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By now you've heard all about the University of Alabama shooter, Amy Bishop, the shooting rampage, the old murder she got away with (the "cover-up" and the connection to now retiring Congressman Bill Delahunt), the letter bomb she likely sent... Turns out I have a tenuous connection to this woman. You see she used to be the next door neighbor of a good friend of mine in Ipswich (a north shore Boston suburb) for a few years. At the time I used to hang out at his house quite a bit. This was one of those typical suburban neighborhoods with...

Every third day in France, a woman dies at the hands of a violent partner. The case is different on the other side of the francophone world Boys don't cry ? (Photo : Ali K/ Flickr) Sometimes it’s mum who dishes out the beatings. Instances of men being physically abused by their partners are far more widespread than previously thought, confirms Yvon Dallaire, a psychologist from Quebec and the author of ‘Violence towards men, an unthinkable and complex reality’ (published 2002). What are the characteristics of this so-called ‘minor’ phenomenon of battered men? For most people, the idea of battered...

VICTORIA — Terry is like any other spouse who has suffered physical abuse at a partner’s hands. The shame, the stigma, the sticking it out in the hopes that things will change — all these are part of Terry’s experience. “I couldn’t believe it was happening to me,” says Terry in a phone interview. Terry is not his real name. Yes, you just read a masculine pronoun. He is one of Canada’s 546,000 male victims of domestic abuse. His wife’s behaviour escalated into physical violence within their first year together. Identifying factors about Terry’s story have been altered. While the...