Domestic violence and men's rights


April 10, 2006

Domestic violence and men's rights

Phyllis Schlafly's “Weak women and the Bill of Rights” (Opinion, March 30) is right on the money. I was in court again watching the daily herding of men charged with domestic violence. The judge, public defenders and prosecutors all taught the “anti-male and anti-marriage notions” Schlafly describes.

Few know that Child Support Services, in part, subsidizes our public defenders or that it unwittingly participates in the same anti-male, anti-marriage training. Or that the San Diego Domestic Violence Council and Family Justice Center provide such trainings in concert with the judicial system to expedite convictions regardless of facts.

Typically, a woman alleges domestic violence, gets a restraining order, and somewhere in there a man is arrested. He's charged with multiple felony counts with little or no investigation, pays exorbitant amounts of bail, has no place to live upon release from jail, loses his job, and ends up “copping a plea” for a reduced charge, even if innocent, since he's threatened with a longer sentence if he demands a jury trial, though, in which case, the charges would most likely be dropped for lack of evidence.

He'll then pay court fines, fees, restitution and for 52 weeks of shame, blame and guilt, batterer intervention classes. He might spend the next 20 years fighting one false accusation after another just to “visit” his children. His life is irrevocably ruined.

The majority of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse charges are false, filed by women to gain financial advantage, retribution, power and control, and seldom are in the “best interests” of children. False accusers are not held accountable. They are not charged criminally, obligated to make financial restitution, and typically told, “You shouldn't do that.” I once asked a local top-ranking district attorney why. His response, reinforcing Schlafly's conclusions, included a candid remark about being afraid of dealing with the feminist backlash.

Falsely accusing women are frequently violent, very manipulative, abuse their children, perpetrate most all parental alienation and have active substance abuse problems coupled with one or more serious personality disorders. But according to radical feminist thought, none of that matters, not even if a woman instigates the violence or murders a man in his sleep.

There are 13 legal abuse excuses for women, but none for men, even though all reliable studies show men and women commit domestic violence with similar frequency. The system has to change. Tens of thousands of families are destroyed by radial feminism's ideological pogrom against men and traditional families. The radical feminist assault on America has caused one of two marriages to end in divorce and millions of children to become fatherless.

Schlafly wonders, “Which comes out on top: the Constitution or the feminist agenda.” I wonder how long the mothers of America will allow their sons to be destroyed by institutionalized misandry; and why fathers do not defend their sons. Our Constitution went south years ago.

HARRY CROUCH
San Diego Men's Center