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Men Also Suffer from Domestic Violence Monday, 22 Oct
2007, FOX2 Detroit
History of the politics of DV The Facts About Spousal Conflict: Personal Responsibility Must Be Expected in Public Policy. Family violence myths debunked by the American Coalition for Fathers & Children (ACFC Missouri Chapter) The Nature of Domestic Violence Against Men So, you think that you are being abused...or maybe you don't think so... Telling the Truth about Domestic Violence Controversy Within Family Violence Research
DVStats.org a search
engine, aggregating research that examines the impact and extent
of domestic violence upon male victims. (Off-site)
This search facility equates domestic violence to intimate partner
violence
between men and women in relationships. It does not provide
information on violence between homosexuals, siblings or violence
against family members other than heterosexual partners and spouses,
such as infanticide, child abuse or violence against elderly in
families.
Domestic Violence and the Male Victim,
By Anne Lewis and Dr. Sotirios Sarantakos Domestic Violence Policies: Where Did We Go Wrong?
By Sotirios Sarantakos Leading Causes of Death by age group and sex
(US data for 1995, age group <1-24 years)
US Murders 1995
US Murders 1996 The troubles with DV murder statistics [US] Domestic Homicide of Male Spouses by Females: A Review for Death Investigators, By Lt. Cynthia T. Ferguson, CNM, MSN
DVStats.org a search
engine, aggregating research that examines the impact and extent
of domestic violence upon male victims. (Off-site)
This search facility equates domestic violence to intimate partner
violence
between men and women in relationships. It does not provide
information on violence between homosexuals, siblings or violence
against family members other than heterosexual partners and spouses,
such as infanticide, child abuse or violence against elderly in
families.
Alberta Government's website promotes hatred against men Massive, government-sponsored hate propaganda that demonizes all Canadian men at the Canadian National Clearing House on Family Violence, a Health Canada web site The ACLU Sports Hall of Shame Hate Crimes Against Women? Toronto Police Hate-Crime Policies — Tools for the suppression of free speech, a symptom of universal national and international trends? London Metropolitan Police Service launches hate-propaganda campaign against men (2005 03 16) Researching the "Rape Culture" of America An Investigation of Feminist Claims about Rape, By Christina Hoff Sommers, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Clark University We've all heard that "one in four" college women will be victims of rape or attempted rape during their years on campus. Michael Wright takes a look at campus police records and comes up with... a different answer.
Read the article (off-site)
Neo Nazis and other overt hate groups are amateurs. THE HATE
MONGERS explains how some elements of the women's movement use
lies and hate to make big money for themselves, and how they
harm our culture and our economy.
Read THE
HATE MONGERS
DVStats.org a search
engine, aggregating research that examines the impact and extent
of domestic violence upon male victims. (Off-site)
This search facility equates domestic violence to intimate partner
violence
between men and women in relationships. It does not provide
information on violence between homosexuals, siblings or violence
against family members other than heterosexual partners and spouses,
such as infanticide, child abuse or violence against elderly in
families.
Men are More Likely Than Women to Be Victims in Dating Violence,
UNH Expert Says
(UNH Media Relations, May 19, 2006; off-site)
...This research is part of the International Dating
Violence Study, a multinational study of violence against
dating partners by university students. A consortium of
researchers around the world collected data from 13,601
students at 68 universities in 32 nations.
In the paper, Straus calls for an end to the focus on men
as the only perpetrators of dating violence, saying the
refusal to recognize the multi-causal nature of the problem
is hampering the effort to end domestic violence and
ignoring half the perpetrators. As recently as December
2005, the National Institute of Justice refused to consider
applications for funding that dealt with male victims....
Abused Men - The Other Half of Domestic Violence involving adults. Violence involving children is another story Alberta MLAs are being asked for help A letter to John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General,
Re: VAWA and Domestic Violence Against Men and Children A letter to the Alberta Justice Department, in response to a call for input to a discussion paper on a proposal for a new Prevention of Family Violence Act A tool kit to destroy families Battered-Men Shelters Battered Men Resources and links, by Bert Hoff
Additional information and help-line index Battered-Women Shelters Betty Friedan and her Lies Carl Friedan tells his side of the horror story of his twenty-year marriage to his violent ex-wife.
