Death by alimony: The torments of John F. Wacker – New York, 1915
Some called it “polite blackmail,” some called it the “alimony racket.” For German immigrant to the United States, George Wacker, it was more than a racket, it was a death sentence.
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US National Survey: more men than women victims of intimate partner violence
Janet Bloomfield did some intense investigation into domestic violence research. You will never believe what she found. The National Violence Against Women Survey found that there was violence happening to women, and made sure of that result with their methodology. See, we told you that you would never believe it.
Wives demand what??? The farce of household equality
There was a time when women were responsible for a significant amount of domestic labor. Thanks to technology ‘housewives’ today have very little work to do in the home save one or two hours of relaxed housework which they can weave among their leisure activities. However, the leisure class would like to forego those remaining few chores and are increasingly asking full-time working husbands to take the weight off their petite shoulders. Clint Carpentier provides an overview of the conundrum.
Commissioner Ken Lay’s Professional Misconduct
Victorian Police Commissioner Ken Lay gave an emotive and hyperbolic speech, titled “Breaking the pattern of family violence is everyone’s responsibility” in which he dramatised and exaggerated violence against women while refusing to properly acknowledge male victims. Greg Canning brings us the story.
The Male Pill: Pros & Cons
Recently columnist Peter Lloyd offered his perspective on the revolutionary importance of a male birth control pill. His article was in part a response to obtuse reaction of Tom Sykes to the idea. Walter Romans thinks perhaps both men missed some of the big picture.
Parental child kidnapping: already a common occurrence by 1856
The social problem called “parental child abduction” began to get a great deal of media attention beginning in the 1980s. Yet the history of the phenomenon is at best poorly understood and at worst is deliberately misrepresented by politically correct historians. Here is one of many installments that will help to shed light on this unknown history.
Memewalk: Quit blaming kids!
This meme post is designed to give us all time to think over the weekend. Think of the poor children, being abused by a society that ingrains victim blaming into them from birth. It is a horrible thing to see and not even AVFM has adequately addressed the problem. Paul Elam offers an apology, and a reader submitted meme.
A brief interview with the University of Oregon
After being asked to answer some questions for a journalist at the University of Oregon, Paul Elam did what he often does in these cases. He answered the questions and also decided to post them here so you could see his answers regardless of what is done with them by the university newspaper.
Paternity fraud champion practitioner, Jemima Aiton
Jemima Aiton had a successful career in 1920s Scotland. She made good money at it. Her business model was simple. Sleep around, kidnap a baby and serially blackmail the many men she falsely claimed to be father of her infant victim.
Marriage is slavery
Marriage is a union between equals, or so we are told. Scratch beneath the surface of this time honored tradition and a very different reality appears, one that is eerily reminiscent of bygone culture in which men were slaves to overlords.
