VAWA must be reformed for domestic violence rates to come down

Billy-Batdorf · 2021-02-02T14:58:08+00:00

VAWA has produced no statistical advantage in Domestic Abuse numbers in 20 years.

"The final blow to the “VAWA works” argument is that the rate of domestic violence by women against men came down right in line with that by men against women, but VAWA provides essentially no services to male victims or female perpetrators. How do VAWA proponents explain that anomaly? They don’t."

"In fact, domestic violence expert Dr. Angela Moore Parmley of the U.S. Department of Justice has said, “We have no evidence to date that VAWA has led to a decrease in the overall levels of violence against women.” The law’s proponents prefer to overlook that inconvenient fact."

""Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (S.A.V.E.), calculates that less than 2 percent of VAWA funding goes to help male victims or female perpetrators despite the fact that 50 percent of the victims of domestic violence are men. That unwillingness to help women who hit, or men who are hit, increases the number of women who suffer at the hands of an abuser.

Why? As the social science on domestic violence has long revealed, about half of domestic violence is “reciprocal.” That means that it’s not just John hitting Mary or Mary hitting John, but one hits and the other hits back. According to a study for the Centers for Disease Control, in about 70 percent of reciprocal cases, it was the woman who hit first and the man who retaliated. Combine that with the fact that women are about twice as likely as men to be injured in a domestic violence incident and we’re forced to conclude that one of the most important things we can do to protect women is teach them “don’t hit first.”"

This article doesn't touch on another uncomfortable fact. VAWA provides funding to teach law enforcement and judicial positions to 'believe women'. The protection order, family court, and other systems have become tools of domestic abuse used by Women. VAWA is a hate crime against Men.

philippmoreau · 2021-02-02T16:33:59+00:00

Feminism's bigotry, egoism, selfishness and irresponsibility backfire, imo, and the one of the article author. The murder rate towards women in dv might correlate with the one-sided lack of support for and protection of male intimate partner violence victims.

If we dedicate males the same measure of protection by society, the legal system and establish a few more dv shelters for them, we might manage to decrease simultaneously the rate of murdered women, hopefully. Setting up dv shelters for women has decreased the number of murdered men at the hands of women in the past.

Blutarg · 2021-02-02T17:23:48+00:00

Reform it, or junk it? Most victims of violent crime are men, most murder victims are men, most victims of domestic assault are men, so why in Hellman's mayonnaise do we need an act geared to helping women?

ExcellentTraffic123 · 2021-02-03T23:07:51+00:00

I'm just going to throw this little factoid out there.

Regardless of the reasons why, I think we should all be pleased that the rate of domestic violence in the USA has dropped 63% over the last several decades according to the DOJ: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ndv0312.pdf

Title	VAWA must be reformed for domestic violence rates to come down
Author	Billy-Batdorf
Upvotes	34
Comments	13
Date	February 2, 2021 2:55 PM UTC (5 years ago)
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