Bill C-245 (1998), an act to amend the Criminal Code, penalties for sexual offences involving children, to be read the second time and to be referred to a committee Domestic-Violence Industry: A Cult Family Violence Studies: A Brief History, by Richard Bennett History of domestic violence among male patients presenting to an urban emergency department. C. Crawford Mechem, MD, Frances S. Shofer, PhD, Sharon S. Reinhard, BA, EMT, Sarah Hornig, BSN, RN and Elizabeth Datner, MD From the Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (CCM, FSS, SSR, SH, ED). Address for correspondence and reprints: C. Crawford Mechem, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283. Fax: 215-662-3953; e-mail: mechemc@mail.med.upenn.edu
Academy of Emergency Medicine 1999 Aug;6(8):786-91
Abstract and publication details
Husband Abuse: An Overview of Research and Perspectives
Prepared by Leslie Tutty for the Family Violence Prevention
Unit, Health Canada.
This discussion paper provides insight into the issue of
abuse against men by their intimate partners. It summarizes
information from three sources: literature on husband abuse,
studies in which abused men describe their experiences, and
conversations with representatives from approximately 40
family violence treatment programs and men's issues groups.
1999, 28 p.
Full Paper (292kB PDF file - off-site)
Intimate Partner Abuse Against Men
- Overview Paper
by Dr. Eugen Lupri and Dr. Elaine
Grandin
For the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Health
Canada.
This document provides an overview
of the available research findings on the nature and extent
of abuse committed by women against their intimate male
partners, as well as an examination of the various methods
that have been used in that research. It identifies risk
factors and the physical and psychological effects on
victims. Finally, it considers issues relevant to prevention
and offers suggestions on what individuals (victims, friends
and professionals) can do and what resources and services
they can access for help. 2004, 13 p.
Full Report (109kB PDF file - off-site)
Intimate Partner Abuse Against Men [and Boys]
A compendium of resources,
National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Health Canada
(off-site)
Male and Female DV-rates
The implications of the report from which the excerpt
shown below was copied are mind-boggling.
Unfortunately, the report is completely in
graphics format, which is why the PDF file is so large.
Nevertheless, it is worth having a copy of.
The report is based on a an examination of a good number of
DV studies from all over the world. It confirms what
those with open and objective minds have known for decades:
interspousal violence is not a male monopoly. It is at
least as often committed by women as it is committed by men.
That the myth of men having a monopoly on that aspect of
intimate partner violence persisted for so long in the face of
so much evidence from reputable and even government sources
is nothing less than evidence of the power of feminist
propaganda promoted by people in thrall to a totalitarian
ideology.
Japan joins the community of nations falling victim to the tactic of implementing domestic- or family-violence laws for the destruction of families Lenore Walker's "The Battered Woman" has become the bible of family violence for people making their living off and promoting the battered women's industry. Her husband, Morton Flax, shot himself. Malicious Mother Syndrome A letter from a handicapped woman who was abused along with her sisters by her own mother One Father's Story The sad story of the destruction of one family on account of family violence. Rape is a crime that is now being investigated routinely through the help of DNA testing References Examining Assaults by Women on their Spouses or Male Partners: An Annotated Bibliography, by Martin Fiebert Sex Differences in Aggression Between Heterosexual Partners: A Meta-Analytic Review, by John Archer, University of Central Lancashire
War in the Family An account of one battle skirmish near Calgary, Alberta, Canada. WFN Press Release, Re: New (1997) Bureau of Justice Stats on DV "Wheres My Frying Pan?" Women and Domestic Violence Women Hit Too! An article by Nancy Updike in the May/June 1999 issue of Mother Jones
The Myth of
Female Innocence Many "experts" state that the characteristics of
serial killers include "male", "Caucasian", and exclude women. What
then are we to make of cases like these?
