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ifeminists April 7, 2004 George Rolph	The Anatomy of Abuse This article hopes to be an aid towards helping us all understand the nature of domestic abuse and those who perpetrate or encourage it.
ifeminists July 8, 2003 George Rolph	A Sensible Definition of Domestic Abuse Domestic abuse is people hurting people, over time, for the purposes of controlling them. Unlike British Government minister Jack Straw's definition that "Domestic violence is men hitting women," this definition seems a little more thoughtful and intelligent.
ifeminists May 6, 2003 George Rolph	Unrecognized Abuse Abusive women know the bond that a good father will have with his kids. For an abuser, this bond is a perfect weapon and can be wielded with devastating results.
ifeminists June 24, 2003 George Rolph	Reassembling the Truth While the Observer (UK) newspaper should be applauded for having the courage to publish a piece on husband abuse, they score no points for cutting edge and truthful journalism. I want to dismantle this article and report the real facts behind this facile piece.
ifeminists September 30, 2003 George Rolph	An Open Letter to the Police Commissioner of Great Britain As someone who mans a 24-hour help line in the UK for male victims of domestic violence, I am struck by the number of men who tell me that the police refuse to either take their complaints seriously, ignore them entirely, arrest the victim or fail to arrest the perpetrator.
ifeminists January 4, 2006 Angelucci & Sacks	California Domestic Violence Lawsuit Will Help Secure Services for All Abuse Victims American domestic violence policies based on the woman good/man bad model keep men and children trapped in violent situations in a number of ways. What's needed are domestic violence policies tailored to the needs of all victims of abuse, regardless of gender.
ifeminists November 10, 2004 Wendy McElroy	Domestic Violence: Behind the Stereotypes Male and same-sex victims, victims of one-time abuse... these people are being ignored or damaged by the current approach to domestic violence. There is no excuse for ignoring the reality of victims who need desperately to be heard.
American Family Physician July 15, 2002 John W. Thompson, Jr.	A Pregnant Woman Victimized by Physical Abuse Domestic violence in the United States is a problem of enormous proportions and represents a significant health concern. Here's how a physician can respond.
ifeminists March 16, 2005 Ray Blumhorst	VAWA - One of the Biggest Taxpayer Fleecings in the History of America Those who deal with domestic violence according to gender feminist ideology have been less than effective in dealing with the true dynamics of violent domestic relationships, and now they are going back to congress to ask for billions more in funding for the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
ifeminists January 20, 2004 George Rolph	The Scars Inside Most peoples experiences of domestic abuse are not the extreme examples often portrayed in the press. The experiences most of us go through are the drip, drip, drip kind that wear away at our self-esteem, our confidence, our ability to fight back.
ifeminists September 8, 2004 George Rolph	Relative Injuries Large parts of the abuse industry are in existence to abuse men. If that were not so, would they not be equally disgusted with the abuse of men as they seem to be over the abuse of women?
ifeminists March 9, 2005 Trudy W. Schuett	Everybody Deserves Better Allowing prejudicial, deeply biased and regressive domestic violence programs to continue unchecked will only serve to add to the numbers on the welfare rolls, in the jails and under the care of government-sponsored child protective agencies.
ifeminists June 17, 2003 Glenn Sacks	Battered husbands' injuries no jokes Men as well as women deserve shelter from domestic violence
ifeminists November 2, 2006 McCormick & Sacks	October's Domestic Violence Awareness Month Ignores Many Victims Current DV policies are so at odds with research and reality that many domestic violence researchers and treatment providers signed a letter urging the California legislature to stop the state's policy of excluding male victims and their children from DV services.
ifeminists March 29, 2008 Terri Lynn Tersak	Congressional Guidelines for Abusing Women This report examines the many problems the author finds inherent in local and national services and legal protections that are designed to help victims of domestic abuse.
ifeminists November 1, 2006 Wendy McElroy	Don't Always Believe the Victim Two recent news stories differ in significant details but share a common message: false accusations of sexual abuse kill innocent people and devastate lives. The stories reveal the terrible human cost imposed by the often heard demand, 'always believe the victim'.
