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July 6, 2005

The Honorable Joseph Biden United States Senate 201 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510-4205

Re: DON’T “STACK” the VAWA Hearing!!!!!!!!

Senator Biden:

As a male victim of domestic violence, I know first hand that women commit domestic violence (often to the point of child endangement!!!!!!. Government and private studies (some of which are provided below) indicate that women not only commit domestic violence at the same levels as men, but are in fact found to be the primary initiators of Domestic violence!

Make VAWA Gender-Neutral or repeal it! Anything less represents a violation of all males 14th Amendement Rights, as well as violation of Title 9.

PLEASE DON’T perpetrate yet another fraud against American Citizens AND Taxpayers!

Joseph Biden Wants to Stack the VAWA Hearing; We Say, "No Way Jose!"

On July 19th, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. And right now, Senator Biden only wants to invite persons who will sing the praises of VAWA. In other words, he wants to have a rubber-stamp hearing.

It's crucial that the Judiciary Committee hear the truth about VAWA -- how it ignores the research about DV and grossly discriminates against men.

Two persons who have each spent over three decades researching family violence:

Murray Straus, Ph.D., founder of the University of New Hampshire Family Research Laboratory Richard Gelles, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania These are the people who should be testifying on July 19, not the advocates who knowingly slant the truth and discriminate against needy DV victims.

Don't let the VAWA hearing be just another rubber-stamped event. Invite Drs. Murray Straus and Richard Gelles to testify. And be sure to invite a male victim of DV who has been turned away by a VAWA-funded program.

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The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is up for renewal in September 2005, and carries an estimated $842 million price-tag for the American tax payers. This Act is gender-discriminatory as evidenced by the governments own statistics regarding Domestic Violence and Child Abuse. As such VAWA needs to be repealed entirely OR the law must be rewritten to be "gender-neutral" so as to provide equal access to the services provided. The original VAWA bill was obtained through false testimony and misrepresentation of data so as to paint ALL MEN as domestic violence perpetrators - and ALL WOMEN as "victims" -- positions which are were (and are) in total opposition to the governments own empirical data on Domestic Abuse and Child Abuse. Just a sampling of this data is provided below. Information provided by the San Bernardino County, California Sheriff's Department Domestic Violence and Rape Awareness Web Site. Contained on this site, is information which dispels the MYTH that men is only committed by the males of our species. (http://www.co.san- bernardino.ca.us/sheriff/dvra/dom_viol_facts_main.htm. The second and third items struck me as particularly interesting as the information is in total opposition to that used by the Feminists in obtaining VAWA's initial passage - clearly demonstrating that false testimony was used to obtain which has painted ALL MEN as domestic violence perpetrators.

MYTHS FACTS 95% of the domestic violence is by men against women. The National Institute of Justice and the Center for Disease Control estimates that 1.3 million women and 835,000 men are the victims of domestic violence each year. According to this NIJ/CDC survey, 37% of the domestic violence is against men. 100% of the federal domestic violence funding under the Violence Against Women Act is to be used for domestic violence against women. 100% of the federal domestic violence research funds disbursed to several federal agencies is devoted to domestic. Domestic violence by women against men is not serious. According to the NIJ/CDC National Violence Against Women survey, 10.8% of the women but only 4.1% of the men used a knife on the victim. 21.6% of the male victims were threatened with a knife, while only 12.7% of the women were so threatened. 43.2% of the male victims were hit with a hard object capable of causing serious injury, while this was true of only 22.6% of the female victims. When all serious forms of domestic assault were added together, as many assaulted men as women were seriously assaulted. All or almost all domestic violence by women is in self-defense. A survey 0f 1,000 women, perhaps the largest survey of its kind, found that 20% had initiated violence. The most common reasons for women initiating domestic violence were: "My partner wasn't sensitive to my needs," (46%), "I wished to gain my partner's attention," (44%) and "My partner was not listening to me" (43%). "My partner was being verbally abusive to me" (38%) was a distant fourth.

Just as women are the perpetrators of Domestic Violence(http:// http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm), Females within Single- Parent Households are they are also the primary perpetrators of child abuse: (http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/publications/ cm98/cpt6.htm)

US HHS data regarding child abuse is also indicative of a "gender- neutral" issues, although the preponderance of abuse is committed by the female of our species: Single Parent Household Child Abuse statistics from U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. Chapter 6 Perpetrators

A perpetrator of child abuse and/or neglect is a person who has maltreated a child while in a caretaking relationship to the child. Although the majority of perpetrators are parents, other persons in caretaking roles—for example, other household members, other relatives, day care providers, and residential facility staff—may also be considered perpetrators of maltreatment.

This chapter describes the characteristics of perpetrators— including age, sex, and relationships to child victims; attention is also given to the relationships between perpetrators of specific types of maltreatment and their victims, based on case-level data from the DCDC. 6.1 Characteristics of Perpetrators Figure 6-1 shows that for the States that submitted case-level data, about three-fourths (73.1%) of substantiated or indicated reports identified only one perpetrator, regardless of the number of maltreatment victims. Almost half (49.6%) of the reports had only one perpetrator and one victim. As seen in figure 6-2, three-fifths (60.4%) of perpetrators were female, and two-fifths (39.6%) were male. Female perpetrators were typically younger than their male counterparts, as reflected by the difference in their respective median ages, 31 and 34. Figure 6-2 shows that nearly half (46.1%) of the perpetrators were women between the ages of 20 and 39.

6.2 Relationships of Perpetrators to Child Victims

As displayed in figure 6-3, more than four-fifths (87.1%) of victims were maltreated by one or both parents. The most common pattern of maltreatment was a child neglected by a female parent with no other perpetrators having been identified (44.7%). This pattern may be influenced by the fact that female parents are more likely to have primary caretaking responsibilities, especially in single-parent households.

Table 6-1 indicates that when the type of maltreatment is considered, there are similar patterns of relationships between victims and perpetrators. For all types of maltreatment, more than half of the children who were victims were maltreated by one or both of their parents. The most striking difference, however, is that children who were victims of physical and sexual abuse, compared to children who were victims of neglect and medical neglect, were more likely to be maltreated by a male parent acting alone. In cases of sexual abuse, more than half (55.9%) of the victims were abused by male parents, male relatives, or other males. ==================== REFERENCES EXAMINING ASSAULTS BY WOMEN ON THEIR SPOUSES OR MALE PARTNERS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Martin S. Fiebert Department of Psychology California State University, Long Beach

SUMMARY: This bibliography examines 169 scholarly investigations: 133 empirical studies and 36 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 152,500 The full report is available at http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm

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Given the plethora of empirical data that accurately conveys that BOTH GENDERS perpetrate Domestic Violence and Child abuse, and BOTH GENDERS ARE VICTIMS --- ANY GOVERNMENT PROGRAM targeting this blight on our society must provide assistance and support to BOTH GENDERS, and not "selectively" allocate assistance and support on a gender-discriminatory basis -- which is exactly what is occurring with the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and other gender-specific programs of this type. Outright lies and misrepresentation of Domestic Violence statistics were used to obtain VAWA, and it's past time that the Government "Right this Wrong." Either VAWA needs to be defeated entirely, OR the law must be rewritten to be "gender-neutral" so as to provide equal access to the services provided. Title 9 "anti-discrimination" laws would apply.

=================== REFORM FAMILY LAW NOW!!!!!!!!!!!! Make "Presumption of Shared-Parenting" THE LAW OF THE LAND!!! The "Best Interest of our Children" Demands It! The law abiding and wholly-fit-to parent Parents DEMAND IT!!! The Peace, Tranquility and Security of this Nation DEMANDS IT!!!