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"Clementine Ford: The male victims of domestic violence we need to listen to," Clementine Ford, The Age, June 20, 2017

20 June 2017

In this thought provoking article, Clementine Ford examines the way family violence is often portrayed in the media, particularly in cases of family homicide. These acts can be depicted as aberrations - committed by "good blokes" for whom such acts are "out of character". The systematic violence and abuse endured by their victims over many years is left unexamined. Ford goes on to claim that the more common face of male domestic violence victims is that of a man traumatised by a childhood in which his father, stepfather or father figure created an environment of violence in which he, his mother and any siblings were targeted.

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