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Originally posted by Mordenheim:
I give up
A government that allow's torture, abuse, rape is equal to a country that has laws against all the above. How dare I judge. Forgive me. Let me not cast a stone since I never beat a woman, child, animal and so on. America is just like Iraq. We all beat women, rape women, kill children, and care only about money. That is all. Thank you for showing me the error of my ways.
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Just a second while a wipe the sarcasm off of my monitor.
I never said America was equal to Iraq or vice versa. What I did say is the same crimes that are being committed in Iraq are being commited everywhere.
The National Domestic Violence Hotline has received more than 700,000 calls for assistance since February 1996. National Domestic Violence Hotline, December 2001
Nearly one-third of American women (31 percent) report being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives. Commonwealth Fund survey, 1998
It is estimated that 503,485 women are stalked by an intimate partner each year in the United States. National Institute of Justice, July 2000
Estimates range from 960,000 incidents of violence against a current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend each year to 4 million women who are physically abused by their husbands or live-in partners each year. Violence by Intimates: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current or Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends, U.S. Department of Justice, March, 1998
Studies show that child abuse occurs in 30-60% of family violence cases that involve families with children. "The overlap between child maltreatment and woman battering." J.L. Edleson, Violence Against Women, February, 1999
While women are less likely than men to be victims of violent crimes overall, women are 5 to 8 times more likely than men to be victimized by an intimate partner. Violence by Intimates: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current or Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends, U.S. Department of Justice, March, 1998
Violence by an intimate partner accounts for about 21% of violent crime experienced by women and about 2 % of the violence experienced by men. Violence by Intimates: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current or Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends, U.S. Department of Justice, March, 1998
In 92% of all domestic violence incidents, crimes are committed by men against women. Violence Against Women, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, January, 1994
Of women who reported being raped and/or physically assaulted since the age of 18, three quarters (76 percent) were victimized by a current or former husband, cohabitating partner, date or boyfriend. Prevalence Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey, U.S. Department of Justice, November, 1998
In 1994, women separated from their spouses had a victimization rate 1 1/2 times higher than separated men, divorced men, or divorced women. Sex Differences in Violent Victimization, 1994, U.S. Department of Justice, September, 1997
In 1996, among all female murder victims in the U.S., 30% were slain by their husbands or boyfriends. Uniform Crime Reports of the U.S. 1996, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1996
31,260 women were murdered by an intimate from 1976-1996. Violence by Intimates: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current or Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends, U.S. Department of Justice, March, 1998
A childs exposure to the father abusing the mother is the strongest risk factor for transmitting violent behavior from one generation to the next. Report of the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family, APA, 1996
Forty percent of teenage girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend. Children Now/Kaiser Permanente poll, December, 1995
Females accounted for 39% of the hospital emergency department visits for violence-related injuries in 1994 but 84% of the persons treated for injuries inflicted by intimates. Violence by Intimates: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current or Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends, U.S. Department of Justice, March, 1998
Family violence costs the nation from $5 to $10 billion annually in medical expenses, police and court costs, shelters and foster care, sick leave, absenteeism, and non-productivity. Medical News, American Medical Association, January, 1992
Husbands and boyfriends commit 13,000 acts of violence against women in the workplace every year. Violence and Theft in the Workplace, U.S. Department of Justice, July, 1994
The majority of welfare recipients have experienced domestic abuse in their adult lives and a high percentage are currently abused. Trapped by Poverty, Trapped by Abuse: New Evidence Documenting the Relationship Between Domestic Violence and Welfare, The Taylor Institute, April, 1997
One in five female high school students reports being physically or sexually abused by a dating partner. Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), August 2001
"Those that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"
I'm not sure how this got so far off topic, but we are in no position to judge Iraqis with statistics like those.
[ 04-05-2003, 09:16 PM: Message edited by: Animal ]