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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 December 28, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Abuse of Temporary Restraining Orders Endangers Real Victims The seeming ease with which temporary restraining orders (usually issued to women in regard to domestic violence) are issued in the U.S. constitutes a problem for those who wish all restraining orders to be taken seriously. |
ifeminists June 9, 2007 Carey Roberts |
Lots of Lucre in False Claims of Abuse In a country that prides itself on the "innocent until proven guilty" principle, how do we account for these legal travesties in which the following four women made phony allegations of abuse? |
ifeminists April 7, 2009 Carey Roberts |
Voices from the Grave, Betrayed by a Restraining Order Debi Olson had three restraining orders taken out against her. But that didn't stop the woman from ambushing ex-husband Mauricio Droguett in an Iowa shopping mall last July, fatally stabbing him in front of shocked mall-goers. |
ifeminists June 5, 2007 Leving & Sacks |
NY Electronic Tagging Device Bill -- An Orwellian Measure Assembly Bill 5424 is a draconian measure which will victimize many innocent New York men and fathers. The bill requires any person against whom an order of protection is issued.to wear an electronic monitoring device. |
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 November 20, 2007 Carey Roberts |
Massive Human Rights Abuses in the Name of Stopping Abuse State-sanctioned disdain of civil liberties has now spread to foreign lands. |
ifeminists June 28, 2006 Leving & Sacks |
California Spousal Rape Bill Will Harm Innocent Men False accusations of violence or abuse are endemic in family law cases. The California Senate and the Assembly Committee on Public Safety recently approved a misguided bill which will make the problem worse by easing the way for spurious spousal rape allegations to be used against fathers. |
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 June 18, 2008 Carey Roberts |
Sex, Lies, and Datatapes of the Partner Abuse Industry The domestic violence industry is reeling from a recent series of high-profile scandals, leaving abuse workers to wonder how things could have possibly gone so wrong. |
ifeminists June 21, 2006 Gordon E. Finley |
One Woman's Word For Americans, One Woman's Word must be made exactly equal to One Man's Word -- nothing more and nothing less. Equality in bond and sanction is the only inherently defensible position. |
ifeminists April 5, 2006 Carey Roberts |
Child Support Gold-Diggers Laws that protect women from rape, domestic violence, and sexual harassment all rest on a simple assumption: women who claim to be victims are almost always telling the truth. Maybe it's time to revisit that belief. |
ifeminists July 29, 2003 Ed Ward |
Kobe's Number Called, Learns No Man Is Safe in Western Civilized Nations On July 1, 2003 Kobe Bryant learned about the current draconian laws that can be applied, at a minimum, any time a man does not have video and audio surveillance of a one on one encounter with a female. |
ifeminists November 2, 2005 Carey Roberts |
Jim Crow Days For Men Currently the U.S. Congress is mulling the fate of a five-year extension to the Violence Against Women Act, a law that has caused the basic civil liberties of hundreds of thousands of fathers and men to be casually disregarded. |
ifeminists January 26, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Removing Legal Incentives to Lie The false accusations that impact most people often occur in the process of divorce, in battles over custody and child support. For years, advocates of fathers' rights have accused the family courts of being "anti-male" and of rubber-stamping women's claims. |
ifeminists August 5, 2003 Carey Roberts |
Promoting False Allegations of Rape False allegations of rape are far more common than most people imagine. |
ifeminists July 22, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
False Rape Charges Hurt Real Victims If the charge against Kobe Bryant is proven false, a backlash against women reporting violence may occur. The highest level of evidence and credible testimony should be required before ruining a man's life in that manner. |
ifeminists August 26, 2008 Carey Roberts |
Senator Biden's VAWA Cover-Up Over the last 15 years, Biden has repeatedly bragged to his friends and colleagues, "What I'm most proud of in my entire career is the Violence Against Women Act." |
Reason February 2002 Cathy Young |
Excluded Evidence The dark side of rape shield laws... |
ifeminists April 10, 2009 Wendy McElroy |
The Return of Debtor's Prison H. Beatty Chadwick, a former corporate lawyer, has been imprisoned in a Pennsylvania county jail for over 13 years even though he has never been arrested, criminally accused or tried. |
