Web site statistics for Fathers for Life

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http://fathersforlife.org/Site_Stats/popular_pages.htm/:

Web site statistics for Fathers for Life
Given that there is only one of me to work on this, I found that this page began to rank lower and lower on the priority list. I had to stop making changes to it, but you may wish to look up a summary report I put together 2013 04 08. I find it to be far more illuminating than the nitty-gritty details shown here.

The most often visited web pages at Fathers for Life
(according to web stats for page hits)
Page Hits
Pages (ranked by frequency of access) Mar.
15 – 21,
2004 Dec.
12 – 18,
2004 May
15 – 21, 2005 Oct. 30- Nov. 5, 2005 Aug.
20 – 26, 2006 Dec.
3 – 9,
2006 Dec.
9 – 15,
2007
All Pages 23,175 28,260 46,352 40,238 40,692 140,698 61,962
Anorexia Nervosa : Changing ideals of beauty, intense insane obsession [or perhaps just a passing fad?] 6,809 1,767 3,125 2,059 9,733 42,028 4,721
Home Page and Index Pages 1,130 670 1473 1,307 2,010 5,810 1,575
The Head of the Medusa — Chapter 12: Virtually no men sign declarations of war
Men are the primary victims of war, cannon fodder

321 301 517 733 148 614 1,246
Global Warming 108 314 777 577 172 833 843
Recovering All the Past with Amaury de Riencourt <100 <100 <100 <100 <100 <100 730
Children of Divorce 184 143 322 446 224 473 505
US Suicide Deaths from 1979 to 1996 310 622 666 488 191 161 419
Suicide rates in various countries of the world 118 124 118 144 124 353 395
Canadian Suicides 253 404 385 359 137 439 347
Family Violence — Index Page 178 94 314 382 195 252 389
USA Population Figures and Trends 1980 to 1996 365 334 330 189 <100 87 295
World War II — Casualties 201 322 359 199 165 603 265
Feminism — Definitions of Terms 448 607 240 154 <100 285 237
Feminism — Table of Contents <100 <100 166 223 157 359 229
Abortion <100 104 115 167 <100 226 218
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome <100 <100 <100 366 <100 370 218
Child Abuse and Neglect Data at the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Health Canada <100 <100 <100 <100 <100 190 198
Site Search-Page <100 <100 136 124 105 152 180
Divorce Issues — Main Page <100 <100 170 218 210 155 177
Child Support <100 <100 166 209 246 279 171
Flappers are popular with anorexics <100 <100 119 <100 116 407 163
Erin Pizzey: Grandmother, founder of modern women's-shelter movement, ardent opponent of radical-feminism <100 <100 <100 <100 111 168 161
The reunion of Joni Mitchell and her daughter Kilauren Gibb <100 <100 <100 <100 147 212 153
The international agenda for the planned destruction of the family <100 <100 106 133 <100 128 151
Fatherlessness <100 <100 <100 <100 110 165 148
Canadian Federalism Does Not Work <100 154 <100 318 <100 118 145
Fathers, Fatherhood and Fatherhood Issues <100 <100 <100 <100 114 206 141
Contact us <100 <100 120 98 139 200 133
Sex education <100 <100 116 110 <100 135 128
Divorce Rates (Canada) 167 104 89 184 <100 119 122
Reasons for home-schooling <100 <100 <100 <100 112 94 122
History of Canadian child-support guide lines <100 <100 <100 <100 139 <100 113
News 123 173 120 213 125 527 110
Now and Then — A comparison between methods for oppressing a minority 277 <100 238 401 159 <100 101
Georgia judge declares child support guidelines unconstitutional <100 <100 <100 <100 200 159 101
Site Stats and Popular Pages <100 <100 <100 <100 <100 102 97
Communist Manifesto 179 253 242 315 <100 90 94
Family Law — Main Page <100 <100 111 146 123 90 93
Canadian trends in child-custody awards <100 <100 108 147 116 164 92
DV Newsletter 1997 12 23 <100 <100 <100 <100 <100 105 88
Psychological and Structural Factors Contributing to Disengagement of
Noncustodial Fathers After Divorce <100 <100 <100 <100 115 <100 82
Men's Issues — Table of Contents <100 <100 184 191 <100 95 82
Families and Taxes <100 <100 132 131 <100 97 81
History — Industrial Revolution 115 119 125 123 <100 142 78
Families: Main Page <100 <100 <100 <100 <100 112 78
Men Who Broke 142 135 112 129 <100 <100 78
Women's violence, SS-Wives, Karla Homolka <100 <100 152 103 <100 <100 78
Joint Child-Custody <100 <100 135 219 214 135 76
Children, our most valuable assets — Table of Contents <100 <100 133 110 106 106 76
World Population 113 162 157 220 110 <100 76
Alberta Government commits hate-crime against men <100 <100 <100 <100 119 203 75
Population Control <100 183 202 194 107 <100 73
Erin Pizzey on "How women were taught to hate men" <100 <100 <100 <100 122 146 71
Promoting Cooperative Parenting after Separation:
A Therapeutic Interventionist Model of Family Mediation <100 <100 <100 <100 <100 113 71
FBI Rape Statistics and DNA Testing 106 103 <100 <100 <100 <100 65
Western Chivalry and Stephen Hawking <100 <100 <100 <100 <100 101 <100
Eyewitness accounts from inside the booming trade in fetal body parts <100 <100 2,894 446 <100 <100 <100
Child Pornography 137 111 284 179 <100 <100 <100
Woman Burns Boyfriend's Penis 175 <100
Men's Wages — On Parity With Women's? <100 <100 <100 <100 <100 137 <100
Family-Law News <100 <100 <100 <100 136 127 <100
Health – Key Page <100 <100 <100 <100 <100 121 <100
Feminism is Communism <100 <100 <100 <100 <100 114 <100
Fatherhoood <100 <100 <100 <100 <100 107 <100
The truth about family violence in Canada 101 231 185 <100 <100 100 <100
Glossary of terms used in the politics of sex 120 <100 126 159 113 <100 <100
Are Women's Shelters good for Children? <100 179 <100 <100 <100 <100 <100
Comparing population trends in China and India to those in Canada and Germany 193 177 144 <100 <100 <100 <100
Stop the unraveling of a nation 105 <100 <100 <100 <100 <100 <100
Advice to Men — Feeling like having sex? First consider this 341 196 183 267 155 99 <100
Fascism, Nazism, Communism, Feminism <100 114 99 <100 <100 <100 <100

Traffic Rank according to Alexa.com
Alexa Graph Widget
Traffic rankings according to alexa.com depend on statistics gathered from self-selected samples, that is, those internet users who installed the alexa.com toolbar in their browsers. Self-selected samples do not provide acceptable data quality and are never used in rigidly controlled studies that meet scientific standards. Alexa.com doesn't meet those standards and knows it. Even so, alexa.com claims that the rankings it establishes for websites that rank in 100,000th place or higher are accurate, while the rankings for websites ranked less than 100,000th place are subject to sampling errors. To some extent that claim may be close to the truth, but there is now a far more serious problem with the traffic rankings established by alexa.com.

According to uptime.pingdom.com, since October 2006 alexa.com has been experiencing availability problems that increased considerably in severity by about the middle of November 2006.
Uptime.pingdom.com identifies that alexa.com has been fully available only on 2006 11 01, 04, 10, and 14 during the interval from November 1st to 28th. On Nov. 20th and 24th the availability of alexa.com was as low as 72% and 82% respectively.

In addition to experiencing availability problems, alexa.com is also plagued by timeliness issues. The graph by alexa.com that is shown at the beginning of this commentary is supposed to be updated on a daily basis, but it had not been updated once in the interval from Nov. 22 – 27. It finally got updated on Nov. 28, but only to reflect what that ranking was on Nov. 23. At the time of writing this commentary it is 2006 11 29 8:00 MST and the alexa.com graph is still stuck on Nov. 23.

During the interval from Nov. 14 to 16 the daily number of visitors to Fathers for Life almost tripled. It tapered off a little since then but still remains being considerably higher than it was on Nov. 14.
Alexa.com should have reflected that through changes in its ranking for Fathers for Life and should correspondingly have reflected those rankings in the graph shown above. It did so only very imperfectly. The following graph shows traffic data from the host server for F4L.

The following graphs were obtained November 29th from alexa.com:

Alexa.com appears to have experienced a serious derailment. Perhaps alexa.com will get back on track, but until that happens I will examine other options for tracking ranking trends for F4L.

Update 2006 12 02: As of Nov. 25 alexa.com managed to bring its availability back to normal, into the order of 99.71% or better. A few days ago it also caught up with the backlog of data processing, although today, Dec 02, its processing lags again by two days.

Traffic ranks for two comparable websites according to Quantcast.com

Note: If traffic trends for and comparisons of specific websites interest you, you may make comparisons like the one in the following graph.

Traffic-Rank Comparisons as of 2007 12 20
(click on value to determine current rank for a given website)
Quantcast.com Alexa.com
fathersforlife.org 78,595 266,523
mensnewsdaily.com 95,846 183,394
now.org 28,012 211,000
Comment: Anorexics Flap over Flappers

Mailing lists

Fathers for Life operated a mailing list. The mailing list is no longer in use.

The blog dads & things and the Facebook-page dads & things replaced that mailing list.

Walter Schneider
Fathers for Life

__________________
Posted 2002 01 05
Updates:
2003 04 23
2004 01 14 (added graph for daily page views)
2004 03 25 (added link to Anorexics Flap over Flappers)
2004 12 27 (reformated)
2005 05 24 (replaced graph for daily page views with graph for monthly visits and pageviews)
2013 04 08 (made reference, and installed link, to 2006 – 2013 F4L web-stat summary report; explained that the mailing list was preplaced by the Facebook page and the blog)

Great read on Domestic And FAMILY Violence

March 5, 2016 § Leave a comment

LINK: http://fathersforlife.org/fv/family_violence_main_page.htm#B_Men_Additional_Info

Family Violence — Main Page

Table of Contents

Key to Index

Abstracts of articles

Men’s Help-Index

Introduction

Family violence in Canada
BY EEVA SODHI
Life with Mom, a sign (or button, if you wish) identifying the most common form of family violence, a mother manhandling and seriously abusing her son
Life with Mom is often violent
It is a sad reality,
but few talk about it very much. Why not?

Key to Index

Introduction
The Magnitude of Family Violence
Hate Propaganda
The relative propensity of the sexes to be violent
Who is at fault in Domestic Violence
Lesbian Violence
Various Articles
Myths and Facts about Domestic Violence
Canadian FV Statistics — A collection of information by E. Sodhi
Research on Domestic Violence against Males
Recent research
Sexual abuse of children
Women’s Violence
False Abuse Allegations
Index

Introduction
Men Also Suffer from Domestic Violence Monday, 22 Oct 2007, FOX2 Detroit

History of the politics of DV

The Facts About Spousal Conflict: Personal Responsibility Must Be Expected in Public Policy. Family violence myths debunked by the American Coalition for Fathers & Children (ACFC — Missouri Chapter)

The Nature of Domestic Violence Against Men

So, you think that you are being abused…or maybe you don’t think so…

Telling the Truth about Domestic Violence

Controversy Within Family Violence Research

The Magnitude of Family Violence

Domestic Violence and the Male Victim,
By Anne Lewis and Dr. Sotirios Sarantakos

Domestic Violence Policies: Where Did We Go Wrong?
By Sotirios Sarantakos

Leading Causes of Death by age group and sex
(US data for 1995, age group <1-24 years)

US Murders 1995

US Murders 1996

The troubles with DV murder statistics

[US] Domestic Homicide of Male Spouses by Females: A Review for Death Investigators, By Lt. Cynthia T. Ferguson, CNM, MSN

Hate Propaganda
Alberta Government's website promotes hatred against men

Extremist and cunning misandry: Alberta FV round-table discussion workbook
Massive, government-sponsored hate propaganda that demonizes all Canadian men at the Canadian National Clearing House on Family Violence, a Health Canada web site

The ACLU Sports Hall of Shame — Hate Crimes Against Women?

Toronto Police Hate-Crime Policies — Tools for the suppression of free speech, a symptom of universal national and international trends?

London Metropolitan Police Service launches hate-propaganda campaign against men (2005 03 16)

Researching the "Rape Culture" of America — An Investigation of Feminist Claims about Rape, By Christina Hoff Sommers, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Clark University

We've all heard that "one in four" college women will be victims of rape or attempted rape during their years on campus. Michael Wright takes a look at campus POLICE RECORDS and comes up with… a different answer.
Read the article (off-site)

THE HATE MONGERS
From THE CASSANDRA PAPERS, by Andy Turnbull
Neo Nazis and other overt hate groups are amateurs. THE HATE MONGERS explains how some elements of the women movement use lies and hate to MAKE BIG MONEY for themselves, and how they harm our culture and our economy.

Read THE HATE MONGERS

The relative propensity of the sexes to be violent AND THE REASONS WHY OUR PERCEPTIONS ABOUT THE GENDERS IN THAT RESPECT HAVE BECOME SO BIASED AND DISTORTED
Men are More Likely Than Women to Be Victims in Dating Violence, UNH Expert Says
(UNH Media Relations, May 19, 2006; off-site)

…This research is part of the International Dating Violence Study, a multinational study of violence against dating partners by university students. A consortium of researchers around the world collected data from 13,601 students at 68 universities in 32 nations.

In the paper, Straus calls for an end to the focus on men as the only perpetrators of dating violence, saying the refusal to recognize the multi-causal nature of the problem is hampering the effort to end domestic violence and ignoring half the perpetrators. As recently as December 2005, the National Institute of Justice refused to consider applications for funding that dealt with male victims….

