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The recent arrest of R&B star Chris Brown, who reportedly assaulted and threatened singer Rihanna, preventing her participation in the Grammys, has brought the ever-present issue of violence against women into the public spotlight once again.
"Everyone is talking about this case because it involves two popular recording artists, but the sad reality is that domestic violence and dating violence happen every day, even among young teens, and the impact is both far-reaching and under-reported," said National Organization for Women (NOW) President Kim Gandy. "Whether you are rich or poor, famous or not, young or old--domestic violence does not discriminate."
According to the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) approximately 1,200 women a year - three every day - die in the United States as a result of domestic violence. NNEDV says one-quarter of high school girls have been the victims of physical abuse, and approximately 15.5 million children are exposed to domestic violence every year. According to experts, young children who have witnessed violence, or been victims of violent acts, are at even greater risk of committing violence in their own relationships.
But sadly, our national conscience is tapped by the media mostly when high profile people are involved or the details of the crime are particularly horrific. Our collective dialogue, showcased by the media, needs to include the insights of advocates, doctors, lawyers, nurses, police officers, judges, social workers, and most importantly survivors. Until we focus on ending all forms of violence in a concerted effort, informed by accurate media coverage, we do a disservice to all of the women and girls who suffer and to those who survive.
"When it involves public figures, domestic violence gets attention - but what about the rest of us? We just watched the Senate attempt to cut the very modest Violence Against Women Act funding from the economic recovery package, in order to attract Republican support," said Gandy. "The Senate negotiators eventually rejected those cuts, but only after massive outcry by the anti- violence community. This attempt to defund VAWA programs failed to recognize that family and acquaintance violence increases when individuals and families are under stress. In this economy, abuse victims will need support and services more than ever. Even better, let's make sure there is added funding for prevention as well."
The Associated Press writes that Brown would have been better off getting caught with a bong. At least then, the scandal enveloping his white-hot career could have been dismissed by some as a youthful indiscretion, but Brown's arrest in connection with an alleged assault of a woman has potentially devastating implications for the 19-year-old heartthrob because it unravels the charming, wholesome image that fans know and love.
"If it's true, his career is probably over," said Billboard magazine's editorial director, Bill Werde, although he cautioned that "it's important to withhold judgment until all of the facts are known."
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Well I think it was a very bad decision but hey we all make mistakes just put i like that
I dont think that one arrest should end his career.What if that womwn was not rihanna or the women first attacked him. Will that still end his career. i will think this is all a joke or a misunderstanding. Before anything is done , they need to find out more information.Just dont listen to what everybody is saying. They should be layingor hating on him . And if he did everyone makes mistakes. And its his first time in the law. His someone rolemodel.
Hello? .."Modest funding?" Almost half a billion dollars is now 'modest'? I beg to differ. It is exactly the inordinate amount of fanfare of "celebrity" as well as 40 years of misguided as, well as unchecked, militant feminist agenda that has brought society in the social morass that we now are and result in a distorted media driven, and now severely "politically correct", feminist social pogrom spanning generations.
An interesting article written by David Usher of a Legislative Analyst for the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, Missouri Coalition and is a co-founder and past Secretary of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children writes about the now well documented consequences of an over reaching four decade era of feminist social policy.
(The entire article can be found here: newswithviews(dot)com/Usher/david183.htm
In part he states..
"Anyone wondering why marriage is passé and illegitimacy is at record levels can find the answer in the recent case of the unmarried California mother with six test-tube children who just launched octuplets with the help of an unethical feminist fertility clinic.
Why would she do this? Because she gets eight times more welfare than women who merely shake down the welfare system one kid at a time. The mother has repeatedly declined marriage, and apparently admitted she did it because she "got paid for it." In addition to a load of welfare the mother is entitled to, the sperm donor will be facing a whacking child support order if his identity is known.
Why does Congress continue expansions of federal policy entitling predatory economic demolition of marriage? Why do pro-life conservatives tacitly support the welfare state – imagining this reduces abortion?
Entitling irresponsible conception only brings on another round of helpless pregnant women who often change their mind and get an abortion anyway. Women interested in marriage are not interested in abortion. Entitling illegitimacy only guarantees the obsolescence of marriage, drives abortion, expands public funding of feminist agenda, and creates more votes for radical liberals.
The final defeat of the ERA June 30,1982 did not mark an end to the pogrom of feminist activism. It just meant feminists had to change their game. Instead of demanding vague equal rights, they began hawking hyper-sexist victim-fear campaigns designed to achieve the same ends targeted in the ERA. The 2008 elections prove this chicanery has been horrendously successful.
Post-ERA Lesbians and gays magically became victims of their genetic proclivities and supposed oppressors. Feminists began to make allegations of sexual improprieties against anyone who disagreed with them -- blackmailing politicians into granting feminists the very economic rights, civil unions, and same-sex marriages that brought the ERA down.
