Domestic Violence

How Often Does Domestic Violence Occur?

Some 16% of families have some husband-wife violence (6% have severe violence), broken down as follows:

• In 4% of marriages, only the man is violent.
• In 4% of marriages, only the woman is violent.
• In 8% of marriages, both the man and the woman are violent.
• In 84% of marriages, violence does not occur.

How Important is Violence By Women?

Very important -- just ask any man whose wife has gouged his eyes with her long fingernails.

Violence by women against children is a major problem, and women are as violent to their husbands as husbands are to wives (although violent men do more damage than violent women because of their greater physical strength).

However, feminists claim that violence by women is nonexistent or not important.

The fact that a man is physically stronger than a woman doesn't make any difference when a woman is violent. Many men won't strike a woman under any circumstances, even when she's violent, and even if he does defend himself with violence, that just means both parties are violent.

How Does Violence By Women Affect Children?

There's reason to believe that violence by women "trains the next generation of batterers." An abusive father would seem quite clearly wrong to a boy, but a boy might have ambiguous feelings about whether a violent, abusive mother is wrong, and a violent or abusive mother might have the effect on the boy of appearing to condone abuse or violence.

A boy who sees his mother initiate violence against his father may well get the feeling that women like violence, and enjoy violence, or that she gets erotic pleasure out of violence, whereas he would only get feelings of hatred or revulsion when his father initiates violence against his mother. This becomes even more pronounced when Child Abuse is involved. Most child abusers are mothers, and the feeling in a boy that family violence is OK would be strengthened if his mother beat him.

How Do The Courts View Domestic Violence?

In terms of public policy, all of this is ignored. If you're a man with violence in your relationship, then the police and the courts will blame the violence on you, even if your wife is violent and you aren't. Even if you're not violent but your wife is, you will be restrained, charged, and sometimes jailed.

The evidence indicates that this public policy leads to considerable abuse. Nationally, millions of restraining orders are issued against men on the word of a woman who says that she simple "feels" that violence might occur. The fact that only some 4% of restraining orders are renewed by women when they expire after a year indicates that an overwhelming number of these restraining orders are based on phony charges.

How Do Women's Organizations Benefit From False Charges of Domestic Violence?

The evidence indicates that various women's organizations collude with one another to bring false charges of domestic violence against men. These women's organizations -- social service organizations, court clinics, women's advocates, women's shelters, visitation centers, feminist legal services agencies, women's protective services, and so forth -- support each other to bring false charges of abuse against men in order to increase their own budgets.

These women's organizations get their funding from government grants and United Way grants. In order to justify these grants, they need to generate as many charges of abuse as possible, and they need to get as many women as possible to live in women's shelters. Unfortunately for them, there are far too few truly violent men to come anywhere close to justifying their budgets.

Bringing a charge of abuse against a man is very lucrative for these agencies because the man will fight back against the charges. When he fights back, all these women's organizations provide services to the woman making the charges -- everything from psychological evaluations to legal support to free housing, even picking her up and driving her to court. A single falsely charged man may bring tens of thousands of dollars per year in grants to these women's agencies. The people who run these agencies use this money to pay their own salaries, as well as the salaries of their feminist friends.

These women's organizations receive no oversight, either from other government agencies or from the press. The only oversight is one women's agency checking on another women's agency. The evidence seems to indicate that these women's agencies not only do not check on one another, but actually collude with one another with false charges, in order to obtain lucrative grants. The evidence suggests that the grants to these agencies for false charges of abuse against men totals billions of dollars per year.