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
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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
Glenn@HisSide.com.
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
mail@mothersmovement.org.
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
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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.
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