But, let’s address some of the nonsense in tgifeminist’s comment.

1. Women and children don’t lie about abuse? Perhaps the problematic word here is lying. The problem is that people can be terribly mistaken about the actual events they are a part of. For example, there have been several cases where a man convicted of rape was sentenced on the strength of the victim’s eyewitness testimony that they were the perpetrator, yet years later, dna evidence clears the convicted man. Was she lying? No. But she was wrong. She nailed the wrong guy, and he spent much of his life in prison, and the rest of his life overcoming the damage caused by simply believing someone’s word on anything. In court, the standard has always been that for a conviction, there must be corroborating evidence. There must be more than just someone’s word. The same applies to testimony as to abuse. On the other hand, women in divorce simply do lie. That’s a fact. They lie. The reason? There is a two pronged incentive to lie. 1. custody (read revenge, and not “best interest of the child”; and 2. child support… money. So, given the incentive, how can you not tell a little white lie, like, “he has a violent temper”, or, he frightens me, or, he yelled at me over the phone, or he threatened me, etc. Are there such things a male batterers? Of course there are. There are creepy people, what can I say, but most men are very protective of women and children. To punish the majority for the sins of the minority is madness. You can’t have a valid justice system that is based on hearsay and lies. One wrong does not cure another wrong. Period!

2. Men make more false allegations than women? Who is this person kidding? Look at the numbers… from the US census, 85% of sole custody parents are women. What can we know from this? That most men simply don’t want to get into a catfight, and so the woman wins in court, because she is willing to catfight. It’s as simple as this. Every father I have ever known knows exactly what I’m talking about.

Lest anyone think this is misogynistic, let me say this, I blame the system itself, and those who have corrupted it with their ideologically driven drivel. We’ll never restore justice until we get rid of the ideologies, and we hold fast to basic principles of justice that have evolved over millennium. Assault is assault. Period. Battery is battery, period! We’ve got laws against this kind of thing. A man who beats a woman should face serious consequences. But, women have to acknowledge that women sometimes are at least partly to blame. For example, I’ve known of plenty of situations where the woman in an intimate relationship knows just how to push the buttons of the man. He goes for years, not saying anyrthing,and then one day he cracks. Tell me, who is really to blame in situations like this?

“It’s a policy that rewards people for being bad, for comitting adultery, for lying in court, for making false claims of abuse.” – What a disgrace to say women and children lie about abuse. First you refered to it as “false memory syndrome”, now it’s “false allegations.”

Men (Bala & Schumann) make more false allegations than women (usually about neglect). According to credible agencies like the ABA and so forth, most allegations of abuse are made in good faith rather than the malicious (misogynist) nature you speak of.

Nauseating. Really nauseating stuff.