Abused Men – The Other Half of Domestic Violence involving adults. Violence involving children is another story

Alberta MLAs are being asked for help

A letter to John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General,
Re: VAWA and Domestic Violence Against Men and Children

A letter to the Alberta Justice Department, in response to a call for input to a discussion paper on a proposal for a new Prevention of Family Violence Act

A tool kit to destroy families

Battered-Men Shelters

Battered Men — Resources and links, by Bert Hoff
Additional information and help-line index

Battered-Women Shelters

Betty Friedan and her Lies — Carl Friedan tells his side of the horror story of his twenty-year marriage to his violent ex-wife.

Bill C-245 (1998), an act to amend the Criminal Code, penalties for sexual offences involving children, to be read the second time and to be referred to a committee

Domestic-Violence Industry: A Cult

Family Violence Studies: A Brief History, by Richard Bennett

History of domestic violence among male patients presenting to an urban emergency department.

C. Crawford Mechem, MD, Frances S. Shofer, PhD, Sharon S. Reinhard, BA, EMT, Sarah Hornig, BSN, RN and Elizabeth Datner, MD

From the Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (CCM, FSS, SSR, SH, ED).

Address for correspondence and reprints: C. Crawford Mechem, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283. Fax: 215-662-3953; e-mail: mechemc@mail.med.upenn.edu

Academy of Emergency Medicine 1999 Aug;6(8):786-91
Abstract and publication details

Husband Abuse: An Overview of Research and Perspectives

Prepared by Leslie Tutty for the Family Violence Prevention Unit, Health Canada.

This discussion paper provides insight into the issue of abuse against men by their intimate partners. It summarizes information from three sources: literature on husband abuse, studies in which abused men describe their experiences, and conversations with representatives from approximately 40 family violence treatment programs and men's issues groups. 1999, 28 p. Full Paper (292kB PDF file – off-site)

Intimate Partner Abuse Against Men – Overview Paper
by Dr. Eugen Lupri and Dr. Elaine Grandin

For the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Health Canada.

This document provides an overview of the available research findings on the nature and extent of abuse committed by women against their intimate male partners, as well as an examination of the various methods that have been used in that research. It identifies risk factors and the physical and psychological effects on victims. Finally, it considers issues relevant to prevention and offers suggestions on what individuals (victims, friends and professionals) can do and what resources and services they can access for help. 2004, 13 p. Full Report (109kB PDF file – off-site)

Intimate Partner Abuse Against Men [and Boys]
A compendium of resources,
National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Health Canada (off-site)

Video on violent women

Male and Female DV-rates

The implications of the report from which the excerpt shown below was copied are mind-boggling.

What research tels us about domestic violence, March 2002

Unfortunately, the report is completely in graphics format, which is why the PDF file is so large. Nevertheless, it is worth having a copy of.

The report is based on a an examination of a good number of DV studies from all over the world. It confirms what those with open and objective minds have known for decades: interspousal violence is not a male monopoly. It is at least as often committed by women as it is committed by men.

That the myth of men having a monopoly on that aspect of intimate partner violence persisted for so long in the face of so much evidence from reputable and even government sources is nothing less than evidence of the power of feminist propaganda promoted by people in thrall to a totalitarian ideology.

Japan joins the community of nations falling victim to the tactic of implementing domestic- or family-violence laws for the destruction of families

Lenore Walker's "The Battered Woman" has become the bible of family violence for people making their living off and promoting the battered women's industry. Her husband, Morton Flax, shot himself.

Malicious Mother Syndrome — A letter from a handicapped woman who was abused — along with her sisters — by her own mother

Video on violent women

One Father's Story — The sad story of the destruction of one family on account of family violence.

Rape is a crime that is now being investigated routinely through the help of DNA testing

References Examining Assaults by Women on their Spouses or Male Partners: An Annotated Bibliography, by Martin Fiebert

Sex Differences in Aggression Between Heterosexual Partners: A Meta-Analytic Review, by John Archer, University of Central Lancashire

War in the Family — An account of one battle skirmish near Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

WFN Press Release, Re: New (1997) Bureau of Justice Stats on DV

"Where’s My Frying Pan?" Women and Domestic Violence

Women Hit Too! — An article by Nancy Updike in the May/June 1999 issue of Mother Jones

The Myth of Female Innocence — Many "experts" state that the characteristics of serial killers include "male", "Caucasian", and exclude women. What then are we to make of cases like these?

Countess Elizabeth Bathory "of Hungary, who bled to death 610 peasant girls, whom she abducted and kept in her castle dungeon so that she could fill rejuvenating beauty baths with their youthful blood." (Patricia Pearson, "When She Was Bad: The Myth of Female Innocence," p. 156)

On December 20th, 1985, Marybeth Tinning in Schenectady, New York, murdered the last of her nine children, a four-week-old baby girl Tami Lynn. The others, aged from a few weeks to five years, were killed by her over the preceding 14 years. The cause of all deaths had been diagnosed as SIDS. The community members had began to wonder after the sixth child died. Not until the ninth death happened were charges laid.

Melissa Ann Russel: Internet Black Widow — She killed two men for their money and defrauded others, including the Canadian taxpayers, of theirs. However, she did receive an early parole for a murder convictions in Canada, became a $50,000/year spokeswoman for battered wives, and then promptly picked, married, exploited and killed her next victim, an 85-year-old man.

People like Jack the Ripper (he killed five prostitutes) are the stuff of movie after movie, book after book, headline-story after headline story in the papers. People like Jane Toppan (a nurse and contemporary of Jack the Ripper who killed as many as or more than 90 patients for no other reason than that she wanted to set a record) and like Countess Elizabeth Bathory are forgotten, as is the fact that the vast majority of serious or fatal family violence victims fell victim to women's violence and also the fact that the vast majority of serial killers is female.

Who is at fault in Domestic Violence
Patrol Constables' Perceptions of Wife Assault Sensitivity Training, A Qualitative Evaluation, Theresa Petkau, June 1998

Emergency Department Injury Surveillance Report

Video on violent women

Lesbian Violence
The Bloody and Deadly Countess Elizabeth Bathory

Lesbian couples are far more violent than heterosexual couples

Erin Pizzey comments on A Lesbian DV Brochure

If the data collected are accurate, then Gay DV is the fastest growing sector of domestic violence.
Various Articles
The Facts About Spousal Conflict: Personal Responsibility Must Be Expected in Public Policy. Family violence myths debunked by the American Coalition for Fathers & Children (ACFC — Missouri Chapter)

Knocked for six: the myth of a nation of wife batterers
by Neil Lyndon and Paul Ashton, The Sunday Times of London 1995 01 29

Quotes from and articles by Armin Brott

Extracts from 'Manufacturing Concern' (see also the message announcing "Manufacturing Concern")

Husband Battering, a section in David Throop's Men's Issues Index

Wendy McElroy discusses: Feminist Urban Legends

Spare the rod and run for cover — When students hold the cards, school violence grows, especially among the girls

Myths and Facts about Domestic Violence
Myths and Facts about family violence (containing analyses and summaries of, and references and some links to, a large number of US Bureau of Justice reports and to Canadian and British sources)

Fact: Political correctness drives and taints the politics of domestic violence statistics

Fact: Quote from a press release August 27, 1997 by the Women's Freedom Network

Fact: Reena Sommer — Male and Female Perpetrated Partner Abuse: Testing a Diathesis-Stress Model

Fact: The "Rule of Thumb for Wife-Beating" Hoax
Wife beating was always illegal

Fact: The Super Bowl Wife-Battering Hoax

Fact: To round out the picture, have a look at the collection of articles at the DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FORUM of the Shared Parenting web site.

Fact: Domestic Violence in Gay "Families"

Fact: FBI Statistics on Spousal Murder, they show that gender equality works in weird and wondrous ways.

Fact: Women are the gentler sex?

Newsletters: Common Sense and Domestic Violence

Canadian FV Statistics — A collection of information by E. Sodhi
Research on domestic violence against males:

Sexual abuse of children
An Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Based on Non-clinical Samples
Are your children safe in school?
The big list: Female teachers with students
Most comprehensive account on Internet of women predators on campus, by WorldNetDailyNews
Health Canada: Adolescent Sex Offenders

USA: (2003 11 06) A Lansing mother accused of molesting her 2-year-old son and broadcasting the incident on the Internet pleaded no contest Wednesday to a reduced charge.

Meet 'Women's Auxiliary of NAMBLA'

Lesbian Child Sexual Abuse

A report by the National Clearing House on Family Violence, "The Invisible Boy", examines the issue of the abuse of boys and how our society fails these poor children.

Political opportunism and grand-standing vs. scientific facts: Women commit at least as much sexual abuse of children as do men.

The extent of involvement by women in the sexual abuse of children

Female perpetrators of sexual abuse of boys , by Jim Hopper, Ph.D. (off-site)

Sexual Abuse of Males — Prevalence, Possible Lasting Effects, and Resources, by Jim Hopper, Ph.D. (off-site)

The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children and Teens
by Frederick Mathews

Prepared by the Canadian Foster Family Association (CFFA) on behalf of the
National Clearinghouse on Family Violence of Health Canada.

This document provides insight into the issue of sexual abuse of male children and teens. It outlines the prevalence of sexual abuse against boys and male teens in various settings, summarizes data on the perpetrators of the abuse, and identifies some of the effects on survivors. Implications for research, assessment, treatment, and PROGRAM development are also presented. 1996, 68 p. Full Report (287kB PDF file, off-site)

The extent of involvement of women in the sexual abuse of children

The psychological impact of sexual abuse: Content analysis of interviews with male survivors (off-site) [warning, 2 megabyte PDF], Lisak, D. (1994), Journal of Traumatic Stress, 7, 525-548.

Woman charged with raping boy after giving birth to his son

Women commit at least as much child sexual abuse as do men

Women's Violence
An Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Based on Non-clinical Samples

Child Abuse: Statistics, Research, and Resources

Gender as a factor in the Family Violence Courts, by Eeva Sodhi

Husband-Killing Syndicates (h/t: http://news.mensactivism.org/node/17318)

At the WEBSITE of The Unknown History of MISANDRY

FACTS which contradict what is taught in the universities and which even run counter to the assumptions made by critics of misandry.

Lesbian Child Sexual Abuse

Meet 'Women's Auxiliary of NAMBLA'

More deadly than the male
Media hide the fact women are far more likely than men are to kill their children.

NSPCC research findings of women's role in the maltreatment of children in the UK

The extent of involvement of women in the sexual abuse of children

The quiet horror — The murder rate for U.S. females is highest in the first year of life.

Women commit at least as much child sexual abuse as do men

When statistics for all family violence victims are examined, it emerges that women, primarily mothers, perpetrate by far the largest share of incidents of violence in the family.

False Abuse Allegations
False Abuse Allegations, how many of them are there, and what are their consequences?

Getting rid of dad —False allegations levelled against men who are said to have sexually abused their children have become the weapon of choice in custody battles following divorce and separation.

Almost half of child abuse allegations that are being investigated are proven to be unsubstantiated. Another quarter cannot be substantiated, although suspicions remain.

Introduction

For a few decades now, and increasingly so during the past two, man-hating gender activists created and nurtured the perception that men are violent, especially against women. All too often, examples of the violence by men are produced and used to extrapolate and project from them to all male members of the human species. Common sense should tell anyone that such depictions simply cannot be true.
The vast majority of humanity, men or women, are simply not violent. Moreover, men are being indoctrinated from childhood on that boys don't hit girls. It used to be that girls were being educated that violence doesn't become them, but increasingly so in the last two decades girls are being taught to have the "right to hit back," from where it now follows in the minds of many girls and women that they have the right to hit, whether that is done by them in aggression or in retaliation.
We must therefore not be surprised that violence by women is becoming more and more prevalent. In many states in the US arrest rates for women in incidents of domestic violence are growing and now comprise about one third of all arrests in DV incidents.
The truth, from an authoritative source, is,

From the cover of "Not Guilty : In Defence of the Modern Man," by David thoms. The image is an adaptation from Michael Angelo's Creation (of Adam), where in that adpation God gives the "thumb-up" after seeing what he has produced with Adam
Adaptation from Michel Angelo's Creation (Adam)
FROM THE COVER OF DAVID THOMAS' Not Guilty : In Defence of the Modern Man

The History of the Development of the Popular Views and Politics of Domestic Violence, a collection of links to articles that explain the workings of the massive feminist propaganda campaign that served the purpose — quite effectively — to demonize all men.
The Nature of Domestic Violence Against Men

The following is Anne Bransdon's DV against men model from her Web site. It is a great improvement on the power wheel from the Duluth model. (Click on the image to see larger version.)

Domestic violence against men, Australian model
copied from Model 1999 at Anne Bransdon's site

Anne Bransdon's WEBSITE is currently experiencing difficulties with accessibility, but Anne Bransdon gives permission to use her model far and wide. Send an e-mail to Anne Bransdon.

So, you think that you are being abused…or maybe you don't think so

Looking through Anne Bransdon's excellent categories and indexes of types of abuse, many will without doubt recognize familiar aspects of every-day life they became subjected to over the last little while or over the period of their lives that they escaped from and consider to have been hell on earth.

There are many more people who are right now involved or have been in circumstances in which many of the items in Anne Bransdon's model play dominant roles, but many of those people don't realize at all that any of those aspects are at work to destroy their relationship, their love, their family and their lives.

The devil is in the details. Maybe all that is required, for abusers and abused alike, is to consider an account by someone who was involved in an abusive relationship and who, even though he escaped from it, is still very strongly entangled in it. It is quite obvious that the individual who wrote the account managed to get a good grasp on the mass of tiny details in everyday life that constitute abuse in his case. It is also obvious that perhaps he is setting himself up to being abused by insisting that his abuser should act rationally. Abusers abuse because they don't, and often can't, act rationally.

As Erin Pizzey explains in her discussion paper on how to deal with terrorists in the family (that was the original title of the paper, but it is now called "Working with violent women"), it is not reasonable to expect terrorists (that's what abusers are) to act rationally. There is therefore not much point in expecting to be able to negotiate with terrorists. What is necessary in trying to get terrorists to make concessions or to have them live by equitable principles is to make them live by the law. A line needs to be drawn, and terrorists need to have pointed out to them what the rules are by which they must guide their conduct. They need to learn what they can get away with and what not. They need to learn that they can't get away with as much as they wish to get away with.

