Group of Domestic Violence Dissidents/Authorities Sponsors Historic Conference
December 10th, 2007 by Glenn Sacks, MA for Fathers & FamiliesBackground: The domestic violence establishment is not telling us the full truth about domestic violence, and many destructive family law and criminal law policies have been based on misinformation. Research clearly establishes that women are frequently the aggressors in domestic combat, often employing the element of surprise and weapons to compensate for men's strength. Yet arrest and prosecution policies are stacked against men, as is the public dialogue on this important issue. Perhaps worst of all, misguided women's groups' distortion of the domestic violence issue has been the leading impediment to passing shared parenting legislation.
Last year dozens of leading authorities in the domestic violence field formed the National Family Violence Legislative Resource Center (NFVLRC) to change the domestic violence system. The NFVLRC advocates for non-discriminatory and evidence-based policies and seeks to correct the many damaging laws and policies which have been based on misleading claims. NFVLRC co-founder John Hamel, LCSW, a court-certified batterer treatment provider and author of the book Gender-Inclusive Treatment of Intimate Partner Abuse, explains:
"The founding members of NFVLRC have recognized for some time that current policies are politically driven rather being based on scientifically sound information, and are seeking to change them. As a result of flawed policies, many children are being denied the same range of services simply because of their victimized parent's gender. Current policies have in many instances also resulted in a loss of civil liberties, and research indicates that they have sometimes resulted in increased danger to victims...NFVLRC believes that unless domestic and family violence policies are reformed, victims, children and future generations will continue to suffer from this social problem."
Last year over 50 of these authorities signed a letter urging the California legislature to stop the state's policy of excluding male victims and their children from domestic violence services.
The California Alliance for Families and Children is sponsoring an historic, one-of-a-kind conference--"From Ideology to Inclusion: Evidence-Based Policy and Intervention in Domestic Violence." The conference will be held Friday/Saturday, February 15-16, 2008 in Sacramento, California, and will feature speakers from the NFVLRC.
There will be 5 Plenary Sessions and 15 Breakout Sessions. Topics include: Current Policy Issues * Research Trends * Male and Female Victims* DV in the LGBT Community * DV in Ethnic Minority Groups * Restraining Orders* Female Perpetrators * DV and Child Abuse * DV and Child Custody * Co-ed Shelters * Gender-Inclusive and Research-Based Interventions * DV and Adolescents * Family Treatment * Working with Victimized Children.
Many of the leading authorities in the domestic violence field will be speaking at the conference. These include: Erin Pizzey, founder of one of the world's first battered women's shelters in 1971; author and psychologist Don Dutton, who served as a domestic violence expert on the prosecution team in the OJ Simpson trial; Linda Mills, PhD, LCSW, JD, New York University; Murray Straus, PhD, of the University of New Hampshire; clinical psychologist Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling of the University of South Alabama; Philip Cook, author of Abused Men: The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence; Janet Johnston, PhD; forensic psychologist Dr. Tonia Nicholls; Marlene Moretti, PhD, coauthor of the book, Girls and Aggression: Contributing Factors and Intervention Principles; Miriam Ehrensaft Ph.D, of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, at Columbia University; Nicola Graham-Kevan, BSc, PhD, senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Central Lancashire [UK]; and numerous others.
The conference will be held at the Clarion Hotel Mansion Inn in Sacramento, CA, and discounted hotel rates are still available. For the conference schedule and to register, visit www.NFVLRC.org and see the bottom of the home page.
Mike Robinson of the CAFC says:
"We already have had a great response in registration, with several county probation departments registering, one state's Supreme Court staff and justices, family court and private mediation groups, custody evaluators, attorneys, and many more."
To donate to help support the Conference, click here. To learn more about the National Family Violence Legislative Resource Center, visit their website at www.nfvlrc.org. To contact them, write to John Hamel by clicking here.
[Note: If you or someone you love is being abused, the Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men and Women provides crisis intervention and support services to victims of domestic violence and their families.]
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December 10th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Will Mo Hannah be on hand to talk about the epidemic of mothers losing custody to abusive fathers and how the family court system is biased against women?
December 10th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
But seriously, what a great group and a great website! The research section alone is worth its weight in gold.
Glenn -- are you sensing serious change here?
December 10th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Quick, we must inform the feminists of this travesty so they can disrupt it!
I can only hope there's enough time...
December 10th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Glenn, a few years back a friend of mine was the victim of feminist domestic violence laws. He had been attacked by his girlfriend at the time. She tried to stab him multiple time s with a butchers knife, and despite haveing what were clearly defensive wounds on him he went to jail. He also was prevented from returning home since she got a restraining order and moved into his house while he was in jail. Im glad someone else is standing up for men, as so few of us seem willing to do so for ourselves.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Yep. As a male victim of Domestic Violence, I am going to attend this conference if I can. I was lucky though, I am the one that got the restraining order, but not after she had filed for 3 restraining orders against me, and cost me $1000's to defend. Finally the Judge listened to the WHOLE story, and I have a permanent order for protection. I can say that the DV establishment needs SERIOUS reform. More men should hear my story, you won't believe it until you hear it.
December 10th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
When a woman in the midwest who has neevr been to new york can get a restraining order against David Lettermen becasue hes "sexually harrasing her through her TV" what else needs to be said?
December 13th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Women, who reflexively rely on their innate collective consciousness as female (which is what makes them susceptible to the "kool-aid" of feminism), should be very frightened by the growing prospect that men may have no choice but to learn to form their own collective consciousness, as well, even though it is as foreign to their basic nature as it is part of women's nature. When men as a group finally begin to generally perceive women as their adversaries, and other men as their allies, women's place in society will grow much more difficult than it is now. I have no pity, though. Some things, no matter how painful, will just have to work themselves through.
December 27th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
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February 12th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
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