Violence Against Women Act Is Unjust (From Domestic Violence: Opposing Viewpoints, P 100-106, 2000, Tamara L. Roleff, ed. -- See NCJ-185753)

• NCJ Number: 185766
• Author(s): Frank S. Zepezauer
• Date Published: 2000
• Length: 7 pages
• Sale Source: Greenhaven Press
• Publication Format: Book (Hardbound)
• Publication Type: Collected Work
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Opposing Viewpoints Series

Annotation

This viewpoint argues the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), as a package of laws and programs designed to prevent domestic violence and to provide protection to battered women and sexual assault victims, advances a feminist agenda that is unfair to men.

Abstract

Further, the author contends the VAWA is unjust because men pay more taxes than women do to support programs that benefit only women and because more men are crime victims than women and many of these crimes are domestic violence crimes perpetrated by women against men. He discusses the declining status of men in the context of feminist views on patriarchy and examines what he refers to as codified gender feminism. The author also considers the idea of female complicity in domestic violence and emphasizes the importance of having a biological father in the household and preserving the traditional family as the most effective way of reducing domestic violence.