Father’s Rights Protest Against Domestic Violence Video

Regarding the article* printed in The Santa Monica Daily Press: Father’s Rights Protest Against Domestic Violence Video. Excerpt:

'The utter lack of balance, of an acknowledgment that women can be abusers also, saddened me. Because I grew up in a house where the woman was as much an inciter as the man, I know from personal experience that a woman is just as capable of domestic violence. I learned how to knife fight from my mom, not my dad. I learned how to shred a person’s ego not in law school but from listening to my mom do it to my father. She would regularly call him a coward, then berate him when he got physical with her. It was a no win situation, she would taunt and terrorize him and then fall back on her status as a woman as why he should not defend himself.

I regularly see the same thing today in my family law practice. Men who have been taunted and terrorized by their wives or girlfriends to the point of breaking, and when they eventually do, they are considered to be the abuser. If I say ‘it is their own fault’, most people agree with me, “a man should never hit a woman” but few are those who will stop and reconsider their logic, and realize that it is a form of ‘blaming the victim’ when I say that. If a man has been pushed to the point of abuse, then he is the first victim in an abusive relationship. It’s just that the abuse a woman perpetrates leaves no visible marks.'

*The article is being reported rather than presented. This is because for some reason, at the time of this post, the actual source link does not work. Hopefully this will be corrected by the webmaster at some point.