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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 August 5, 2003 Carey Roberts	Promoting False Allegations of Rape False allegations of rape are far more common than most people imagine.
ifeminists September 8, 2004 Carey Roberts	Kobe Bryant: Alice-in-Wonderland Justice The dismissal of rape charges against the basketball superstar has triggered a lively debate how the decision will affect sexual assault cases in the future.
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 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 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 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 October 28, 2003 Wendy McElroy	Kobe Case Puts Victims' Rights on Trial A growing belief that false accusations of sexual assault have become commonplace has prompted a demand for fairer treatment of those accused, especially from the media.
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 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 August 9, 2009 Tony Zizza	What if Ben Roethlisberger is innocent? False allegations of sexual assault and rape are in no way - a game.
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 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 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 April 20, 2005 Wendy McElroy	False Rape Claim Hurts Real Victims Instead of publicizing sexual violence against women, this case has spotlighted the problem of false accusations against men.
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 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 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 November 1, 2006 Wendy McElroy	Don't Always Believe the Victim Two recent news stories differ in significant details but share a common message: false accusations of sexual abuse kill innocent people and devastate lives. The stories reveal the terrible human cost imposed by the often heard demand, 'always believe the victim'.
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 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 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 November 26, 2007 Darrin Albert	The Hazards of Duke The Duke rape case reveals some specific hazards that may prove pragmatic for society to exercise some restraint and/or caution: The Crying Wolf Effect... Herjury... Avoidance of Preventative Measures... etc.
ifeminists April 19, 2007 Carey Roberts	Lynch Mob Fever at Duke University "Outrageous" is the word that comes to mind that describes what happened to the Duke Three, accused of gang-raping Crystal Gail Mangum.
ifeminists January 26, 2005 Norma Jean Almodovar	Who Will Rescue Us from Those Who Wish to Rescue Us Against Our Will? Radical feminists and religious conservatives insist that no distinction be made between consenting adult commercial sex and true sexual slavery. Does anyone believe that arresting a prostitute "for her own good" is of any value whatsoever?
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.
Reason February 2002 Cathy Young	Excluded Evidence The dark side of rape shield laws...
ifeminists August 30, 2006 Carey Roberts	No Need to Keep Duke Rape Accuser's Name Secret The cat is out of the bag. The identity of the Duke rape accuser has been widely disseminated on the radio, via the internet, in public legal documents, and in an encyclopedia.
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.
Managed Care April 2005	Health Care Costs Remain Top Concern for CFOs Despite all the recent discussion about Social Security reform, chief financial officers in the United States say that rising health care cost remains their top concern, according to a survey.
ifeminists August 19, 2003 Wendy McElroy	Law Needs New Category of Sexual Assault On Jan. 6, the California Supreme Court ruled that when a woman rescinds consent during sex, the man becomes guilty of rape if he does not stop immediately. Such laws trivialize the crime of rape and encourage false accusations that, in turn, threaten the credibility of actual rape victims.
ifeminists October 29, 2007 Carey Roberts	Bad-Girl Culture Goes Chic "Rehab Reject" outerwear is only the latest example of a growing trend of evincing ridicule and disdain for traditional notions of law and order. In the US, thirteen years after the passage of VAWA, domestic violence courtrooms have been turned into a House of Horrors.
ifeminists August 8, 2008 Teri Stoddard	Equal Custody And VAWA Regarding custody, the Violence Against Women Act is unconstitutional and full of misandry.
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 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 July 29, 2003	Sacks Blasts Those Harassing Kobe's Accuser Men's and fathers' issues radio talk-show host Glenn Sacks blasted those threatening and harassing the alleged victim in the Kobe Bryant rape case, calling them "demented animals" on his Los Angeles talk show His Side with Glenn Sacks.
ifeminists February 16, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Spousal Rape Case Sparks Old Debate When indications of violence are absent, it is reasonable for the legal system to require a higher standard of evidence to convict a husband of rape.
ifeminists November 14, 2007 Carey Roberts	Until Proven Innocent: Cultural Marxism at Duke How did a drug-addled stripper succeed in smearing the reputations of three Duke lacrosse players? That's the question that Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson pose in their recent bell-ringer book, Until Proven Innocent.
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 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).
Reason May 2007 Cathy Young	Assault Behind Bars How big a problem is prison rape in the U.S. -- and what can be done about it?
ifeminists September 6, 2006 Carey Roberts	Harassment Hysteria Threatens Military Morale In practice, the military's zero-tolerance stance on sexual harassment becomes the basis for ramping up the penalties for an offense that no one can define, and abolishing due process protections for an allegation that no person can ever hope to refute.
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 July 20, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Bad Research Leads to Bad Law I believe the cycle of studies leading to laws leading to studies (such as VAWA) should be broken not because I am against solid research but because I am for it. Bring skepticism and common sense to all data you hear; withhold your tax dollars.
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 July 26, 2006 Carey Roberts	The Kiss-and-Accuse Capers Few men have the financial wherewithal of a former NFL player, sitting judge, or media personality. So when they are accused of domestic violence, men often find themselves dragged into a legal machinery that eventually leaves them penniless, disillusioned, and broken.