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The "Foundation" has not run amok. It is their stated goal to work against violence against women. They only have two goals.

The only thing run amok here is anyone who would have expected an objective report from people fronting for Mary Kay. From their website:

We are committed to eliminating cancers affecting women by supporting top medical scientists who are searching for a cure for breast, uterine, cervical and ovarian cancers.
• We are committed to ending the epidemic of violence against women by providing grants to women’s shelters and supporting community outreach programs.

They atarted with an anti-male agenda - and hey presto - they made some anti-male propaganda.

Battered Women, Abused Children, and Child Custody: A NATIONAL CRISIS

Third National Battered Mother's Custody Conference January 6-8, 2006
Siena College, Loudonville, NY (two miles north of Albany)

2006 CONFERENCE PRESENTERS

DOMINIQUE LASSEUR CATHERINE TATGE
Producers, PBS documentary "Breaking The Silence: Children's Stories"

Husband-and-wife team Dominique Lasseur and Catherine Tatge

Lasseur is a veteran of French TV and Tatge is most known for directing the 1988 production of Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers.

Executive Producer Michael Sullivan formerly worked on Frontline, PBS’s investigative documentary series.

PBS' "Breaking the Silence" Not Ready for Prime Time
October 16, 2005 | Carey Roberts

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To lend the veneer of scientific respectability, the producers brought in Joan Meier, a law professor at George Washington University. But Meier brings her own set of credibility problems. In a recent interview, she made this claim from left field: “batterers are twice as likely to contest as non-batterers. And they often win sole or joint custody.” [www.washingtontimes.com/familytimes/20050709-104258-3244r.htm]

Maybe Meier was suffering from a brain cramp that day. Or perhaps she was thinking of Clara Harris, the Texas woman who fatally battered her husband by driving over him with her car. Just seven months after her murder conviction, Harris was granted custody of her two five-year-old boys.

Breaking the Science: Ostrich Syndrome
By Mark Rosenthal (11/04/05)

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the real bombshell happened Wednesday, when Glenn Sacks' website published a report stating that one of the mothers in the film had been found by a court to have committed eight counts of child abuse, and that the filmmakers were informed of that fact, yet chose to portray her as the victim anyway.

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It's been more than week since I submitted questions through Connecticut Public TV to be forwarded to the filmmakers. Among the things I asked were how many potential interviewees did the filmmakers decide not to use, and of those rejected, how many told stories that would have contradicted the film's premise?

To date they have sent no response. But other sources may shed some light on the questions I submitted:

· Mike McCormick, director of the American Coalition of Fathers and Children says that Dominique Lasseur had scheduled an interview to take place in ACFC's Washington, D.C. offices last April, but at the last minute the filmmaker called to say the cameraman was sick. When McCormick called back to reschedule, Lasseur told him he already had enough material for the film.

· Lee Newman, president of Stop Abuse For Everyone/NH, reports receiving a similar inquiry from Lasseur, but Lasseur lost interest when it became clear that Newman's inclusive perspective was quite different from the perspective evident in the final cut of the film. After several attempts by Newman to follow up, the filmmakers eventually they responded saying they already had enough information.

· Tom Gallen, who was married to a violent woman for 17 years, was willing to tell his story of having been kicked, hit, punched, and bitten, hit in the groin while he was driving, and attacked with a knife. In spite of this provocation, he never hit back. He was never charged with anything. Yet, in spite of a dozen police reports documenting his wife's abusive behavior, the divorce judge assigned custody of their three children to the violent mother. Gallen provided a copy of email correspondence between him and Lasseur last April, in which Lasseur thanks him for taking the time to talk on the phone and asks Gallen to fax any documents Gallen thinks are relevant. Gallen says Lasseur told him he'd like to bring him to New York to film an interview, but Lasseur never followed up and wouldn't reply when Gallen tried to get in touch.

· Gallen also told Lasseur he could put him in touch with someone else who'd convinced a skeptical judge that PAS was a factor in that person's case by producing journal written by the mother that said God wanted the father dead because he was evil. Although this is directly relevant to the topic of the film, Lasseur showed no interest in following up on this.

Other rejected interviewees may yet surface.

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