Mar

Domestic abuse: Our male-victimizing myths live on

Barbara Kay, National Post (Canada)

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/03/27/barbara-kay-our-male-victimizing-myths-live-on/ Twenty years ago Earl Silverman of Calgary, fleeing his home to escape violence from his abusive wife, had no refuge to take shelter in. There were plenty of shelters for women victims of domestic abuse, but for men the only publicly funded services were for anger management. The message was clear to Silverman: “As [...]

15

Mar

Women: hitting your man is not cute; it’s abuse

Jennifer O'Mahony Daily Telegraph UK

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/9930142/Women-hitting-your-man-is-not-cute-its-abuse.html A new US survey indicates that young women are three times as likely to admit hitting their partner than men, but the normalisation of intimate violence is a disturbing trend with miserable implications for both genders, argues Jennifer O’Mahony The scene will be familiar to anyone who has sat through a Hollywood romcom-by-numbers. A [...]

15

Oct

Another women who kills almost walks free

Sean Fewster and Hannah Silverman, Adelaide Advertiser

Sentencing of Catherine Therese Collyer sends poor message to other victims Catherine Therese Collyer (left) leaves the Supreme Court with a friend. Pic: Chris Mangan Source: AdelaideNow WOMEN’S groups are outraged at the jailing of a woman who killed her abusive partner in self-defence, calling it “madness” and a step backward for victims. They [...]

09

Sep

Men are victims of domestic violence

Men ARE victims of domestic and personal violence. Some years ago, John Bailey, an Art Director with McCann Worldgroup Indonesia was so moved by the plight of men who are victims of domestic violence he designed 3 press advertisements and 1- 30 second television commercial portraying men as victims of domestic violence. Sydney photographers, models and make-up [...]

01

Sep

Celebrating Father’s Day? White Ribbon prefers man/dad-bashing

To celebrate this Father’s Day, White Ribbon engages in a spot of good old man- and dad-bashing http://www.menshealthaustralia.net/content/to-celebrate-this-fathers-day-white-ribbon-engages-in-a-spot.html If you want to enjoy this Father’s Day and celebrate being a Dad, or indeed celebrate your own father, it might be wise not to read the latest ‘paper’ from the White Ribbon Research Series titled Fathers, Fathering [...]

30

Aug

NSW Domestic Violence report recognises male victims

Greg Andresen, One in Three Website

Male victims of family violence face gap in services and need special consideration: NSW Government report The NSW Government Legislative Council’s Standing Committee on Social Issues this week released their report on domestic violence trends and issues in NSW: the first ever to acknowledge the existence, needs, barriers to reporting and barriers to accessing support faced [...]

27

Aug

Violent separations put kids in state care

Petrina Berry, Brisbane Times

The majority of Australian children in state care are there because of violent family separations, Queensland’s child safety inquiry has heard. One in four children in Australia witness violence against their mother or stepmother, the inquiry’s Commissioner Tim Carmody said on Monday. He also said 90 per cent of Family Court matters involve violent separations. [...]

25

Aug

Anti shared parenting lobbyists

Men's Rights Agency

Recently, we have seen the effects of many years lobbying by women’s groups and academics/researchers in the passage of the Family Law (Family Violence) Act 2010. This Act has effectively ‘rolled-back’ the shared-parenting gains of 2006 by broadening the definition of domestic violence so it now means anything one wants it to mean; removing penalties for false allegations [...]

07

Jul

For all mankind

Matthew Fynes-Clinton Brisbane Courier Mail

IN War of the Roses, Hollywood’s 1989 black comedy about a bitter marriage (Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner star), divorce lawyer Gavin D’Amato (Danny De Vito) declares the gloves off, explaining: “There is no winning in divorce, only degrees of losing.”
As bleak as that sounds, it is, it seems, the best of it.

24

Mar

Law change liable to upset fathers

Katherine Murphy, The Age, Melbourne

The Gillard government will provoke the ire of fathers’ groups today with landmark changes to family law designed to protect children in cases of domestic violence. Attorney-General Robert McClelland will press ahead with legislation winding back some of the shared parenting changes ushered in by the Howard government. The changes will make it easier for [...]

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