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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. |
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. |
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 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 May 17, 2006 Carey Roberts |
Legal Services Corporation Turns Its Back On Men The LSC was created for a good purpose: to provide legal services so poor Americans could have their day in court. But while taxpayers and lawmakers looked the other way, the Legal Services Corporation has fallen under the sway of a radical feminine ideology. |
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 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 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 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 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 February 23, 2005 Ray Blumhorst |
For Battered Men their Batterings Never End The pervasiveness of gender feminist ideology in indoctrination sessions (classrooms) on college campuses is only the tip of the iceberg of the influence that gender feminist dogma, such as that concerning domestic violence, exerts over societal institutions. |
ifeminists October 1, 2009 Carey Roberts |
Partner Abuse Industry Flirts with a Hateful Agenda Each year, over one million Americans are hit with a trivial or false accusation of domestic violence. |
IDB America May 2002 |
Healing with Hope Pamphlet series highlights strategies to fight domestic violence |
ifeminists June 29, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Congress Should Kill Discriminatory Domestic Violence Act The Violence Against Women Act has become a flashpoint for the men's rights advocates who see it instead as the living symbol of anti-male bias in law. |
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 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 October 14, 2008 Richard L. Davis |
DV Awareness Month and Male Victims October is Domestic Violence Awareness month. Male related domestic violence deaths seem to be something that most domestic violence organizations, public policy makers, researchers and the media are not aware of or as concerned about as they should be. |
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 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 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 October 17, 2008 Gordon E. Finley |
Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2008 -- California Leads the Way California courts led the nation in bringing public awareness to a previously hidden Domestic Violence issue -- that of battered men -- and subsequently ruled that battered men deserve equal protection under the law. |
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 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 October 14, 2009 Carey Roberts |
Judge KOs Shelter Kickback Scheme A judge has ruled the entire abuse shelter industry in the state of West Virginia is wracked by conflict of interest, gender bias, and financial kickbacks. |
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 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 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 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 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 November 24, 2008 Carey Roberts |
Domestic Violence Industry: Racist A report on the domestic violence industry found that incarceration was mostly aimed at men of color. |
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 February 22, 2006 Wendy McElroy |
Behind the Column: Novel Program Treats Women Who Batter Men Only time will tell whether the men's movement will become a politics of rage as the feminist movement did in the mid-70s when liberal feminism lost ideological dominance to the radical feminists. |
ifeminists December 22, 2004 Richard L. Davis |
Expectant Mothers' Real Risk of Violence The problem of domestic violence in the U.S., in all its different insidious forms, must not be used by any single group as a means to achieve their particular social and political agenda. |
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 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 September 27, 2006 Ray Blumhorst |
Bias Against Men and Children at Family Violence Conference An annual conference of addresses various issues surrounding family violence. The National Coalition of Free Men once again had an exhibition booth. |
ifeminists January 19, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Complex Issue Requires Complex Solutions There is no 'one-size-fits-all' solution to a complex and varied phenomenon like domestic violence. Answers will vary depending on specific situations. Both men and women fall victim to domestic violence. |
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 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. |