Salon.com March 14, 2000 Foote Sweeney & Smith	Sisterhood is powerless How feminism has made men's lives safer -- and women's more dangerous.
ifeminists November 4, 2002 Tresa McBee	Politics of abuse - why you don't hear about men October marks Domestic Violence Awareness Month, but it isn't likely to mark much awareness of abused men.
ifeminists September 16, 2003 George Rolph	The Male Victim's Daily 9/11 Female emotional violence almost always takes the male victim by surprise and cuts so deeply it takes years to recover if recovery is possible at all.
ifeminists May 21, 2008 Carey Roberts	I-VAWA: Bigotry and Contempt at Taxpayer Expense The domestic violence industry needs a top-to-bottom house-cleaning.
ifeminists February 13, 2007 Don Mathis	How VAWA Separates Children From Fathers The result of the VAWA is rampant false claims of abuse. This means that children are removed from decent, loving fathers. The Violence Against Women Act must be radically altered or else it will continue to destroy the father/child bond.
ifeminists December 1, 2008 Carey Roberts	Domestic Violence Industry: Hateful Domestic violence ads continue to spur controversy over their gender-bias.
Salon.com January 29, 2001 Jennifer Block	Gimme a V-I-C-T-I-M! A new ad campaign against domestic violence uses a yearbook motif to put battered women in their place...
ifeminists June 15, 2005 Trudy W. Schuett	Betrayal of Women - VAWA 2005 VAWA 2005 cannot help women much, if at all. In many cases, it makes a bad situation so much worse, it's a wonder this kind of approach has lasted a full decade, since originally being signed into law in 1994.
ifeminists June 7, 2006 McCormick & Sacks	AB 2051 Moves California in Wrong Direction on Domestic Violence The California Assembly just passed a misguided bill which puts ideology over evidence by reiterating the state's mulish definition of domestic violence as something which only women suffer.
ifeminists December 29, 2004 Harry Crouch	Domestic Violence Delusions...a PBS Documelodrama The documentary Breaking the Silence, Journeys of Hope is stale, rehashed, and stereotypical pandering propaganda perpetuating the myth of the 95% male domestic violence perpetrator.
ifeminists July 28, 2009 Trudy Schuett	Domestic Violence 101. The personal v. the political The 2005 document put out by the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence with federal funding is entitled, Action for Social Change. There are sources cited that once again blame men and the "patriarchy" for the continuing oppression of women.
ifeminists August 13, 2002 Glenn Sacks	Baseball Player's Domestic Violence Arrest Demonstrates How Men are Presumed Guilty in Domestic Disputes Scott Erickson was arrested after an altercation with his girlfriend last week.
ifeminists October 17, 2009 Richard L. Davis	Intimate-Partner Homicide and Suicide My research paper about domestic violence-related deaths explains why so many people continue to know so little about domestic violence, which is not merely a women's issue since it impacts all of us.
ifeminists March 14, 2007 Carey Roberts	Woozles in the Name of Protecting Women? What if the truth came out that our country's War on Domestic Abuse was flatly ineffective in reducing violence, that it ignored the wishes of victims, and that it sometimes placed women at greater risk of abuse?
ifeminists October 20, 2004 Tom James	The Invisible Victims of Domestic Violence As a culture, we prefer to make male victims the subject of levity and jest, not offer them help. Mostly, though, we would prefer to believe that they simply do not exist.
ifeminists February 18, 2003 Glenn Sacks	Valentine's Day & the Gender Wars Part of the division between men and women is due to women's legitimate grievances. But much of it is also caused by men's resentment that the very real problems and disadvantages they face as husbands, partners and fathers have been ignored by the media, our lawmakers and by society as a whole.
ifeminists December 29, 2004 Ray Blumhorst	Make the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Gender Inclusive, or Dump It! The exclusion of male victims from the help they should be receiving from domestic violence law is a cycle of endless battering that has been created by VAWA to endlessly torture the minds, bodies, and spirits of countless innocent men.
