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7NEWS
4 days ago
- Health
- 7NEWS
One in three Australian men say they have committed intimate partner violence
More than one in three men in Australia have reported using violence with an intimate partner in a first of its kind study which shows gender-based abuse is rising, despite years of national attention on the issue. The research was part of a longitudinal study called Ten to Men by Australia's Institute of Family Studies, which began in 2013 and now involves around 24,000 boys and men. Intimate partner violence is defined as emotional, physical and sexual abuse. The study found that the number of men using violence with their partners has risen over the past decade. Last time the survey was conducted in 2013-2014, roughly 1 in 4 (24 per cent) men had committed intimate partner violence. That figure has risen to 1 in 3 (35 per cent). That equates to about 120,000 men using intimate partner violence for the first time each year. In 2022, the government launched its 10-year National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children, with a majority priority of advancing gender equality. But since January last year, 100 women have been killed nationwide, according to Counting Dead Women. Recent protests have called for the government to do much more to end gender-based violence. 'The fact that one in three men in the study reported using intimate partner violence should shake every Australian,' violence against women advocate and co-founder of Not One More Niki Tarang Chawla said. Chawla's siter, Nikita, was killed by her former partner in 2015. 'She was one of the women these numbers speak to,' Chawla said. 'We've known this is a crisis, but now we have the data to back what victim-survivors, families and advocates have been saying for years: this is widespread, and it's preventable.' Study shows father figures matter Emotional abuse was the most common form of intimate partner violence reported in the Ten to Men study, with 32 per cent of men reporting they had made an intimate partner 'feel frightened or anxious', up from 21 per cent in 2013-2014. And around nine per cent of the men reported they had 'hit, slapped, kicked or otherwise physically hurt' an intimate partner. Men with moderate or severe depressive symptoms were 62 per cent times more likely to use intimate partner violence by 2022 compared to those who had not had these symptoms, while men with suicidal thoughts, plans or attempts were 47 per cent times as likely, the study found. The findings of the Ten to Men study not only underscore the extent of the problem — they also offer key lessons for policymakers looking to tackle the issue, clinical epidemiologist and program lead for the study Sean Martin said. While much of the existing research in Australia on intimate partner violence has rightly focused on survivors and their stories, this study takes a new approach by studying perpetrators to better understand how to prevent violence, Martin said. It's the first Australian study to examine how affection in father-son relationships during childhood relate to later use of intimate partner violence. The study found men with higher levels of social support in 2013-2014 were 26 per cent less likely to start using intimate partner violence by 2022, compared to men who had less support. Men with strong father-son relationships were also less likely to become violent. Men who strongly agreed that they had received affection from a father or father figure during childhood were 48 per cent less likely to use intimate partner violence compared to men who strongly disagreed. These findings lend strong support for initiatives to support men's mental health in Australia, as well as community supports and programs for young dads, Martin said. Susan Heward-Belle, a professor at the University of Sydney, said the study shows the importance of fathers modelling respect for women, emotional intelligence, empathy and compassion to their children. 'For a very long time, a lot of that emotional, social, nurturance-type work has been seen as women's responsibilities within families.' Heward-Belle, who was not involved in the Ten to Men study, said it is crucial to explore further how feelings of entitlement and anger can develop. 'We also know that there are some men who perpetrate domestic and family violence who arguably have had good relationships with both parents.'