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Countess
Elizabeth Bathory "of Hungary, who bled to death 610 peasant girls,
whom she abducted and kept in her castle dungeon so that she could fill
rejuvenating beauty baths with their youthful blood." (Patricia Pearson,
"When She Was Bad: The Myth of Female Innocence," p. 156)
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On December 20th, 1985,
Marybeth Tinning in Schenectady,
New York, murdered the last of her nine children, a four-week-old baby
girl Tami Lynn. The others, aged from a few weeks to five years, were
killed by her over the preceding 14 years. The cause of all deaths had
been diagnosed as SIDS. The community members had began to wonder after
the sixth child died. Not until the ninth death happened were charges
laid.
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Melissa
Ann Russel: Internet Black Widow She killed two men for their
money and defrauded others, including the Canadian taxpayers, of theirs.
However, she did receive an early parole for a murder convictions in
Canada, became a $50,000/year spokeswoman for battered wives, and then
promptly picked, married, exploited and killed her next victim, an
85-year-old man.
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People like Jack the Ripper (he killed five
prostitutes) are the stuff of movie after movie, book after book,
headline-story after headline story in the papers.
People
like Jane Toppan (a nurse and contemporary of Jack the Ripper who
killed as many as or more than 90 patients for no other reason than that
she wanted to set a record) and like Countess Elizabeth Bathory are
forgotten, as is the fact that the vast majority of serious
or fatal family violence victims fell victim to women's violence and also
the fact that the vast majority of serial killers is female.
Patrol Constables' Perceptions of Wife Assault Sensitivity Training, A Qualitative Evaluation, Theresa Petkau, June 1998 Emergency Department Injury Surveillance Report
DVStats.org a search engine, aggregating research that
examines the impact and extent of domestic violence upon male
victims. (Off-site)
The Bloody and Deadly Countess Elizabeth Bathory Lesbian couples are far more violent than heterosexual couples Erin Pizzey comments on A Lesbian DV Brochure If the data collected are accurate, then Gay DV is the fastest growing sector of domestic violence.
The Facts About Spousal Conflict: Personal Responsibility Must Be Expected in Public Policy. Family violence myths debunked by the American Coalition for Fathers & Children (ACFC Missouri Chapter) Knocked for six: the myth of a nation of wife batterers
by Neil Lyndon and Paul Ashton, The Sunday Times of London 1995 01 29 Quotes from and articles by Armin Brott Extracts from 'Manufacturing Concern' (see also the message announcing "Manufacturing Concern") Husband Battering, a section in David Throop's Men's Issues Index Wendy McElroy discusses: Feminist Urban Legends Spare the rod and run for cover When students hold the cards, school violence grows, especially among the girls
DVStats.org a search
engine, aggregating research that examines the impact and extent
of domestic violence upon male victims. (Off-site)
This search facility equates domestic violence to intimate partner
violence
between men and women in relationships. It does not provide
information on violence between homosexuals, siblings or violence
against family members other than heterosexual partners and spouses,
such as infanticide, child abuse or violence against elderly in
families.
Myths and Facts about family violence (containing analyses and summaries of, and references and some links to, a large number of US Bureau of Justice reports and to Canadian and British sources) Fact: Political correctness drives and taints the politics of domestic violence statistics Fact: Quote from a press release August 27, 1997 by the Women's Freedom Network Fact: Reena Sommer Male and Female Perpetrated Partner Abuse: Testing a Diathesis-Stress Model Fact: The "Rule of Thumb for Wife-Beating" Hoax
Wife beating was always illegal Fact: The Super Bowl Wife-Battering Hoax Fact: To round out the picture, have a look at the collection of articles at the DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FORUM of the Shared Parenting web site. Fact: Domestic Violence in Gay "Families" Fact: FBI Statistics on Spousal Murder, they show that gender equality works in weird and wondrous ways. Fact: Women are the gentler sex? Newsletters: Common Sense and Domestic Violence
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Are your children safe in school?