ifeminists August 31, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Gender Bias in Domestic Violence Treatment The oldest battered-women's shelter in New England is setting precedent and making many feminists nervous in the process -- by launching a "gender-neutral" search for a new executive director.
ifeminists February 13, 2008 WolfmanMac	Nothing Is Ever That Simple An ex-policemen shares his thoughts on false claims of domestic violence.
ifeminists September 9, 2003 George Rolph	A Total Eclipse of the Son As the light of publicity shines on female victims of domestic violence there will be others standing in the dark shadow cast by that light. Those "others" will be men and boys.
ifeminists August 19, 2003 George Rolph	Inaction By You Causes Pain For Others Male victims of domestic violence attacks are still not being taken seriously by government and other agencies in the UK and many other western countries.
ifeminists August 27, 2002 Wendy McElroy	Abused Women Have Choices ...Part of the standard view is: Women who "stay" have been brainwashed, and so are not responsible for that decision; and, leaving the relationship is always the right choice. I dispute both claims....
ifeminists July 19, 2006 Erin Pizzey	Domestic Violence Is Not A Gender Issue The idea that the family is a danger to women and children has destroyed much of our traditional concepts of marriage. The feminisation of the family and Western society has caused men to become outcasts and a source of ridicule in their children's eyes.
ifeminists July 15, 2003 George Rolph	The State Of Feminism Today Feminism today has become a bastardisation of the movement's earliest ideals of removing from society those things which discriminate against the female gender in particular and both genders in general.
ifeminists December 9, 2003 Wendy McElroy	Ask Before You Give I intend to give generously to domestic violence shelters this Christmas, but with discretion. The amount I can donate is limited and many domestic violence shelters promote policies I don't support. These are the questions I will politely ask.
ifeminists August 25, 2009 Carey Roberts	Hope House Shelter Denies Woman the Help She 'Desperately Needed' New documents have come to light that detail how the domestic violence system apparently failed to help a woman who urgently needed medical treatment.
ifeminists October 2, 2007 Richard L. Davis	Dating Violence/Abuse Hypocrisy Equitable dating/domestic violence/abuse prevention and intervention efforts for females and males will reduce the victimization of both females and males.
ifeminists July 10, 2008 Gordon E. Finley	Facing Reality on Domestic Violence The national implications of Chief Adderley's domestic violence case are that we must forgo our gender based stereotypes, face the empirical reality of Domestic Violence, and completely revise Domestic Violence policy and law.
ifeminists April 7, 2004 Wendy McElroy	Lies of Faux Victims Cast Doubt on Real Ones Will you be willing to believe the next woman (or man) who claims to be a victim?
ifeminists September 15, 2004 Ray Blumhorst	Would You Help a Domestic Violence Shelter That Helps Men? Is being told to "get tough or die" really the message we want to see one ot the greatest societies on earth send to half its population (men) who are daily denied the domestic violence services they need and deserve?
ifeminists July 20, 2005 Ray Blumhorst	After the Facts, Domestic Violence Laws Still Discriminate Against Men I am impressed by the courage of After the Facts' young filmmaker to try to present a more balanced understanding of all the issues involved in domestic violence.
ifeminists August 15, 2009 Teri Stoddard	Dirty little secrets of domestic violence programs Only one in ten battered women's shelter residents was a victim of violence. Even the White House acknowledges that current programs are failing.
ifeminists March 31, 2004 Wendy McElroy	Supreme Court Ruling May Impact Domestic Violence Cases In the '80s and '90s, mainstream feminism sold a simplistic theory of domestic violence and of its victims -- specifically, women. According to this dogma, the woman should leave the relationship and press charges.
Reason April 2004 Cathy Young	Abuse Revisited A feminist challenges the conventional wisdom about domestic violence. Mills concludes that using the "big stick" of the law as our dominant (or only) response to domestic violence ill-serves both women and men.