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
‘Not One More' campaign to combat impaired driving taps local health care heroes
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — The roadways will be crowded this Memorial Day weekend. Something to think about is this sobering stat from the Connecticut Department of Transportation: 113 people died in alcohol-impaired crashes in our state in 2023. Hartford HealthCare surgeon Dr. Alejandro Betancourt is chief of trauma at St. Vincent's Medical Center. He's one of the faces in this year's 'Not One More' video, which was a move to prevent impaired driving in Connecticut. Watch the video above and visit the Not One More website for more information. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
MMIW report a casualty of federal purge of government data
Nancy Marie SpearsThe Imprint An oversight group launched five years ago outlined myriad ways Congress could better protect Indigenous people from going missing, getting killed or falling prey to human traffickers, with particular focus on tackling gender-based violence. Among the recommendations of the Not Invisible Act Commission were specific protections for foster youth, who end up lost at higher rates than their peers. The commission titled its report Not One More and detailed calls to action for multiple federal agencies — including the Departments of Justice and the Interior, Health and Human Services and the Administration for Children and Families. This year, legislators and policymakers were supposed to establish ways to better track the missing, and step up efforts to find them. But on Feb. 18, the 212-page, comprehensive set of findings and recommendations that 41 commissioners worked on for three years suddenly vanished from the U.S. Department of Justice website. 'I don't know who's going to carry the recommendations out,' said Kristin Welch, a Menominee Nation descendant and Not Invisible Act commissioner. Welch, founder and executive director of the Wisconsin-based Waking Women Healing Institute, reflected the doubts among many that life-saving measures may now be suspended. 'The report being removed doesn't inspire hope under this administration that the work is going to continue and be meaningful,' she said. The Not Invisible Act Commission report is one of countless previously public documents that have suddenly been taken down from federal websites since the Jan. 20 inauguration of President Donald Trump. In his first month in office alone, thousands of government web pages were removed, a New York Times analysis found — including vital information related to many aspects of American life, from health and safety to veterans affairs, taxes and scientific findings. The Justice Department did not respond to requests for comment about why the Not Invisible report had been taken down, or whether the agency would move forward with the recommendations relevant to the department. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Indigenous youth are more likely than non-Native American kids to go missing from foster care. In a report examining a recent decade of data, the center documented nearly 3,000 such cases, 99% of which were ultimately resolved. But while the kids were off the radar, they were identified as 'endangered' — more likely to be engaging in risky behavior, struggling with mental illness and turning to drugs and alcohol. Trump signed the Not Invisible Act in October 2020, during his first term. In 2024, under President Joe Biden, top officials praised the intent of the act they said would 'resolve this longstanding crisis and support healing from the generational traumas that Indigenous peoples have endured in the United States.' Then-Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland underscored the issue. 'Addressing violent crimes against Indigenous peoples has long been underfunded and ignored, as a cause of intergenerational trauma that has affected our communities since colonization,' Haaland said in a press statement. 'Through historic efforts like the Not Invisible Act Commission, we're identifying recommendations created by Indian Country, for Indian Country. This will ensure that epidemics like the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Crisis and Human Trafficking are addressed with the resources they demand.' In its report, the commission called for the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a study of American Indian and Alaska Native children missing from foster care and determine whether law enforcement is doing everything possible to find them. The department also 'must mandate that any foster care agencies receiving federal funding report immediately any missing Tribal juvenile to their corresponding Tribe,' it reported. It also recommended that the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), a division of Health and Human Services, 'develop and disseminate culturally appropriate, trauma-informed prevention programming' to keep runaways from becoming victims of trafficking, violence or the criminal justice system. Further, it stated Congress 'must appropriate funding to the ACF, which must integrate training on human trafficking, survival sex work, and intergenerational trauma.' 'Human traffickers prey on the vulnerable, often people who are young, homeless or in foster care,' the commissioners wrote. 'There must be outreach and help to interrupt this pattern.' The Biden administration's plan brought together tribes, federal agencies, law enforcement, social service providers, survivors and the relatives of Native people who've been trafficked, gone missing or were murdered — and plotted better coordination and support. Now, some tribal members who contributed to the report say the Trump administration is working to devalue Indigenous people and making already-difficult work even harder. Others said tribes would continue the search for missing loved ones no matter what — ensuring the feedback the commission received from won't be forgotten. 'I think about all those survivors and family members, and everything they had to go through to testify at these hearings in hopes those recommendations will be launched into action,' Welch said. 'It's a really big slap in the face to our relatives. We've seen it so many times by the federal government: this constant erasure, with no respect for our relatives, their pain and their trauma.' Another commissioner is Ruth Buffalo, a citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, composed of three affiliated tribes. She serves as the CEO of the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center, which focuses on the search for missing and murdered Native Americans in her state, and preventing tribal children from entering the foster care system. Buffalo said she and others across Indian Country remain steadfast in their commitment to ensuring the Not Invisible recommendations are met. 'The community continues to lead these efforts, and the work doesn't stop because there's a different president in office,' Buffalo said. 'That just means we continue to push even harder to hold the elected officials accountable.' These concerns about missing and murdered Indigenous people are compounded by a new political landscape marked by mass firings of federal employees and efforts to deeply cut spending on social services. Many of the commission's recommendations would require additional federal funding. Tribal organizations including the National Congress of American Indians supported the recommendations produced by the Not Invisible commission. Last year, the Departments of Justice and the Interior, as well as the Health and Human Services department, released their response to the recommendations. The agencies committed to policy updates for additional law enforcement and investigative resources; improved funding for tribal, state and federal law enforcement; enhanced data collection; and better services to help victims and their families heal, among other goals. Some recommendations tackled inadequate internet access, particularly in Alaska, so tribes and villages can act quickly to search for a missing person. Others focus on relatives met with indifference by law enforcement who showed little interest and failed to follow up on their cases. 'I went … to the DA's office … to demand that I see some progress in my son's case. They couldn't even find my son's case,' a Northern California parent stated in the report. 'It was heartbreaking. The fact that they didn't know his name says that I'm not good enough.'