“Trapped” housewives fearfully excommunicated themselves from the safe-haven of marriage, convinced that husbands are unnecessary rapists or abusers. A woman’s right to be supported and cared for by her husband became an ongoing public entitlement burden to be supported by Congress and screaming taxpayers. The mutilated beggar children highlighted in “Slumdog Millionaire” have their American counterparts – leveraged away from one or both parents by feminist policy and then used to beg for more marriage-destructive entitlements.
Post-ERA feminist legal scams such as the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) were marched through Congress by feminist trial lawyers in 1996. The legal trade profits immensely by destroying the marriages and futures of America’s women. VAWA destroys marriage on allegation alone. This is why lawyers in Congress (on both sides of the aisle) automatically pass anything that A.B.A. feminists want.
A very convincing body of evidence proves that the American Bar Association’s approach to domestic violence is founded on feminist agitprop, and directly violates peer-reviewed science.[1] [2] And, an overwhelming body of scientific fact proves that VAWA does not reduce domestic violence.[3]
The official A.B.A. “Standards of Practice For Lawyers Representing Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking” is a gross violation of ethics and Constitution. It consistently pre-declares the victim as “her.”[4] Imagine, for a moment, what would happen if A.B.A. documents officially named victims “white” and criminals “black”?
$16-billion in TANF seed money is given to states to fertilize illegitimacy and divorce. States are rewarded for seizing it all back by locking up poor or unemployed fathers. Our jails are full of them. The vast majority of America’s 1-million gang members were raised absent marriage.
Why do Conservatives keep losing these battles, many of them fooled into supporting the feminist agenda? It is because post-ERA conservatives forgot how to fight feminism.
Recall that the ERA battle was won against all odds because Phyllis Schlafly constantly talked out how ERA would hurt women, in addition to pointing out the principles. Most women (and politicians who fall over backwards to help women) ended up agreeing with Phyllis. Modern conservatives and libertarians contest the principles only, and never get around to showing everyone how feminist agenda hurts women.
The result of Conservatives' failure to stress the damaging consequences of feminist agenda is a nation of deeply troubled unmarried mothers, fathers, and children, who still think that feminist-liberalism is the answer.
The Republican party won the “family values” landslide in 1994 because of what those words actually meant to voters. Republicans essentially promised to end anti-marriage policies that have left about half of adult men and women and their children in great trouble.
“Family Values” resonated wildly with a wide majority of voters. Today’s voters still know that their biggest problems -- poverty, lack of health care coverage, child care problems, burgeoning gang-violence, crime, illegitimacy, home loan defaults, bankruptcy, and high taxes -- are all somehow a consequence of marriage-absence.
Continuing Republican congressional losses cannot be reversed absent an aggressive focus on structural marriage and family issues. This focus must emphasize how feminist policies will continue harming men, women, and children, and continue customary education on the principles, and offer attractive pro-marriage policies.
The optimal keywords to use in today's politics are "Marriage Values." The issues registering at the top of political polls are all, truly, “Marriage Values” items. Legislative history proves that these problems cannot be resolved unless we address them at the causal source: marriage-absence:
Marriage-absence is the greatest social and economic problem America faces. Every one of our leading contemporary national problems arises substantially as a direct consequence of marriage-absence.
“Marriage Values” is the major and necessary component for restoration of our economy and banking system. The political game of ‘hot potato’ -- passing the costs of marriage-absence onto to somebody else or sweeping it under the carpet -- is over.
Economic conservatives must realize that applying trickle-down economics to social policy is a necessary prerequisite to stabilizing financial markets and balancing both state and federal budgets.
Marriage-absence must be tracked just like we measure frictional unemployment -- and social policies reshaped to reward marital responsibility. Entitled irresponsibility must be replaced with temporary help, just like we do with unemployment, via woman-friendly “Welfare to Marriage” policy changes..."
And Mr. Usher also kindly includes some some very intersting peer reviewed as well as empirical evidence to support his position.The National Organization for Women has a freight train of radical legislation set for passage. See:
eagleforum(dot) org/column/2009/jan09/09-01-30.html
Some footnotes of interest would be..
Footnotes:
(hint: google them!)
1. “The gender paradigm in domestic violence research and practice part II: The information website of the American Bar Association,” Donald G. Dutton, Kenneth N. Corvo, and Mark Hamel; Aggression and Violent Behavior, Vol. 14 Issue 1, January-February 2009, pp 30-38.
2. Myths of the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence: Detailed Findings, Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting.
3. Media Radar Website
4. American Bar Association, “Standards of Practice For Lawyers Representing Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking in Civil Protection Order Cases";
And I parapharse from the article:
"First: Feminism has controlled America for over forty years. During this time period, every social indicator measuring the well-being of women and children has declined substantially. Marriage remains the most likely safe haven for living the American dream. We must constantly remind women as well as men of this truth."
*last footnote: I include 'men' so as not to sound Patriarchal to the highly keen sensitivities of the Family destructive ** Uber Femigendists (**coining this..claiming all copyrights***.Or would be ***Feminigenderist(s)?) :^) Their ideology and core beliefs have not nor will stand any further test of time.
Jeff Dahlgren
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