Here is the link to the story I mentioned. The story is an excellent account of such details that an abused man began to recognize and analyse in looking back at the abuse he experienced through his abuser, the mother of his son, his former wife.

She Married The Great Satan…And Lived To Tell The Tale
By "Tex," her angry, abused ex-husband
Published at Dr. Irene's verbal abuse site

Telling the Truth about Domestic Violence

by David Fontes, Psy.D., CEAP, August 29, 1998 (PDF 67kB)

The essay by David Fontes is an objective and thorough overview of violence research and statistics. It provides truths that will surprise many, but its title, "Telling The Truth about Domestic Violence", is misleading.

Although the essay is very thorough in telling the truth, it mentions nothing at all about many forms of domestic violence, such as that against children, violence between siblings, violence by children against parents, or violence against the elderly. Therefore a better title for the essay would be, "Telling the Truth about Partner Violence", because that is the only type of domestic violence the essay tells about. However, the essay is immensely valuable for debunking feminist claims about "domestic violence".

David Fontes' essay analyzes not only the fallacies inherent in misleading partner violence statistics, it also identifies the failings and shortcomings of the various and often even official, governmental (therefore apparently credible) sources of the partner violence statistics misandrist feminists love to use in their propaganda war against men and families.

It is deliberate and not an accident that the essay's focus is solely on partner violence. The article is a refutation of a "domestic violence" article by feminist Kate Orman.

Like all feminists that use distorted and selective "domestic violence" statistics as propaganda tools when speaking or writing about partner violence, so as to stress the victim status of women, Kate Orman, too, is blind to all forms of violence in families except men's violence against women. All such feminists, if they mention women's violence against men at all, use it only for propagandistic purposes. They use at best only what of it gets reported (the vast majority of it doesn't) and, most importantly, they only use it to falsely claim, and thereby indoctrinate the public into believing, that there are vastly fewer incidents of violence by women against men than there are of violence by men against women.

By such propaganda tactics feminist were successful over the years in making "domestic violence" a synonym for "violence against women".

Full Story

http://www.reenasommerassociates.mb.ca/a_wfn.html

Controversy Within Family Violence Research
Reena Sommer, Ph.D.; University of Manitoba, Canada

PRESENTED AT THE WOMEN'S FREEDOM NETWORK CONFERENCE

Washington, D.C., 14-15 October 1995

I have been involved in the study of partner abuse for the past eight years. My interest in this issue began with my concern about violence against women. Initially, my examination of partner abuse focused on courtship violence and spouse abuse perpetrated by men. My sense of curiosity led me to go against what I believed to be the essence of partner abuse and examine the prevalence of abuse perpetrated by women. Quite to my surprise, I found that women too, abused their male partners at equivalent rates. This led me to search out other research examining this issue, and again to my surprise I found my findings were not an anomaly, but had considerable support.

Considerable controversy has emerged as a result of studies finding equivalent rates of abuse for males and females. The rift within family violence research centers on how researchers have approached their investigations. On one hand, there is the unidimensional approach to partner abuse advanced by feminists. They view abuse between intimates as a problem of women being abused by men whereby the abuse is perceived as a dichotomous variable (abuse/no abuse) and seen in its most severe forms. On the other hand, sociologists and family researchers view partner abuse as being gender neutral and occurring along a continuum with no abuse at one end and very severe abuse at the other end.

I would like to address this controversy by first providing a backdrop to how the divisiveness in the study of partner abuse developed, and then by discussing some of the methodological and practical issues that have contributed to it….

(Full Story)

The Magnitude of Family Violence

Family violence is a relatively small problem in relation to all other causes of deaths and injury. It is difficult to understand why comprehensive information that permits a look at the relative numbers of victims is so hard to find. Most likely the reason for that is that when information pertaining to victims of family violence is looked at in relation to victims of other causes of death, it becomes obvious that the number of family violence victims appears to be exceedingly and trivially small, and that is the last thing the proponent of the domestic violence industry want people to learn much about. Therefore they keep that fact hidden and distorted. They can easily do that, because they control what information we get to see. They refuse with all their might to tell us the truth, nothing but and all of the truth.
To take such an objective view provides another truth. Boys and men comprise the vast majority of all victims of violence, but not only that, they comprise the vast majority of deaths in every major category of death except for the elderly, which are comprised largely of women. That stands to reason. Women are far more likely than men to survive into old age. Depending on country, their life expectancy is up to 14 years higher than that of men.
So, because women comprise the vast majority of the elderly, it stands to reason that far, far more elderly women than elderly men die. Nevertheless, feminists have absolutely no compunction in painting that circumstance – which is an outcome of all-pervasive discrimination against boys and men – as another manifestation of discrimination against women. Go figure, the fact that women live far longer lives than men is, according to the feminists, due to sex-discrimination against women. Let's not worry about that. Such contradictions are prevalent in, and govern, feminist dialectics.
However, on account of the changing demographics that are caused by and fuel the escalating destruction of our families, women face special challenges, both as victims and perpetrators, due to abuse of the elderly. The population sector containing the elderly grows at an unprecedented rate in absolute terms and especially in relative terms with respect to the size of the younger productive population sector that has to bear the increasingly unbearably large responsibility to care and provide for those who can't produce anything any longer for themselves. One of the consequences of that is an enormous increase (150% in the US from 1986 to 1996) in elderly abuse, predominantly cases of neglect of the elderly. ( TRENDS IN ELDER ABUSE IN DOMESTIC SETTINGS, NATIONAL CENTER ON ELDER ABUSE, Elder Abuse Information Series No. 2 (PDF 42kB); see also Prisoners in Their Own Homes, by Glenn Sacks. In addition, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch produced an excellent series of articles on the topic of fatal elder abuse and neglect in US nursing homes (it is estimated that tens of tousands of cases happen each year), Neglected to Death (Oct. 12 – 19, 2002). See abstract and commentary relating to the articles and to the problem of elder abuse and neglect in nursing home and hospitals.)

UPDATE2004 06 24:

If you have concerns about these and other issues related to the condition of seniors, visit, contact and perhaps even join:

SUN — Seniors United Now

The up- and coming, rapidly-growing advocacy organization for seniors (55 years and over) in Alberta

There are in the order of about half a million or more people of age 55 and over in Alberta. If all of them were to join SUN, they would become the most powerful advocacy organization in Alberta; and seniors would no longer be robbed of their comforts and otherwise ignored.
At the price of one package of cigarettes seniors will be able to gain a voice that will be heard by a government that otherwise can and will take from seniors what they worked for all their life to enjoy in their old age.

If you are concerned about how seniors are affected by the planned, systematic destruction of our families and society, a search at google.com (for elderly OR seniors OR grandparent OR grandfather OR grandmother site:http://fathersforlife.org) will provide you with the links to about 84 web pages at Fathers for Life that will be of interest to you.

Pure and simple, any claims that women are being killed by their boyfriends and husbands in large and ever escalating numbers are nothing but plain and unadulterated propaganda and fantasy.
Furthermore, a slight majority of interspousal violence is initiated and committed by women. However, any claims that men are the perpetrators of the majority of domestic violence become quite simply ludicrous when all types of domestic violence are examined. When children are being abused, they, too, become victims of domestic violence. Unfortunately, on account of the world-wide feminist-driven and feminist-inspired and sustained propaganda campaign against men, violence by women has become virtually invisible.
The sad consequence of that is that ever escalating numbers of children are being abused by their mothers. Those abused children, in turn, become then the next generation of adults who abuse other adults and primarily children. Women commit the vast majority of all child abuse.

All discussions of family violence revolve around the information shown in the following graph and the subsequent tables. Unless we look at the information in the graph and keep it in mind, we'll lose sight of the fact that all discussions pertaining to women as victims of violence are addressing information that has been taken out of context.

Leading causes of deaths, by age group and sex (US data)
Discussion of and links to sources of data

Murders in the US in 1995

Victims

Percent
of total

Total Murders 21,597 100
Men 16,630 77
Women 3,752 17.4
Children (Source: CPS) 1,215 5.6

Men murdered by girlfriends/wives 3% of 16,630 499 2.31
Women murdered by boyfriends/husbands 26% of 3,752 976 4.52
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Report for 1995
Discussion of data

Murders in the US in 1996

Victims Percent
of total
Total Murders 19,645 100
Men 15,848 80.7
Women 2,711 13.8
Children
(Child Fatality Fact Sheet) 1,077 5.5

Men murdered by girlfriends/wives 3% of 15,848 475 2.4
Women murdered by boyfriends/husband 30% of 2,711 813 4.1
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Report for 1996
Discussion of data

See also:

The troubles with DV murder statistics
[US] Domestic Homicide of Male Spouses by Females: A Review for Death Investigators, By Lt. Cynthia T. Ferguson, CNM, MSN (June 2004)
Women in intimate relationships are frequently portrayed by modern society as “the victim” when violence or a homicide occurs in intimate partnerships. These women CONTINUE to be seen by American culture as weak individuals who suffer at the hands of domineering, powerful, over-controlling men. The myth that spousal murder is committed almost entirely by husbands who kill their wives must be dispelled. In addition, there are discrepancies within the legal system, where a female is treated more leniently for murdering her husband, than when a man murders his wife. The criminal-justice system has failed to see equality in the crimes in the sexes, allowing for biased views that women are less malevolent than men and more prone to victimization. The stigma is intractable that women are more likely than men to feel remorse for what they’ve done. While this may be true for some women; for others, the truth is much farther away than many suspect. [Full story]

The relative propensity of the two sexes to be violent and the reasons why our perceptions about that became so biased and distorted.
A tool kit to destroy families — Two responses to an article The last rites for chivalry, by Suzanne Fields, The Washington Times, Dec. 3, 2001
Battered-Men Shelters

Sorry, although partner violence is an equal-opportunity crime in which partners of both sexes engage to an equal extent, there are no shelters for battered men in Canada, and perhaps one or two in the USA, apparently none in the rest of the world.

Well, that may not be quite true. If you are a man and need shelter from an abusive woman, you can find it in the local jail, but you can't take your children anywhere to PROTECT them from an abusive woman.

If you are a battered man, check the following for some help and advice:

Battered Men — Resources and links

Additional information and help lines

If you are looking for a battered men's shelter, what is available to men is described in in a photo essay at The Shattered Men website. A telling comparison is being made between typical women's shelters and typical men's shelters to identify the differences between the services available for male and female abuse victims.

Battered-Women Shelters – Index

Although partner violence is an equal-opportunity crime in which partners of both sexes engage to an equal extent, and although there are virtually no shelters for battered men (none in Canada), there are about 500 shelters for battered women in Canada and an enormously large number of battered women's shelters in the USA and other developed nations. However, battered-women shelters do have their very own peculiar problems.

Are Abuse Shelters good for Children?

Domestic-Violence Industry: A Cult

Thanks to dvmen.org for obtaining the permission to post the following five remarkable articles that were published between December 4th and 8th of 2001 by Dave Brown, senior editor and columnist for the Canadian newspaper The Ottawa Citizen.

Men challenge 'bible' of violence against women: A Toronto inquest will question the validity of a standard reference book, Tuesday, December 4, 2001.

Burying the ghosts of a violent past: Husband in wheelchair became focus of wife's rage, Wednesday, December 5, 2001.

'I learned it's a system that doesn't listen': Wife still terrified by threats from family violence specialists, Thursday, December 6, 2001.

Turning domestic violence into a religion: Inquest an epic social debate, Friday, December 7, 2001.

Cult of the domestic-violence industry: Where are the great numbers of victims we hear about?, Saturday, December 8, 2001.

Dave Brown mentioned in the last of the preceding articles that evidence of an epidemic of domestic violence against women does not exist. He investigated and found that during the Year 2000 not one patient who had been a victim of domestic violence had been admitted at the Civic campus of the Ottawa Hospital (one of several serving a populace of about 1.4 million people). He did find that at the Civic's emergency room during that year twenty-nine patients had been treated for injuries received in domestic violence incidents, but that number was not broken down by gender (it appears that the relationships between the perpetrators and their victims were not identified nor what proportion of the victims were children).

The report "Emergency Department Injury Surveillance Report, South Fraser Health Region April 1, 2001 – June 30, 2001", by the South Fraser Health Region Emergency Department provides similar findings. Although the number of patients in the category "Homicide and Injury Purposely Inflicted by Other" who received treatment is not broken down by victim-perpetrator relationship nor whether any of the injuries were obtained in domestic-violence incidents, the report does provide a breakdown by sex. Domestic violence victims comprise a very small fraction of the totals in those categories. (See Distribution of Cause of Injury, South Fraser Health Region Emergency Department)

See also the analyses of domestic violence statistics done by Eeva Sodhi, someone who devoted years of her life to discovering the Truth about Family Violence.

Family Violence Studies: A Brief History, by Richard Bennett
References Examining Assaults by Women on their Spouses or Male Partners: An Annotated Bibliography, by Martin S. Fiebert , Department of Psychology, California State University, Long Beach
"…206 scholarly investigations: 159 empirical studies and 47 reviews… The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 197,900."

The bibliography is also accessible at
http://familyop.freeshell.org/DV/assault.html

A letter to John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General,
Re: VAWA and Domestic Violence Against Men and Children,
by Robert A. Fink, M. D. April 9, 2001
Women Hit Too! — An article by Nancy Updike in the May/June 1999 issue of Mother Jones identifies research findings by reputable social scientists that show that women predominate as perpetrators in incidents of domestic violence. Links are provided at this page that will lead to the sources of the findings.
Betty Friedan and her Lies — Carl Friedan tells his side of the horror story of his twenty-year marriage to his violent ex-wife.
"Where’s My Frying Pan?" Women and Domestic Violence by Richard C. Weiss
Abused Men – The Other Half of Domestic Violence involving adults. Violence involving children is another story.
The new book Abused Men – The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence, By Philip W. Cook, offers real solutions to the problem of domestic violence. This pioneering book has received positive reviews from many leading professionals in the field, including Dr. Murray A. Strauss, Dr. Judith Sherven, Dr. James Sniechowski, Erin Pizzey, Dr. Malcolm George, and Reena Sommer, Ph.D.

