Congress to Vote on Renewing Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)

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Congress to Vote on Renewing Violence
Against Women Act (VAWA)
 
June 30, 2005
 

The promo for this week's His Side--"Congress to Vote on Renewing Anti-Male Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)"--is below. While on the surface VAWA sounds good--after all, everyone opposes violence against women--there are many serious problems with it. VAWA expires on September 30, and Dave Burroughs' Safe Homes for Children and Families Coalition (SHCFC) has just issued a call for action on the recently introduced renewal legislation. To get involved, click here.

We invite you to call the show live at 1-800-439-4805 (lines open this Sunday from 5-6 PM PST).
For those who are outside of our radio stations' coverage ranges, you can listen to the show live this Sunday (7/3/05) via our station's excellent Internet stream at Listen Live. To find out where to listen to His Side with Glenn Sacks on the radio, click here.


I'm Looking for Single Dads Willing to Talk to the Media

I'm looking for single fathers who have custody or at least 50% physical time with their children and who live in the general vicinity of New York City. If this is you, please send your name, phone # and a brief outline of your situation to me at [email protected].


NOMAS Leader Michael Kimmel Criticizes Men's Movement

The audio of  last week's His Side--"NOMAS Leader Michael Kimmel Criticizes Men's Movement"--can be heard by clicking here. On the show Kimmel, America's leading male feminist, actually admitted that "there's a ton of men getting screwed in family court."


His Side with Glenn Sacks on Fox Special on Boy Crisis in Education

Fox just aired a special on the boy crisis in education which featured clips from His Side, an in-studio interview with me, an interview with Michelle Ventimiglia, the director of the preschool that both of my children attended, and feminist sociology professor Mary Blair-Loy of the University of California at San Diego.

The jumping off point for the piece was my Los Angeles Times column New Study of Youth Shows It's Boys Who Are in Crisis (3/20/05). In that column I discussed the Boy Crisis in education and criticized Duke researchers for hiding boys' disadvantage in their reporting of the results of their study of youth. The researchers wrote the Times,  accusing me of  "cherry-picking" from their data to support my arguments. However, I "picked" nothing, but instead looked at all 28 indices of child well-being which they studied and noted that while boys and girls fared equally in six of the 28 categories, girls fared better than boys in 17 of the remaining 22.

Ventimiglia, whose school is very attuned to boys' learning styles and educational needs, spoke movingly of the way modern schools are failing our boys. Blair-Loy gave the standard feminist response, which is:

deny that the boy crisis exists
assert that whatever happens with boys in school, males will still end up earning more money than females, so boys' school problems are not important
assert that the differences in education are related to race and income level, not gender
Regarding point #2, as I noted on Fox, males earn more money because they make more sacrifices to earn money, whereas women are still more oriented towards the domestic sphere. To hear a debate on the wage gap, see Martha Burk v. Warren Farrell on the 'Wage Gap' (His Side, 5/22/05).

As for point #3, it certainly is true that race and ethnicity play a large role in education, particularly in heavily immigrant areas such as Southern California. But the gender differences between boys and girls are also stark.

Much of the problem is political, and may sound familiar to fathers who've been through family court--there's a political price to be paid for giving females a raw deal, but no corresponding political price for shafting males. Boys are in crisis in part because the schools are under little pressure to adapt themselves to boys' needs and learning styles. As I noted in my column Start of School Very Different for Parents of Boys, Parents of Girls  (Washington Times, 9/12/04):

"The educational establishment has reacted to the boy crisis in education in a way reminiscent of Bertolt Brecht's famous poem about calls to reform or dissolve the unpopular government of East Germany: the government found it difficult to reform itself, so would instead choose to 'dissolve the people and elect another.'

Similarly, rather than reform a system woefully out of touch with boys' real world natures and needs, our schools find it easier to demand that boys be something other than boys."

To watch the Fox feature, which was filmed back in April, click here.


Feminist Magazine Slanders Glenn, Attacks Fathers' Movement

The feminist publication The Mother's Movement Online recently slandered me, calling me a "supporter of father's custody." As I've made clear on countless occasions, I am not an advocate for paternal sole custody any more than I'm an advocate for the present system of maternal sole custody. Paradoxically, the article criticizing me linked to a column I co-authored which advocates shared custody--Can Abolishing Sole Custody Curb Divorce? (New York Sun, 10/2/02).

In addition to criticizing me (who they humorously dubbed a "big name right-wing radio personality"), the publication also took aim at Fathers 4 Justice, Wendy McElroy, Jason Hatch, and others. The article is Judith Stadtman Tucker's What's wrong with the father's rights movement.

The magazine can be reached at [email protected].


Are You a NY Father Looking for Family Law Help?

