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When Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger cut funds to California domestic violence shelters recently stories of battered women and children filled the news. Oakland television station KTVU ran a story about "women and children," never once mentioning male victims. Like stations around the state, and around the country, CBS5 did the same.
News reports featured three dozen noisy people lining a street in Watsonville protesting budget cuts to the Walnut Avenue Women’s Center and Women’s Crisis Support~Defensa de Mujeres. We listened to female victims.
We heard about women's advocates and community leaders gathering in San Jose to protest a cut in funding for Asian Americans for Community Involvement in San Jose, Community Solutions in South Santa Clara County, Support Network for Battered Women in Sunnyvale and San Jose's Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence. And we listened to female victims.
SFGate wrote that battered-women's shelters and others filed Wednesday in the First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco, two days after Senate Democratic leader Darrell Steinberg of Sacramento filed a challenge in San Francisco Superior Court. And we're told about "many women and their children in violent, dangerous situations."
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We read that Assemblyman Cameron Smyth and Senator Leland Yee co-authored emergency legislation that would provide one-time funding for domestic violence programs. This would shift $16.3 million from the Victims' Compensation Fund to the Department of Public Health's Domestic Violence Program.
KTVU.com reports that Senator Yee said, "Every penny we find is another life saved, another family that will stay together."
Donald Tenn, Karl Hindle and all fathers who have lost contact with their children after being victim to one of the million false accusations of domestic violence per year disagree.
Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting, (RADAR) a non-profit, non-partisan organization of "men and women working to improve the effectiveness of our nation's approach to solving domestic violence" hasn't found this to be true either. They found that only one in ten battered women's shelter residents was a victim of violence. Even the Whitehouse acknowledges that current programs are failing.
Robert Franklin, esq. of Fathers & Families writes:
[T]he federal government openly admits that the shelters it funds give no data at all on what they do, how they do it, who they provide services to, what those services are, who they reject, etc. and have established no criteria by which to judge whether they actually reduce DV or not. Go to the White House Office of Management and Budget website and check out the Family Violence and Services Program. There you'll find that the program is rated as "Not Performing."
In short, the federal government is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars each year into a vast system of shelters whose functioning it knows not the first thing about. That would be outrageous in any other industry, but with domestic violence, it’s business as usual.
What these battered women's shelters don't want you to know is that half of domestic violence is mutual and that women make up 70% of one aggressor intimate partner abuse. They don't want you to know that 90% of shelter residents are not in need of protection. And they don't want you to know that one million allegations of abuse are false.
African-Americans for VAWA Reform reports:
Centers for Disease Control released a national survey on partner aggression. Published in the May 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, the study found that women were the aggressors in 7 out of 10 cases of one-way partner violence.
In Male Victims & Female Perpetrators of Domestic and Partner Violence Marc E. Angelucci, Esq. writes:
Indiana State University School of Law Professor Linda Kelly wrote an excellent law review article on the topic, in which she shows that “over the past 25 years, leading sociologists have repeatedly found that men and women commit domestic violence at similar rates” and documents the historical and ideological cover-up of female violence. Kelly, Linda, "Disabusing the Definition of Domestic Abuse; How Women Batter Men and the Role of the Feminist State," 30 Fl. St. Law Review 791 (2003).
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Comments
The so called "facts" about women being 70% of abusers is false and any smart, reasonable person should be able to see through this crap that is put out by groups wanting to further victimize and abuse women and children. Yes there are some female abusers, but the number is closer to 3%, not 70. If you want, I can give you a list of the hundreds of WOMEN and CHILDREN killed the past few years and the list of the handful of men killed as well.
Self-disclosure and scientific studies trump a collection of personal accounts.
Sam,
So what is it you're saying here?
That Dr Fiebert, Dr Mills, Dr Dineen, Dr McNeely, Dr Archer, Dr Capaldi, Dr Stith, Dr Baskerville, Dr Farrell, Dr Graham-Kevan, Dr Aaronson, Dr Gelles, Dr Johnston, Dr Nicholls, Dr Moretti, Dr Slep, Dr Strauss, Dr Braver, Dr Langrichson-Rohling, Dr Cohen, Dr Hines, Dr Dutton, Erin Pizzey (you DO know this name I presume), the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States Department of Health and Human Services- Administration for Children and Families, Harvard University, University of New Hampshire, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc...
