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"The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. ... "Families have supported oppression by separating people into small, isolated units, unable to join together to fight for common interests. ... "

From Female Liberation by Roxanne Dunbar:

"How will the family unit be destroyed? ... the demand alone will throw the whole ideology of the family into question, so that women can begin establishing a community of work with each other and we can fight collectively. Women will feel freer to leave their husbands and become economically independent, either through a job or welfare."

ANTI-FAMILY QUOTES: (to return use your browser's "back" button.)

In addition to civil rights such as free speech, radical feminists are also trying, in effect, to dismantle equal protection in the criminal code. In their well-founded concern with violent crimes against women--particularly rape and domestic battery--the radicals are intent on eliminating many procedural protections for men accused of such crimes. Of course, there is no reason to think that such encroachments on procedural process will remain confined only to rape cases; but to those feminists who dismiss autonomy, liberty, and privacy as mere male illusions, that is not a matter of great concern. At the same time, radical feminists are taking exactly the reverse doctrinal approach to cases of women who kill their partners. They have worked to create a new procedural defense for such women--the battered woman syndrome, which, if taken to its logical extreme, could free any woman who committed violent crimes. This paradox suggests that to the radical feminists, procedural protections belong exclusively to women. The overweening power men theoretically possess in the "patriarchy" in which we live is used as justification for eviscerating the rights of actual men.

Feminist lawyers have pursued two other tacks to circumvent the constitutional protections of the accused in rape cases. The first is the creation of a parallel civil offense in which close cases would be much easier to prove. [159] In a civil trial, the modicum of proof needed for a showing of liability is lowered significantly, from "beyond a reasonable doubt" (about 99 percent) to "a preponderance of the evidence" (about 51 percent), and evidentiary rules are relaxed. [160] The second and much more ominous development is the proposal to make rape a federal hate crime. [161]

It is often said that today's radical feminists are trying to roll back the clock to an era when frail women had to be protected from the harsh world and the natural predatory inclinations of men. That is only partly true. What the radical feminists want is the traditional special protections women had in more paternalistic days plus all the rights that they have gained in the quest for equality with men. Their effort to abolish male privilege while preserving and expanding female privilege is likely to create the very backlash feminists fear. Moreover, most women do not want their brothers, husbands, or sons to live under a legal system that presumes them guilty; nor do they believe that sex is rape, freedom is a male plot, and an abused woman can be her own judge, jury, and executioner.

Yet because a small and vocal minority--the Catharine MacKinnons, the Andrea Dworkins, the Lenore Walkers--has been widely perceived as acting on behalf of all women, it has managed, in less than 15 years, to achieve spectacular successes. Some of their positions have been embraced by the supreme courts of the United States and Canada, and by the governors and voters of several states. They have commitment and time. If their win-loss average continues at its current pace, the day may soon arrive when sexual and political repression to fight sexual and political repression, gender hostility to fight gender hostility, and arbitrary laws to fight arbitrary laws become the order of the day.

The CATO Report, June, 96

The Gender Wars as Conducted in Family Courts:

Chapter 1 explores the Taoist concept that information and planning makes conflict unnecessary, or as Sun Tzu says, "it's best to win without fighting." We also explain the importance of psychology to the divorce process, exploring the holistic approach to preparing mind and body for conflict. We recommend appointing a Sage Advisor (psychotherapist) to help build psychological fortifications and develop offensive strategies for psychological warfare. The efficacy of using psychotropic mediation such as Prozac, is also discussed as part of the mind-body holistic approach.

We emphasize the importance of setting reasonable, morally justifiable objectives and using espionage to achieve these goals. The ideal reader will arm herself with complete financial information before declaring war, i.e., filing for divorce.

Ackerman, Dr. Marc. J. How to Examine Psychological Experts in Divorce and Other Civil Actions. Eau Claire, WI: Professional Education Systems, Inc., 1990.

American Journal of Family Law.

Washington, DC: American Association of Retired Persons, 1991.

Hague Convention.

Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

The Tao of Divorce

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The Misinformation Ministry:

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Few books of modern times have had as great an impact in law, in popular culture and in understanding, as has "The Battered Woman". We have all heard of the "Battered Woman Syndrome," which originated with this book. Later feminist writings on the subject credit Prof. Walker for establishing the contemporary feminist theory and jurisprudence on "Domestic Violence," which they invariably depict as violence by a man against a woman. Every woman who has obtained mitigation in punishment for an act of violence against her mate by pleading the "battered woman syndrome" is a direct beneficiary of Dr. Walker's feminist advocacy and research.

Unfortunately, no one seems to have ever performed any critical analysis of this work, at least in public. Seldom in modern times has any work had such great impact, yet received so little scrutiny. This is (or should be) astonishing, although it is not difficult to discern the reason why. Given the pressure to conform to "political correctness" at most colleges and universities, any serious objection raised to such a cornerstone of feminist research would unquestionably be career-limiting, if not grounds for actual dismissal.