A letter to the Alberta Justice Department, in response to a call for input to a discussion paper on a proposal for a new Prevention of Family Violence Act. The letter contains the full text of the proposal as well as comments on the individual sections. http://fathersforlife.org/doc/comments.doc (74 KB, MSWord 6 Doc.)
Battered Men — Resources and links, by Bert Hoff (Sorry, it's extremely unlikely to find shelter in your location if you need it, but at least there is advice — and some help if you need it.)
Japan joins the community of nations falling victim to the tactic of implementing domestic- or family-violence laws for the destruction of families — ostensibly for the PROTECTION of women, in reality needless laws, as there are more than enough laws to provide protection to women already. (See also Parents' rights a demographic issue, by COLIN P.A. JONES, Special to The JAPAN Times, Tuesday, July 18, 2006)
Rape is a crime that is now being investigated routinely through the help of DNA testing. DNA testing will and does clear a large number of falsely accused men as shown in the report by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice PROGRAMS
False Rape Charges Hurt Real Victims, By Wendy McElroy, foxnews.com, 2003 07 22
Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science: Case Studies in the Use of DNA Evidence to Establish Innocence After Trial
About 25 percent of men accused and convicted of rape are innocent, perhaps as many as 40 percent — at least as recent as 1989, and many of those innocent men are still serving time for their alleged crime. Obviously, women were either mistaken or lied in identifying the wrong man as their attacker. That still leaves open to question how many of the men not exonerated by DNA evidence had in reality consensual sex. How many rape charges in spousal rapes are false? The US DoJ report provides no information about that, but it would be definitely worth looking into.

2004 09 16
Convictions based on faulty hair analysis

Today, The Globe and Mail carried the following article:

Faulty analysis sparks call for review of cases

Flawed hair findings used in convictions, Manitoba study says

Thursday, September 16, 2004 – Page A7

The article mentioned that 39 analyses were re-examined and tested against DNA evidence. Four analyses were found to have been "faulty". Under the circumstances, "faulty" is a euphemism for "wrong".

The article says nothing about how many hair analyses had been used in all or whether selection criteria were used to pick the 39 Manitoba murder cases. How about rape cases, assaults and robberies that had no fatal outcomes but nevertheless resulted in severe sentences? (False or fabricated "evidence" are by no means a rare occurrence, see full story)

In the US, there are an estimated 520,000 false rape allegations a year — 98.1% of all reported cases. (Eeva Sodhi, Debunking Domestic Violence Statistics; Rape)
Malicious Mother Syndrome — A letter from a handicapped woman who was abused — along with her sisters — by her own mother
WFN Press Release, Re: New (1997) Bureau of Justice Stats on DV
From: Cathy Young
Date: 8/26/97 6:03 PM
Subject: Women's Freedom Network (WFN) Press Release – Domestic Violence

NEW JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FINDINGS SHOW
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ADVOCATES HAVE EXAGGERATED STATISTICS, WOMEN'S GROUP SAYS

Sex Differences in Aggression Between Heterosexual Partners: A Meta-Analytic Review

John Archer
University of Central Lancashire

Meta-analyses of sex differences in physical aggression to heterosexual partners and in its physical consequences are reported. Women were slightly more likely (d = -.05) than men to use one or more act of physical aggression and to use such acts more frequently. Men were more likely (d = .15) to inflict an injury, and overall 62% of those injured by a partner were women. The findings partially support previous claims that different methods of measurement produce conflicting results, but there was also evidence that the sample was an important moderator of effect size. CONTINUOUS models showed that younger aged dating samples and a lower proportion of physically aggressive males predicted effect sizes in the female direction. Analyses were limited by the available database, which is biased toward young dating samples in the United States. Wider variations are discussed in terms of two conflicting norms about physical aggression to partners that operate to different degrees in different cultures.

Psychological Bulletin, 2000. Vol. 136. No. 5. 651-680
(0033-2909/00/$5.00 DOI: 10.1037//0033-2909.126.5.65)
(A ZIP file of the study (337kB – in English)
can be downloaded from the WEBSITE of the Maenner Buero – Trier,
which contains an extensive bibliography on German- and English-language studies and articles on domestic violence.)

John Archer tested for various types of bias in the hundreds of studies he analyzed and found that bias is present to varying extents in some of them and needed to be allowed and corrected for.
It must be stressed that studies based solely on police- or judicial statistics suffer from feminist-induced bias in self-reporting, biased POLICE REPORTING, biased judicial decisions, and from major differences in psychological and social conditioning of men and women.
Women are far more likely than men to report that they experienced aggression. Women are being encouraged to report transgressions against themselves, whether their allegations are true or false, while men are being pressured through social conditioning not to complain about women's transgressions. What aggravates the differences are Zero-Tolerance policies, on account of which in many jurisdictions men will be arrested in partner-violence altercations, even if they are seriously injured and women are not.

Additional information and help-line index:

Domestic Violence Against Men —Gender Equality in Social Services Delivery, by Bert H. Hoff
Gender Polarization in Domestic Violence Perpetrator PROGRAMS —The "Duluth Model", by Bert H. Hoff
Domestic Violence, Official Washington State Policy: The Gender Neutrality Joke, by Bert H. Hoff
Battered Men, Men's Personal Stories, by Bert H. Hoff
Men's Help Lines (International)

Index for countries other than the US(by dvmen.org)
Domestic Violence against Men (UK, TV Channel 4, Thursday 7 January 1999)
U.K. Crisis line
NZ Crisis Line
NZ Crisis Line for Men in Big Demand After TV Ad
USA — Various States

DVmen listed all the resource they could find for men and women at http://www.dvmen.org/dv-191.htm#pgfId-998197, by state.

USA — New York

Where to Find Help

Note: The help-line information provided in the following comes from an article in Newsday. If you are a man seeking help, it is unlikely that you'll be comfortable, or will even get the help you seek, with all but the Father's Rights Association of Long Island mentioned in the article. I checked all of the other organizations over. Just judging from their web sites, it appears that they'll not have much sympathy, let alone anything else, to offer to men, given that they do a fair bit of men-bashing at their web sites. —WHS

According to Clarice Murphy, PROGRAM director for the Victim's Information Bureau of Suffolk, a man-or woman-who may be being abused should ask: Am I fearful of my partner's behavior? Am I afraid of being physically harmed? Do I feel I need to change my behavior in order to avoid harm? Does my partner control my behavior with threats or intimidation? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, contact a domestic violence agency or advocacy group to get more information about legal, counseling and advocacy services.

Local agencies include:

Nassau County Coalition Against Domestic Violence
516-542-0404 or http://www.zip2.com/newsday/cadv/

Suffolk County Coalition Against Domestic Violence
631-666-8833 or http://www.sccadv.org/

Victim's Information Bureau of Suffolk
631-360-3606 or http://www.vibs.org/

Father's Rights Association of Long Island
516-783-1636 or http://www.sarilaw.com/fathersrights/

Safe Horizons in Manhattan,
800-621-HOPE or http://www.safehorizons.org/

USA — Pennsylvania

http://www.MensCustodyShelterNetwork.com

I became a mother when my son was born. I became a father when my son died and left me his kids. I became an advocate of father's rights when they tried to take the kids away.
MCSN assists with physical, mental and counseling needs for men falsely accused in custody disputes. We attempt to obtain temporary housing for men taken from their homes and their children with restraining orders based on false accusations.

— Carol Carpec
Founder of MCSN

Canada

Directory of Services and PROGRAMS for Abused Men in Canada
by the NCFV
Published by the authority of the Minister of Health Canada, 2004
Prepared by: National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Family Violence Prevention Unit, Public Health Agency of Canada
Grouped by province and territory, this 2004 directory lists programs and services across Canada. Each organization is listed with a brief description of its services as well as current contact information. Where possible, the description identifies the type of service provided, relevant fees, and whether services are available in English and/or French. 2004, 66p. Full Directory (393kB PDF file)

Logo for link to Canadian Equal Parenting Groups Directory
Canada, Ontario

Huron County

Men’s Help Line
Divorce, Loss of Children, Family Violence

— Balance Beam 519-525-2066 24 Hours a day

Family Violence and Divorce hurt men and their children. Men are at a disadvantage in divorce and legal conflict.
Balance Beam provides emotional support and strategy planning to ease the trauma of conflict and breakup. Our goal is to mediate and encourage non-adversarial resolution of family problems.
Canadian studies show men and women initiate violence equally in domestic relationships, yet men suffer silently and are scorned when they do speak out.
Fathers are often denied access to their children. Studies document that as many as 30% to 40% of fathers are denied access to their children.
Many children who are denied fathers are harmed by the loss of their fathers love. Studies document an increase in drug abuse, falling grades, violence and teen pregnancy.
Divorce hurts grandparents too. Many children are denied access to grandparents and many people have been injured by the fallout from divorce wars.
Balance Beam works to mediate and resolve family disputes. Our help line is available to anyone needing a friend who understands the loss of children, home or partner.

Finally, a Men’s Support Group

[Please note:
Don't use this help line if you are not located in Huron County. This help line is being paid for out of the operator's own pocket (there is no funding for any such effort or for any men's issues).
If you are located elsewhere and need help, please contact me. I'll try and put you in touch with someone in your area. Details of my address are at the bottom of this web page.

Thank you,

Walter Schneider ]

Canada, Alberta

Parents Helping Parents will assist any parent anywhere in Canada who is facing false abuse allegations. Parents Helping Parents has been successful in returning about 200 children from the clutches of child welfare officials and re-uniting them with their parents. Parents Helping Parents was instrumental in bringing about a substantial reduction in the incidence rate of false abuse allegations in Manitoba and is now working to bring about a similar reform of the child welfare system in Alberta to bring about similar results there.

Canada, Alberta, Greater Calgary Area

Canadians for Organizational & Personal Accountability
(403) 417-1171
Gary Nixon, Ph.D. (403) 217-1532
Men's Transition Centre (403) 290-00776
National Fathers' Rights association (403) 285-8586
The following may seem incongruous in the context, but if you think about it a bit, they are more likely than many others to be able to help. Every orphaned grandparent is most likely the parent of a disenfranchised father. From my experience, these are people likely to have been involved with the consequences of husband battering (the battering or abuse of their son).

Orphaned Grandparents Association (780) 961-3168
Canadian Grandparents' Rights Association (403) 284-3887
If you need help and live in the Edmonton area, especially east of Edmonton, call Walter or Ruth at (780) 796-2306. That is a local call from Edmonton. The line may often be busy, that's a sign that we are home. Don't give up and try again. E-mail: Fathers for Life

Last, but not least, many MLAs will provide help or at least direction and advice to men in need of it, even though most MLAs are very reluctant to speak out publicly in sympathy for the plight of men. Let's not forget that our MLAs are fearful of the wrath of radical feminists and feminist sympathizers. Here is the URL that contains a contact list for Alberta MLAs: http://www.assembly.ab.ca/conlist/Mla.htm

Alberta MLAs are being asked for help
If all else fails, you are down and out, have no reasonable hope left, and you are contemplating suicide, there still is a better way out. Check the article Dads on the run and contact us at (Country code 1, area code 780) 796-2306, or write to us for more information.
Who is at fault?

Lenore Walker's "The Battered Woman" has become the bible of family violence for people making their living off and promoting the battered women's industry. Her husband, Morton Flax, shot himself. People close to the couple have described Dr. Flax as a "battered man." [Family Violence Studies: A Brief History, by Richard Bennett, http://www.bennett.com/fv/history.html ]
ACCOUNT AND ACCOUNTABILITY: PATROL CONSTABLES' PERCEPTIONS OF WIFE ASSAULT SENSITIVITY TRAINING, A QUALITATIVE EVALUATION (EXECUTIVE SUMMARY), Theresa Petkau, June 1998
Emergency Department Injury Surveillance Report
South Fraser Health Region
April 1, 2001 – June 30, 2001
Distribution of Cause of Injury
South Fraser Health Region Emergency Department

Lesbian Violence —

The Bloody and Deadly Countess Elizabeth Bathory — The connection between the right-of-the-first-night hoax and the true story of Countess Elizabeth Bathory (1560 – August 1614)
Lesbian couples are far more violent than heterosexual couples
Erin Pizzey comments on A Lesbian DV Brochure
If the data collected is accurate, then Gay DV is the fastest growing sector of domestic violence.
Various Articles

The Facts About Spousal Conflict: Personal Responsibility Must Be Expected in Public Policy. Family violence myths debunked by the American Coalition for Fathers & Children (ACFC — Missouri Chapter)

This is an excellent assessment of the evolution and of the impact of the US Violence Against Women Act, a piece of discriminatory legislation that surpasses in absurdity but not in effectiveness anything that the jurists of the Third Reich devised to rationalize the eradication of "sub-humans" and other undesirable "enemies of the state".
Men are now the new enemies of the state, and DV legislation is being produced by the ream to make not necessarily the eradication of men possible but to relegate men to the status of second-class citizens, sub-humans.
Got to start somewhere to get rid of those pesky men, right?
You may also wish to look up the history of radical feminism and its impact on society documented at the same site. Visit the pages at the following links:
http://www.dadsnow.org/
Preamble: We must now grant to fathers the same right to be in the family as we have granted to women in the workplace
http://www.dadsnow.org/index2.html
Radical feminism's first organized incarnation was within the Women's Ku Klux Klan (WKKK) in the late 1800's

Post-Klan Feminism

Lesbian Political Agenda: What its really all about

The Actual Goal sought under the guise of "lesbian rights": A Sexually-Segregated Society

Misandry Enacted Into Law

http://www.dadsnow.org/index3.html
Mainstream Feminism — not an innocent bystander.

