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Barbara Ingenberg and Matthias Hagner: Helplessness, self-doubt, shame. Men feel ashamed when they experience violence in their relationships. Male victims of domestic violence are still a taboo subject in society. Those affected...
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From July 1, 2007, victims of violence are better protected. The Federal Council has enacted the new provisions in the Swiss Civil Code (ZGB) effective from this date. The new principle is "Whoever hits, leaves." This allows courts to take measures to protect...
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In issue 6/2007 of the Beobachter magazine, two female authors wrote an article on domestic violence under the above title. The VeV (Association for the Protection of Victims of Violence) responds as follows: This article is an absolutely one-sided portrayal of a societal problem....
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L'Express, June 20, 2005, by Elisabeth Badinter: In studies and articles on domestic violence, the division of roles sounds like a given: men are perpetrators and women are victims. A well-founded assumption that...
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Domestic violence is often perceived by victims as even more oppressive and humiliating than violence between strangers. They feel even more helpless and at its mercy, and due to ambivalent feelings, they don't want to...
