| VALIDITY OF THE WAR ON WOMEN? By Robert G. Leclair Forty years of research in the field of domestic violence reveals that the general conclusions included below should become a top priority in the United States. Detailed proof and factual information is contained in my book on domestic violence and divorce. The book will be introduced on this web site and hopefully will be the subject of meaningful and rational discussions. The main thrust of my findings shows that protecting women from domestic violence and abuse is a noble and attainable goal. However, the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) introduced and supported by then Senators Clinton and Biden failed miserably, with no accountability for its lack of success. Had the federal government done its due diligence it could have determined that the Office for Women (OVW) administered and developed the programs based on a radical feminist ideology and approach, wasting billions of tax dollars on doomed policies and procedures. In 2015 as in previous years, press and television articles still label domestic violence as an epidemic. Some experts even now compare domestic violence to a "plague". Sounds like the wasted money the federal government spent fighting the war on poverty and the war on drugs! Cathy Young was absolutely on target when she questioned the validity of the “war on women” as portrayed by radical feminists in her book “Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality." I believed that Young meant to include male politicians like President Obama, VP Biden and most Republicans who promoted and supported the reauthorization of VAWA in 2013 without measurable safeguards and/or credible proof that the approach works in eliminating violence against women. Another major revelation of my research and statistics is that 83% of domestic violence cases are in the form of allegations handled as complaints requesting restraining orders in the judicial process. The remaining 17% of domestic violence cases are those reported in the press and /or TV. About 99% of the restraining orders sought are granted by judges and the average number of retraining orders in the U.S. every year is about 2 million. The shear number of restraining orders granted may be construed as an epidemic but the public is unaware that these restraining orders are granted like Halloween candy and arbitrarily doled out without due process in a court system that is seriously flawed and in dire need of total reform. Unless OVW policies and procedures as well as the judicial process in each state are separately reformed, elimination of or reduction in violence against women is almost impossible. THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM IS SO FLAWED THAT IT IS FALSE TO ASSUME THAT RESTRAINING ORDERS WILL PROTECT WOMEN! VAWA'S POLICIES AND APPROACH ARE FAILING SO BADLY THAT THE WAR ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN HAS BECOME RIDICULOUSLY INEFFECTIVE! My book and its solutions seemingly appear to be a war on women. Don't be fooled, it's an honest and all out attempt to eliminate violence against women, men and more importantly to prevent violence to and abuse of our children. Violence is far to prevalent in our society. VAWA is now attempting to integrate a GLOBAL VAWA (IVAWA). Such a move would definitely change the dynamics and statistics of the war to stop the violence against women and would require a greater infusion of tax dollars, contrary to what supporters say. On a global level the ratio of abused women would probably go from 1 of 5 to 1 of 3. How can we resolve the issue globally when VAWA has failed to resolve domestic violence problems in the United States? I-VAWA is a move similar to the Global War on Poverty bill that was justifiably defeated in 2008. |
| Slippery Slope Mistakes: The war on drugs was a failure and cost us billions of tax dollars. Drug overdose and suicides is at an epidemic level and we are paying a heavy cost for drug addicts and babies born addicted. The 50-year war on poverty did not fare any better. Poverty is still rampant. Thank God that senators Obama and Biden's bill to eliminate Global Poverty in 2008 never got traction. The cost probably would have been prohibitive and ineffective. We can't even win the war on poverty in the U.S. After two decades and billions of tax dollars the war to stop violence against women waged under the banner of VAWA has not had much success. The approach used was taken from the book on radical feminist ideology. Many of the factors affecting domestic violence were ignored and women were not protected. In order to achieve the noble goal of protecting women, the approach as well as the policies adopted need to be revamped. The judicial system that handles the restraining orders must also under go drastic reform. Otherwise, protection of women from domestic violence is doomed to failure. A restraining order has never prevented murders, suicides or physical confrontations and insidious assaults. |
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