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ifeminists October 8, 2007 David Heleniak |
Nifong and HRES 590 The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution on domestic violence, HRES 590, that portrays men as wife-beaters and disregards men who are victims. |
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. |
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 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 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. |
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. |
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. |
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 January 12, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Domestic Violence Law Fuels Big Government The Violence Against Women Act, a hand-me-down from the Clinton administration based on gender myths, anti-male bias and an infatuation with Big Government, is a fundamentally flawed piece of social engineering. |
ifeminists December 14, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Don't Jail Domestic Violence Victims No one should be put in jail for being beaten up and, then, refusing to talk about it. Any system that imposes this punishment upon a victim is wrong on its face. And in its heart. |
Salon.com September 23, 2002 Amy Benfer |
Bringing the war home A rash of murders in military families highlights the weaknesses of the armed services' well-meaning domestic-abuse program. |
Salon.com July 10, 2002 Karin Halperin |
Black-and-blue in ones and zeros Digital photography is revolutionizing the prosecution of domestic violence cases. |
ifeminists March 10, 2008 Carey Roberts |
Harsh Domestic Violence Laws Recall Jim Crow Abuses Our nation's crusade to stop domestic violence has been a magnificent flop. |
ifeminists February 25, 2007 Stephen Baskerville |
Statistics from the Ministry of Truth The DOJ's recently declared that domestic violence has been cut in half over ten years. Men's advocates reply that the figures do not include violence against male victims. But larger issues are involved, like the manipulation of information (and us) by the government. |
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 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 May 16, 2007 Leving & Sacks |
Equal Rights Amendment Yes, 'Women's Equality Amendment' No Unfortunately, the bill's sponsors have changed the ERA's name to the Women's Equality Amendment. There's a major problem with that, because when considering injustices based on gender, today men and fathers can lay claim to many of them. |
ifeminists October 1, 2002 Wendy McElroy |
'Restorative Justice' Offers Battered Women More Options Some victims need an alternate method of handling domestic violence, which allows them to preserve their relationships while preventing future violence. |
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 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. |
ifeminists March 5, 2007 Teri Stoddard |
Can't Find a Husband? Men who embrace fatherhood are shown their time and influence aren't important. Our government does this by enforcing child support orders while not enforcing visitation orders. |
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 February 13, 2008 WolfmanMac |
Nothing Is Ever That Simple An ex-policemen shares his thoughts on false claims of domestic violence. |
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 February 23, 2005 Tony Zizza |
New Divorce Bill Ripe For Abuse and Bias The fact of the matter is domestic violence and child abuse do not run nearly as rampant as we're led to be believe, but now with the newly amended divorce bill in Georgia, you can be sure false allegations of abuse will be flying all over the place even faster. |
ifeminists September 24, 2009 Trudy Schuett |
Your taxes encourage violence v. men Time and again, the feminist scenario of domestic violence fails to stand up to scrutiny, since there was never any substance behind the notion that all domestic violence is politically motivated. |
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 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 30, 2007 Stephen Baskerville |
Duke Case Demonstrates Feminist "Justice" Decades of pursuing illusory, subjective, and politically defined "justice" have left Americans so incapable of distinguishing guilt from innocence that we are now inured to the most open injustice. |
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 December 30, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
Criminals Owe Debt to Victims, Not Society I believe both civil and criminal court systems should aim at compensating the victim. What would a criminal system organized around restitution look like? |
ifeminists March 29, 2006 Carey Roberts |
Restraining Order Madness Domestic restraining orders were originally designed to protect persons from actual or imminent harm. But over the years, feminists convinced state legislators to expand the definition of domestic violence. |
ifeminists October 20, 2009 Michael Miles |
The Ugly Truth About the Roman Polanski Affair As I survey what is left of this case -- some civil suits against Nifong, Duke University, the City of Durham, and some police officers -- I realize more than ever that the United States has become a country that is run by political rogues |
ifeminists April 11, 2007 McCormick & Sacks |
Texas Bill to Create Domestic Violence Offender Registry Will Harm Innocent Men House Bill 3958 will set up a domestic violence offender registry similar to the Texas Sex Offender Registry. There are serious problems with the way law enforcement and the judicial system handle domestic violence. These problems will cause many innocent men to be ensnared by this bill. |
ifeminists February 3, 2008 WolfmanMac |
A Former Policeman Speaks Out An former policeman relays a story of a woman misusing the system designed to protect victims of domestic violence. |
Reason April 2004 Anderson & Jackson |
Washington's Biggest Crime Problem The federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution. |
ifeminists April 22, 2003 George Rolph |
Domestic Violence and the Male Victim Studies carried out on male and female bullies in schools and my own observations of abusers show a startling similarity between the two. This has led me to the conclusion that an abuser, whether male or female, is simply a bully who never grew out of it. |
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 April 14, 2009 Carey Roberts |
Abuse Excuse: How Liberalism Keeps Women in their Place Liberals have become the unapologetic predators of women, gleefully playing on their fears and psychological vulnerabilities, all in the name of curbing 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 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 August 9, 2006 McCormick & Sacks |
Brett Myers Case Obscures an Important Truth About Domestic Violence Arrests In many domestic violence cases the men arrested deserve the open mind and support which the Philadelphia Phillies mistakenly extended Brett Myers. Spousal abuse arrests are often dubious, in part because of misguided domestic violence laws and law enforcement policies. |
ifeminists April 26, 2007 Carey Roberts |
VAWA Casts a Long Shadow over the Duke Fiasco Here's the dirty little secret of D.A.s who prosecute sexual assault and domestic violence cases: many of the claims they pursue are as flaky as a pie crust and their chances of winning a jury conviction are slim. So why do they bother to go after the case? |
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 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 June 3, 2009 Wendy McElroy |
End the gay marriage debate! Privatize marriage Almost half of the adults in America are unmarried and single-person households outnumber married families with children. A glut of books and articles is suddenly declaring marriage to be either obsolete or rediscovered. |
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 August 21, 2007 David Heleniak |
PC Feminism and the DV Courts Studies of domestic violence have consistently revealed that women are at least as likely as men to commit domestic violence, but PC feminists have pushed the idea that women don't commit domestic violence so far that they've influenced the courts. |
ifeminists April 19, 2006 Trudy W. Schuett |
10 Ways to Fix Domestic Violence Programs With previously unrecognized and unserved populations (the male victims and female abusers) now gaining the attention of national media, and US legislators seriously considering how they want to fund these programs, it is only a matter of time before the domestic violence industry faces a rude awakening. |
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. |