Stuart L. Melnick, a prominent commercial litigation attorney who also practices family law, is a passionate opponent of the current family law system who is looking to help New York fathers with their family law/custody problems. To learn more and to contact Stuart, click here.


Will I See You at the Men's Equality Conference 2005?

I will be speaking at the 2005 Men's Equality Conference July 15 and 16 in Washington D.C.--to attend, click here. Also speaking will be Warren Farrell, Stephen Baskerville, Jack Kammer, Carnell Smith, and Dave Burroughs.  The 2005 Men's Equality Conference will be held 3 blocks from the US capitol.  For more information, visit //www.TrueEquality.com.

Last year's conference was exceptionally well-done. My speech to the conference last year was The Future of the American Father.

 

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Congress to Vote on Renewing Anti-Male
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which was first passed in 1994, expires on September 30, and legislation was recently introduced to renew it. While on the surface VAWA sounds good--after all, everyone opposes violence against women--there are many serious problems with it.

VAWA-funded shelters and domestic violence organizations ignore and often refuse to provide services to male victims of domestic violence. Domestic violence organizations funded by VAWA refuse to acknowledge the mountains of research which show that men compromise a significant percentage of domestic violence victims.

In addition, domestic violence organizations funded by VAWA often throw their weight and perceived credibility behind legislation which serves to drive fathers out of their children's lives. For example, dozens of domestic violence organizations signed on to amicus briefs filed for the move-away mom in the LaMusga move-away case in the California Supreme Court. In April, DV organizations testified against AB 1307, the California Shared Parenting bill.

VAWA funding and VAWA-generated domestic violence hysteria has also helped enable unscrupulous women to use restraining orders, the police, and the legal system as tools against men.

Dr. Donald G. Dutton, author of The Abusive Personality: Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships, asserts that research shows that women are as likely to attack their male intimate partners as vice versa, and that most domestic violence stems from personality disorders found equally in males and females. Dutton, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia, is a well-known critic of VAWA and suggests that VAWA be replaced with VIRA--The Violence in Intimate Relations Act.

Dutton will join Glenn on His Side with Glenn Sacks on Sunday, July 3 at 5 PM PST/8 PM EST.  For those who are outside of our radio stations' coverage ranges, you can listen to the show live via our station's excellent Internet stream at Listen Live.  

You can call the show and join the discussion in progress at 1-800-439-4805 (lines open this Sunday from 5-6 PM PST).

To learn more, see:

Safe Homes for Children and Families Coalition (SHCFC) call for action on VAWA--click here.

Congress Should Kill Discriminatory Domestic Violence Act by Wendy McElroy

Dutton's Patriarchy and Wife Assault: The ecological fallacy

Dutton's The Batterer: A Psychological Profile

Dutton's The Abusive Personality: Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships
Dutton's PERPETRATOR PERSONALITY EFFECTS ON POST-SEPARATION VICTIM REACTIONS IN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS

Opposition View: Solutions to Domestic Violence Remain Elusive (Mother Jones, July/August, 2005)

Opposition View: Michael Kimmel's Male Victims of Domestic Violence: A Substantive and Methodological Research Review

Glenn's column Domestic Violence Series Substitutes Emotion for Facts (San Francisco Chronicle, 4/8/05)

VAWA Con Dios, Biden from the blog Silly Seattle

Glenn's column Baseball Player's Domestic Violence Arrest Demonstrates How Men are Presumed Guilty in Domestic Disputes (Los Angeles Daily Journal, San Francisco Daily Journal, 8/8/02)

John Brumbaugh's story: After years of appeals, a technicality clears ex-police officer's name (Daily Breeze,  3/8/05) John, who appeared on His Side on 4/13/03, is a former Torrance police officer who successfully fought for over seven years to clear his name and get his life back after being falsely accused of domestic violence.

Stephen Baskerville's No Restraint on Restraining Orders(Human Events, 8/5/02)

Glenn's column New Report on Maternal Homicide Crisis: Myth-Making and Manbashing (Lexington Herald-Leader, 1/3/05)

Glenn's column 'Fatal Fathers' Myth Promoted in Wake of Peterson, Hacking Cases (Daily Breeze [Los Angeles], 9/17/04)

His Side: Police Officers Unite to Defend Their Livelihoods Against False DV Allegations (4/10/05)

His Side:Restraining Orders: Saviors of Abused Women or Child Custody Tactic? (2/27/05)

His Side: Father Spends 3 Months in Jail for Returning Phone Call (9/7/03)

His Side: Liz Taylor's Son-in-Law Says Taylor, Daughter Kidnapped His Two Year-Old Son (4/11/04)

His Side: Seattle Press Brands Cops as Batterers (8/3/03)

A comprehensive discussion of the both the politics and practical aspects of dealing with false allegations of domestic violence can be found in The Father's Emergency Guide to Divorce-Custody Battle by Robert Seidenberg and William Dawes, Esq.