Are all stupid (liars?)
And you know better than them, is that what you're saying here?
Dayam dude... we should all worship the ground you walk on, you're like my total hero man (woman?). To go through life knowing more than ALL THOSE PROFESSIONALS AND EXPERTS!!!
Or... it's the unassailed peak of arrogance?
Schwarzenegger is bad news. It is the government's duty to protect citizens and to ensure their well-being.Schwarzenegger is not doing this. The funding priority for battered women's shelters (BWS) should be the same as for prisons,because human life is at risk. Prisons keep the criminals in and BWS's keep the good people in and the criminals out. The Governor's illegal veto,budget cuts, with the backing of big oil(Chevron Corp.of San Ramon), are very dangerous for women and children, who are victims of domestic violence and it is sub-human. During a recession, with its higher unemployment, government funding for BWS's should be increased,not eliminated. Obviously,this budget picks-on the most vulnerable, and it endangers children.If a battered wife is murdered in front of a closed-down BWS, then,Schwarzenegger and his oil industry tyrants, should be charged with first-degree murder.
My roommate was a battered husband for 7 years, and when she drew serious blood he went to the county agency for help, he was LAUGHED at. When they realized that he was serious, they accused HIM of being the abuser (even though he had been to the hospital a dozen times). To make a long story short, he has not seen his daughter in years, and wont see her for a few more years, because of the abusers lies.
Sam, your statement, "70% of abusers are women," and the article's statement, "women make up 70% of one aggressor intimate partner abuse," indicate distinctly different things.
"Any smart, reasonable person should be able to..." comprehend a statement before commenting on it.
My guess is you probably attended a VAWA funded seminar on how to skew the truth just enough that uninformed people don't question your claims, while simultaneously locking the truth away in the attic of obscurity.
Why is it that when a DV Industry harpy claims "more women are battered on super bowl Sunday" and cite NO research for this (truth is, the claim is so completely bogus even Snopes has a page on it) and everybody accepts it as Gospel and Scripture.
Yet let someone insinuate or infer (nevermind *gasp* STATE) that 'That Is Not True!" and suddenly he has to be fully and thoroughly armed with ALL the research, and be able to verify and validate that research, he must be able to cite the researchers qualifications. the compilers qualifications, the data analysts qualifications, the integrity of the funding/ underwriting agencies; also be prepared to further study and (immediately) report on any line detail deviations not covered in the research...
Has nobody else wondered this? The whole "more women + DV + ER etc" is a lie, HAMHC Surveys, UNH studies and even the US CDC NSVR/AVSR says so. The "more women + aged 15 to 44 + domestic violence etc" is a lie, even researcher behind the ‘study’
‘study’ (allegedly cited by Surgeon General Antonia Novello in the Parents magazine article) that birthed that particular lie says so.
Yet these LIES are accepted without question. Why???
The culture is so quick to believe that every man is a wife basher and accept this with NO DATA to assert the veracity of this claim… so why is such a exponentially huge volume of material refuting this LIE so challenged and so questioned in every detail… that it takes hundreds of studies and reports from US Federal Agencies to even table to topic?
Why?
I’ll tell you why: 40+ years of social conditioning to accept the [Girl = Good, Boy = Bad] paradigm. The same paradigm that results in shattered families and broken homes… and ultimately destroys the adult lives of the children used as pawns by case workers and DCS agencies to maintain their qualification for a place at the Great DC Tax Buffet feeding fest.
And then I hear “but women … “ (insert lie). Much of this is also a lie: Women do not pay
pay more for their health care insurance. They pay more for the coverage, but dollar paid in for dollar covered they USE more medical insurance than men. Women do NOT earn “.77 cents for every dollar a man earns”. Women earn a dollar for every dollar their work force equivalents earn. A secretary in an air-conditioned office with flexible hours and OSHA approved safety mandates everywhere she looks cannot HOPE to earn the same wage or salary as a rough neck working on an oil rig in the Gulf. Over 90% of workplace fatalities are men.
Translation: men get paid for working dangerous jobs that nobody wants under arduous conditions that few can handle and the demand is high for qualified applicants, women get paid for safe sedentary jobs that everybody wants and there is a surplus of qualified applicants.
