SAFE BlogArchive

The SAFE upsite was upgraded on the evening of September 28th. The
upgrade includes some improvements to privacy on the SAFE forums [1],
and fixes to other small issues.

Emails originating from the SAFE forums now do not identify the
sender's email address, which is important for privacy reasons.

[1] http://www.safe4all.org/forums

SAFE Speaker and Victims Advocate, Stanley Green has been invited to
speak on October 23rd for a half day conference at Fort Sill,
Oklahoma through their family Advocacy Program.
Their audience will be primarily professionals in fields that come
into contact with people who have experienced DV. (Counselors,
advocates, medical staff, chaplains and law enforcement.)

The Stop Abuse For Everyone website has been growing quickly, with
more and more people registering on the site. We're close to 3000
registered members of the website, and the SAFE forums have been
buzzing with activity recently.

The most active forum is the Support and Discussion forum:
http://www.safe4all.org/forums/forum-view?forum%5fid=6756

The News and Views forum is also very popular:
http://www.safe4all.org/forums/forum-view?forum%5fid=13398

And the SAFE blog has been seeing a lot of activity recently:
http://www.safe4all.org/blog

The other thing people have been doing more of is posting their local
resources:
http://www.safe4all.org/resource-list
We're up to 663 resources and counting. People have been leaving more
comments on these resources as well, helping other people by
correcting information that is inaccurate.

C21Media, UK - Sep 14, 2006 ... Domestic abuse documentary Battered Men (1x60’), another Five show, takes a look at the male victims of female violence, featuring dramatic reconstruction of ...

Men are victims too.

It's the message more domestic violence experts locally and statewide are trying to get out.

And it's a fact becoming more evident by the growing number of male victims reporting cases of abuse.

According a 1988 report by the state Attorney General's Office, just 6 percent of those arrested for domestic violence were women. By 1998, the total had risen to 16.5 percent.

Last month alone, women accounted for half of the six domestic violence arrests in Calaveras County, according to sheriff's reports.

And so far this year, the percentage of women arrested for spousal abuse is up slightly from last year's figure.

In 2005, about 22 percent of the 114 people arrested in the county for domestic violence were women.

While increases in female arrests are small, experts in the field are taking notice of the trend and trying to figure out what might be causing it.

"I believe men are becoming more outspoken now and are coming in more now," said Cindy Landreth, domestic violence manager at the Calaveras Crisis Center in San Andreas.

This is a collection of advice for men that are involved in particularly nasty divorces. Sometimes abusers will use the system against the person they are abusing, so this is a good guide in many ways to staying out of trouble with the legal system.

The article is targeted at men who are fair parties or the victims in the divorce.

Contra Costa Times, CA - Aug 27, 2006 ... Back then, there were no shelters for battered men. And police were often not inclined to get involved in household disputes involving same-sex couples. ...

Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia - Sep 3, 2006 WHY is the plight of sexually abused men, as opposed to boys, girls and women, rarely recognised and discussed? The controversial ...