Verizon Foundation Hates Men and Marriage

Verizon has staked out a visible and destructive position as a Corporate sponsor of radical feminist political and social revisionism. Verizon not only supports insane radical feminist approaches to domestic violence: it leads them too.

The Violence Against Women Act is a tremendously ineffective program that has demonstrated no impact on domestic violence. It suppressed men’s violence, but encouraged women’s violence by blaming all family discord on men and insulating women from responsibility for making false allegations.

VAWA is also the leading driver of predatory divorce and single motherhood. It is commonly used to peel men away from their marriages and children, replacing them with big feminist government.

Verizon’s approach to domestic violence crassly focuses solely on the “who” (men). We could as inappropriately blame men for the real estate crisis, global warming, the high cost of medical care, the stock market crash, and even old age itself.

The problem of domestic violence truly revolves around the scientific context of the “what”, and “why”, not the “who”. Correspondingly, Verizon’s approach is appallingly sexist and does not touch on the real causes of domestic violence or what should be done about it.

Verizon must fully understand that every credible major study indicates that men and women are equal initiators of both minor and serious domestic conflict. Policy that begins and ends with feminist trope is dangerous, destructive and drives tremendous abuses of marital, parental, and economic rights; and places innocent children in the custody of an abusive mother in about half of all divorces and cases of illegitimacy today.

The Verizon Foundation is heavily involved in the vast feminist conspiracy against men and marriage. Verizon spouts the leading feminist lies about domestic violence on its website.[i] Verizon has a domestic violence “HopeLine” on its Consumer web site proffering more tragic statistical lies about domestic violence. Verizon brags about giving $5.6 million, 60,000 wireless phones, and 180 million minutes to radical feminist advocacy organizations.

Verizon has been funding public domestic violence events with NFL Football teams such as the Buffalo Bills and the Atlanta Falcons. I doubt there would be a man on the field if the players realized that Verizon’s thrust is to blame them for all family disagreements and empower their wives to become millionaire spinsters without rhyme or reason.

Verizon sponsored the “National Domestic Violence Summit 2008” held in San Francisco.[ii] It recently gave $130,000 to radical feminist activists in Massachusetts.[iii]

Verizon’s has forced a similarly-sexist radical sex-indoctrination on 2,927 Corporate managers and countless employees.[iv] Good luck to the unlucky employees of Verizon. They need it.

In January, Verizon begged feminist activists[v] in Michigan to apply for free money to achieve the feminist dream of liberation from marriage and men.

There is no alleged fact on Verizon’s websites that has not been thoroughly debunked as flat-out lies. See the Respecting Accuracy In Domestic Abuse Reporting (RADAR) web site for the real truths about domestic violence.[vi]

How can Verizon entitle radical feminists when we know that 86% of serious domestic violence involves one or more spouses abusing mood-altering chemicals? [vii] Nothing has a higher causal correlation with domestic violence than abuse of mood altering chemicals. Both men and women abuse alcohol, drugs, and prescription drugs.

We must provide public tools to help responsible spouses perform family interventions to get sick spouses into treatment. Recovery rates in Betty Ford style treatment programs are about 70%. Few men and women want a divorce – they want and need their partner to get well. Living with the problem is not the answer either. Children raised in heterosexual married families fare far better than their peers in non-intact living arrangements. Children desperately need policies to help parents keep their marriages on track.

Under VAWA, divorce is the ordained result. In about half of cases, children end up being raised by a frustrated chemical-abusing mother, who has to “do it all” on less money. That is why at least two-thirds of serious and fatal child abuse and neglect is associated with single-mother households, and the lowest child abuse rates are associated with married and single-father households.

Why does Verizon insist on destroying the nearest man and the woman’s marriage instead of funding organizations who urge policy changes to provide pro-marriage counseling or chemical dependency treatment — programs that provide useful prevention and intervention services?

This is hate of men and marriage. There is no explaining this away.

A housecleaning must be made at Verizon’s Corporate level, beginning with Patrick Gaston, President of the Verizon Foundation. Public apologies should be made to men as well.

I urge everyone to contact Verizon’s media representatives Phil Santoro (617-743-4760) and Stephanie Lee (617-743-5440). Politely and firmly register your shock at their hateful behavior, and let them know you won’t spend a nickel with Verizon. Demand an internal investigation and removal of those who push the radical feminist agenda at Verizon and its Foundation. The housecleaning must begin with Patrick Gaston. Please urge Verizon to fund only organizations working proactively to help heal troubled marriages, especially where alcohol or drug abuse is involved.

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David R. Usher is President of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, Missouri Coalition