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Male Victims
Stories, studies, and reporting on male victims of domestic violence and female-perpetrated intimate partner violence.
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Blue Bow Tie: Supporting Men Escaping Domestic and Family Violence
Blue Bow Tie is a new Australian charity providing emergency accommodation, food vouchers, toiletry care packs, and practical support to men escaping domestic and family violence. Here is how you can help.
The Myth Of Male Power
Bestselling author Warren Farrell offers a new, non-dogmatic approach to the relationship between men and women–one that questions old myths and presents the building blocks needed for a deeper understanding and a stronger bond between the warring sexes.
Another Australian Man’s Story of Domestic Violence & Coercive Control
I wasn’t allowed to do anything by myself if there were others around, and if I did so, I’d be made to feel like the biggest piece of work. She also had to be anywhere there were other females. She made sure that every person that I worked with, or visited, or they visited us, was in no certain terms to know I was a “monster” to her. This essentially isolated me from my family and friends.
Domestic Violence Study: Male Victims of Female-Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence, Help-Seeking, and Reporting Behaviors: A Qualitative Study
Male victims noted how disclosure of abuse to family and friends was variously met with shock, support, and minimization. Participants also reported secondary abusive experiences, with police and other support services responding with ridicule, doubt, indifference, and victim arrest. The use of the term boundary crossing rather than IPV, which is commonly associated with male-against-female violence, appeared to be a useful tool for eliciting information from men who have experienced abuse.
A Closer Look at Men Who Sustain Intimate Terrorism by Women
Some experts in the field have forwarded assumptions about men who sustain IPV–for example, that the abuse they experience is trivial or humorous and of no consequence and that, if their abuse was severe enough, they have the financial and psychological resources to easily leave the relationship–but these assumptions have little data to support them
Men Bouncing Back From Domestic Violence. Deborah Powney, University of Central Lancashire
Men Bouncing Back From Domestic Violence