New Calls To Renew The Violence Against Women Act
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-01-09/new-calls-renew-violence-against-women-act
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has said re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act is one of her top priorities for the new year. The law provides police and other groups with money to help fight domestic violence and sexual assault. It’s been reauthorized every five years since it was first passed in 1994, but not last year. House Republicans objected to modifications which allowed for protections for gays and lesbians, Native Americans and immigrants. Please join us to discuss domestic violence, sexual assault and prospects for the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.
Guests
Representative Diana DeGette
Democrat, U.S. Representative for Colorado's 1st Congressional District, serving since 1997, and a Chief Deputy Whip. The district is based in Denver.
Phyllis Schlafly
founder and president, Eagle Forum
Terry O'Neill
president, National Organization for Women.
Paulette Sullivan Moore
National Network to End Domestic Violence
Indira Lakshmanan
senior correspondent covering foreign policy for Bloomberg News.
Juliet Macur
reporter, New York Times
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Hmmm... "The Violence Against Women Act is supposed to provide police and other groups with money to help fight domestic violence and sexual assault".
But during the program the host asked Congresswoman Diana Degette (D-CO) if the funding for VAWA had stopped since the re authorization had expired.
Her response was that she didn't know the answer, and that she would have to ask her constituents!!!
This sounds fishy to me. So the democrats insist that VAWA funding is critical and and yet they don't even know whether the program is currently funded. Sounds like the democrats are using themes of domestic abuse for their political gain to conduct a war on Republicans.
Well the truth is that VAWA /funding is alive and well even without the re authorization.
According to research, men have undergone as much abuse as women. Men do not report abuse from women because they are afraid and embarrassed. Often in families, women are most violent- verbally or physically, but women's rights groups do not acknowledge this.
According to research, men have undergone as much abuse as women. Men do not report abuse from women because they are afraid and embarrassed. Often in families, women are most violent- verbally or physically, but women's rights groups do not acknowledge this.
Women- please, if you cannot afford to take care of children do not have children. I work with families who are on welfare and love to be pregnant when they are not religious and believe in contraception. If you cannot take care of one child, do not have five! They women are abusive to their children. They choose to have five different fathers, and then ask us what we are going to do about it.
Ms Roehm
I was stunned at the amount of misinformation and outrages assertions you and your panel let Ms. Schlafly get a way with. Did anyone on your team do any homework to prepare for this 'discussion' at all?!
Has anyone tried to call the statewide or national hotlines for Domestic Violence and Sexual assault to hear what kind of services are offered to BOTH man and women over the telephone and at the various DV and SA crisis centers and shelters?
I am one of the responders to the VA state wide hotline. We council and refer all callers, regardless of gender. The domestic Violence shelter I work in protects and services all men and women who ask for our help and a great many of their children aswell. So do the other centers in Virginia.
I found your show insulting and offensive for its total lack of accuracy and support for the dedicated work that we try to do for all victims of abuse.
Can someone please explain to me why Phyllis Schlafely was allowed to be on this show to give commentary? She clearly had done no real research on VAWA and was spouting her own backwards ideas of bizarre "reverse sexism." Also, the real source of violence against women is sex selective abortion? If you compared those statistics (if you could find any untainted statistics about sex selective abortion to begin with) you would find that that was absolutely not the case. It was distracting from the real issue and she was clearly not informed. I'm all for presenting differing opinions to provide balanced coverage, but this commenter had nothing good to add to this discussion, just her own wacked out opinions.
I listened to this episode with a mixture of irritation and disgust. Over and Over again we are told that what women really want is equality: Political, Economic, Social equality. But then a group of well meaning people try to advance this bill that gives Women an enoromous advantage whenever a conflict between a man and a woman occurs.
I am not in favor of this bill and have now written to my congressman and told him as much. Any bill that advocates funding and favoritism to a group does so at the expense of another.
I have a daughter and two sons. I would like to think that if the unthinkable ever happened to my daughter that she would have the full protection of the law as it is written in our state. On the other hand, if a malicious or confused woman were to ever falsely accuse one of my sons of such an unthinkable act I would also hope that THEY had the full protection of the law.
I know women aren't one big homogeneous group but I'll tell you this - As long as there are women advocating for favortism on behalf of women because they are "Vulnerable", "underserved" etc. then it's hard to take serious the argument that they should be treated just like a man on all other fronts.
I was shocked at how poorly informed people are about DV and VAWA. Women are victims, men are victims, same sex partners are victims of intimate partner violence and domestic abuse. I agree that there should be a name change so that more people can be helped.
The law should also address the lack of training and understanding in law enforcement and general public.
I love the show, but don't understand why Phyllis Schlafly would be invited on. That woman is so out of touch, so old-fashioned, and seems to be so subservient to the patriachal paradigm that she hasn't a reasonable voice for modern women. Her assertion that violent rapes like what happened in India don't happen in the USA is proof that she is clueless and irrelevant. She should retire already and go live in obscurity.
I am dismayed by the false domestic and sexual violence statements made by your guests supporting VAWA. Nearly 300 random sample studies since the 1970's have consistently found that men are the primary victims of domestic violence at the hands of women. Additionally, boys suffer the most child abuse and mothers commit the majority of abuse.
Your guests did not state that boys and men are highly unlikely to report being the victims of sexual assault and rape, especially if they were victimized by a woman. Random sample studies of college age young men and women found that young MEN actually experience more "unwanted sex" (date rape) by the opposite sex than young women. Random sample studies and historical records also indicate that throughout history and now, boys are raped and sexually assaulted equally to girls. Your guests didn't mention that Male Genital Mutilation is legal against boys under 18. If this sexually violating and traumatic practice were factored into sexual assault statistics, most males in the USA have been raped.
The majority of the people maimed, tortured and murdered in society are boys and men. To renew a sexist piece of legislature like VAWA, something that only sees women as victims and men as predators is a public health threat and a human rights violation. I am a licensed mental health counselor who works on the front lines of child abuse and domestic violence. Women and girls are NOT the primary victims of domestic and sexual violence, they are only protected more by outreach, supports and campaigns. The answer to human violence is NOT VAWA, it is in how children are raised. People who commit acts of violence are acting out the trauma and unmet needs from their childhoods. Families need supportive services, educational interventions, trauma work and healing, not arrests and prison sentences. Your guests lacked balance and compassion for male victims and appeared to be focused on a protect-women-only agenda.
I think that Schifly did a very good job stating her case. There are so many people on this website who comment about these issue, and they think they are so educated and intelligent that they say someone like Schifly should not be heard. She was very reasonable, particularly when she said that women are also violent against men, and contribute to domestic violence.
What the feminists in this country do is manipulate the discourse in order force the state to give them money for an ideological agenda.
People who have some education think they know it all but are just ideological. This is why many dismiss what they call radical or extreme views.
Anther point, the studies on rape have no validity because they have such false presuppositions. The stats are manipulated in order fabricate "knowledge" about these issues. Vindictive women will use the law against men in order to satisfy their desire to hurt them. Many wives do this to their husbands for payback.
Domestic Violence is one of the most overlooked categories facing us today. 63% of all boys, age 11-20, who commit murder kill the man who was abusing their mother. www.CDV.org is committed to being a resource for the smallest part of this problem. The Children. Without proper education victims of domestic violence are destined to repeat the cycle.