Domestic Violence and Political Correctness.There are two approaches to Domestic Violence The first is that taken by the state-supported Women's Aid and sister groups who show no interest whatsoever in reducing its incidence because they benefit in funding and as a backing for their social engineering/feminist ideology by the increase in incidence. They have never allowed any analysis of the problem that was logical and solution driven. The second approach - the common sense one and that taken by most men and the National Men's Council of Ireland is to acknowledge that conflict arises naturally within committed relationships. If it reaches the point where physical harm is allegedly done to any family member then a criminal prosecution should be sought and the matter resolved in open court, preferably with a jury trial. To reduce the incidence of any conflict we firmly insist that our priority must be to analyse exactly what is happening and in which circumstances so that we can use government social policy to effect a reduction in severity and incidence of any such conflict. I say any such conflict because properly conducted surveys of interpersonal conflict unanimously show that the incidence is actually very low. This is borne out by the section on Domestic Violence that forms part of the British Crime Survey of 1996 undertaken by the Home Office - the most comprehensive and searching study ever carried out anywhere in the world on domestic violence. The results of this and an analysis based on the second approach
are to be found at: Secondly, Tom Graves [http://www.wyrdsmiths.com/] has undertaken a gender
neutral You can access the Graves analysis on this site or it can also be viewed
here: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~prussia/violence/partner/duluth/index.html If you would like a copy of all the files Zipped up (330KB)
please email The revised 'Duluth' model for domestic violence resolution is
(c) Tom
Domestic Violence; Our Daughters And Our Sons Above all thought, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in the process of turning into them. An Overview All dating and domestic violence incidents must be taken seriously as they may be precursors of more dangerous and violent events. When not confronted early and properly addressed, many of these apparently minor incidents may evolve into more violent forms of abuse (O'Leary, 2000). When reading this paper it is important that the reader remember that the reason and purpose of this paper is to examine "dating violence and family conflict behavior," rather than violent long term "battering behavior" (Kruttschnitt, McLaughlin, & Petrie, 2004). The National Violence Against Women survey, as do most dating and domestic violence surveys, documents that more than 90% of domestic violence incidents are relatively minor and consist of pushing, grabbing, shoving, slapping, and hitting (Tjaden & Thoennes, 2000b), (Rennison, 2003) Read this incisive report into the real facts AUSTRALIAN SAFETY SURVEY KILLS FEMINIST DISTORTIONS The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Personal Safety Survey has finally emerged and along with its appearance, the statistical myths of feminist's victimhood and women's class oppression - particularly those relating to claims of epidemic violence against women - have immediately vaporised. Their silence is deafening. [READ ON] Although this article refers to Domestic Violence orders in the US where they use the term Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) whereas our phrase is Interim Barring Orders, the same lack of evidence and the same result pertains. The woman is inevitably granted her order which she then simply uses as a legal ploy to abandon her marriage/relationship but instead of her being found to be in the wrong, now she is armed with her Domestic Violence order the court allows her to leave with the children and all the assets. Let's treat Domestic Violence as a crime and not as a weapon against marriage The US equivalent of the Domestic Violence legislation that we have in the British Isles is called the Violence Against Women Act. They all serve the same purpose - to destroy marriage and families. There is no evidence that these Acts protect women or children. On the contrary their effect is to render them unprotected as the expulsion of the husband or father is their sole aim. Men
and Domestic Violence:- What Research Tells Us [Ireland] by Kieran McKeown & Philippa Kidd This report was commissioned by the [Irish] Department of Health and Children. As its title indicates, we were asked to find out what research studies tell us about domestic violence against men. In answering this question we have broadened the context to include women as well as men so that the experience of each can be seen in a comparative context. Some may find this a challenging report essentially because it questions a long-standing consensus, both in Ireland and elsewhere, that women are the only victims, and men are the only perpetrators, of domestic violence. We are aware that there are no pure facts, either inside or outside research. Data on domestic violence, whether based on self-reports by victims or by perpetrators, by women or by men, need to be treated seriously and to be carefully examined to assess their validity and reliability. We have tried to do this in a balanced way in the report. Common lies about domestic violence debunked The facts which dispel the myth: An authoritative account of how a state censors true research findings on domestic violence. Institutional Resistance to Acknowledging Intimate Male Abuse Marriage: The Safest Place for Women and Children by Patrick F. Fagan and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D The institution that most strongly protects mothers and children from domestic abuse and violent crime is marriage. Analysis of the 1999 findings of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has conducted since 1973, demonstrates that mothers who are or ever have been married are far less likely to suffer from violent crime than are mothers who never marry.
Recent US Statistics on the gender of child abuse perpetrators challenges myths: The Problem of Child Abuse Child abuse is a major public health concern that transcends racial, ethnic, religious, and socio-economic boundaries. It has been correlated with problems of violence, substance abuse, anxiety disorders, depression, suicide, and other psychopathology. Studies suggest that the incidence of certain co-morbidities are correlated with duration and severity of abuse, thus suggesting that reports of abuse to appropriate child protection agencies may have long term, as well as immediate, health benefits for the victim. Thus, it is essential that paediatricians and other healthcare providers understand the scope of the problem and how to identify cases of abuse and neglect, as well as families at risk. Here we outline the scope of the problem.
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