against women rose from 30 million in 2002-2003 to $ 60 million in 2007-08. Subsidies for a six-bed shelter during this period jumped from 58 832 $ 406 $ 817, although the shelter has housed nine women during 2006-07, its occupancy rate with been 12% from 29% in 2005-2006 (see § 3.69 of the report). Almost half a million dollars to house nine women? Yet the public being led by boat believed that thousands and thousands of battered women seeking refuge.
The reality does not simply with the image of Épinal. In 2004, the Yellow Brick House, a shelter in Aurora, Ontario has been closed following a strike. We then realized that the eight women and three children who lived only a woman fleeing violence. The others were homeless.
Exceptions, will say the believers. Everyone knows that violence against women is an epidemic.
Really? The Edmonton Police Service from 1999 to 2000 indicate that the police intervened to 3 times in 000 domestic incidents. It has advised that a shelter just 24 women - less than 1%. "
Statistiques erronées sur la violence conjugale (1re partie)
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Statistiques erronées sur la violence conjugale (2de partie)
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Labels: Abuse, Anne Humphreys, Québec
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