What High-Profile Femininsts Believe (and what feminism has not been attacked for)

Now, lets go back and compare the baseline agenda of WKKK feminists of the 1880's and contemporary millenium feminists, both of which are founded in misandry.

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If the term "radical feminism" (a.k.a. Marxist- or socialist-feminism) is somewhat new to you and still seems strange, you need to expand your knowledge. After all, radical feminism, the currently controlling faction of feminism, governs just about everything that is happening in your life. See,

Carey Roberts column

Carey Roberts is an analyst and commentator on political correctness. His best-known work is an exposé on Marxism and the roots of radical feminism.

Carey Roberts' best-known work, his exposé on Marxism and the roots of radical feminism, is not necessarily easy to find, but this link will help with that. (Some of the URLs for the article series appear to keep changing. For that reason the identified link leads to an Internet search for the series. The first or second link in the return list will most likely lead you to the series.)

"Where’s My Frying Pan?" Women and Domestic Violence by Richard C. Weiss
Women's Freedom Network press release on new domestic violence statistics published by the US Bureau of Justice. Erin Pizzey's reaction to new BoJ statistics.
Knocked for six: the myth of a nation of wife batterers
by Neil Lyndon and Paul Ashton, The Sunday Times of London 1995 01 29
The article is a review of various statements about the frequency of domestic violence that were made during the past 25 years, statements that are myths, wild guesses, and worse, but statements that, through sensationalizing in the media have been spread far and wide and have become— even though the dimensions of the domestic violence problem vary so widely as to boggle the mind — widely accepted as the truth.
Neil Lyndon and Paul Ashton trace the history of these deliberate misrepresentations and lies and compare the various myths to what is known about the truth in domestic violence figures, based on a report by police forces in England and Wales, released October 1994. They state:

"…We may well believe it to be true that 0.7%, or one in 150, of women living with men in London are subjected to a criminal assault in the house.
Nobody should be surprised by that figure, except the professional parasites on the domestic violence racket who will be dismayed at the prospect of their easy money drying up.
However, if that figure is true, or even nearly true, we should ask ourselves this: is it big enough to justify the colossal national flapdoodle and panic which has been made out of domestic violence towards women for the past 25 years? Or have we all been had?…"

Did the money dry up? Not by a long shot! We all know what happens to rumours and lies. They take on a life of their own, and that life has become an integral part of our society.

Update 2005 03 16:

London Metropolitan Police Service launches hate-propaganda campaign directed against men

Domestic Violence

Publicity

The Met's latest advertising campaign targets domestic violence offenders with the strong message that if you are abusing your partner, and we have reasonable grounds, we will arrest you, and we don't need your partner's statement to do this. The campaign uses posters, press ads and radio advertisements to communicate London-wide that domestic violence is a crime that the Met will not tolerate. (Full Story)

One of the beer mats to be distributed in bars throughout London and everyone of the radio adverts that are to be broadcast state that "one in four murders in London are the result of domestic violence." Common sense should tell anyone that the statement is an outright and outrageous lie.

In a Dec 10, 2000 article of his (— halfway down that page), Neil Lyndon wrote:

In the mid-1990s, I co-wrote an article (Knocked for six) which proved that a number of accepted feminist claims about domestic violence were false. For all the difference it made to what people believed then and believe now, I might as well not have bothered.

Right, Neil Lyndon is correct. There is no possible way that even hundreds of journalist who now tell us the truth will prevail in the face of the fact that literally millions of people make their existence from living off the domestic violence racket. All of those people have to protect their existence, their careers, their reputations, and their agenda.
Feminism is bringing about a totalitarian regime, made possible through the destruction of traditional moral values, families, and national boundaries. That regime is being actively promoted by the non-elected officials of the UN in their quest for world domination (they call it globalization). However, just as any totalitarian regime in history, radical feminists everywhere know that if you want lies to succeed, tell big ones, tell them often, and tell them to everyone.

Of all commodities, the truth is the hardest, and lies the easiest, to sell.

The Battered Statistic Syndrome by Armin Brott
Extracts from 'Manufacturing Concern' (see also the message announcing "Manufacturing Concern")
Husband Battering, a section in David Throop's Men's Issues Index
Myths and Facts about Domestic Violence

More Myths and Facts about family violence (containing analyses and summaries of, and references and some links to, a large number of US Bureau of Justice reports and to Canadian and British sources)
Fact: Political correctness drives and taints the politics of domestic violence statistics
Neutralizing Hostility between the Sexes : Solving the Problem of Domestic Violence with the Bigger Picture
Transcript of a speech by Chris Erickson honouring Erin Pizzey at Toronto Mensa's Annual Regional Gathering, October 19, 2002

Fact: Quote from a press release August 27, 1997 by the Women's Freedom Network:
"The new Justice Department numbers show that ALL violence is responsible for about 3% of women's INJURY-RELATED visits to emergency rooms, and domestic violence for about 1%. Since fewer than a third of women's emergency-room visits are injury-related, this means that domestic violence accounts for fewer than 0.3% of these visits. While it is possible that some domestic violence cases were not identified in the study, it is noteworthy that its estimates include not only positively established but probable cases of violence from injuries."

Fact: Reena Sommer — Male and Female Perpetrated Partner Abuse: Testing a Diathesis-Stress Model
Abstract: http://fathersforlife.org/sommertc.htm#ABSTRACT

Full indexed Text (about 20 files, 1 MB in total, or close to 300 pages) of a doctoral dissertation on the dimensions of inter-spousal violence and the correlation between the history of perpetrators of violence — abuse by their family members in their childhood in their families of origin — and their tendency to commit violence against their spouses. Within one generation, it appears, violence by women has increased enormously. Women who witnessed their fathers being hit by their mothers are more than 12 times as likely to become violent abusers of their partners than those who didn't. Violence by women now exceeds the frequency of violence by men in spousal relationships. The full text of the study report is available at this web site.

Fact: The "Rule of Thumb for Wife-Beating" Hoax
Wife beating was always illegal

Fact: The Super Bowl Wife-Battering Hoax
The article recounts the role of Sheila Kuehl, a feminist California lawyer – long ensconced in the family violence industry who then became a California senator, to boot – and those of others like her in the creation and perpetuation of the Super Bowl wife battering hoax.

Fact: To round out the picture, have a look at the collection of articles at the DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FORUM of the Shared Parenting web site.
Fact: Domestic Violence in Gay "Families"
If it is true that men are the sole perpetrators of family violence then it should be expected to see eternal bliss and peace in lesbian "families," right? That's not the case! The reality, according to Susan Holt, the program coordinator for domestic violence services at the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center, is that 25% – 33% of gays, according to self-reports, experience violence at the hands of their partners — a problem more severe than "hate crimes." According to Susan Holt, lesbians are only slightly less likely than gay men to experience violence at the hands of their partners. If the data collected is accurate, then Gay DV is the fastest growing sector of domestic violence.

Which are more violent, heterosexual or homosexual relationships?

Gay Domestic Violence Finally Measured
Family Research Report
Vol. 16 No. 8, Dec 2001
Family Research Institute

Violence and Homosexuality, by Paul Cameron, Ph. D.; Family Research Institute

Fact: FBI Statistics on Spousal Murder, they show that gender equality works in weird and wondrous ways.
Fact: Women are the gentler sex?
Really? As can be seen from the many study reports indicated in this section, study reports that reflect the relative participation of the sexes in initiating and perpetrating violence against the opposite sex, women are as or slightly more likely than men to commit violent acts. The truly amazing thing is to what extent violent women direct their fury against the weak, the innocent and the sleeping or the intoxicated.
The perception of the public, created and nurtured through the hate crime of anti-male bias and the concept of western chivalry in the media and other sectors of society, is the primary force in maintaining the myth of the innocence of women.
The media, being almost totally dominated by feminists, feminist sympathizers and anti-male sentiments, generally reports male-on-female violence on the front pages, with follow-up articles that may bring sentiments about a given case back to light even years after a given event originally occurred. On the other hand, any violence by women against other members of society, even if these victims are women, and especially if they are children, is being reported in short, terse articles in the back pages of newspapers — provided they even make the papers — with very little personalizing of the perpetrators or victims taking place, and with very little information about the suffering of women's victims.
To level things out just a little bit, here is a collection of items about women's violent acts that did make the news, even if only in a minor way. When you go to that URL and read the articles there, pay some attention to how often violent women claim that they committed a violent act in self-defence. However, consider also how often their violence is being directed at small children and infants. Women's self-defence against small children?

Video on violent women

Canadian FV Statistics — A collection of information by E. Sodhi

See also Eeva Sodhi's letter to Health Canada, in which she provides excerpts from abstracts of family violence studies by eminent and reputable researchers. The data presented in the studies clearly and irrevocably establish that Health Canada is involved in a massive, feminist-inspired and -promoted, government-sponsored propaganda campaign that actively seeks to demonize all Canadian men.

Sexual abuse of children

Health Canada: Adolescent Sex Offenders
Information from … The National Clearinghouse on Family Violence

Female Adolescent Sex Offenders

XXX. Though a majority of adolescent sex offenders are male, research emerging over the past ten years has begun to document female sex offending. Studies of hospital, child welfare agency, and treatment programs have found that females comprise between 3% – 10% of the sex offender population. General population and victimization surveys report significantly higher numbers and extend the range up to 50% (12) and even higher (13), depending on the victim sample population studied. [My emphasis –WHS]

USA: (2003 11 06) A Lansing mother accused of molesting her 2-year-old son and broadcasting the incident on the Internet pleaded no contest Wednesday to a reduced charge.
Ashlea Rock, 21, faces a maximum of two years in prison and a $500 fine for one count of criminal sexual conduct, fourth degree, which involves sexual contact, but not penetration….
Rock was arrested last October after an FBI task force agent in Atlanta saw her fondling her son during a real-time video stream, police said….
A report by the National Clearing House on Family Violence "The Invisible Boy" examines the issue of the abuse of boys and how our society fails these poor children. As the report's title states, their suffering is truly invisible.
Take the time to read The Invisible Boy. It'll give you a fair appreciation of how much research has been done of the abuse of boys, that we don't get to see the results of that research to any large extent, and that boys are the invisible victims of abuse — simply because they are not of the right sex.
Women's Violence

Life with Mom, a sign (or button, if you wish) identifying the most common form of family violence, a mother manhandling and seriously abusing her son
Life with Mom is often violent.
It's a sad reality, but few talk about it very much. Why not?

ALBERTA EDITION
REPORT NEWSMAGAZINE
February 28, 2000, p. 36

More deadly than the male

Media hide the fact women are far likelier to kill their children than are men
by WALTER H. SCHNEIDER and CANDIS MCLEAN

Article

Hansard of the U.K. Parliament, March 2, 2006

From a debate regarding presumption of child-visitation rights by non-residential fathers:
Tim Loughton [MP]: Let me finish…

In support of its claim, the NSPCC [which is fighting hand, tooth and nail to keep non-residential fathers from having child-access rights — "in the best interest of the child"] cites the fact that 29 children were killed over the past 10 years during contact visits to non-resident parents. That is an appalling figure. However, it ignores its own research, which shows that over the same period some 800 children have died at the hands of resident parents or carers [read "mothers"], and the 2000 publication "Child Maltreatment in the UK" [1], which showed that violent treatment was more likely to be meted out by female carers than male ones. [Emphasis by F4L]

The briefing is alarmist, sensationalist, misleading, empirically flawed, completely irresponsible and highly reprehensible. It is not worthy of an organisation such as the NSPCC, which claims to stand up for our children. I hope that our deliberations on the amendments will be based on balanced, rational and well-informed debate, rather than the arrant nonsense that I am sure will shock many dedicated and hard-working NSPCC supporters around the country.

Full Transcript

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References:

NSPCC Research Findings, November 2000
Child Maltreatment in the United Kingdom: a Study of the Prevalence of Abuse and Neglect
By Pat Cawson, Corinne Wattam, Sue Brooker, Graham Kelly,

Executive Summary November 2000 (PDF File – 67kB)
Most of the violent treatment (78%) had happened at home, most often by mother (49%) or father (40%).

When statistics for all family violence victims are examined, it emerges that women, primarily mothers, perpetrate by far the largest share of incidents of violence in the family. Women commit a good two-thirds of all violence against children — and the majority of child murders — in families.

Unfortunately, women's boyfriends, common-law husbands and stepfathers of children commit a substantial share of violence against children in families. Fortunately, natural fathers perpetrate a relatively insignificant share of it.

The quiet horror

The murder rate for U.S. females is highest in the first year of life.
It is a little-known trend . . . and one that shows no sign of easing

By Kirsten Scharnberg
Tribune Staff reporter
Published June 27, 2002

My Note: The interesting aspect of the article is that it bemoans that the murder rate for girls is much higher during the first year than at any other time of their life. The fact is, and the article does mention that, too, the murder rate for boys in the first year of life is quite similar and even a little higher than that for girls.
The article identifies

…a little-known and rarely publicized criminal statistic in the United States: A female is most likely to be the victim of homicide during her first year of life.

Nevertheless the most important aspect of the circumstances of infanticide is that it is in the vast majority mothers who kill their children, with mothers' boyfriends, and then stepfathers of children being distant second and third in rank. The article does mention some of that, although it obfuscates that fact by normalizing the killers as parents.
However, the fascinating aspect of the article is that, although it identifies that boys and girls are almost equally likely to be killed in their first year of life, it uses only examples of girls who were killed by their mothers or their mother's live-in boyfriends.
Although the article is fairly honest and objective and far more so than many others, its aim is to identify girls as victims and not so much the real objective truth, namely that mothers – if left unsupervised – are exceedingly dangerous to infants, and equally so to boys and girls.
However, who wants to blame Kirsten Scharnberg for putting her particular spin on the story. Girls as victims are sooo much more fascinating to readers than are mothers as murderesses. Given that the fact of mothers being the predominant killers of children can't be denied, then what is wrong with invoking the public's pity for the murderesses as well? That always worked and still does.
—WHS

Violence by men against women in families is a relatively minor portion of all family violence.
Families headed by two married parents (one of each sex) are, short of widowhood, the safest and least violent environment of all for women, by far.
The sad truth is that the most violent domestic relationships occur in "families" of which men are no part, those between partnered lesbians.

