One in three victims of family violence are male

Men's stories

MEN’S PERSONAL STORIES

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Roy’s personal story

I had to work long shifts and often when I came home, I’d find my wife had left the children (the youngest was only a few months) and had gone down to the club, drinking and playing the poker machines. Sometimes when I went to get her, she’d smash a glass or a bottle across my head. Several times I had my head cracked open.

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