His Side with Glenn Sacks Radio Commentary: Dissident Domestic Violence Authorities Sponsor Historic Conference
January 21st, 2008 by Glenn Sacks, MA for Fathers & Families
My recent His Side with Glenn Sacks radio commentary for KLAA AM 830 in Los Angeles discusses the California Alliance for Families and Children's upcoming, historic 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.
The conference will feature speakers from the National Family Violence Legislative Resource Center--a group of domestic violence experts and authorities who are challenging laws and policies based on the idea that only men commit domestic violence in heterosexual relationships. Many of the leading authorities in the domestic violence field will be speaking at the conference.
To listen to the commentary, click here.
To learn more, see my blog post Group of Domestic Violence Dissidents/Authorities Sponsors Historic Conference.
His Side with Glenn Sacks radio commentaries are broadcast daily on KLAA AM 830, a 50,000 watt talk station in Los Angeles and Orange County. KLAA AM 830 is owned by Arte Moreno, owner of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
From 2003-2005, His Side with Glenn Sacks ran in a syndicated talk show format in Los Angeles, New York City, Boston, Seattle, and other cities. To listen to show archives, click here.
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January 21st, 2008 at 12:00 pm
This conference is indeed historic, given that it may be the first gathering of so many of the credible "heavy hitters" in the still largely unmentionable campaign to reform DV policy and law -- it would be good to see these "voices in the wilderness" get some mass media exposure.
Since that is unlikely to happen, are there any plans to record and web stream the keynote addresses and other speakers? Publish transcripts?
There are thousands of professional domestic violence counselors nationwide who would be heartened to be able to see/listen/read these sessions, if only as evidence of what they know and have been saying for years -- i.e.:
The feminist Duluth Model for addressing domestic violence is broken and cannot be fixed. It is time to start over and let in all the scholarship, all the clinical experience, and temper the ideological rants in order to take a new look at DV in all of its facets.
Frankly that is the last thing that the current ruling bureaucracy seeks, because the DV Industry is so entrenched, and so profitable, for so many.
All of the speakers at this upcoming "dissident" conference should have been included on the agenda of people testifying before Sen. Joe Biden's DOJ committee to reauthorize VAWA 2005 - 2010.
None were invited, due to the deliberate censorship of testimony and intensive feminist lobbying - $$$.
I do not expect Kim Gandy at NOW, or whoever is the current feminist interim director at the Office for Violence Against Women ... to mention the conference or its merits.
January 21st, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Glenn,
Thank you for your efforts in connection with the conference. This is a great and important event, indeed. Once the truth of DV is known, and the feminist hate-mongering is thereby exposed for what it is, a domino effect will occur, and custody and family law will be subject to meaningful reform, etc. The inclination is there to put a halt to the wholesale demonization of men so effectively promulgated by NOW and its ilk. Maybe this will get the snowball rolling! Of course, there will be active attempts to suppress, dismiss, and belittle the data and ideas being exposed. Courage!
January 21st, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Mmmm, show me that we, as a nation REALLY need to create this socialist nationalized family. Why do we want the courts, police and governments taking over solving family problems? The extended family, friends, and church have been serving this function for an eternity, with bandwith and sensitivity that the government can never match.
Show me that the "Battered Women" hysteria of the '80's was something so compelling and dangerous that we need the government's intrusion into a majority of our family lives.
When I look at the flyer here, I worry that this is a bunch of carpet baggers who feed off of claiming domestic violence is bigger than it is, and now that they see they are nearly being debunked, they seek to create even larger institutions, so that all men, women, children, and maybe even grandparents can come live in government funded shelters if someone has a fight.
I say BAH! Let people alone. Let us be free! Enforce basic laws of peace, but keep in mind that a fat lip is NOT the same as murder. Bring back equality and justice to punishments. Make punishments fit the crime.
Do not see every squable as a reason to create a new government institution and deprive both the accusor and accused of their liberty and pursuit of happiness.
January 22nd, 2008 at 2:05 pm
"Do not see every squable as a reason to create a new government institution and deprive both the accusor and accused of their liberty and pursuit of happiness."
That's not what this is. This event is about bringing reason, objectivity and science to the issue instead of the politicized, one-sided feminist approach we currently have. The speakers may take various different views on how big the problem is or what the best approach is, but they all agree on eradicating the current politicized approaches.
I agree it has gone too far, but that's because of a politicized and one-sided gender feminist approach. I do support having courts there for cases of violence and in cases of custody disputes. Otherwise all we have is a free for all, where parents can brutalize each other in front of their kids with no resources, and where the parent who kidnaps the kids first wins while the other has no recourse. The system is flawed and needs to be fixed, perhaps even reduced, but not destroyed and replaced with anarchy.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Regarding: "Otherwise all we have is a free for all, where parents can brutalize each other in front of their kids with no resources"
Er, well yeah, that was supposed to be reflected in my comment "Enforce basic laws of peace, but keep in mind that a fat lip is NOT the same as murder."
There already exist plenty of laws regarding assault and battery. Having a special court section that is not under constitutional control just because two combatants are within a family is just unwise, and smacks of a special interest group (the family law industry) creating a captive market for their expensive 'services'. Isn't this what we all see has happened here, much as happened in Personal Injury Law, and some say Bankrupsy Law?
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Personal Injury law is still in ordinary civil courts. But Bankruptcy and Family Law, at least in California, have their own separate set of statutory codes, so that means they get separate courts that specialize in the field.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Thanks Marc!
Remind me to never argue law with a lawyer..:)