Time to stop domestic violence

Here is an article from ExmaxHealth written by Robyn Nazar

Football Fan Rage: Increase in Domestic Violence After Loss

Football may be just as dangerous for women as it is for men. According to a new report, domestic violence rises 10 percent in the home towns of NFL teams after a loss. This revelation raises the question of how unexpected disappointment can affect the behavior of men towards their female partners.

Police Calls Increase After Unexpected Defeat

The National Institute of Health conducted a research study analyzing the amount of local police calls reporting domestic violence after an unexpected NFL loss. The researchers obtained data from 900 regular season games. They found that if the team was expected to win, but lost, the number of calls to the police reporting male assaults on domestic partners increased an average of 10 percent. The rise in police reports was double if the NFL game was between traditional rivals (20 percent) than if the game was between non-rivals (8 percent). The time period that appears to be the highest risk for violent behavior is within the final hour of the game or two hours thereafter.

"Our results suggest that the overall rise in violence between the intimate partners we studied is driven entirely by losses in games that matter most to fans," said David Card, Ph.D., one of the co-authors on the study.

The researches found no increase in domestic violence when the team was expected to loose or be close in score. There was also no indication of a decrease in violence if there was an unexpected win.

This is not the first study, however, to examine the increase in domestic violence and football. There is an ongoing debate as to whether or not abuse increases on Superbowl Sunday. One research study showed that this was true. However, this same trend is noted on every major holiday including July 4th and Thanksgiving.

Unexpected Disappointments and Violence

This study illustrates the possibility that unexpected disappointment could be one contributing factor to violent tendencies in men. However, this connection is not limited to sporting events. "Someone who gets a speeding ticket on the way home, for example, might also be more likely to act out in a way he would later regret." remarked Card. Therefore targeting programs to help men deal with sudden shifts in emotion may help prevent abuse towards female partners.

The reality is that domestic violence is a reality in our country each and every day. Nearly 6 million women each year are abused by a male partner and over lifetime it is expected that 1 in 4 women will be a victim of domestic violence.

 

The fact that domestic abuse is on the increase is because our laws are not pro-female at all.

Our law makers are predominantly white heterosexual males who are only interested in making laws that benefit them and have no desire or interest in actually creating laws that would stop male violence.

What sickens me is that so many girls and women are abused either by fathers, husbands or boyfriends but are too afraid to report the matter.  So the abuse just carries on until the woman is either killed by her male partner or decides to take her own like through suicide.

Even if a woman does report her male abuser and he gets arrested, she knows that he will be out on bail in no time and come back for her to make her pay for daring to report him.

This results in even more abuse whereby he forces her to withdraw the case if she is lucky.  If she is unlucky he will kill her.

And lets not forget how often women have to face their rapists or abusers again in court.  As if the first encounter wasn’t traumatic enough, now these women have to relive the horror.

What about a young 10 year old girl who is been abused by her father.  She will be too terrified to dare say anything.

Clearly the concept of been innocent until proven guilty does not work in this case.

When a man commits a crime against a woman he should be presumed guilty until proven innocent.

I propose that to protect women and girls we change the law.  So if this young girl or her mother is been abused by her father all she needs to do is pick-up a telephone, dial a number that she would have received from her school and report the situation.

The authorities would immediately arrive at the house and arrest the man.  Because he is already presumed guilty he will not be able to apply for bail.  This means that he will stay locked-up until his trial date, ensuring that he can cause no harm to his victims.

Even though I strongly support women’s shelters, what really makes me mad is, why is it that the woman and her children who have done nothing wrong must be the ones to flee their own homes and seek safety in these shelters.

If the man is denied bail, he will stay locked-up which means the woman and her children can stay in their own home knowing that their abuser will not be able to harm them.

As the man is already assumed guilty it will not be necessary for the girl or her mother to appear in court.  Only he will appear.

When it comes to white males, they always seem to get off on some technicality.  Thus, men who commit crimes against women will always we tried by a female judge and not just any female judge, but one that is a radical feminist and knows exactly what men are capable of doing.  This would guarantee a 100 percent conviction rate.

Obviously MRAs will start crying about this and start saying that women will make false claims to get at men. 

Well concerning the number of false claims vs. the number of reported domestic abuse cases (this does not even include the number of unreported cases) it is hard to see how that argument could be seen as anything short of sexist ramblings made by a male supremacist.

If we really want to protect women and girls then we need to start pushing for this type of legislation.