greek take out

Unfortunately, I can't get to the StatCanada report that is cited here. But among the Canadian aboroginal population, there is higher reporting of spousal abuse. Maybe it's the same among Greek-Canadians, not sure, can't get to the report. Maybe you can?

http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/85-224-XIE/free.htm

WHAT FACTORS CONTRIBUTE TO SPOUSAL ABUSE?
There is no single, definitive "cause" of spousal abuse, and anyone - regardless of gender, age, race, ethnicity, education, cultural identity, socioeconomic status, occupation, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental abilities or personality - may be vulnerable to being abused. Spousal abuse is a complex problem, and there are may be many different contributing factors - at the individual, relationship and societal level. Many experts, however, believe that spousal abuse is linked to inequalities among people in our society and to power imbalances in relationships.

There is increasing understanding recognition that a person's vulnerability to abuse may be increased by factors such as dislocation,13 colonization,14 racism, homophobia, disability, poverty, and isolation.15 Aboriginal women, for example, are more likely to report being abused by a spouse.16

Lack of access to community services and supports, and to the criminal justice system, may further increase a person's vulnerability to being abused - or compound the effects of the abuse.

Factors that increase risk
Although they are not direct causes of abuse, recent statistics indicate that there are a number of factors that, alone or in combination, are associated with an increased risk of abuse. For example, some of the risk factors,17 for both men and women, include:

being a young person
living in a common law relationship
having a partner who periodically drinks heavily
emotional abuse in the relationship (an important predictor of physical violence, and
marital separation (women's risk of being killed increases after separation).
No statistical information is available at this time about factors that are associated with an increased risk of abuse for individuals in same-sex relationships.

It seems as if the key factor is whether the person abused reports it or not. Perhaps the Aboriginal population of Canada is more prone to reporting such instances as to, say, your average American.

Don't most American women feel ashamed?

I was able to get into one of the reports, and it said that:

25% of Aboriginal women reported spousal abuse
8% of non-Aboriginal women reported spousal abuse

This, in spite of a more general distrust of police/authority among the Aborginal population…

Originally posted by econo:
It seems as if the key factor is whether the person abused reports it or not. Perhaps the Aboriginal population of Canada is more prone to reporting such instances as to, say, your average American.

Don't most American women feel ashamed?

Originally posted by Random Citizen:

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
It turns my wife on when I stir up trouble on the chatboards. She complained that all you guys talked about all week was boring music junk. Just my way of ensuring I get some this weekend, my man.

Anyone thinking of committing suicide should read this post. It will make their lives worth living.

–that was awesome.

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back to the topic at hand. i think elite restaraunt on 17th (btw Q and R, i think) is awesome. the have great gyros.

Hold on a minute. Are we sure that eating Greek food is not in some obscure way tantamount to supporting spousal abuse? I've heard analogous arguments presented on this board….

Sure hope not, since I eat the stuff regularly. It won't do for quick, Metro-accessible take-out, but there is a fabulous Greek restaurant in Kentlands (Gaithersburg, MD) called Vasilis. The former location on the other side of Gaithersburg, still operating under the same name, is under different management now and isn't quite as good.

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
It turns my wife on when I stir up trouble on the chatboards. She complained that all you guys talked about all week was boring music junk. Just my way of ensuring I get some this weekend, my man.

Maybe she should have married a Greek man.

if you take your Greek food on the Metro, you will be wrestled to the ground, cuffed, and arrested.

have you considered doomlink?