"Our political culture encourages
interaction among parties, elected officials, and private
interest groups."

Are you serious? What does this even mean? Some examples please.

Foxy,
I think the point here is that Anti DV campaigners who promote the idea of gendered violence in the home are not looking for solutions to the problems.
White Ribbon is supposedly a male led organisation for the prevention of male violence against women and their children, where's it's opposite counterpart, the female led campaign to end women's violence against men and their children?
The wider problem is that these groups have been able to create the perception that anyone who opposes something must also stand for something when this is clearly not the case.
Leaving aside the dishonesty of it's basic premise, White Ribbon is opposed to Male violence against women and children but it's not pro male quite the opposite, it's Feminist and pro female in outlook and promotes the idea of "toxic masculinity".
http://twitter.com/whiteribbon/status/398825749966118912
Jeff Perera, like all of their chief ideologues is basically just an idiot, what kind of man thinks this way, and what kind of man would say these things unless there was a sack of money waiting for them backstage? :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH4PDQ2-qcE#t=138
We call that bias.

Not sure how to express this, but the following link is to a question a judge asked.

<Why is ‘only the boy charged’ with underage sex?>
http://news.optuszoo.com.au/2014/05/28/why-is-only-the-boy-charged-with-underage-sex/

Is this not part of the female privilege in society. I know feminists post about 'male privilege' which kind of shuts down any discussion about 'female privilege' in our society.

Typically where members of both genders commit a crime, it is the male who gets the blame.

Dear Cody,

Thank You for your question.

The following link may help clarify things
about lobby groups for you:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-22/readlearn-get-to-know-your-lobby-groups/3906036

Dear RObert,

I've just come across the following link that's
on the gender debate in domestic violence - the
role of data.
It may be of interest to you:

http://www.adfvc.unsw.edu.au/PDF%20Files/IssuesPaper_25.pdf

Foxy, I think I've seen that one before or something very close. A fairly transparent attempt to defend the gender feminist misrepresentation of DV ignoring for the most part a large body of work that has gone into researching motives and dynamics involved in DV. The problem seems to be that marxist feminists have theories about power in spousal relationships that they refuse to put aside when they examine the evidence.

I think the article is a rearguard action trying to divert people from understanding just how deceptive the story the gender feminists have been telling is. The evidence is readily available to debunk their claims about context.

R0bert