Washington DV Press

By Christina Hoff Sommers Chronicle of Higher Education Monday, June 29, 2009 “Harder to kill than a vampire.” That is what the sociologist Joel Best calls a bad statistic. But, as I have discovered over the years, among false statistics the hardest of all to slay are those promoted by feminist professors. Consider what happened [...]

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SPECIAL REPORT Copyright – 2009 MediaRadar.org Effective abuse-reduction programs need to be grounded in verifiable facts about the nature, extent, and causes of domestic violence. An early incident reveals this may not always be the case: On January 28, 1993, a press conference was held in Pasadena, California to issue an ominous warning that the [...]

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Thanks for the education, Trudy. Well done. You did miss one part, however. The VAST majority of women who habituate these shelters are actually homeless, and not victims of domestic violence. They DO have to go through a “screening” process, which then, in turn, declares them as DV “victims”. Many articles have also been written [...]

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In this section, she discusses the veil of secrecy that involves the movement and the over protective way in which shelters are not studied, nor can they be verifiable that they are actually helping as this White House report mentions. Lifting the veil of secrecy on women’s shelters – Part Two By 2000, what is [...]

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Trudy Schuett, god bless her soul, has taken a woman’s point of view on available DV programs and the problems that exist within them. She started with an open mind and was both surprised and shocked at what she found. You decide for yourself what is right or wrong here. Lifting the veil of secrecy [...]

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Fathers are needed. Fathers are important. Single Mother households are bad. Here it is: Florida International University did the unthinkable. They did a study on what Fathers men to the nuclear family, and the devastation that results when good men are alienated (PAS) using legal false allegations. Here is what they found: The statistics are [...]

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I have had many responses to my call out for those having difficulties with self-proclaimed, and narcissistic actor, Doug Bartholomew. He’s very careful with his language these days, having referred to me (he claims indirectly) as being a stalker and a repeat DV offender, which I’m not. He has also claimed that the day in [...]

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June 9, 2009 SPRINGFIELD, MO (KTVI-FOX2now.com) In Missouri and some other states there’s real, biological dad and there’s legal, non-biological dad. Missouri lawmakers acknowledge the two aren’t always the same. A law is now headed to the governor’s desk. He paints houses. But a night out with the boys painted a messy future for Tony [...]

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People. This is what to expect until we take back and learn how to control our government. (June 4) – He called himself the Lion King, the emperor of Galveston, and more simply, “the government.” At 6-foot-4 and more than 250 pounds, he was impossible to escape in the close quarters of an office. And [...]

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ScienceDaily (May 20, 2008) — Domestic violence can happen to men, not only to women, according to Group Health research in the June American Journal of Preventive Medicine. “Domestic violence in men is under-studied and often hidden–much as it was in women 10 years ago,” said study leader Robert J. Reid, MD, PhD, an associate [...]

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The Violence Against Women Act was passed in 1994 with the laudable intention of solving the problem of domestic violence. Unfortunately the law has numerous flaws, including: 1. VAWA programs have been ineffective in reducing partner abuse, and in some ways have placed victims at greater risk of violence. 2. VAWA undermines basic notions of [...]

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To begin with, President Obama’s recognition of the importance of fatherhood is very welcome, said Ronald K. Henry, a child-advocacy attorney in the District. “We’re very excited about the administration’s determination to create some visibility and some action to strengthen and restore fatherhood,” he said. But there’s a lot of work to be done. For [...]

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This, from a report in February, 2008. Caseworkers and the care providers do not feel valued and respected; Morale is low within CA; The organization does not promote innovative and creative solutions; Policies and practices are driven from the top down but applied randomly at the local level and in the field. There is a [...]

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His last day was May 2nd, 2009. RIP, Roy. Calls to the DSHS revealed that Maureen Kelly has taken his place. She doesn’t quite seem to know what her job description is however. When I called her this morning, she didn’t know if this meant that she was now the head of their DVPT programs [...]

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