He still does. Amid stacks of paper that would put the federal government to shame, Silverman cites statistics and data to back up his claims that men are physically abused just as frequently as women in domestic disputes. My goal is to develop a centre for men to go when they ve just got to get out of here. Men traditionally go to women, so I m trying to create a place where it s okay for men to go to men. There s nothing in the community right now.
Abused men are in a state of isolation.
They think they re the only ones that this is happening to. But that s far from the truth, according to Silverman. What is amazing is, one in 10 women are victims of abuse, and one in nine men are. According to a 1988 University of Alberta study, the incidence of wife assault is 11 per cent of women. What they didn t publish is that the same study found that 12.4 per cent of men were victims of similar violence.