Since 1977, NCFM has been committed to ending harmful discrimination and stereotypes against boys, men, their families and the women who love them.
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PRESS RELEASE re VAWA Contact: Teri Stoddard Telephone: 301-801-0608 Email: tstoddard@saveservices.org House Approves Violence Against Women Act (VAWA): SAVE Applauds Long-Overdue Reform Measures WASHINGTON / May 17, 2012 – The House of Representatives has passed the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act by a 222-205 margin. Responding to public discontent, H.R....
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This morning, while debate in the U.S. House of Representatives raged over the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), Brian Beutler a reporter or blogger from Political Talking Points Menu called our national office to ask about a letter we had sent to members of the House of Representatives. He asked that...
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Pass the GOP version of VAWA The letter below appeared in The Washington Times on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, the day the House was scheduled to vote on VAWA, and is followed by the article to which it responds. Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D. Pass the GOP version of VAWA http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/15/pass-the-gop-version-of-vawa/ In a May 8...
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Celebrating Families. Who is the Evil Empire Now? By Eric Ross, Ph.D. When Harry Crouch, NCFM President, asked NCFM members to find examples of celebration of family, men, and parenthood, I replied almost immediately with a rather sarcastic note. It was about what many American fathers know as their sad reality: “Good luck finding...
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May 9, 2012 Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) is a victim-advocacy organization working for evidence-based solutions to the problem of domestic violence. Stop Violent and Abusive Environments supports the re authorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). SAVE advocates for all victims of domestic violence, regardless of their race, sex, or gender...
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Dear National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Your Checklist for judges uses sex-specific language with regard to domestic violence, referring only to “fathers” but not to mothers. www.ncjfcj.org/resource-library/publications/checklist-promote-perpetrator-accountability-dependency-cases As an organization that works with male victims of domestic abuse, we are concerned that this language stereotypes fathers and keeps female perpetration invisible as...
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Please send Mr.Ireland a thank you for his story about Adam Sandler‘s disgusting new film, “That’s my boy”. EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA May 7, 2012 Child protection advocates decry Sandler’s new film By Doug Ireland direland@eagletribune.com — New Hampshire’s Adam Sandler is known for making movie audiences laugh. But when his latest film, “That’s...
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“Lizzie Borden took an ax, gave her father 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, gave her mother 41.” “The prosecution presented an overwhelming case of circumstantial evidence; Lizzie’s jury of twelve men acquitted her. Some think Lizzie’s verdict was ‘jury nullification’ – when the jury ignores evidence. It was said the...
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Imagine if a male lawmaker joked about reducing girls’ sexual pleasure by removing their clitoral foreskins in order to combat teen pregnancy and “female irresponsibility.” The media would be covering it and that lawmaker would have to publicly apologize. Well that is exactly what Colorado lawmaker Sue Schafer, D-Wheat Ridge (sue.schafer.house@state.co.us) publicly said about boys...
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NOTE: NCFM, in a sidebar, is shown as a notable activist Men’s Movement organization along with Fathers 4 Justice and Save the Indian Family Foundation in India. Aside from which this is one of the better articles about our issues and the ever expanding forms of discrimination against men. BBC Magazine 2 May 2012...
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