Washington DV Press

It’s about time. For something that has no basis in fact and recognized as such by our own government, the time to stop wasting money on their outrageous claims has come. If you’re an organization that relies on state funding, California is the last place you want to be this week. Before it reached the [...]

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Not one. In either article…. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32239163/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/ 1) Kids to cops: Mom used attic as lockup when angry. Kristin Paquette faces multiple charges after being accused of locking her son inside an attic where police said temperatures reached over 100 degrees. View related photos ‘Mommy does this when she gets angry’: Mass. woman charged with locking [...]

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How succinct can we get here? Phyllis Schlafly Tuesday, July 21, 2009 Did you know that a family court can order a man to reimburse the government for the welfare money, falsely labeled “child support,” that was paid to the mother of a child to whom he is not related? Did you know that, if [...]

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A-G-A-I-N, Nothing will probably come of this, even though perjury charges are in complete order here. Again, the name of the actual victim–the falsely accused man–has been in the papers numerous times.  He is very fortunate that there was an honest witness. Officers interviewed a neighbor who witnessed the alleged incident. The witness saw the [...]

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From our friends at MediaRadar….. Journalist Philip Cook observes that “there is more false, falsely framed, or disingenuously deceptive information about domestic violence than any other significant public and social issue.” RADAR’s new special report, “Fifty Domestic Violence Myths,”(http://www.mediaradar.org/docs/RADARreport-50-DV-Myths.pdf) debunks some of this misinformation, including the following myths: “From the very beginning, American jurisprudence has [...]

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Another athlete was murdered this past weekend and none call it domestic violence. Steve McNair’s death was also a domestic violence homicide, yet authorities went to great lengths to classify it otherwise. This must stop as we now clearly understand WHY domestic violence “statistics” vary and differ wildly from known CLINICAL studies. WHY IS THAT? [...]

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It’s sad, really sad. Within the state  Not only do we have a situation within Washington State that often counselors and “experts” are acting as judge, jury and executioner, we now have the cops doing the same. It has become an escalation and continued pattern of behavior, exhibiting the utter hubris within a system fueled [...]

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Seems to be the case now that all of the information has come out…. So, the question of WHY it has taken authorities to come forward and admit this is beyond me at this point. Now. please don’t get me wrong here. McNair, running around and cheating on his wife is nothing to brag about, [...]

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Here is a long piece in the Washington Post that acknowledges men and fathers as human beings.  It’s not all rapacious males abusing and abandoning virtuous victim women: “The popular impression is that young fathers like Bobby skip town by the time their children are born. That’s not generally true. In rural areas, they tend [...]

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http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-12866-Domestic-Violence-Examiner~y2009m7d4-Lynn-Rosenthal-is-no-advocate-for-women A reader pointed out a New York Times editorial lauding the appointment of Lynn Rosenthal as domestic violence czar.  While the editorial encompasses some factual errors, it does a quite efficient job of illustrating the breadth and depth of  the general misunderstanding regarding the issue of partner abuse. In this article, I’ll go through [...]

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