His Side with Glenn Sacks can be heard on WSNR AM 620 in New York City and North-Eastern New Jersey, and on WWZN AM 1510 in Boston on Sundays at 10 PM EST. The show can also be heard in Southern California on KTIE AM 590 at 5 PM PST. To listen live via the Internet from anywhere in the world, go to Listen Live. Both radio and Internet listeners are encouraged to call and participate in the show live and on the air at 1-800-439-4805 (lines open Sundays from 5-6PM PST).

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"Children learn what they live"

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"Children learn what they live"

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Send a fax via e-mail, http://www.tpc.int/sendfax.html

http://capwiz.com/townhall/dbq/officials/directory/committee.dbq?command=congdir§ion=committee&type=F&print=no&committee=sjudi&submit.x=10&submit.y=13

Here is a quick, simple way to get your letters in. Took me 15 minutes to contact all the reps.

Sample letter:

On July 19, 2005 the Senate Judiciary Committee will conduct hearing concerning the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Not one victim or opponent have been asked to testify.

We need to speak loudly against this action. Below is a sample fax our organization, The Center for Children's Justice, has been sending. Please take time tomorrow and fax, call and email the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee (listed below).

Please remember to keep it short and to the point. No Long diatribes, they just get ignored.

===== Sample Fax ============== (Date you are sending it)

(Congresscritter's Name)
(Address you are faxing to)

Re: I oppose the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)

Dear (Congresscritter's Name);


"VAWA 2005" will result in increased violence against children, women and men as laws of similar  structure at the state level have already failed miserably. VAWA has done little more than destroy families and fund social engineering schemes unrelated to intimate partner violence. This dysfunctional law leaves violent criminals free to abuse at will, but inflicts brutalities unworthy of a free society on innocent victims of false allegations of domestic violence.

Domestic violence is a state matter. Existing Federal laws should be repealed or allowed to expire.
Domestic violence laws must be gender neutral in all respects and practice.
Domestic violence and abuse laws must not violate the rights to due process and equal protection under the law.
False allegations of domestic violence and suborning perjury must be dealt with as criminal acts.
Domestic violence laws at all levels of government must exist solely in the criminal codes.
As a citizen, I do not have an issue with seeing violent criminals put in jail when, following due process, they have been proven guilty of committing a violent crime. Battery is battery, no matter where it happens or who commits it. Civil restraining orders will only restrain civilized people who were no real threat to begin with; violent criminals need to be imprisoned. The failure to do this for the past ten years has allowed a system rife with fraud to run amok and prevented those with valid claims from receiving needed services.

It must be made certain that all parties concerned are provided with equal protection under the law, guaranteed due process and criminal acts are prosecuted as the crimes they are whether acts of violence or false allegations of abuse. Yours truly,
(Name)
(Street Address)
(City) (State) (Zip+4 Code)
(Home Phone Number)

“Equal Protection Under the Law is True Equality”



===== Contact list ============== Senator, Voice phone, Fax, State Party



Arlen Specter,Chairman 202/224-4254 202/228-1229 R-Pennsylvania
Orrin G. Hatch 202/224-5251 202/224-6331 R-Utah
Charles E. Grassley 202/224-3744 202/224-6020 R-Iowa
Jon Kyl 202/224-4521 202/224-2207 R-Arizona
Mike DeWine 202/224-2315 202/224-6519 R-Ohio
Jeff Sessions 202/224-4124 202/224-3149 R-Alabama
Lindsey Graham 202/224-5972 202/224-3807 R-South Carolina
John Cornyn 202/224-2934 202/228-2856 R-Texas
Sam Brownback 202/224-6521 202/228-1265 R-Kansas
Tom Coburn 202/224-5754 202/224-6008 R-Oklahoma
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. 202/224-5042 202/224-0139 D-Delaware
Patrick J. Leahy, (202/224-4242 Sen. Leahy's office won't give out his fax number but said to email him at senator_leahy-at-leahy.senate.gov ), Vermont D
Edward M. Kennedy 202/224-4543 202/224-2417 D-Massachusetts
Herbert Kohl 202/224-5653 202/224-9787 D-Wisconsin
Dianne Feinstein 202/224-3841 202/228-3954 D-California
Russell D. Feingold 202/224-5323 202/224-2725 D-Wisconsin
Charles E. Schumer 202/224-6542 202/228-3027 D-New York
Richard J. Durbin 202/224-2152 202/228-0400 D-Illinois




"Children learn what they live"