On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote:
> ...experience in child advocacy and a clinical social worker with at
> least ten years experience working with neglected and abused children)
> that crisis centers have severely biased points of view on abuse.
> Crisis centers are without a doubt valuable services, but not valuable
> sources of unbiased statistics: their clientele is not representative
> of the population, and statistics within their clientele almost
> certainly do not generalize to the population as a whole.
In Vermont, crisis centers are available to women and resources for
battered and abused men are nil. Thus, I would expect the perspective of
the crisis workers (there at least) to be very skewed.
I have done shelter and clinic work and have seen the effects of abuse
first hand. However, it wasn't until I really moved into a rural area that
I became aware of how common the OTHER side of the story is.
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