MALE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Informing Social ... - Amen

COMMUNITY SOCIAL WORKER
Experience: Twenty-two years working as a Social Worker. Children protection social
worker for two years, community social worker for fifteen years and worked in a
probation resident centre as an assistant house parent for four years.
1. How are male victims of domestic violence viewed by social worker?
Sometimes it’s not taken seriously and sometimes it is, but when it comes to the
crunch, if there was conflict between man and female, female victims are given
priority. There would be more focus put on female victims. Social workers, if they
had to take a position of one or the other, they would more than likely go with the
female in my point of view. Female victims are more inclined to admit to domestic
violence, men sometimes you feel can feel intimidated but until the man says that he
is a victim of domestic violence you can only speculate.
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