Violence against men in Germany is not much spoken about, but still exists, therapist Peter Tilly said during a meeting with Armenian journalists in Berlin.
According to him, if a man goes to the police and knows that the woman had beaten him, he would not be treated seriously. Therapist said that although the official statistics suggests that cases of violence against men make 20% of total cases, they also have an informal data, according to which this figure is almost half.
The situation for German men is also complicated by the fact that there are no crisis homes for them.
“If a man has money, he will live in a hotel, if not, on the street,” he said, adding that the government is not providing funding for the help of men subjected to violence.
Meanwhile, crisis homes for women are fully financed from public funds. Asked about the reason for such a discrimination, Peter Tilly replied that after the feminist movement in the 70s there was considerable progress in women's rights in Germany, so women rights defenders were richer.
Psychologist of People's Solidarity organization Gerhard Hafner notes that domestic violence is possible in all strata of the society, but surprisingly such cases are recorded in many families of elderly and educated Germans, and they seldom apply to police. The psychologist explains the fact that young pe...
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