Does the word *DOH*! Come to mind?
Domestic violence is a fraud. It's designed to circumvent criminal laws to gain tactical advantage for women in divorces. Who ever heard of someone being afraid of being annoyed, or that domestic violence is about someone not looking at a woman the right way. That's utter nonsense, fraudulent, and mentally disturbed by those that believe this domestic violence claptrap. Now the new domestic violence claim is stalking, because states aren't getting enough federal funding for the other 13 causes of domestic violence. They're going to use stalking as another money-making scam for lawyers, the judicial industry, and for women to more easily gain custody of children: "I guess my husband was stalking me in the kitchen because he was in the same room I was getting a bottle of beer out of the refrigerator". I was afraid of him being in the same room as me. (No, twit, he only lives there--duhhh). Disturbed people will misuse stalking allegations to get divorces and the assets.
Sam, is it possible that you are going to gloss over the evidence with,"reasonable person should be able to see through this crap"? Don't you see that is just what is being said? With nothing but a cliche domestic violence reaserch is dissmised. Just like you just did.
Well Sam no matter how many women and children names you find who have been killed in any period of time there will always be more men period.
There are laws against assault and in the totally biased equality women enjoy in the courts they do not need a seperate domestic violence center as well.
All this country has done for the last 50 years is change everything around so the victims of domestic violence, racism, bigotry etc are men and especially white men. Not saying that no man ever hits a woman (or vice versa) but the end result is the man is the victim left with nothing no matter who hits who first.
The sad part is that it is mangina men like you who have helped this along and gutted whatever maleness this country had. Changing the victim of a crime from one group to another is not justice and will end badly.
dvd
Get the truth about domestic violence at
National Family Violence Legislative Resource Center Policy Statement on Family Violence
"Reports from the WHO (Archer, 2006) also make it clear than in many countries around the world, particularly where women have little political or socioeconomic power, women represent the much larger share of IPV victims. However, the most reliable population of surveys indicate that in Western industrialized democracies such as the United States and Canada, where they enjoy higher status, women engage in physical aggression at rates comparable to men (Archer, 2000; Fiebert, 2004; Straus & Gelles, 1990) and are as likely or more likely to be the initiators (DeMaris, 1992; Morse, 1995; Dutton et al., 1999; Straus, 1993; Williams & Frieze, 2005).”
nfvlrc.org
“Shernock’s (2005) analysis of over 2000 IPV incidents in Vermont revealed that men were categorized as perpetrators 3.2 times more often than women on the initial police report, but subsequently arrested 9 times as often. At issue is the extent to which this pattern of gender bias reflects flawed “dominant aggressor” guidelines and assumptions about IPV based on discredited sociopolitical theories of patriarchy”
“Victimized males do not have access to services because of the assumption that they are only minimally impacted by IPV, if at all. This assumption, however, runs contrary to an overwhelming body of research evidence. A significant minority of IPV-related physical injuries, between 25% and 43%, are incurred by men (Archer, 2000; Laroch, in preparation; Mirrlees-Black, 1999; Straus, 2004; Tjaden & Thoennes, 2000), and men are the victims in nearly a quarter of intimate homicides (Rennison, 2003)”
This is backlash against the DV community and women in general. DV is not mutual - those studies are self report, dont include severe violence, dont include violence after separation, homicide, etc. Women make up the overwhelming victims, per data from the CDC, FBI, WHO, etc.
These guys sue shelters, lobby against the Violence Against Women Act, etc. Many of them have charges/convictions of DV, dont pay child support, etc.
The fact that the domestic violence field is attacked (and these attackers are NOT helping men) is LUDICROUS. These guys want women punished, they want custody (and not pay child support), they want to have rights to strike women (see www.dvmen.org)
Research them and see their true agenda.
Jo, I have researched this, for seven years. The research you mentioned is propaganda. Look deeper.
I'm sorry that you think men and their children don't deserve to be helped when they're in a domestic violence situation.
@Jo
Pointing to the unarguable fact that men are also the victims of domestic violence is not backlash against the DV industry but just a needed correction to how services and support are distributed to people who need them. Service provides must be held to account for this to happen.
