SAFE Newsletter 01/10/2022
Hello supporter,,
you’ll love these articles about new developments in advocacy for male victims of domestic violence and elder abuse.
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Male Victims of Domestic Violence
"...The support service for male victims of domestic violence has recorded a 60% increase in calls in the past year. Men’s Aid revealed that approximately 8,000 contacts to the service were received since January 1, 2021 — up from just over 5,000 in 2020..."
"...Even as we knock on the door of 2022, there have been few studies conducted that include men as victims, and those that have been completed focus primarily on same-gender relationships, holding to the commonly-held stereotype that an adult straight man cannot be abused by a female partner..."
By Coalition To End Domestic Violence, 2022
"... While men tend to under-report their injuries, they may suffer graver consequences than women. One analysis of data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System- All Injury Program found that 7.9% of all men who visited the emergency were admitted for their injuries, compared to only 3.7% of women..."
LGBTQ+ Domestic Violence
"... According to a 2019 Statistics Canada report, Canada had 651,484 police-reported incidents of intimate partner violence from 2009 to 2017 — three per cent of which involved same-sex partners..."
Elder Abuse
By Medscape, 01/04/2022
"...Social isolation, stay-at-home measures, and staff shortages at long-term care facilities have been implicated in the sharp increase in elder abuse cases during the COVID-19 pandemic..."
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