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PDChaplain -> Women's "Shelters" really shelters? (8/17/2007 8:29:12 AM)
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As stated in another thread, I am not a supporter of most secular women's shelters. In my personal and business realms, I have found them to be anti-male "sanctuaries" of feminist thought and promotion. They are usually manned by untrained volunteers, many of which have male issues of their own and project these feelings onto unsuspecting women needing legitimate helps. The expose of what REALLY goes on in these "shelters" has come to the public's view in recent years. What we see in many of them is gross misuse of public and private monies and resources. Few of them offer any assistance whatsoever to male victims of female abuse, though due to this public scrutiny, many of them ARE making some much needed reforms in that area .... though they are being forced to and not out of their own benevolent hearts.[;)] I believe there are other, more balanced ways, for an abuse victim to get help. I will be providing documentation that shows these "shelters" to be a large waste of public funds and resources, and their proven anti-family, pro-divorce, and anti-male agendas. As a disclaimer, please don't think that I am lumping ALL such shelters into the same unhealthy clan. There ARE some well-meaning people working in these shelters who are fair and balanced. They are willing to see the abuse cycle as a two-way street. Some of them are wonderful Christian people. Please also keep in mind the vast differences in REPORTED incidences of abuse between men and women. For obvious reasons, men are FAR less likely to report their abuse, particularly at the hands of females. Those that DO move out of their comfort zones and report abuse are many times ridiculed, shunned, and told their local "shelter" has no resources for men nor are they welcome to stay in the "shelter". So, please allow me to begin here ...... http://www.ejfi.org/DV/dv-39.htm "Our tradition of providing refuge for women and children, and taking them to that safe harbor in times of danger, has been turned on its head by current domestic violence laws. Instead, when police are called, it is the male who is jailed and barred from his home. The woman is thus left in the place where she claims to be in danger. That violates the legacy, and biological necessity, of providing protection for women. If the man is removed, and the omnipresent restraining orders are effective, why is a woman's shelter needed at all? Thus, a review of the purpose and function of shelters for battered women is in order. and this ....... "It is clear our present shelters for battered women are not equipped or prepared to deal with the conditions of more than half of the women they are presented with. Instead, many such shelters act as promoters of a simplistic feminist ideology that bears no relation to the problems they encounter. Violence-prone women quickly learn to manipulate the present system to their advantage and to the maximum discomfiture of any man they are associated with. That must change. (edited tos 8)
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