Fighting to maintain the myth that only women are victims, however, is backlash, in the truest sense, against male victims who are kept in the dark and marginalized by the industry.
If you care about families affected by domestic violence, then you should support Stoddard's work. If however, your real desire is just to paint women as the only victims of this malady, then please be aware that you do this at the expense of justice and at the expense of our children.
Sexist discrimination, no matter who it targets, it wrong.
This story is the tip of the iceberg. I was falsely charged with DV and won the case. It took six months. The official criminal misconduct was too extensive to go into in detail about here. But for example, the rogue prosecutor got a little too over-zealous and committed her own felony by falsifying a document and then producing it in formal discovery. She was caught and called-out by my side on this. She promptly backed out of the case. A little-known and little-used fact is that the controlling authority in California (People v. Stone) prohibits rubber-stamp issuance of restraining orders by a criminal court. The criminal court judges routinely do this because nobody ever challenges them. As a result, a man on whom there is nothing more than a verbal accusation by the woman, typically is automatically and unconstitutionally/unlawfully barred from his children until the bogus restraining order is successfully challenged, as it was in my case. The system is the lousy and needs repair!!
I've spent the past 2 years researching and Teri is right:
see [www.mediaradar.org/research.php ]
see [ www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.mcnair16jul16,0,5844465.story ]
see how this argument goes when a Funded Disinformation provider argues on NPR against an MD:
[www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106820029 ]
- Anon
California should pass rules to accept abused men into DV shelters and enforce perjury charges for false accusations in DV cases.
Have you ever heard the saying, "Violence begets more violence"? I am here to say this is not always true. I have been a victim of violence for the majority of my life. I grew up in a household with a mother who viciously beat me almost every day, almost every day until I was 14.
I remember these beatings as if it was just yesterday, wire coat hangers, bats, ping pong paddles, hair brushes, whatever this evil human being could find within arms reach was her weapon.
One day laying in bed crying and looking at the welts on my arms and legs I swore that if I ever had children I would never spank them, I would always talk with them and that is how I raised all of my children. In fact, I have never laid my hands on another human being in a harmful manner, why? because that was what my father taught me. Unfortunately I have had false allegations of abuse in the form of restraining orders issued against me twice.
When will the abuse end?
Enough is enough. Please read this powerful article I wrote; it has received alot of positive attention. As a survivor, I write about domestic violence and abuse. And I am doing something about it. Please look me up. Suzanne Perry + violence. Your screen will be filled with my work. I won't stop.
Please read my writings... women are just as bad as men if not worse. It is cowards that feel the need to control. And exposure is their greatest fear. I write for several columns about domestic abuse, and I have just launched a music venue, recording studio and coffee house in the name of all impacted by home abuse, incest, etc. Its horrible but important and oh so prevalent.
I cannot believe a woman actually wrote this nonsense. One glance at the misogynistic responses from some of the men on this board should tell you that domestic violence is real.
And to Terri Stoddard (the Examiner who wrote this irresponsible garbage): What would be your solution to the issue? Cut all the Domestic Violence Programs because some women may be lying about abuse ? Well, you're right, some women do lie about being abused, but the majority of women who approach domestic violence shelters do so because they have been in abusive situations.
I have been a DV volunteer, and I have seen many women and CHILDREN with the broken bones and bruised faces to prove that DV is real, and prevalent. AND, I have sat in a shelter, with terrified victims, waiting for law enforcement to arrive, as a determined abuser scaled a razor wire fence to get his hand on his wife and kids. Have any of you ever been in the same situation? Probably not, so get a clue.
I worked in a battered women's shelter for years. i am here to tell you that domestic violence is real. The problem, however, has more to do with the kind of people who run the shelters. Many of the advocates don't have the education to deal with such an intricate issue. Some barely have high-school diplomas and treat the girls like they are in prison. shelters have only so many days allotted for each girl. Many of them are shipped out to other shelters, especially if they are outspoken and challenged the system. A lot of the girls i worked with complained of getting no help and complained that the many of the staff treated them more like children or like their abusive husbands. I believe we need the shelters, but i think they should be monitored more closely to see what kind of people work in them. The truth is in the numbers. The people who run these organizations are more interested in numbers than how each client is helped.
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