Child Abuse: Statistics, Research, and Resources.
A collection of information from a large number of studies, stressing that boys are subjected to abuse about as often as girls are and stressing as well that even though these rates are much higher than many thought them to be, they are conservative estimates.
Although the report does not point a finger at either women or men as being the abusers, does that really matter? What matters is that at least half of the children who are being abused are being ignored and not being helped. If you are a victim of sexual abuse that you received as a child, you'll find within the report a large collection of URLs that might be of help to you now.

Mothers in the USA more than twice as likely than fathers to kill their children (Posted 2006 05 01)

The website of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children & Families contains information on the rate of child maltreatment deaths per 100,000 children.

The information shows that mothers are more than twice as likely than fathers are to kill their children. (Child Maltreatment 2004, Chapter 4, Fatalities, US DHHS, ACF)

It must be recognized that the information identified above is for all "family" types, including families with married, never married, divorced, adoptive and foster parents. Treating "family" types as individual categories, it has been found in Britain that a child whose mother cohabits is 73 times more likely to suffer fatal abuse than a child whose parents are married. (The Social Scientific Data on the Impact of Marriage and Divorce on Children by Patrick F. Fagan, Heritage Foundation; Testimony Before the Senate of the United States, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Subcommittee on Science, Technology, And Space regarding the Social Scientific Data on the Impact of Marriage and Divorce on Children. — Map of the Family Powerpoint Presentation)

Gender as a factor in the Family Violence Courts, by Eeva Sodhi
An Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Based on Non-clinical Samples
Paper presented to the symposium sponsored by the Paulus Kerk, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, on the 18th of December 1998

The extent of involvement by women in the sexual abuse of children

As identified in "The Invisible Boy" a considerable number of studies has investigated that subject. A search using the string "sexual abuse by women" and altavista.digital.com/ will return about 17 URLs.* The studies indicated in both of these sources identify rates of incidents of sexual abuse by women of child-victims of sexual abuse that range from about 10% to about 80% in the sample populations studied.
* That was about five years ago. As of February 5, 2002, a search using google.com for the same string returned about 200 URLs.

Here are some of those URLs and some that have been found since then:

According to Harry Krop, a licensed psychologist in Gainesville, Florida:
"The motivation for adult women who form a sexual relationship with boys is different than men who develop relationships with girls. Men who have sex with girls, tend to have sexual disorders, such as pedophilia. But for women, it's not about the sex, but rather the romance. It's more of a need to be desired, to have someone find them attractive and the need for attention…." (Full Story)
In his interview Harry Krop apparently didn't say anything about women who have sexual relations with under-age girls or about men who have sexual relations with under-age boys. Nevertheless, Harry Krop is not the only one who views sexual child abuse by women as far less harmful than sexual child abuse by men. It is not only people like Harry Krop that make a living by spreading the gospel of "Women Good, Men Bad" when it comes to finding guilt in women. Take this compendium of sexual child abuse cases in which women were perpetrators as guilty as any male abuser but all being women who were routinely treated very leniently.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of the Under Secretary, Educator Sexual Misconduct: A Synthesis of Existing Literature, Washington, D.C., 2004; p. 25

Note that most if not all of the studies mentioned in the preceding reference document are somewhat limited in their objectivity on account of questions such as these:
Did anyone do any of the following to you when you didn't want them to in the last school year?

Touch, pinch, or grab you.
Lean over you or corner you.
Give you sexual notes or pictures.
Make suggestive or sexual gestures, looks, comments, or jokes.
Pressure you to do something sexual.
Force you to do something sexual.
All interactions of a sexual nature with minors, whether welcomed by the minors or not, constitute statutory rape. It is therefore nothing but an excuse to exclude teacher-student sexual intercourse in which the intercourse took place with the students' consent and not against the students' wishes. For that reason it can be assumed that the incident rate of teacher-student sexual intercourse is seriously under-estimated in all studies that ask such limiting questions. Surveys based on such self-limiting questions don't address smart and successful seducers of children.
Female Perpetration of Child Sexual Abuse: An Overview of the Problem, by Lisa Lipshires http://movingforward.org/v2n6-cover.html
When Girls Do It, An examination of female sexual predators, a CTV program that was aired in 2001. The video (45 minutes) can be purchased. A number of clips are available at the website for When Girls do it.
From the site:

"When Girls Do It" features compelling testimony and powerful interviews with survivors of abuse by female sexual offenders, therapists, and psychologists. The documentary delves into related issues including the long-held misconception that sexual abuse of children is exclusively a male crime.

2006 04 20
Female Sexual Predators: The Veiled Epidemic

By Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D.

Full Story

The Sexual Abuse by Women of Children and Teenagers
Summary of UK TV programme – Panorama – BBC1 – 10 pm Monday 6th October 1997 http://www.vix.com/menmag/panosumm.htm

Full transcript of the program http://www.vix.com/menmag/panofull.htm

The psychological impact of sexual abuse: Content analysis of interviews with male survivors (off-site) [warning, 2 megabyte PDF], Lisak, D. (1994), Journal of Traumatic Stress, 7, 525-548.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28336
WorldNetDaily.com

Posted: 22 July 2002, 1:00 a.m. Eastern

Meet 'Women's Auxiliary of NAMBLA'
Website celebrates sex between adult women, young girls

By Art Moore

Celebrating erotic relationships between women and young girls is the theme of a website called "Butterfly Kisses,*" which indicates the relatively unknown fact that pedophilia exists in significant numbers among females….
Linda Halliday-Sumner, a sexual abuse consultant in Courtenay, B.C., Canada, told WND that when she first began in 1980, about 1.5 percent of her cases were women who abuse minors. Within six years that increased to 11 to 13 percent. In the last 10 years, she said, at least 33 percent of her 325 cases a year have been women….
Studies in the 1980s by researchers David Finkelhor and Diana Russell estimated that in the United States about 14 percent of abuse cases involving boys were perpetrated by females. About 6 percent of the cases were of women who abuse girls.
While these studies give some clues, the true number of women who have sexual contact with children is probably severely underestimated, according to German psychologist Marina Knopf. …
She writes that it "is less spoken of, more hidden, and the women do not have any groups they attend or have formed themselves as do men. … The strength of this taboo might help explain the enormous difficulty we had in finding women to interview."
Well-known pedophile advocate Pat Califia… writes in an article posted on the "Butterfly Kisses" site that, "It is possible that sexual activity occurs more often between mothers and children or other women than between men and children. Women have more access to kids, and there are fewer taboos surrounding women's handling young people's bodies."
(Full story)

Copies of many or most of the articles that were contained at the original "Butterfly Kisses" website can be accessed at http://inoohr.com. See there:

Butterfly Kisses

Lesbian pedophiles

Michigan Womyn's Music Festival

Girl Scouts of America

Big Sisters — The second article on that page is about Big Sisters, but a site search will produce more hits.

Woman charged with rape of boy
Wendy McElroy discusses:
Feminist Urban Legends
The FOXNews URL is

The ifeminists.com URL is

Tuesday, November 12, 2002

By Wendy McElroy

Advocacy research refers to studies and reports produced by people with a vested interest in reaching a foregone conclusion. Politically correct feminism is notorious for its advocacy research and for the shoddy methodology that often accompanies political bias. (Full Story)

Fox News chose to omit the modifier “feminist” in their title for the article, however, it is a must for anyone to read the article, regardless of what title is chosen for it. The article lists excellent standards that should be applied by the media in choosing articles for publishing, so as to put an end to the promotion of advocacy research, slander and ad-hominem attacks by opponents of the truth.

Government-promoted and taxpayer funded hate-propaganda

Massive, government-sponsored hate propaganda that demonizes all Canadian men at the Canadian National Clearing House on Family Violence, a Health Canada web site. Comments and a bibliography of studies that should be but aren’t shown at the Health Canada web site.
The Alberta Government doesn’t want to be left behind in demonizing men
The American Psychological Association and its stand on Child Sexual Abuse (CSA)

The APA’s stand on CSA is so onerous that some of the messages I receive expand the abbreviation of its name to “The American Pedophilia Association?” In one of those messages I received a reference to a recent public outcry about a study that had been promoted by the APA. The study had been hailed by NAMBLA (North American Man-Boy Love Association) as evidence that adult-child sex was truly not harmful to children.
However, as the following two items show, the study was no more than a piece of advocacy research every bit as bad as the now discredited advocacy research done by Alfred Kinsey. What the items show is also that the APA is mainly a political body that reacts more to public pressure than according to its twisted social agenda, and that perhaps its agenda would never have come into existence if the public would have taken a greater interest in what the APA is promoting. It seems that if enough objections are raised by the majority of people that the minorities aren’t really that all-powerful.
APA Takes Harder Stance Against Controversial Study

WASHINGTON — Backing away from a controversial article that had said child molestation with “willing” children may not be harmful, and may, in some cases, even be beneficial, the American Psychological Association unveiled Wednesday a resolution condemning all “sexual relations between children and adults.”
“After much pressure, the APA has begun to undo the damage wrought by its publication of a badly conceived article that has been hailed by such groups as the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA),” said FRC’s Chief Spokesperson Janet Parshall. “It’s a good first step, but now the APA needs to root out the pro-pedophilic academicians who are trying to normalize child abuse. And the APA should write to NAMBLA and strongly urge them not to use this article as justification for molesting young boys.”

Full article at http://mentalhelp.net/articles/apa6.htm

The next item is a press release by the Family Research Council that refutes the advocacy-research study at the centre of the uproar:

Family Research Council
“It is as if a study that purports to examine the effects of being shot in the head contained a majority of cases in which the marksman missed. Such research might demonstrate that being shot in the head generally has no serious or lasting effects!”
—Dr. Paul Fink,
Past President of the American Psychiatric Association,

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 20, 1999
CONTACT: Kristin Hansen, (202) 393-2100

FRC RESPONDS TO CRITICISM BY AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL
ASSOCIATION AND AUTHORS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE STUDY

WASHINGTON, DC – Family Research Council (FRC) released the following statement Thursday in response to a statement made on May 12 by the authors of a recent child sexual abuse study, “A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples,” published by the American Psychological Association (APA). The authors’ statement, which was printed on APA letterhead, criticized FRC’s position on the study.
It was released by the APA in light of a press conference addressing the study that FRC was to hold that day. FRC’s statement follows:

Full article at http://www.frc.org/press/052099.html

Satanic Ritual Abuse

Satan’s Excellent Adventure in the Antipodes, a paper by Michael Hill, Professor of Sociology, Victoria University of Wellington. The paper traces the history of the satanic-ritual-abuse scare from its arrival in Australia and NZ to the present time. The paper also contains a summary of the emergence of the satanic ritual abuse ideology in the American psychological industry.
A Modern Witch Hunt Trial in New Zealand, The horror of the persecution of Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis.

David Throop’s Subject index on Men’s Issues contains a large number of entries of references to sources of pertinent information.
False Abuse Allegations, how many of them are there, and what are their consequences?
Getting Rid of Dad
Cover of Western Report, Aug. 17, 1992

False allegations levelled against men who are said to have sexually abused their children have become the weapon of choice in custody battles following divorce and separation.

(Full Story)

THE ACLU SPORTS HALL OF SHAME — HATE CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN?
This “ACLU” is not to be confused with the “other one”, the American Civil Liberties Union. This one is run by feminists (with the help of men who like to bash other men) who claim to be opposed to pornography and violence against women but are in favour of violence against men. It comes as no surprise that they most certainly are not in favour of balanced reporting.

Note that in the long list of cases cited at the ACLU site, there isn’t a single one listed of a hate crime committed by a women against a man, not even one of a hate crime committed by a woman against another woman. Indeed, why single out alleged crimes by men against women? Note also that only a small fraction of the alleged crimes actually resulted in convictions in criminal court, and that many of the accusations were later dropped. How many of the cited cases were based on false allegations? How many of the convictions resulted from false allegations?

