Domestic violence: the truth is out

BRIAN ABBOT (Irish Examiner letters, July 7) says there is a need for a report on men abused by women, and that this should be done urgently.

In recent years there have been three ‘independent dual gender’ research reports on domestic violence, all of which have concluded that when it comes to sole perpetrators, women are marginally more responsible.

One of these researches was carried out by the State, which promptly buried it, never to be seen again.

Amnesty International has lost the plot on this issue, and has damaged its outstanding reputation by its amateur research and reporting.

Amnesty now owe male victims of domestic violence an apology, which I somehow doubt the feminists in the organisation will allow.

The Government is making a major contribution to the escalation of domestic violence because it has consistently ignored national and international independent research, all of which shows that women are every bit as culpable as men as sole perpetrators of domestic violence.

The problem cannot be tackled successfully until the Government accepts this truth.

Alan McGivergan

59 Barnewall Crescent

Donabate

Co Dublin