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Domestic violence among homosexual partners.

Cameron P.

Family Research Institute, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO 80962, USA.

Is domestic violence more frequent in homosexual partnerships? The 1996
National Household Survey of Drug Abuse, based upon a random sample of
12,381 adults aged 18 to 59 years, estimated that 828,900 men and 828,678
women engaged in homosexuality in the prior 12 months. Random surveys
indicated that at any given time, 29% of homosexual men and 32% of
homosexual women are in same-sex partnerships. The National Criminal
Victimization Survey for 1993 to 1999 reported that 0.24% of married women
and 0.035% of married men were victims of domestic violence annually versus
4.6% of the men and 5.8% of the women reporting same-sex partnerships.
Domestic violence appears to be more frequently reported in same-sex
partnerships than among the married.