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Groundbreaking study shows need for
unbiased domestic violence
services
3/13/2007 12:02:26 PM
Many
men suffer physical abuse from their female
partners, live in fear of them, and are denied
help by the domestic violence system, according to
a ground-breaking study recently published in the
Journal of Family Violence.
The study
describes 190 male callers to a domestic violence
hotline, men from all walks of life who found that
resources for males seeking help with an abusive
female partner are virtually nonexistent. It
appears to be common for abusive wives to use
controlling behaviors, and they are especially
prone to using their children as pawns to control
their husbands. And federally funded shelters and
hotlines commonly deny services to men, and ignore
Congress' stated intent that services are to
be
provided to victims regardless of
gender.
Co-author Edward Dunning explains
that the idea for the study was conceived by Mark
Rosenthal, now President of Respecting Accuracy in
Domestic Abuse Reporting (RADAR). "I worked
closely with Mark during his term as a member of
the helpline's board. He broached the idea that
the data we'd been collecting was the only data in
the world at that time on the characteristics of
men who've been subjected to violence by the women
in their lives. He realized that this data could
be an invaluable
resource in furthering
society's understanding of the dynamics of family
violence."
"The situations described by
these callers are hardly surprising to anyone who
has followed high-profile cases of female
violence" explains Rosenthal. "Clara Harris, for
example, repeatedly drove over her husband while
their daughter begged her not to kill her father.
Men are not the only victims of a system that
refuses to recognize that some women can be
abusive. The children in these families are also
victimized when the parent they look to for
protection is denied help for no reason
other
than having been born
male."
Dunning, co-founder of the Family
Interventions Project in Vacaville, Calif. began
answering helpline calls shortly after completing
a study of men and women convicted of domestic
violence. Both that study and the one just
published explored the dynamics of intimate
partner violence using the Duluth Power and
Control Wheel. "Conventional wisdom holds that all
domestic violence stems from male power and
control, as evident in DV laws and policies. Both
of these studies strongly indicate
that
this belief system is incorrect.
Females are equally capable of power and control
behaviors."
"Allowing callers to define
their own problems in their own words provided a
method of controlling for researcher bias and
yielded practical information on working with
males in abusive relationships," says Dunning.
After the data had been collected by Dunning and
Jan Brown, the helpline's founder, and Rosenthal
had written custom software for recording the
data, researcher Denise Hines, then of the Univ.
of New Hampshire Family Research Laboratory, did
statistical analysis and collaborated
with
Dunning on authoring the
paper.
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