The big list: Female teachers with students
Most comprehensive account on Internet of women predators on
campus, by WorldNetDailyNews
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Health Canada: Adolescent Sex Offenders
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USA: (2003 11 06)
A Lansing mother accused of molesting her 2-year-old son and broadcasting the incident on the Internet pleaded no contest Wednesday to a reduced charge.
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Woman charged with raping boy after giving birth to his son
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A report by the National Clearing House on Family Violence, "The Invisible Boy", examines the issue of the abuse of boys and how our society fails these poor children.
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Political opportunism and grand-standing vs. scientific facts: Women commit at least as much sexual abuse of children as do men.
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The extent of involvement by women in the sexual abuse of children
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Female perpetrators of sexual abuse of boys , by Jim Hopper, Ph.D. (off-site)
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Sexual Abuse of Males Prevalence, Possible Lasting Effects, and Resources, by Jim Hopper, Ph.D. (off-site)
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The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the
Victimization of Male Children and Teens
by Frederick Mathews
Prepared by the Canadian Foster Family Association (CFFA) on
behalf of the
National Clearinghouse on Family Violence of
Health Canada.
This document provides insight into
the issue of sexual abuse of male children and teens. It
outlines the prevalence of sexual abuse against boys and
male teens in various settings, summarizes data on the
perpetrators of the abuse, and identifies some of the
effects on survivors. Implications for research, assessment,
treatment, and program development are also presented.
1996, 68 p.
Full Report (287kB PDF file, off-site)
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The psychological impact of sexual abuse: Content analysis of interviews with male survivors (off-site) [warning, 2 megabyte PDF], Lisak, D. (1994),
Journal of Traumatic Stress, 7, 525-548.
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Meet 'Women's Auxiliary of NAMBLA'
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Lesbian Child Sexual Abuse
More deadly than the male
Media hide the fact women are far
more likely than men are to kill their children.
NSPCC research
findings of women's role in the maltreatment of children in the
UK When statistics for all family violence victims are examined, it emerges that women, primarily mothers, perpetrate by far the largest share of incidents of violence in the family. The quiet horror The murder rate for U.S. females is highest in the first year of life. Child Abuse: Statistics, Research, and Resources Gender as a factor in the Family Violence Courts, by Eeva Sodhi An Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Based on Non-clinical Samples The extent of involvement of women in the sexual abuse of children
Women commit at least as much child sexual abuse as do men Meet 'Women's Auxiliary of NAMBLA' Lesbian Child Sexual Abuse
DVStats.org a search engine, aggregating research that
examines the impact and extent of domestic violence upon male
victims. (Off-site)
False Abuse Allegations, how many of them are there, and what are their consequences? Getting rid of dad False allegations levelled against men who are said to have sexually abused their children have become the weapon of choice in custody battles following divorce and separation.
Almost half of child abuse allegations that are being investigated are proven to be unsubstantiated. Another quarter cannot be substantiated, although suspicions remain.
| IntroductionFor a few decades now, and increasingly so during the past two, man-hating gender activists created and nurtured the perception that men are violent, especially against women. All too often, examples of the violence by men are produced and used to extrapolate and project from them to all male members of the human species. Common sense should tell anyone that such depictions simply cannot be true.
The vast majority of humanity, men or women, are simply not violent. Moreover, men are being indoctrinated from childhood on that boys don't hit girls. It used to be that girls were being educated that violence doesn't become them, but increasingly so in the last two decades girls are being taught to have the "right to hit back," from where it now follows in the minds of many girls and women that they have the right to hit, whether that is done by them in aggression or in retaliation.
We must therefore not be surprised that violence by women is becoming more and more prevalent. In many states in the US arrest rates for women in incidents of domestic violence are growing and now comprise about one third of all arrests in DV incidents.