The Battered Woman Myth

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Researching the "Rape Culture" of
America

An Investigation of Feminist Claims about Rape

By Christina Hoff Sommers
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Clark University

There are many researchers who study rape victimization, but their relatively low figures generate no headlines. The reporters from the Blade interviewed several scholars whose findings on rape were not sensational but whose research methods were sound and were not based on controversial definitions. Eugene Kanin, a retired professor of sociology from Purdue University and a pioneer in the field of acquaintance rape, is upset by the intrusion of politics into the field of inquiry: "This is highly convoluted activism rather than social science research."[35] Professor Margaret Gordon of the University of Washington did a study in 1981 that came with relatively low figures for rape (one in fifty). She tells of the negative reaction to her findings: "There was some pressure-at least I felt pressure-to have rape be as prevalent as possible . . .. I'm a pretty strong feminist, but one of the things I was fighting was that the really avid feminists were trying to get me to say that things were worse than they really are."[36]

Rape Culture?

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IN DEFENSE OF SPLITTING UP

The growing antidivorce movement is blind to the costs of bad marriages

BARBARA EHRENREICH

"As for some of the wilder claims, such as "teen suicide has tripled as divorces have tripled": well, roller-blading has probably tripled in the same time period too, and that's hardly a reason to ban in-line skates."

Splitting Up

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What is the Lace Curtain?

"The Lace Curtain" is a term coined years ago to denote the reluctance, failure and outright refusal of many editors, reporters, government officials and other information gatekeepers to acknowledge ideas and data that contradict or challenge prevailing orthodoxies about sexual politics and gender issues.

For Example: By any measure, Good Will Toward Men is the kind of book that would be expected to garner a good deal of exposure in the traditional print media:

• it deals in sexual politics and gender issues, topics that get more than a little attention in the media
• there has never been another book that interviewed women who can appreciate and articulate a pro-male perspective on sexual politics
• it includes a former president of NOW expressing good will toward men, in and of itself a remarkable and unexpected fact
• the book had gained strong early praise from an impressive collection of experts and other public figures who deal in gender issues and sexual politics
• the author and the former president of NOW appeared on NBC's Today Show on the book's publication date

Nevertheless, the book was reviewed in a grand total of zero daily newspapers. Furthermore, the book generated not a single feature story in any major newspaper. Those facts alone do not provide strong reason to suspect journalistic foul play. The following facts, however, do:

• the book review editor of a well-respected daily newspaper in a major American city killed a review of GWTM because the review was favorable
• a feature writer for the Baltimore Sun who was hostile and antagonistic in her interview with the author of Good Will Toward Men did the worst thing she could do to hurt the book - she wrote nothing about it

These two incidents are known and well documented. Since the book received so little attention we might surmise that other editorial decisions were similarly made.

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The False Allegation Industry:

(presented in other DA*DI pages as well)

"Efforts to curb child abuse have mushroomed into new hysteria that hurts children and parents and is crippling Colorado's efforts to protect it's young a Rocky Mountain News study has found.

Lawyers, investigators and people who have been dragged into the state's child protection system say unfounded and overblown reports of child abuse have contributed to a witch-hunt mentality." - Rocky Mountain News, 10/26/86

"A Wall Street Journal article by Douglas Besharov fomerly director of the federal National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, quotes a figure of 65% false reports of child abuse in 1985."

"Child saving has a long and troubled history in America. It represents a peculiar combination of genuine concern, hysteria, the misuse of authority, and the systematic denial of constitutional rights to both children and parents. The disturbing new element is the joining of a blatantly anti-family ideology to the historic child-saving philosophy. The consequences of this change is an America turned upside down, with the law becoming a weapon that is held at the throats of families throughout the land." - Persuasion At Work, Vol. 8, No. 8.

VOCAL (Victims of Child Abuse Laws) of Colorado states that federal studies have shown that "unfounded" reports of child abuse have risen from 35% in 1976 to 65% in 1985.

DA*DI has demonstrated, per Child Maltreatment 1994: Reports from the States to the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, the incidence of "unfounded" allegations (i.e., false allegations) has now risen to 79% in 1994 - a nearly two-fold increase in just under two decades.

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Radical feminists - a minority of angry and misguided social misfits - have, to date, been extremely effective in launching their program of social -reengineering. Through a systematic and energetic program of misinformation, they have created an atmosphere of fear and loathing which has branded all men as potential if not actual rapists, batterers and pedophiles - despite the existence of factual evidence that women are equally capable and equally often the actual perpetrators; has raised the spector of child abuse and domestic violence as public enemy number one - despite the fact that more than 99% of American children are not subjected to abuse and that at least half of all domestic violence is female initiated; has created a new form of dependency for women - dependency on the federal government - which for those who would have a traditional family has forced one of the marital partners to work full-time just to pay taxes, while the other works full-time to support the family; and has deprived more than 40% of American children of their biological Father - while simultaneously advocating for indiscriminate child-bearing and infanticide.

Quite an INDUSTRY indeed.

Is Socialism just ahead?

Gerald L. Rowles, Ph.D.; 12/94

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