The Truth about Domestic Violence

The use of a white male child as the abuser and black female child as the abused by Family Place http://www.familyplace.org/Page.aspx?pid=270 and DART http://www.dart.org/about/contactdart.asp is a blatant example of gender and race bias. The truth is that even in Big D women are just as likely to abuse as men are, it's just that men are ten times more likely to take it without complaining to the government. It amazes me that a supposed journalist would take the word of the self promoting Family Place Red Neo-Fems' for the truth about DV. The truth is that they are using the victimization of both women and minorities to increase the size and scope of their program and tax payer funding. If they where truly interested in ending "family" violence they would have portrayed a group of people of varying races and both genders along with a large note of how bad it is to falsely accuse fathers of abuse to gain an advantage during custody battles! Remember, you reap what you sow, if our society keeps promoting men as bad and women as victims and denying men the justice they deserve then our society will never actually solve DV just keep perpetuating it. It is time to reform DV by starting with changing the federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) by Joe Biden to End Family Violence Act with equal funding for both genders with a demand that states sanction those who use false DV charges in Family Court cases. Even better, abolish the federal component, reduce federal taxes, legislate presumed equal parenting unless there is clear and convincing evidence of abuse so that false abuse claims are reduced which will allow the states to deal with the issue on their own.

Comments

[Darrick Scott-Farnsworth]

Maybe we should recommend that DART be boycotted by all citizens concerned about equal treatment.

[shivers]

Whoever wrote this article doesn't have too much of a clue of what they are talking about. It mentions false allegation claims but there are no studies that prove this happens, none at all. The largest study, a Canadian one found that 98% of all abuse allegation cases were fundamentally sound. An American study found that of all allegations that are 'likely' to be false the largest percentage were those done by men! The facts of the matter are that the little girl depicted in the ad is FAR MORE LIKELY to be killed by a future husband than if she were a little boy, and the little boy is FAR MORE LIKELY to become an abuser than if he was a little girl. Do women abuse men? Of course they do, but the number is such a minority that groups should be complaining about mis-spent funds if organisations ploughed all their money into the smallest minority of cases where women are abusers. Most people hang on to the myth that DV is 50/50 because they read a report that talks about Common Couple Conflict, this is actually, extremely common. But the power, domination and coercion tactics that are used by men against women are the one's that lead to murder. The statistical facts cannot be escaped from. Men are serious abusers and killers in 82% - 95% of cases, and for some bizarre reason when they decide they want to kill themselves, they decide their whole family should go with them too. When women use violence, about 95% of the time it is in response to male violence against them.