The American Government Discriminates Against Men
References are listed at the bottom of the page.
* People who abuse boys are much less likely to be put in prison than those who abuse girls. 1
* A juvenile male who commits a sex offense is 46 times as likely to be arrested and charged with a crime as a juvenile female who commits the same offense. 2
* Men receive more severe sentences than women for committing the same crimes. 3
* How a women gets pregnant is irrelevant to the man's child-support obligation.
A married man is legally responsible for ANY child born to his wife, even if he is NOT the biological father. 4
* Some women who have had sex with underage boys and then gotten pregnant have been awarded child support but were not charged with statutory rape.
These women have been rewarded for having sex with minors.
Meanwhile, their victims are forced to pay the women who raped them. 5
* In child custody disputes, courts grant child custody to women four times as often as men.
Women are more likely to abuse, neglect, or murder their children. 6
* A woman may legally murder her husband if she claims that she was battered.
A proof of being battered is having placed a restraining order against him.
The requirement for a restraining order is fear of a possible assault. 7
* For every 100 men that kill their wives, 75 women kill their husbands.
Men are arrested for this crime 6 times as frequently as women. 8
* The average prison sentence for a husband killing his wife is 17.5 years.
The average prison sentence for a wife killing her husband is 6.2 years. 9
* 58% of child abusers are women.
97% of those put in prison for crimes against children are men. 10
* The majority of child abusers reported to social service agencies are women.
73% of the abusers that these agencies choose to report to police are men. 11
* A man convicted of inappropriately fondling a child is 25 times more likely to be put in prison than a woman convicted of killing or maiming a child. 12
* A women may legally murder her children if she is depressed. 13
* Men are 20% more likely to die from prostrate cancer than women from breast cancer.
Federal funding for breast cancer research is 4 times the funding for prostate cancer research. 14
* Men pay twice what women pay into social security.
Women receive 50% more than men in payments. 15
* Men must register for selective services.
They are expected to fight and die for this country.
Women are not required to register for selective services.
* Lawrence A. GreenField, Child Victimizers: Violent Offenders and Their Victims, NCJ-153238, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, 1996, p. 1.
* J.A. Ray and D.J. English, "Comparison of female and male children with sexual behavior problems", Journal of Youth and Adolescence 24(4): 439-451, 1995.
* U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Sentencing Outcomes in 28 Felony Courts: 1985", July 1987
* Tradition dating to Roman times and codified in English Common Law, adopted by most states in the U.S.
* As in State ex rel. Hermesmann v. Seyer, 252 Kan. 646, 847 P.2d 1273, 1279 (1993), when a judge ordered a teenage boy, who was molested by a babysitter, to pay child support to her.
Michigan Court of Appeals ruling reported by Dawson Bell, "Child support just, court says: Man ordered to pay for boy he fathered at 14 with older woman", Detroit Free Press, February 21, 2004.
* U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, Child Maltreatment 1997: Reports from the States to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999.
* The "learned helplessness" or "battered woman" legal defense.
* M.I. Wilson and M. Daley, Criminology, 30, 189-215, 1992.
* U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Domestic Violence: Violence Between Intimates, Washington D.C. 1994.
* U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Child Maltreatment 2003, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005.
Lawrence A. Greenfield, Child Victimizers: Violent Offenders and Their Victims, NCJ-153238, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, 1996, p.5.
* David Finkelhor and Richard Ormrod, Child Abuse Reported to the Police, Washington D.C.: U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2001, p.4.
* Lawrence A. Greenfield, Child Victimizers, p.1.
* Postpartum depression, another woman-only legal defense for murder. For example, Tom Gorman, "Woman Who Killed Child Remains Free", Los Angeles Times, April 26, 1989.
* Associated Press, "Rate of Leading Types of Cancer", April 20, 1999, AOL News.
National Institutes of Health 1998 data reported by Warren Farrell, Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say. New York City: Penguin Putnam, 1999.
National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 54, No. 13, p. 26, Table 8.
* U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Social Security Administration, Office of Research and Statistics, "Earnings and Employment Data for Wage and Salary Workers Covered Under Social Security by State and County, 1985", Publication No. 13-11784, 1988.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Social Security Administration, Social Security Bulletin Annual Statistical Supplement, 1991.
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