Thanks.
Mr. Neukom,
I know the intellectually honest people who work at RADAR, a group dedicated to truthful reporting about domestic violence issues. You are the president of the ABA. RADAR tells me your ABA Commission on Domestic Violence flyer is full of falsehoods about domestic violence. RADAR says there are 11 falsehoods among 19 claims. I should say I am not surprised that false claims about domestic violence are out there and being amplified. There is so much to gain.
Among the very questionable statements the ABA has published in the flyer is the claim that “False allegations are no more common in divorce or custody disputes than at any time.” How can the ABA publish such laughable nonsense with a straight face? That’s like saying “Tax cheating is no more common around April 15 than any other time.”
Research shows that false allegations increase four-fold during custody and access disputes. Given the realities of family courts–and the huge windfalls of money and child-contact that are at stake–false charges are to be expected. Anyone who says otherwise is either very simple-minded or else interested advancing the deception himself. We need ways of dealing with false charges, and denying that they happen is reprehensible.
I attended a law school graduation recently–Northeastern–it’s a very liberal social activist law school. One speaker urged students to be activists and to “get on the Bar Association committees, because that’s where the change happens.”
I think what’s going on with this committee amounts to a bunch of activists trying to “make change happen.” But they aren’t doing it honestly. They are doing it with falsehoods and claims unsupported by research. This flyer represents a small, but crass nonetheless, political move by an ABA Commission to further bias the administration of family law and to force more children away from their fathers and into single-parent mother-headed households. And the lawyers on the commission may even have a financial interest in furthering this bias. You think that might be so?
Please withdraw the leaflet, Mr. Neukom; you at the ABA don’t have your facts straight.
[Neukom's address is abapresident@abanet.org.]
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lieweary said,
July 21, 2008 at 3:53 pm
daemonized said,
One lawyer’s description of the case can be seen at http://www.fdv-93-005153.org/Articles/drury_declaration.html
A capsule description of my attempts at acquiring legal counsel from the San Francisco Bar Association can be seen at http://www.fdv-93-005153.org/Articles/sfba_no_refs_for_childers.html
A transcript of a recent contact with the San Francisco Bar Association can be seen at http://www.fdv-93-005153.org/Articles/emerald_city_bar_assoc.html
My certified letter, complaining about this state of affairs to the California State Bar Association, can be seen at http://www.fdv-93-005153.org/Articles/sfba_lrs_complaint.html
It’s been over a year since that letter was written and no response of any kind has been received from either the San Francisco Bar Association OR the California State Bar.
July 22, 2008 at 11:35 am
Robert Stevens said,
You remember the little ribbons “raising awareness” about AIDS. Alot of people wore those ribbons and probably did not give a rats ass about AIDS but wearing that ribbon was the “in thing” to do, so they did it. We have to come up with something similiar. It is all a PR campaign and we can win with such tactics. Pretty soon, this domestic violence hysteria, ends up like Prohibition, a bad idea that finally fails and goes away.
July 23, 2008 at 11:35 am