{"id":2181,"date":"2008-11-17T20:25:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T01:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2008-11-17T20:25:57","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T01:25:57","slug":"suppressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2181","title":{"rendered":"Suppressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tonight, another bleak and self-absorbed post<\/strong> about my unhappy childhood. I\u2019ll hide the body of it behind the fold, so as not to bum you out too much if you\u2019re not interested in going on.<\/p>\n<p>But I should mention that this won\u2019t be a war story. I\u2019m talking statistics and news reporting tonight. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Salem Radio Network has replaced the Laura Ingraham talk show with the Mike Gallagher Show. I wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s an improvement. Aside from the fact that he\u2019s a heck of a lot less good looking than Laura (not that that matters a whole lot on radio), I don\u2019t think the adjective \u201cthoughtful\u201d has ever been applied to Gallagher.<\/p>\n<p>But he had an interview last week that I only caught on a re-broadcast on Sunday morning. In it he interviewed a guy named Glenn Sacks, who is a Fathers\u2019 Rights advocate. And Sacks said something that I\u2019d never heard before. Never thought of before. Never even had an intimation of before.<\/p>\n<p>According to Federal statistics, mothers abuse their children <i>far, far more frequently<\/i> than fathers do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glennsacks.com\/blog\/?p=2718\">Here <\/a>are the abuse statistics.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/glennsacks.com\/blog\/?p=2717\">here <\/a>are the murder statistics.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deltabravo.net\/custody\/abusers.php\">here <\/a>are more statistics from another site, providing further details.<\/p>\n<p>Even considering the fact that more single mothers than fathers have custody of children, and that mothers generally spend more time with their children than fathers, the differential is significant. And almost completely unreported.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine what this (suppressed) information means to me, a childhood victim of maternal abuse?<\/p>\n<p>All my life I\u2019ve thought my family was an anomaly, a one-in-a-billion singularity.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out there are thousands\u2014maybe hundreds of thousands\u2014of people living around me who had the same sort of experience.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn\u2019t really change anything in my life, but it makes me feel a whole lot less lonely.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Note: No offense is intended to all the good mothers out there. I have no doubt that the vast, vast majority of mothers are doing a good job. That\u2019s my whole problem, in fact. All my life I\u2019ve heard people rhapsodizing about how wonderful their mothers were. It\u2019s some comfort to know there are other people out there, like me, who can\u2019t honestly join the song.)<\/i><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, another bleak and self-absorbed post about my unhappy childhood. I\u2019ll hide the body of it behind the fold, so as not to bum you out too much if you\u2019re not interested in going on. But I should mention that this won\u2019t be a war story. 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