{"id":3495,"date":"2005-07-27T12:17:24","date_gmt":"2005-07-27T19:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/27\/fixing-vawa\/"},"modified":"2005-07-27T12:17:24","modified_gmt":"2005-07-27T19:17:24","slug":"fixing-vawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/27\/fixing-vawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing VAWA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe Violence Against Women Act, well-intentioned as it may be, has created a network of federally-funded anti-male advocacy groups around the country, and failed in its primary purpose. Cathy Young suggests it has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/cy\/cy072605.shtml\">room for improvement:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Here are two modest proposals for reauthorizing the measure. First, give the legislation a gender-neutral title such as &#8220;The Family Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention Act.&#8221; Second, abolish the special role of feminist-dominated domestic violence coalitions in shaping federally funded domestic violence programs. The bill should direct each state to create a domestic violence board on which no more than a quarter or a third of the seats can be filled by members of battered women&#8217;s advocacy groups. The rest should be filled by scholars, mental health professionals, and community activists. Over the past decades, our understanding of domestic violence has expanded beyond feminist orthodoxy to a more complex view. Our federal policies should reflect this ideological diversity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>VAWA has the effect of sweeping child abuse under the rug, and that also needs to be fixed. But I don&#8217;t expect Congress to act responsibly in the re-authorization process currently underway, it&#8217;s too much apple pie and motherhood for a good review.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Violence Against Women Act, well-intentioned as it may be, has created a network of federally-funded anti-male advocacy groups around the country, and failed in its primary purpose. Cathy Young suggests it has room for improvement: Here are two modest proposals for reauthorizing the measure. First, give the legislation a gender-neutral title such as &#8220;The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/27\/fixing-vawa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fixing VAWA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Un","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}