The truth, from an authoritative source, is,
Adaptation from Michel Angelo's Creation (Adam)
from the cover of David Thomas'
Not Guilty : In Defence of the Modern Man | |
The History of the Development of the Popular Views and Politics of Domestic Violence, a collection of links to articles that explain the workings of the massive feminist propaganda campaign that served the purpose quite effectively to demonize all men. | The Nature of Domestic Violence Against MenThe following is Anne Bransdon's DV against men model from her Web site. It is a great improvement on the power wheel from the Duluth model. (Click on the image to see larger version.)
copied from Model 1999 at Anne Bransdon's site Anne Bransdon's website is currently experiencing difficulties with accessibility, but Anne Bransdon gives permission to use her model far and wide. Send an e-mail to Anne Bransdon. So, you think that you are being abused...or maybe you don't think soLooking through Anne Bransdon's excellent categories and indexes of types of abuse, many will without doubt recognize familiar aspects of every-day life they became subjected to over the last little while or over the period of their lives that they escaped from and consider to have been hell on earth. There are many more people who are right now involved or have been in circumstances in which many of the items in Anne Bransdon's model play dominant roles, but many of those people don't realize at all that any of those aspects are at work to destroy their relationship, their love, their family and their lives. The devil is in the details. Maybe all that is required, for abusers and abused alike, is to consider an account by someone who was involved in an abusive relationship and who, even though he escaped from it, is still very strongly entangled in it. It is quite obvious that the individual who wrote the account managed to get a good grasp on the mass of tiny details in everyday life that constitute abuse in his case. It is also obvious that perhaps he is setting himself up to being abused by insisting that his abuser should act rationally. Abusers abuse because they don't, and often can't, act rationally. As Erin Pizzey explains in her discussion paper on how to deal with
terrorists in the family (that was the original title of the paper, but it is now called "Working with violent women"), it is not reasonable to expect terrorists (that's what abusers are) to act rationally. There is therefore not much point in expecting to be able to negotiate with terrorists. What is necessary in trying to get terrorists to make concessions or to have them live by equitable principles is to make them live by the law. A line needs to be drawn, and terrorists need to have pointed out to them what the rules are by which they must guide their conduct. They need to learn what they can get away with and what not. They need to learn that they can't get away with as much as they wish to get away with. Here is the link to the story I mentioned. The story is an excellent account of such details that an abused man began to recognize and analyse in looking back at the abuse he experienced through his abuser, the mother of his son, his former wife. She Married The Great Satan…And Lived To Tell The Tale
By "Tex," her angry, abused ex-husband
Published at Dr. Irene's verbal abuse site
| Telling the Truth about Domestic Violenceby David Fontes, Psy.D., CEAP, August 29, 1998 (PDF 67kB) The essay by David Fontes is an objective and thorough overview of violence research and statistics. It provides truths that will surprise many, but its title, "Telling The Truth about Domestic Violence", is misleading. Although the essay is very thorough in telling the truth, it mentions nothing at all about many forms of domestic violence, such as that against children, violence between siblings, violence by children against parents, or violence against the elderly. Therefore a better title for the essay would be, "Telling the Truth about Partner Violence", because that is the only type of domestic violence the essay tells about. However, the essay is immensely valuable for debunking feminist claims about "domestic violence". David Fontes' essay analyzes not only the fallacies inherent in misleading partner violence statistics, it also identifies the failings and shortcomings of the various and often even official, governmental (therefore apparently credible) sources of the partner violence statistics misandrist feminists love to use in their propaganda war against men and families. It is deliberate and not an accident that the essay's focus is solely on partner violence. The article is a refutation of a "domestic violence" article by feminist Kate Orman. Like all feminists that use distorted and selective "domestic violence" statistics as propaganda tools when speaking or writing about partner violence, so as to stress the victim status of women, Kate Orman, too, is blind to all forms of violence in families except men's violence against women. All such feminists, if they mention women's violence against men at all, use it only for propagandistic purposes. They use at best only what of it gets reported (the vast majority of it doesn't) and, most importantly, they only use it to falsely claim, and thereby indoctrinate the public into believing, that there are vastly fewer incidents