Toronto Police Hate-Crime Policies — Tools for the suppression of free speech, a symptom of universal national and international trends?
COMMON SENSE & DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — Newsletters (links shown below)

These contain collections of statistics, essays and other information from various sources — all pertaining to the issue of family violence. Download, print and distribute them. The printed originals, with the body of the text in size 10 font, were about ten 8 1/2″ x 11″ pages each. The originals are in two-column format. MS Word 6 document files can be made available to anyone who would like to reproduce the newsletters in the original format. e-mail: Fathers for Life
Printed copies of the originals were sent to all Canadian federal and Alberta provincial legislators, to some Canadian senators, to various father’s rights activists, and to various media organizations. The production and distribution of the newsletters had to cease on account of total absence of funding.
My pension income is insufficient to keep on producing the newsletters, and my taxes were increased to help contribute toward the tens of millions of dollars in funding generously provided to the heterophobic and family-hostile organizations supported through the office of the Secretary of State Status of Women and comparably-biased Canadian provincial government offices.
Four issues were produced. Three were printed and distributed. Time and money ran out during the production of the fourth issue, with the purchase of food and other necessities of life taking higher priority. The following are links to HTML versions of the three published issues.
The Pillory 1997 12 24,

Battered Women’s Shelters and Abuse Allegations 1998 01 03,

Family Violence — Trends, Results 1998 01 30

One Father’s Story — The sad story of the destruction of one family on account of family violence.
Researching the “Rape Culture” of America — An Investigation of Feminist Claims about Rape, By Christina Hoff Sommers, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Clark University
Spare the rod and run for cover — When students hold the cards, school violence grows, especially among the girls
War in the Family An account of one battle skirmish near Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
What politicians are doing about it:

Speeches by Sen. Anne C. Cools, relating to FV

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See also:

Table of Contents for Feminism and Related Issues
Video on violent women
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UPDATES
2000 03 10
2000 04 03 (to show reference to rape)
2000 04 04 (to show link to information about the bloody and deadly Countess Elizabeth Bathory)
2000 05 04 (to show link to E. Sodhi’s collection of Canadian FV statistics)
2000 05 06 (to remove a couple of dead links)
2000 05 09 (to INSTALL search engine)
2000 05 23 (to add link to information about lesbian DV)
2000 06 08 (to show link to Carl Friedan’s story)
2000 06 27 (added links to information to government-sponsored hate propaganda aiming to demonize all men.)
2000 08 27 (added link to Colorado men’s help-line information)
2000 12 01 (to add link to Gender as a factor in Family Violence Courts)
2001 01 31 (format changes)
2001 02 06 (added link to Martin S. Fiebert’s Annotated Bibliography)
2001 02 15 (added entry for Parents Helping Parents)
2001 03 12 (added reference to Getting Rid of Dad)
2001 04 09 (added link to Letter to John Ashcroft, US Attorney General)
2001 04 12 UPDATED links to M. Fiebert’s bibliography)
2001 04 19 (added link to WFN press release re: new US DoJ stats on domestic violence)
2001 10 26 (made entry for The Nature of Domestic Violence Against Men)
2001 12 09 (added entry for A tool kit to destroy families)
2001 12 14 (added link to The troubles with DV murder statistics)
2001 12 29 (inserted comment on Elderly Abuse)
2002 01 31 (added reference to article on women’s violence)
2002 02 04 (inserted graphics file Life with Mom and related note)
2002 02 05 (edited note slightly to correct grammar)
2002 07 22 (Added link to article on ‘Women’s Auxiliary of NAMBLA’)
2002 08 03 (added reference to Female Adolescent Sex Offenders)
2002 09 10 (re-formated tables)
2002 10 01 (inserted links to articles by Dave Brown from the Ottawa Citizen)
2002 10 20 (inserted reference to St. Louis Post-Dispatch series of articles on the killing of elderly in US nursing homes.)
2002 11 08 (inserted entry for transcript of speech by Chris Erickson in honour of Erin Pizzey, the founder of the women’s shelter movement and a TARGET of feminist persecution, vilification, censorship and ostracism)
2002 11 13 (inserted Wendy McElroy’s article “Feminist Urban Legends”. It deals with the need to put an end to the popularizing of gender-biased advocacy research.)
2002 12 14 (inserted link to article in the Chicago Tribune, “The quiet horror”, about infanticide)
2002 12 19 (added links to articles covering lesbian child sexual abuse)
2002 12 22 (format changes)
2003 07 22 (added reference to False Rape Charges Hurt Real Victims)
2003 07 31 (added comments about recognition of abuse)
2003 10 27 (added reference to Reena Sommer’s speech on Controversy Within Family Violence Research)
2003 12 11 (added reference to David Fontes’ analysis of “domestic violence” statistics)
2004 01 14 (added abbreviated index to this page)
2004 01 17 (added reference to When Girls Do It)
2004 03 13 (added reference to History of domestic violence among male patients…)
2004 06 18 (added reference to article on intimates murdered by women)
2004 06 24 (added entry for SUN — Seniors United Now)
2004 09 16 (added reference to commentary on wrongful convictions, re: “faulty” hair analyses)
2005 02 21 (added reference to MCSN)
2005 03 16 (added information on London MPS hate-campaign against men)
2006 02 16 (added The Myth of Female Innocence)
2006 04 28 (added references to female sex-offenders and educator sexual misconduct)
2007 03 09 (added pointer to report on male and female DV rates)
2013 03 08 (removed reference to dvstats.org — WEBSITE no longer functions)

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Fatherlessness

Children of Divorce & Separation — Statistics

Consequences of father absence: It’s Official, the experiment has failed. For the best part of thirty years we have been conducting a vast experiment with the family, and now the results are in…Full Story

Fatherlessness, ‘in the best interest of the child’

Does a child have the right to have its father in its life and to bond with him?…Full Story

The divorce industry and fatherlessness
Father Absence and the Welfare of Children, By Sara McLanahan
Quoted from the conclusion of the discussion paper:

Growing up with a single parent harms children for three primary reasons: A disrupted family usually has fewer financial resources to devote to children’s upbringing and education, less time and energy to nurture and supervise children, and reduced access to community resources that can supplement and support parents’ efforts. Fortunately, none of these factors are beyond the control of parents and society. Thus, to the extent that parents and government can address these risk factors, the effect of father absence on children’s wellbeing could be significantly softened….

Note by Fathers for Life: Although the discussion paper presents a fairly good analysis of the consequences of father absence, the primary solution seen by Sara McLanahan for addressing the consequences of father absence is to bring about more and stronger child support enforcement. That is in addition to ensuring more secure financial circumstances (out of tax revenues) for single-mother families.
Not once does the discussion paper mention, let alone critique, the deplorable drive to systematically destroy the traditional nuclear family and to eliminate the presence of fathers in children’s lives.

Fathers are being blotted out of the “traditional” family model

The fatherless society is the title of the cover story of the November 17, 1997 issue of Der Spiegel, a widely-read German newsweekly in the style of Time Magazine. The article depicts social devastation and calamities resulting from the gender wars that we have all become only too familiar with. …Full Story

Fatherlessness and the politics of fatherhood

….Virtually every major social pathology has been linked to fatherlessness: violent crime, drug and alcohol abuse, truancy, teen pregnancy, suicide—all correlate more strongly to fatherlessness than to any other single factor. The majority of prisoners, juvenile detention inmates, high school dropouts, pregnant teenagers, adolescent murderers, and rapists all come from fatherless homes. The connection is so strong that controlling for fatherlessness erases the relationships between race and crime and between low income and crime….Full Story

Mythopoetics — Fatherlessness and Robert Bly

…Suppose you were not able to hike and otherwise share precious moments with your son because the mother, the courts and the law prevented it? Would Bly be enough then? Is the power of inner work an adequate substitute for liberty? ….Robert Bly, bang the drums and write a poem for fathers…Full Story

A Fathers Day Letter (AD 2000)

A Prayer for Children and Families….Full Story

The Abolition of Marriage

A few excerpts from Maggie Gallagher’s book, The Abolition of Marriage: How We Destroy Lasting Love:
Maggie Gallagher explains that fatherlessness is the source of the increases in many of our social pathologies. She also provides a few proposals for strengthening and reviving the institution of the traditional nuclear family. However, she indicates that none of them are likely to see the light of day unless married people become a powerful lobbying group. …Full Story

Maggie Gallagher participated in the production of the study report: [US] Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing: at least $112 billion a year (2008, Institute for American Values; Georgia Family Council; Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, and Families Northwest)

Life Without a Father

By David Popenoe
Reader’s Digest (Canada) November 1997, page 117

What a man contributes to child rearing may surprise you

THE DECLINE of fatherhood is one of the most unexpected and extraordinary social trends of our time. In just three decades — 1960 to 1990 — the number of children living apart from their natural fathers nearly doubled. By the turn of the century almost 50 percent of North American children may be going to sleep each evening without being able to say good night to their dads.
There was a time in the past when fatherlessness was far more common than it is today, but death was to blame — not divorce, desertion or out-of-wedlock births. Most of today’s fatherless children have fathers who are perfectly capable of shouldering the responsibilities of fatherhood. Who would ever have thought that so many of them would choose to relinquish those responsibilities? ….Full Story

The Criminalization of Fatherhood

By Stephen Baskerville

Fatherhood is now the rage: presidential initiatives, federal staff conferences, congressional task forces and resolutions, federal grants, new nonprofit organizations, and media reports now “promote” fatherhood.

Yet the nation’s discovery of fatherhood also has a darker side: law enforcement initiatives targeting “deadbeat dads,” federal REGISTERS monitoring millions of parents, databases and information gathering on American citizens accused of nothing, new cadres of armed, plainclothes police, and endless “crackdowns” on allegedly dissolute parents. Campaigning for president, Al Gore calls for incarcerating more fathers.

What we are seeing today in fact is nothing less than the criminalization of fatherhood: criminal penalties imposed on citizens who have committed no act but are made outlaws through the actions of others. This phenomenon proceeds largely from involuntary divorce and is effected by family courts. ….Full Story

UN survey on what ails the world’s children

Fatherless homes have become the norm in the western world. In Canada, it is still customary to award sole custody to the mothers after a marital break-up, without any regard to the “best interest of the child” principle.

We have seen an alarming increase in childhood pathologies. Results from a recent study show that childhood obesity, among other things, is a cause for concern.

What is often ignored is that fathers typically are the ones who engage in physical play and sports with their children. There is a need to develop a holistic, rather than a piecemeal, approach to children’s health. ….[by Eeva Sodhi] Full Story

Fatherhood — A letter by Eeva Sodhi to DHHS

… However, unless the real causes for fatherlessness are weeded out, there can be little hope of any progress in the efforts to introduce fathers back to their families. The current efforts are nothing more than an attempt to repair a compound fracture with a tiny Band-aid. And we wonder why the breach does not heal….Full Story

Austria launches Commission on Status of Men

Many people are enthused about what the Austrians are doing, and some of what is in the PROGRAM outline is impressive. However, there is also considerable reason for concern. …. Absent universal recognition of the need to eradicate the problem of fatherlessness, there cannot be any or at best only marginal success with the strategy outlined by the Austrian government and interest groups. “Fatherhood Today: Opportunities and Risks in the Process for the Evolution of the Family” – there are risks all right. The risk takers will be men and the risk they are expected to accept is greater than that experienced by playing Russian roulette with every second chamber loaded.
It is too bad, because although otherwise the opportunities could be great, the REWARDS for society would be even greater if only there were some respect, enough respect to make heroes out of bums and fathers out of second-class citizens….Full Story

Australian Chief Justice Nicholson
an example of extreme anti-male bias by an extremist judicial activist

In media interviews, Australian Family Court Chief Justice Justice Alistair Nicholson expressed bigoted and extremely biased opinions about fathers. Such a man is not part of the solution to the problem, he is the problem!….

… right! An example of a letter sent. ….Full Story

The Fraud of Healthy Marriages

If we truly wish to restore marriage, we must change not males but laws. Yet we are refusing to face this politically unpleasant truth and filling the public payroll with therapists and police.
… If fatherlessness is behind most of today’s social ills, the realization that the engine generating fatherless children is not the fathers, but the state, takes on implications few have dared to confront. …Full Story

The case for Father-Custody

By Daniel Amneus, Ph.D.

The Case for Father-Custody is a well-researched and valuable source of information and statistics relating to fatherlessness. The book is accessible as a an easily navigable PDF file at Fathering Magazine

A message to my daughters, on Fathers Day 2001

….Fathers Day took the place of our respect and appreciation of fatherhood that had until that time [in 1966, when Fathers Day was declared in the US to be a day to be celebrated] been thought a necessary part of social life. A whole year of respect for fathers got reduced to a single day each year of celebrating fathers….Full Story

Male Identity Crisis

… Though there are always exceptions, the single most powerful predictor of violent behavior among boys and young men is fatherlessness. …Full Story

Will you take this woman? NOWAY!

… The Internet is awash in men’s rights WEBSITES, many of which urge males not to marry or have children. Bookstore shelves are filling up with books that deliver the “Don’t marry. Don’t have children” message to young men. The admonition springs from the assumption that men are victims of what political science professor Stephen Baskerville of Howard University in Washington, D.C., terms “the most massive civil rights abuse of our time.” [1]
Book titles include Lost Fathers: The Politics of Fatherlessness in America and The Father’s Emergency Guide to Divorce-Custody Battle. The latter is billed as a “militant exposé” that goes well beyond the usual allegations of anti-male discrimination in the courts to charge that family courts are operating a profit-making racket in children, at men’s expense. …Full Story

Feminists, pro-family activists and blacklists

Incredibly, in the face of declining birth rates, escalating divorce rates and epidemic numbers of children who increasingly suffer the consequences of fatherlessness, the federal government of Canada provides $640,000 in funding to “women’s” organizations for the express purpose to operate a PROGRAM that will ferret out, label and eventually prosecute pro-family men, their supporters and their organizations as enemies of feminists?….Full Story

It All Began With Welfare

It All Began With Welfare. The marriage initiative ostensibly TARGETS the poor, a group which has a higher concentration of fatherlessness. …Full Story

DIVERSITY OR TRAGEDY

… Years from now when the negative effects of this human experiment can no longer be ignored, the lesbians will claim that it was not fatherlessness which caused the problems, but society’s homophobic refusal to embrace diversity in family structure. …Full Story

Still legal prey at 14

New federal divorce and child-protection amendments anger family advocates

by KEVIN MICHAEL GRACE

[Footnote 8] Under the sponsorship of the Heritage Foundation, Patrick Fagan produced a good number of reports that provide irrefutable evidence of the extensive destructiveness of divorce and fatherlessness with respect to outcomes in children and in single-mother “families”….Full Story

Canadian Suicides

… It would probably not be unreasonable to assume that the same proportions hold true for suicides. Fatherlessness in Native communities is rampant. …Full Story

THE NEED FOR A COUNTER REVOLUTION

… Fatherlessness is a direct result of the Sexual Revolution, men and women walking away from marriage because they value a transient affair, or never marrying …Full Story

The following is a collections of links to more articles and study reports that focus on father absence or fatherlessness.