ifeminists May 18, 2005 Carey Roberts |
VAWA Law Polarizes the Sexes, Weakens the Family The Violence Against Women Act represents a frontal assault on both fatherhood and on the integrity of the traditional family. |
ifeminists April 8, 2009 Wendy McElroy |
False Rape Claims Hurt Women Rape usually carries a stiff sentence and extreme stigma. The highest level of evidence and credible testimony should be required before ruining a man's life in that manner. |
ifeminists August 10, 2005 Carey Roberts |
Restraining Orders for Abusive Grandmas? When lawmakers return from their August recess, one of their first orders of business will be to take up the Violence Against Women Act, the bill that fuels the use of restraining orders around the country. Let's hope they don't forget all the grandparents looking forward to seeing their grandchildren. |
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 January 31, 2007 Wendy McElroy |
Continuing to Defame the 'Duke 3' as Rapists Every day it becomes clearer: the three Duke University students accused of kidnapping and sexual assault are innocent. Why does defamation of the accused continue? |
ifeminists June 15, 2009 Carey Roberts |
Alice-in-Wonderland Justice at the DoJ The Department of Justice report, "Practical Implications of Current Domestic Violence Research," purports to pull together the research on partner abuse, but the document ends up making a mockery of objective science and an impartial judiciary. |
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 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 September 13, 2007 Carey Roberts |
How Female Illegals Abuse the System Every year thousands of Americans are victimized by a swindle known as the "immigrant abuse scam." What's amazing is this shake-down is paid for by the U.S. taxpayer under the guise of stopping domestic violence. |
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 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 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. |
Reason January 2004 Cathy Young |
Kobe's Rights: Rape, justice, and double standards The case of Kobe Bryant's alleged sexual assault raises some serious issues about the way the justice system treats rape complainants and defendants. |
ifeminists December 27, 2007 Carey Roberts |
Winners of the Coveted 2007 Award for Political Incorrectness The Duke lacrosse case represents an enduring failure of the American mainstream media. |
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. |
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 November 10, 2004 Tony Zizza |
Time To Look At DFCS Differently The U.S. child protection system does nothing to punish those who make false allegations of child abuse and should bear some responsibility when families split up over these same false allegations of child abuse. |
ifeminists December 8, 2008 Carey Roberts |
Domestic Violence Industry: Criminal The domestic violence industry has a habit of attracting unsavory characters into its ranks. And now three former operatives are doing hard time. |
ifeminists June 9, 2004 Wendy McElroy |
How to Form an Informed Opinion Like it or not, personal opinion of court cases has become part of the process of justice in America. How to make a judgment based more on facts and less on rhetoric. |
ifeminists October 22, 2006 Wendy McElroy |
In Duke Rape Case, Justice Relies on Jurors Those in charge of the legal system are damaging justice itself. It is time for average people to bring fairness and standards back into the courtroom. Certainly, those with authority over the Duke rape case cannot be trusted to do so. |
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 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 January 6, 2004 Wendy McElroy |
Prosecutor Grandstanding Undermines Justice If the goal in a rape trial, like any other law enforcement action, is to protect the innocent, the obvious solution is to name neither party until after a trial verdict. But police and prosecutors do not advocate this remedy. |
ifeminists March 2, 2005 Jennifer Roback Morse |
The True Cost of False Witness False or frivolous charges of child abuse play havoc with the family court system, and in the lives of many innocent people. At the very least, society needs to impose some penalty for inflicting those kinds of costs on others. |
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 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 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. |
ifeminists October 23, 2007 David Heleniak |
Hidden Harm Although it is not politically correct to say so, women can and do use false allegations of domestic violence to gain sole custody and to get their children to hate and fear their fathers. |
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 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. |