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7/14/2008 Press Release:
False Abuse Accusations Cost Taxpayers $20 Billion, Report Finds

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Despite the best of intentions, our nation's effort to curb domestic violence is not working. Current solutions not only fail to reduce domestic violence, but also create other severe problems. Families are being undermined and children harmed. Innocent Americans are penalized based on false accusations. And victims of violence are re-victimized by a rigid system that ignores their wishes, or excludes them altogether.

R.A.D.A.R. – Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting – is a non-profit, non-partisan organization of men and women working to improve the effectiveness of our nation's approach to solving domestic violence.


((( Featured Articles

 NEW  REPORT: Summary: Myths of the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence

 NEW  REPORT: Detailed Findings: Myths of the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence

 NEW  REPORT: False Allegations of Domestic Violence Cost Taxpayers $20 Billion a Year

No Restraint on Restraining Orders


((( Research

Women are Just as Likely as Men to Commit Domestic Violence...

Men Sustain Over One-Third of all DV-Related Injuries…

…But Men are Far Less Likely to Report the Incident…

…So Media Coverage is Often Biased…

…Which Allows the Myths to Continue.


Search DV Statistics

Compare Countries in International Dating Violence Study


Read full article in Psychiatric News
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Information about the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)

((( Get Your Facts Straight, ABA!

Why This Campaign?

RADAR's letter to the ABA president

Special Reports Press Releases

((( I-VAWA: Globalizing a Failed Social Policy

Why This Campaign?

 NEW  FLYER: I-VAWA: Foreign Policy Based on a Woozle

Founder of Women's Shelter Movement Opposes I-VAWA

Partner Violence: How Does Your Country Compare?

Editorials

((( VAWA Reform Coalition


((( VAWA: Harmful To Women?
Intimate Partner Homicides, 1976-2004
Homicide trends have not been affected by passage of VAWA in 1994.
Source: Department of Justice: Intimate Partner Violence in the United States, 2006

Editorials
This Way To The Revolution – Erin Pizzey
Who's Failing the Family? – Erin Pizzey

((( International

Organizations

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REPORT: U.N. Hides the Truth of Domestic Violence

((( How to Get Help
Information Resources Online Support Groups Listing of State-Level Services

((( Protect Yourself from False Allegations

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((( Abused Men

REPORT: VAWA Discriminates Against Males

Media Coverage

Domestic Violence Against Men in the US


((( Other Topics

Child Abuse

Sexual Abuse of Children

Pregnancy Murder Myth

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Tell the ABA President to Get His Facts Straight
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((( Previous Campaigns

Time to Tell the Truth about Domestic Violence

House Resolution 590: Half-Truths, Distortions, and Lies

Nifong: Tip of the Iceberg

Stop CEDAW/I-VAWA, Protect the Family

International-VAWA: Exporting Family Break-Up

UN Report on Violence Against Women

Truth and Consequences: Election 2006

Stop the Civil Rights Abuses of VAWA

PBS Breaking the Silence

Amnesty International

VAWA Reauthorization 2005