I would love to see credible research that shows "that women will get themselves into similar relationships unless counselling helps them break the pattern." Recent research in the US indicated that girls abused in high school by dating partners are more likely to abused in later life, but this isn't true for women who are abused while in college. We have some evidence to suggest that 33-40% of young men (aged 16-24) have assaulted their intimate partner -- so, young women have a very high chance of getting involved with a young man who is abusive (I would guess that women stay with non-abusive males at a higher rate than they stay with abusive males -- thus an even higher percentage of abusive males would be single, available and at times predatory). All of that is to say, is anyone sure it is "counselling" and not education, income, autonomy from a second income (abusive male's), etc.
In terms of whether men batter successive partners -- yes, some men do and some men batter existing and past partners simultaneously and harass and stalk other women. Some men do stop the physical violence as they grow older and move on to a new relationship. Again our data suggest that a very high percentage of young men are violent to their partners, but that a significantly lower percentage of older me are abusive (thus, I would assume that as young men get older, they stop using PHYSICAL violence). However, the ones that continue are probably extremely recalcitrant when it comes to stopping. Another comment about young men's high rate of violence -- yes, it is important to have prevention programs in schools for young men, but especially at this age, it seems that it MUST focus on the elements of masculinity that encourage this violence and equality between the genders, not just on an individual's good communication skills etc. Chiquita At 09:42 AM 01/10/2002 EST, you wrote: >I have a question...Statistics show that women will get themselves into >similar relationships unless counselling helps them break the pattern, but do >men tend to batter successive partners or does their behavior focus on one >particular partner? (Will they repeat this behavior, in other words, with >other partners?) > > ***End-violence is sponsored by UNIFEM and receives generous support from ICAP*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe end-violence OR type: unsubscribe end-violence Archives of previous End-violence messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/end-violence/hypermail/
