This weekly podcast comes to you from Veritas Psychology Partners, Dr. Dan Kessler and Dr. Gayle MacBride. Your host selects a conversation from the internet forums that neither psychology has heard or read before, and they give their unrehearsed, unvarnished opinions--essentially answering the question, "just who is the a**hole here?" The host brings in feedback from internet commentors to round out the discussion, and we close out each episode with a bonus conversation about the random objects in each psychologist's office.
In this episode, the question is: "Am I the a**hole for not taking my wife to a work party because she has a black eye?"
During this episode, we call out statistics and information about domestic abuse. Here is that content.
If you, or someone you know, needs help:
https://www.thehotline.org/
800.799.SAFE (7233)
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ofvps/fv-centers
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Statistics:
--An average of 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States — more than 12 million women and men over the course of a single year.
--Nearly 3 in 10 women (29%) and 1 in 10 men (10%) in the US have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by a partner and reported it having a related impact on their functioning.
--Just under 15% of women (14.8%) and 4% of men in the US have been injured as a result of intimate partner violence that included rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner.
--1 in 4 women (24.3%) and 1 in 7 men (13.8%) aged 18 and older in the US have been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
--Intimate partner violence alone affects more than 12 million people every year.
--Over 1 in 3 women (35.6%) and 1 in 4 men (28.5%) in the US have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
--Almost half of all women and men in the US have experienced psychological aggression by an intimate partner in their lifetime (48.4% and 48.8%, respectively).
--Women ages 18 to 24 and 25 to 34 generally experience the highest rates of intimate partner violence.
--From 1994 to 2010, approximately 4 in 5 victims of intimate partner violence were female.
--Most female victims of intimate partner violence were previously victimized by the same offender at rates of 77% for women ages 18 to 24, 76% for ages 25 to 34, and 81% for ages 35 to 49.
(statistics from: https://www.thehotline.org/stakeholde...)
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