The audio of
this week's
His Side--"Congress
to Vote on Renewing Anti-Male
Violence Against Women Act
(VAWA)"--can be heard
by clicking
here.
As I said on the show, VAWA
expires on September 30, and
Dave Burroughs'
Safe Homes for Children and
Families Coalition (SHCFC)
has issued a call for action
on the recently introduced
renewal legislation. To support
the SHCFC's efforts, click
here.
On the show I blasted a dimwitted
judge who kept a man in jail
for violating his fake restraining
order by marrying the woman
who had obtained the order--to
read the AP article on it,
see
Marriage vows land the groom
in county jail (6/28/05).
My friend
Lisa Scott, the all-time
leader in appearances
on
His Side, has a new article
out which discusses restraining
order abuses--see
Scream Queens Fuel Nightmarish
VAWA System (The Reality
Check, 7/4/05).
His Side Guest's Ideas Branded
'Dangerous' by Georgia DV
Commission
My guest Sunday,
Dr. Don Dutton, discussed
the stranglehold the feminist
domestic violence industry
has on the DV issue at all
levels, from government down
to service providers. According
to Dutton, there is "cult
like thinking" surrounding
domestic violence. He says
scholars studying DV report
their own data in a misleading
way and finesse outcomes,
with all errors going in the
same direction--blame the
man.
Last year the Georgia Commission
on Family Violence declared
Dutton's ideas "dangerous"
and effectively banned him
after Dutton gave a two day
workshop. Dutton had been
invited by treatment providers
looking for real world ways
to treat abusive men. By contrast,
the DV industry promotes the
Duluth model (woman good/man
bad/abusive men are the domestic
arm of the patriarchy), which
studies show is absolutely
ineffective.
Georgia law mandates Duluth-oriented
treatment. Those trying to
treat batterers with the cognitive-behavioral
model, which is what is generally
used in therapy and which
is relatively effective with
batterers, cannot by law receive
funding. As Dutton points
out, feminist DV advocates
are placing women in danger
by refusing to allow effective
treatment of batterers.
Incredibly, by Georgia statute
domestic violence treatment
providers are barred from
using: communication enhancement
or anger management techniques;
psychodynamic interventions
which link causes of the violence
to past experiences and unconscious
motivations; addiction
counseling models; theories
or techniques which identify
poor impulse control as the
primary cause of the violence;
the teaching of fair fighting
techniques; individual therapy
or treatment; treatment methods
which identify psychopathology
on the part of either party
as a primary cause of violence;
and couples, marriage, or
family therapy.
In other words, any treatment
which pushes aside feminist
anti-male ideology and which
might actually work is banned.
It is VAWA money which in
one way or another funds most
of this. To support the SHCFC's
efforts to reform VAWA, click
here.
Silly Seattle is an excellent
new blog which has been covering
VAWA extensively--see
VAWA Con Dios, Biden,
The Violence of VAWA,
and
Silly Seattle: VAWA Say Nada.
Do You
Know a Woman Who Has Helped
the Men's and Fathers' Movement
and Who Deserves Recognition?
One of the least appreciated
aspects of the shared parenting/fatherhood
movement is the large percentage
of women who have taken up
this cause. Seton Hall law
professor Solangel Maldonado
cites my co-authored column
"Why
Are There so Many Women in
the Fathers' Movement?"
(Minneapolis Star-Tribune,
6/21/02) in her new work
Beyond Economic Fatherhood:
Encouraging Divorced Fathers
to Parent (University
of Pennsylvania Law Review,
Vol. 153 January 2005 No.
3).
Around the time of that article
I created the
Women Who Have Helped the
Men's and Fathers' Movement
and Who Deserve Recognition
section on
www.GlennSacks.com. The
section is in need of updating--to
view the list and to nominate
a woman for the list, click
here.
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune
column was published the day
the
National Organization for
Women's national convention
began in Minneapolis. Since
the piece penetrated a newspaper
often regarded as feminist
turf, it is quite possible
that it ruined
Kim Gandy's breakfast
that morning...
Some of you may remember
Solangel Maldonado--she and
I (as well as
Olga Vives, Action Vice
President of the NOW) appeared
on a special on post-divorce
move-aways on Univision's
highly rated
Aqui y Ahora in May. The
show featured the story of
Jose Ceballos, a
His Side listener whose
little son was moved 1,500
miles away against his will.
Also featured was a Miami
custodial mother who seeks
to move her two small children
to Texas--to watch the show,
click
here. The show is all
in Spanish, including my segments.
Maldonado made the astute
observation that whereas in
the past women complained
that men were (supposedly)
not sufficiently involved
in their children's lives
on a daily basis, now that
men are more involved women
are complaining that fathers'
expanded roles can interfere
with women's post-divorce
desires. I would have added
that, as usual, men are criticized
whatever they do.
Los Angeles'
Radio Industry Site Highlights
His Side
LARadio.com, the site
for the Los Angeles' radio
industry, gave His Side with
Glenn Sacks a nice write-up
this week.
LARadio.com discussed
Billboard Radio Monitor's
recent feature story
on His Side--to read the article,
click
here.
Glenn Quoted on Male Birth
Control Pill
I was quoted
on the male birth control
pill in the latest issue of
Science & Spirit magazine--see
A Better Pill To Swallow?
(July/August 2005). The magazine
contacted me after one of
their editors saw my column
Do Women Really Want a Male
Birth Control Pill? (Newsday,
4/11/05).
While I'm
not crazy about the magazine
piece, at least it is better
than most articles about the
male birth control pill, which
usually discuss men as if
they are immature, irresponsible
and selfish. Often articles
contain quotes from women
who say that men can't be
trusted to take the male birth
control pill. Given the number
of men who are paying 18 years
of child support to women
who "accidentally"
got pregnant, one can't help
but think that men may have
the same problem trusting
women...
The Law Offices of Jeffery
M. Leving, Ltd. works
to protect fathers' rights.
Leving is a nationally known
attorney who defends fathers
and believes fathers are often
mistakenly viewed as secondary
parents. He and his staff
of experienced attorneys help
fathers with litigation and
negotiation strategies while
always focusing on what's
best for children--a relationship
with both parents.
The Law Offices of Jeffery
M. Leving, Ltd. represents
clients throughout Illinois
and outside the state. Their
experienced attorneys can
guide you through pre- and
post-divorce proceedings.
They can be reached at (312)
807-3990 or at
www.DadsRights.com.
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
joined Glenn on
His Side with Glenn Sacks
on Sunday, July 3. To listen
to the audio of the show,
click
here.
To
learn more, see:
-
His Side Guest's Ideas
Branded 'Dangerous' by
Georgia DV Commission
-
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.
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