of violence by women against men than there are of violence by men against women. By such propaganda tactics feminist were successful over the years in making "domestic violence" a synonym for "violence against women". Full Story | http://www.reenasommerassociates.mb.ca/a_wfn.html Controversy Within Family Violence Research Reena Sommer, Ph.D.; University of Manitoba, Canada PRESENTED AT THE WOMEN'S FREEDOM NETWORK CONFERENCE Washington, D.C., 14-15 October 1995 I have been involved in the study of partner abuse for the past eight years. My interest in this issue began with my concern about violence against women. Initially, my examination of partner abuse focused on courtship violence and spouse abuse perpetrated by men. My sense of curiosity led me to go against what I believed to be the essence of partner abuse and examine the prevalence of abuse perpetrated by women. Quite to my surprise, I found that women too, abused their male partners at equivalent rates. This led me to search out other research examining this issue, and again to my surprise I found my findings were not an anomaly, but had considerable support. Considerable controversy has emerged as a result of studies finding equivalent rates of abuse for males and females. The rift within family violence research centers on how researchers have approached their investigations. On one hand, there is the unidimensional approach to partner abuse advanced by feminists. They view abuse between intimates as a problem of women being abused by men whereby the abuse is perceived as a dichotomous variable (abuse/no abuse) and seen in its most severe forms. On the other hand, sociologists and family researchers view partner abuse as being gender neutral and occurring along a continuum with no abuse at one end and very severe abuse at the other end. I would like to address this controversy by first providing a backdrop to how the divisiveness in the study of partner abuse developed, and then by discussing some of the methodological and practical issues that have contributed to it.... (Full Story) | The Magnitude of Family ViolenceFamily violence is a relatively small problem in relation to all other causes of deaths and injury. It is difficult to understand why comprehensive information that permits a look at the relative numbers of victims is so hard to find. Most likely the reason for that is that when information pertaining to victims of family violence is looked at in relation to victims of other causes of death, it becomes obvious that the number of family violence victims appears to be exceedingly and trivially small, and that is the last thing the proponent of the domestic violence industry want people to learn much about. Therefore they keep that fact hidden and distorted. They can easily do that, because they control what information we get to see. They refuse with all their might to tell us the truth, nothing but and all of the truth.
To take such an objective view provides another truth. Boys and men comprise the vast majority of all victims of violence, but not only that, they comprise the vast majority of deaths in every major category of death except for the elderly, which are comprised largely of women. That stands to reason. Women are far more likely than men to survive into old age. Depending on country, their life expectancy is up to 14 years higher than that of men.
So, because women comprise the vast majority of the elderly, it stands to reason that far, far more elderly women than elderly men die. Nevertheless, feminists have absolutely no compunction in painting that circumstance – which is an outcome of all-pervasive discrimination against boys and men – as another manifestation of discrimination against women. Go figure, the fact that women live far longer lives than men is, according to the feminists, due to sex-discrimination against women. Let's not worry about that. Such contradictions are prevalent in, and govern, feminist dialectics.
However, on account of the changing demographics that are caused by and fuel the escalating destruction of our families, women face special challenges, both as victims and perpetrators, due to abuse of the elderly. The population sector containing the elderly grows at an unprecedented rate in absolute terms and especially in relative terms with respect to the size of the younger productive population sector that has to bear the increasingly unbearably large responsibility to care and provide for those who can't produce anything any longer for themselves. One of the consequences of that is an enormous increase (150% in the US from 1986 to 1996) in elderly abuse, predominantly cases of neglect of the elderly. (Trends in Elder Abuse in Domestic Settings, NATIONAL CENTER ON ELDER ABUSE, Elder Abuse Information Series No. 2 (PDF 42kB); see also
Prisoners in Their Own Homes, by Glenn Sacks. In addition, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch produced an excellent series of articles on the topic of fatal elder abuse and neglect in US nursing homes (it is estimated that tens of tousands of cases happen each year), Neglected to Death (Oct. 12 - 19, 2002). See
abstract and commentary relating to the articles and to the problem of elder abuse and neglect in nursing home and hospitals.) Update 2004 06 24:
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