What exactly does the VAWA do for women?

Question

I know nothing about it.

Answer 1

With no V.A.M.A. to oppose it, it clearly manifests/ fosters more legal & innovative sexism toward females..

Answer 2

It just makes you wonder if the trolls can read

OR,

if the just gather together like the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz, nodding their heads, without real understanding and then flying off to do their evil bidding by writing a bunch of c**p lies.

Answer 3

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The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) is a United States federal law. It was passed as Title IV, sec. 40001-40703 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 HR 3355 and signed as Public Law 103-322 by President Bill Clinton on September 13, 1994. Since that time--through the Office of Violence Against Women at the U.S. Justice Department, and the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services--VAWA has provided over $4 billion dollars to combat domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault nationwide. The Violence Against Women Act's programs range from policies to encourage the prosecution of abusers, to victim's services to prevention programs. VAWA helped forge new alliances between police officers, courts, and victim advocates.

VAWA was drafted by Senator Joseph Biden's office with support from a number of advocacy organizations including Legal Momentum and The National Organization for Women, which heralded the bill as "the greatest breakthrough in civil rights for women in nearly two decades."

VAWA was reauthorized by Congress in 2000, and again in December 2005. The bill was signed into law by President George W. Bush on January 5, 2006. [1]

VAWA will be up for reauthorization in 2010.

Answer 4

it makes it easier to cry victim and gain transfer of of the marital assets. same goes for custody.there is also a provision which tries to curtail marriages to women from overseas. its about control and transfer of assets imo.its title and wording pushes the politically useful fallacy that women are the only victims of dv.

shout (back) at your spouse, lose your house (and kids)!

Answer 5

If you read the actual act, you will see that NOWHERE in the act does it specify "women" when defining sexual or domestic violence. Unless it talks specifically about funding, say, a women's health program, the wording in the entire document is gender neutral, just as it is for ANY law.

VAWA applies to men, women, and children. But men who hate women grasp onto the NAME of the act, and without actually reading it, they cry "foul"...just because of a name.