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In reply to the discussion: Has this ever happened to you? No? Then I am glad. [View all]wickerwoman
(5,662 posts)and have to escape an abusive marriage with four or five little ones in tow but have no employable skills, no savings account in their name, no credit cards (because their abusive ex wouldn't let them have one), etc. etc.? Are there enough of them in any given metropolitan area to make keeping a shelter open economically feasible? Because there are enough women in that situation.
Most men have jobs and are less likely to feel the urgent need to take their kids with them when they flee. Men are less likely to be raped in homeless shelters or sleeping out on the streets. The assault, rape and murder rates for homeless women are fucking appalling. That's why battered womens' shelters exist.
Abused men are more likely to have the financial resources to flee to a motel. If they do have to hit the streets, they are not in the same kind of mortal danger that homeless women are in.
And female abusers are less likely to stalk their partner after they try to leave.
There are not equal programs because men and women fleeing abusers are frequently not in the same situation.