a few domestic violence stats from malematters

2009-04-20T19:31:20+00:00

this entire comment is a quote from malematters here:

Nicole Mortimer's sexism makes many men AND women turn off to feminism.

Listening only to like-minded feminists, she trips herself up at almost every turn.

Women are more likely to commit major physical abuse of their children than are men: 56.8 percent to 43.2 percent. [Source: Fire With Fire, by feminist Naomi Wolf, p. 221, hardcover]

Women are more likely to kill their children than are men: 55 percent to 45 percent. [Source: "Women and Violent Crime," a paper by Prof. Rita J. Simon, Department of Justice, Law and Society and Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, D.C]

Women commit almost all of the murders of newborns. In Dade County, Fla., between 1956 and 1986, according to the June 1990 Journal of Interpersonal Violence 5:2, mothers accounted for 86 percent of newborn deaths. [Source: When She Was Bad, by Patricia Pearson, p. 255, note 71.] (According to the Dept. of Health and Human Services, in 2003, nearly 60 percent of child abusers and neglect perpetrators were female.)

The idea of women assaulting children is finally becoming admissible in the minds of many Americans. Much credit for that may have to go to the use of hidden cameras. Increasingly, they are catching mothers and female baby sitters in the act of brutalizing toddlers and even babies. "Prime Time Live" was among the first to serve up examples of these acts. On November 19, 1997, it revealed nightmarish scenes of mothers clamping their hand over the nose and mouth of their desperately struggling infants. In Great Britain, researchers using covert video cameras in just two hospitals filmed parents suspected of child abuse, predominantly mothers, in the act of deliberately attempting to smother their infants.

Battered-women's advocates excuse this maternal domestic violence against children -- while vociferously condemning the paternal type -- by claiming it stems from such "syndromes" as postpartum depression and "the oppressive patriarchy," the latter of which the advocates always blame for women's criminal behavior but never credit for women's good behavior. The advocates cite these syndromes in order to generate sympathy for the mothers (while generating anger toward the men who assault far less defenseless adult women). However, they can't seem to explain the fact that at least as many female baby sitters have been video-taped violently abusing toddlers and babies. Hidden cameras are doing what battered-women's advocates and most mainstream media outlets won't do: expose female violence.

Women's brutality against small, defenseless children -– a common form of violence that takes place in the home but which VAWA supporters do not call domestic violence -– suggests what ought to be painfully obvious:

If women, WITHOUT provocation, batter and kill children, whom they've supposedly been socialized to LOVE, they can, without provocation, batter and kill men, whom they've been socialized -- by the media, feminist literature, and VAWA-type legislation -- to distrust, fear, and hate.

Title	a few domestic violence stats from malematters
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Date	April 20, 2009 7:29 PM UTC (17 years ago)
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