Family Violence Prevention and Services Act

And, you know, I pointed out here, um- Violence Against Women Act was sexist.

It redirected from the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to a, from a genderless, um, admonition that, you know, if violence is in the family, it's still violence, uh, it's still illegal, and somebody still needs to be arrested and put through a perpetrator program so they understand not to do that, you know, that they understand how to, um, how to deal with conflict without engaging in violence.

Uh, and, uh, so it directed law enforcement to not ignore violence because it was, just because it was in the home, right? That would result in the protection of the supposedly mostly female population, supposedly mostly female because we know it's the opposite, um, without discriminating against the supposedly few victims who are male.

But instead they went for VAWA, which directs all systems involved that, um, violence is mostly male-perpetrated and mostly, uh, female-experienced, and they should filter everything they witness and every action they take through that idea.

And in 1882, Maryland became the first state to criminalize it.

Over 100 years later, in 1984, the federal government finally recognized the impact of domestic violence by passing into law the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, which funded safe shelters for victims and created the Crime Victim Fund.

Three years later, in 1987, the federal government began to observe the month of October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

In 1994, Congress passed Violence Against Women Act, which was the first federal law criminalizing domestic violence and related sexual assault cases.