A close look at DHHS data over a 5 year period shows much lower risk to children from fathers than from mothers.

A study of 18,761 heterosexual relationships, done by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, has found that women perpetrate 70% of non-reciprocal violence. Only 30% of non-reciprocal violence was perpetrated by men. And non-reciprocal violence accounted for only half of all cases. Overall, the cases resulted in a significant number of injuries to men as well as to women.

The title says it all. Pay particular attention to the section "Methods Used to Conceal, Deny, and Distort the Research". Also of interest is "Why PV is Misperceived as Asymmetrical".

Critique of New Jersey's attempt to "convert that which is in its nature a prosecution for a crime into a civil proceeding," Rutgers Law Review, Vol 57:3, 2005

In 1971, Erin Pizzey founded the world's first battered women's shelter in Chiswick, England. In this memoir of her 1977 tour of the United States, Erin recounts how her efforts were misused by Gloria Steinem, Lenore Walker, and others, in furtherance of their political agenda.

Why did Dr. Robert McAfee, president-elect of the AMA, give wildly exaggerated testimony before the U.S. Senate?

The Gender Bias Committee report created the widely quoted factoid that fathers are granted sole or joint physical custody 70% of the time when they request it. It turns out that the very same data shows that the rate at which primary physical custody was granted to mothers is higher than the rate for fathers. Learn how they fiddled with the numbers to make it sound like courts are biased against mothers.

NYU professor Dalton Conley compares apples and oranges to create the case for appearance bias against women

PBS' "Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories" seems to have more to do with stampeding legislators into passing laws than giving the viewer objective information.

Since the 1970s, nearly every state in the U.S. has established a Commission on the Status of Women. But not until 2002 did any state establish an analogous commission to investigate the unique problems that negatively impact men and boys in U.S. society. The 2002 N.H. legislation that created the commission contained a "sunset" clause. The commission will cease to exist in the summer of 2007 if not re-authorized. Because the commission is the only one of its kind, professionals in a variety of fields all across the country have signed a resolution to encourage the N.H. Legislature to make the Commission on the Status of Men a permanent body.

Study conceived by Mark Rosenthal shows many men suffer physical abuse from their female partners, live in fear of them, and the men and their children are denied help by the domestic violence system.

Mark discusses the principles he values and his reasons for creating this website.

Childhood experiences.

Hypocrisy instead of equality.

First Glimmerings of Hope – How John Lennon and Mr. Dithers led to my one and only conversation with Gloria Steinem.

Trying to make a difference. (Old composition, newly posted)

In 2002 I had the opportunity to address an audience of social workers and law enforcement officials at the annual Domestic Violence Conference at York College (C.U.N.Y.). Drawing lessons from my own childhood, I warned them of the immense harm they unknowingly cause to children when they apply rote cookie-cutter solutions instead of putting in the effort to get it right.

The Gender Bias Committee report created the widely quoted factoid that fathers are granted sole or joint physical custody 70% of the time when they request it. It turns out that the very same data shows that the rate at which primary physical custody was granted to mothers is higher than the rate for fathers. Learn how they fiddled with the numbers to make it sound like courts are biased against mothers.

NYU professor Dalton Conley compares apples and oranges to create the case for appearance bias against women

Think medical research studies routinely excluded women? Think again. Read this article from the journal Epidemiology and Society.

A close look at DHHS data over a 5 year period shows much lower risk to children from fathers than from mothers.

A study of 18,761 heterosexual relationships, done by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, has found that women perpetrate 70% of non-reciprocal violence. Only 30% of non-reciprocal violence was perpetrated by men. And non-reciprocal violence accounted for only half of all cases. Overall, the cases resulted in a significant number of injuries to men as well as to women.

The title says it all. Pay particular attention to the section "Methods Used to Conceal, Deny, and Distort the Research". Also of interest is "Why PV is Misperceived as Asymmetrical".

Critique of New Jersey's attempt to "convert that which is in its nature a prosecution for a crime into a civil proceeding," Rutgers Law Review, Vol 57:3, 2005

Public humiliation of any man who would “allow himself” to be beaten by his wife is a long-standing tradition throughout Europe.

History of the European tradition of humiliating male victims.

Why did Dr. Robert McAfee, president-elect of the AMA, give wildly exaggerated testimony before the U.S. Senate?

Lives could be saved if Congress would pass a non-discriminatory VAWA

What happened when Richard J. Gelles unearthed statistics about women who abuse men? Death threats and other compliments.

The National Violence Against Women Survey found 1.3 million women and 835,000 men are physically assaulted by their partners each year. But the policy implications section of the report treats the 835,000 men as the elephant in the room that everybody's politely trying not to notice.

The bill designates the approximately 16,304 Native American women abused annually as an "underserved population," but turns a blind eye to the 835,000 men abused annually for whom there is virtually no help available.

Reasons to think the statistics on success of EMERGE-style Batterer Intervention Programs may be inflated.

In 2002 I had the opportunity to address an audience of social workers and law enforcement officials at the annual Domestic Violence Conference at York College (C.U.N.Y.). Drawing lessons from my own childhood, I warned them of the immense harm they unknowingly cause to children when they apply rote cookie-cutter solutions instead of putting in the effort to get it right.

Among F&F's key findings are:

• Many articles cited in support of the film contain assertions unsupported by any data.
• In those articles that do contain research data, the data "fail to support the film’s contentions, and strongly suggest contrary conclusions."
• Two key figures in the film have made statements that raise serious questions about their ability to be objective:
  • GWU Law Prof. Joan Meier is reported to have described herself in writing as among those “who start with an advocate’s perspective,” as opposed to a “neutral” perspective.
  • Lundy Bancroft is reported to have boasted that he was fired by the Massachusetts family courts as a domestic violence educator because of his extreme views.

The CPB Ombudsman has written a second piece, reporting and commenting on communications from those involved with Breaking the Silence. His assessment of the statement from Tatge/Lasseur Productions is that it “amounts to a plea of guilty to violating the fairness and balance standards of PBS”.

Article cites webpage as evidence. Webpage is quickly changed.
Update: Entire Webpage Disappears!

The “Breaking the Silence” Viewer's Guide cites research by Straus and others to imply that it is only or predominantly violent men who physically abuse children. Straus responds that “the focus on just men in the quote is contradicted by the evidence“

Due to controversy over Breaking the Silence, PBS' new ombudsman, Michael Getler, wrote his first column three weeks before his job was supposed to have started. In Getler's article, BTS producer Lasseur responds to the discovery that he had excluded interviewees whose stories might have called the film's premise into question by denigrating them as “fathers who had a destructive political agenda”. Getler says he “thought this particular program had almost no balance“.

CPB Ombudsman Dr. Ken A. Bode (read his credentials here) writes: “The producers apparently do not subscribe to the idea that an argument can be made more convincing by giving the other side a fair presentation ... this broadcast is so slanted as to raise suspicions that either the family courts of America have gone crazy or there must be another side to the story ... Along with the motives of its sponsor (The Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation), Breaking the Silence needs to be reviewed for accuracy, fairness and balance.”

Recent information has come to light that ABC's Prime Time Live is working on a piece on domestic violence that may distort the issue in much the same way as PBS' recently aired “Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories”.

The producers of "Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories" say they started out with no preconceived notions, and just followed wherever their extensive research led them. What does the evidence say?

PBS' "Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories" seems to have more to do with stampeding legislators into passing laws than giving the viewer objective information.

Supporting documentation provided at a pre-screening of "Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories" is larded with conveniently slippery terminology, scare tactics, ad hominem attacks, straw man argumentation, and failure to distinguish between allegation and evidence.