Is it true that 1 in 4 women are the victims of domestic violence?
It is only true if you accept a feminist definition of what comprises “violence.” In the U.S., the Violence Against Women Act was changed by the Clinton administration as a payoff to the feminist lobby in the mid-1990s. Where the act had formerly dealt with instances of real violence, the feminists were not getting enough federal money into their women’s shelters and academic programs to suit them. So they argued that the definition of the word “violence” ought to be changed. As a payoff for their support (and likely because Hillary – a flaming Marxist feminist to begin with – supported the idea), Clinton chagned the VAWA to accomodate feminist notions. I have sat in on over 100 “domestic violence” hearings in a professional capacity. In the 100+ hearings that I have witnessed, only 1 time was the man not found to have committed domestic violence (A “conviction” rate that is unimaginable with any other offense – even DWI convictions in which someone has blown above the legal limit have