Effects on children of removing a father from the life of a child., Center for Children’s Justice

The Consequences of Fatherlessness — The [US] National Center for Fathering

Effects of Fatherlessness on Children – Social Consequences.
Statement of Bill Wood and Jay Gell, Children’s Legal Foundation, Charlotte, North Carolina

National Review: Fatherlessness: The Root Cause: The link between crime and fatherlessness is astonishing, By Dave Kopel, Independence Institute

Turning the Corner on Father Absence in Black America, A Statement from the Morehouse Conference on African-American Fathers; Washington, June 16,1999

Fatherlessness is the greatest social problem in Canada, Canadian Children’s Rights Council

THE FACTS ON FATHERLESSNESS, Prepared for the Fatherhood Foundation by Bill Muehlenberg, Australian Family Association – August 2002

Transforming the Culture of Fatherlessness, by Rev. Robert A. Sirico, Acton President

Boston Globe: The black rebellion against fatherlessness, By Eugene F. Rivers III | July 9, 2006

Townhall.com: Fatherlessness A Problem for Kids, Not Mothers, By Maggie Gallagher
Tuesday, June 12, 2001

[US] Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing: at least $112 billion a year (2008, Institute for American Values; Georgia Family Council; Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, and Families Northwest

That is a fairly weighty collection of facts and opinions regarding fatherlessness. It is important to note that even the U.K. lately joined the choir singing praise of fatherhood, sort of, but nevertheless welcome after more than eight years of CONTINUOUS slander, vilification and demonization of fathers. Here it is, the first pro-father commentary after about ten years in an official party organ in the U.K.:

thisislondon.co.uk: Married parents are best, admits Blairite think tank

That is all nice and good, although it is obvious that the U.K. is a late-comer in the debate on fatherlessness and may need a while longer to catch on to what is going on in that department.

It seems that Maggie Gallagher deserves the last word on what we should be after.

In the early ’80s, Becky Peck was one of a new generation of women experimenting with what optimists dub alternative family forms. She chose to use an anonymous sperm donor to create a deliberately fatherless household. Just her and her cuddly babies. Sixteen years later, she tracked down the DNA provider, David Ross. After making sure her motives were not financial (i.e. meeting his kids wouldn’t cost him any money), David was thrilled. Instant family — no diapers to change, no college to pay for. What’s not to love?

But why would a woman who chose anonymous sperm donation suddenly decide at that late date to attach a face and a name to the DNA? The kids, of course. In spite of all the love a mother could provide, they still longed for Daddy. Becky never planned on that. Too many women still don’t.

The actress Calista Flockhart, Miss Ally McBeal, adopted a baby. She recently confessed to the New York Post, “I want more children. I guess it would be nice to have a husband, too, and if you know where I might find the right one, let me know. But meanwhile, the baby is all I really want.”

Maybe so. But what does her baby want, or what will he want a year from now? Children’s hearts will keep fracturing until more mothers, especially privileged mothers, recognize that giving their baby everything he needs includes giving him a loving father. That’s the old, stubborn idea of marriage, the place where a man and woman pledge themselves in love, not only to each other, but to their future children.

As President Bush said so bravely and truthfully, “a child’s greatest source of SECURITY today is not only knowing ‘my mom loves me’ and ‘my dad loves me,’ but also that Mom and Dad love each other. If we are serious about renewing fatherhood, we must be serious about renewing marriage.”

But wait a minute, that means that what the children need comes first, and that mutual love between the two parents, marriage for life, that is, will be a necessary social obligation for parents! Exactly!!

Children’s hearts will keep fracturing until more mothers, especially privileged mothers, recognize that giving their baby everything he needs includes giving him a loving father.

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Posted 2004 12 10

The appearance of Scumbags never end in ILLINOIS?

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RECENTLY FILED DISCIPLINARY DECISIONS FROM SUPREME COURT

SUPREME COURT OF ILLINOIS

THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2016

THE COURT MADE THE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENTS:

MISCELLANEOUS RECORD

M.R.27676 – In re: Joel Clark Runkle. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The motion by the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to approve and confirm the report and recommendation of the Hearing Board is allowed, and respondent Joel Clark Runkle is suspended from the practice of law for six (6) months and until further order of the Court and until he pays restitution in the amount of $1,500 to Margarette Clarkin.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27696 – In re: John Joseph Lynch. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The motion by the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to approve and confirm the report and recommendation of the Hearing Board is allowed, and respondent John Joseph Lynch is suspended from the practice of law for thirty (30) days.

Suspension effective February 11, 2016.

Respondent John Joseph Lynch shall reimburse the Client Protection Program Trust Fund for any Client Protection payments arising from his conduct prior to the termination of the period of suspension.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27709 – In re: Herbert Edgar McMeen. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The motion by the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to approve and confirm the report and recommendation of the Hearing Board is allowed, and respondent Herbert Edgar McMeen is suspended from the practice of law for two (2) years and until further order of the Court and required to pay restitution in the amount of $4,693.67 to LaDonna Holder as a condition of any reinstatement.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27710 – In re: Howard Reich. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The motion by the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to approve and confirm the report and recommendation of the Review Board is allowed and respondent Howard Reich is disbarred.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27712 – In re: Paul Leslie Shelton. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The petition by respondent Paul Leslie Shelton for leave to file exceptions to the report and recommendation of the Review Board is denied. Respondent Paul Leslie Shelton is disbarred, as recommended by the Review Board.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27718 – In re: David Andre Bertha. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The motion by the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to approve and confirm the report and recommendation of the Hearing Board is allowed, and respondent David Andre Bertha is disbarred and required to pay restitution in the amount of $14,900 to Sheila Watts as a condition of any reinstatement.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27725 – In re: Grant Richard Niehus. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The petition by the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to impose discipline on consent pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 762(b) is allowed, and respondent Grant Richard Niehus is suspended from the practice of law for ninety (90) days.

Suspension effective February 11, 2016.

Respondent Grant Richard Niehus shall reimburse the Client Protection Program Trust Fund for any Client Protection payments arising from his conduct prior to the termination of the period of suspension.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27727 – In re: Anthony Campanale. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The motion by Anthony Campanale to strike his name from the roll of attorneys licensed to practice law in Illinois pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 762(a) is allowed, effective immediately.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27728 – In re: Donald Lee Homyk. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The petition by the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to impose discipline on consent pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 762(b) is allowed, and respondent Donald Lee Homyk is censured.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27747 – In re: Frank Joseph Edelen. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The motion by the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to approve and confirm the report and recommendation of the Hearing Board is allowed, and respondent Frank Joseph Edelen is suspended from the practice of law for six (6) months and until further order of the Court.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27780 – In re: Ron L. Richards, II. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The motion by the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to approve and confirm the report and recommendation of the Hearing Board is allowed, and respondent Ron L. Richards, II is suspended from the practice of law for eighteen (18) months and until further order of the Court.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27783 – In re: David J. Kiesler. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The motion by the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to approve and confirm the report and recommendation of the Hearing Board is allowed, and respondent David J. Kiesler is transfered to disability inactive status until further order of the Court pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 758.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27790 – In re: Harry P. Friedlander. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The petition by the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to impose reciprocal discipline pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 763 is allowed, and respondent Harry P. Friedlander, who has been disciplined in the State of Arizona, is suspended from the practice of law in the State of Illinois for sixty (60) days followed by a term of probation subject to the conditions imposed upon respondent by the Supreme Court of Arizona, until his period of probation in Arizona is successfully completed.

Suspension effective February 11, 2016.

Respondent Harry P. Friedlander shall reimburse the Client Protection Program Trust Fund for any Client Protection payments arising from his conduct prior to the termination of the period of probation.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27795 – In re: William Byron Blanchard. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The petition by the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to impose discipline on consent pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 762(b) is allowed, and respondent William Byron Blanchard is suspended from the practice of law for ninety (90) days.

Suspension effective February 11, 2016.

Respondent William Byron Blanchard shall reimburse the Client Protection Program Trust Fund for any Client Protection payments arising from his conduct prior to the termination of the period of suspension.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27796 – In re: Keith Elliott Yard. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The motion by the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to approve and confirm the report and recommendation of the Hearing Board is allowed, and respondent Keith Elliott Yard is suspended from the practice of law for two (2) years and until further order of the Court.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27798 – In re: Shannan Hayes Bedgood. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The motion by the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to approve and confirm the report and recommendation of the Hearing Board is allowed, and respondent Shannan Hayes Bedgood is suspended from the practice of law for one (1) year and until further order of the Court.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27799 – In re: Steven Walter Whitmore. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The petition by the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to impose discipline on consent pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 762(b) is allowed, and respondent Steven Walter Whitmore is suspended from the practice of law for thirty (30) days.

Suspension effective February 11, 2016.

Respondent Steven Walter Whitmore shall reimburse the Client Protection Program Trust Fund for any Client Protection payments arising from his conduct prior to the termination of the period of suspension.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27803 – In re: Joseph Allan Morris. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The petition by the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to impose discipline on consent pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 762(b) is allowed, and respondent Joseph Allan Morris is suspended from the practice of law for ninety (90) days.

Suspension effective February 11, 2016.

Respondent Joseph Allan Morris shall reimburse the Client Protection Program Trust Fund for any Client Protection payments arising from his conduct prior to the termination of the period of suspension.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27804 – In re: William Lowell Needler. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The petition by William Lowell Needler to be placed on permanent retirement status pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 756(a)(8) is allowed, effective immediately.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27813 – In re: George Mark Zuganelis. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The motion by George Mark Zuganelis to strike his name from the roll of attorneys licensed to practice law in Illinois pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 762(a) is allowed, effective immediately.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27834 – In re: Brian James Russell. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The petition by the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to impose discipline on consent pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 762(b) is allowed, and respondent Brian James Russell is censured.

Order entered by the Court.

M.R.27843 – In re: Robert Kenneth Lock Jr. (January 21, 2016)

Disciplinary Commission.

The motion by Robert Kenneth Lock Jr. to strike his name from the roll of attorneys licensed to practice law in Illinois pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 762(a) is allowed, effective immediately.

Order entered by the Court.

The Appearance the list of Scumbags is Great # and never stops because someone got caught ripen a client or the Bar off of their share?

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LINK: https://www.iardc.org/co_recentdiscdec.html

So maybe before you give them any monies?

See for your self?

See if your scumbag is on the list?

NEW FILINGS, HEARING SCHEDULES AND CLERK’S OFFICE

Recent Disciplinary Decisions from Supreme Court | Recently Filed Complaints and Reports | Announcements | Schedule of Hearings | Clerk’s Office Services

RECENTLY FILED DISCIPLINARY DECISIONS FROM SUPREME COURT

This page contains links to recently filed opinions and announcements of disciplinary decisions issued by the Supreme Court and the dates listed below. The list is sequenced in inverse chronological order with the most recent filing at the top. Click on a date listed below to go to the opinions and/or announcements issued on that date.NEW FILINGS

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January 20, 2012 (opinion)
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November 17, 2011
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September 20, 2011
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September 18, 2007
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January 12, 2007
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May 18, 2006 (opinion)
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March 21, 2006
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November 22, 2005
September 27, 2005
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June 13, 2005
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March 18, 2005
January 14, 2005
November 19, 2004
November 17, 2004
September 27, 2004
September 24, 2004
May 18, 2004
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May 14, 2004
March 15, 2004
March 12, 2004
January 23, 2004 (opinion)
January 20, 2004
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November 20, 2003
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September 25, 2003
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April 1, 2003
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November 21, 2002 (opinion)
September 20, 2002
September 19, 2002
May 24, 2002
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March 22, 2002
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January 29, 2002
January 28, 2002
November 28, 2001
November 29, 2001
September 21, 2001
September 20, 2001

The Appearance that Pam L. office has lots of shadows and they run deep into the pockets of Title IV monies and Massive GREED from the state actors.

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The Herald-Review (Decatur IL, USA)
21 February 1999
Former State Resident Given Formal Apology by Illinois Division of Child Support Enforcement.

by Amanda Wilson

The Illinois State Supreme Court has ordered Guy Hastings, Director of Child Support Enforcement, to send a formal letter of apology to a former Illinois state resident who was forced to pay $9000 more in support than ordered. Paul Laird, now a resident of Washington state and a former resident of Strasburg, IL, has said he will make a written statement in a few days. The Court also ordered DCSE to pay him almost $150,000 in punitive damages.

The pertinent facts are not in dispute. Mr. Laird was ordered to pay $400/mo in child support in 1985. Kankakee County records indicate Mr. Laird had voluntarily overpaid his account by May, 1991. That is when his troubles started.

Mr. Laird was forced to take a medical leave of absence due to Multiple Sclerosis. He presented Illinois DCSE doctor statements and 7 requests for temporary reduction from November 1991 through May, 1993. He was never answered by Illinois DCSE and they now admit that he did send the request and that those requests were ignored. They also admit Mr. Laird never missed a payment.

A suit was filed by DCSE in November, 1993 to modify the child support award. Mr. Laird was never notified of this hearing. The department received a default judgment increasing the support amount to $800. DCSE admits Mr. Laird was never notified of the new amount.

The amount was reduced in 1996 back to the original $400 figure. DCSE CONTINUED to count the extra $400 from November 1993 to October, 1996 as child support arrears. They garnished his wages, filed liens against him, reported him to CREDIT BUREAUS and continue collection thought taking his IRS refunds. Mr. Laird filed suit in 1996 against DCSE and specific employees within that agency. The Appellate Court awarded him almost $60,000 in January, 1998. That judgment has been paid.

The State’s Attorney of Champaign County filed charges of malfesciance of office against three DCSE employees – Karen Breaker, Linda Richardson, and Barbara McCloud. Breaker and Richardson were also tried on perjury, falsifiction of records, and theft. McCloud was found not guilty in November, 1998. Breaker plead guilty to the charge of perjury and falsification in a plea bargain. Ms. Richardson was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to 18 months in prison. All three lost their jobs with
Illinois DCSE.

This is only the first of 8 cases against the Champaign office. In the most recent case a custodial mother received child support payments 9 months after the father made payments through the court. The father in this case was prosecuted for non-payment and was found not guilty when he presented receipts and cancelled checks. A check by the Auditor’s office revealed a practice by the Champaign office of putting support checks in a hidden fund to draw interest for the state. That case has been merged with 7 others in a class action lawsuit. It is scheduled to be heard in April, 2000.

Governor Ryan and his cabinet were unavailable for comment. This reporter has verified that the governor urged DCSE to settle this case out-of-court and that Mr. Hastings refused. DCSE director Hastings also had no comment.

Because the state was found to have acted fraudulently in his case, the Supreme Court had to rule on punitive damages.

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