Yet another puff piece about ‘domestic violence’ by Times of Malta gives women the complete benefit of the doubt and portrays them as special snowflakes who are more sinned against than sinning. Conversely, it neglects to publish the man’s side of the story, relying entirely on the woman’s testimony which misrepresents men as batterers and rapists.

The premise on which most of the divorce industry is based is that domestic violence is a political crime perpetrated exclusively by men against women.

Yet this misconception has been subjected to so much scrutiny that the truth is finally beginning to reach general awareness. That women perpetrate domestic violence, including severe violence, as much as men has been established by several studies.

“A surprising fact has turned up in the grimly familiar world of domestic violence,” writes Nancy Updike in left-wing magazine Mother Jones. Hyper feminist Betty Friedan adds that “women are doing the battering as much or more than men,” and that “money and ideology are often at the heart of the problem”.

What is underestimated even by some critics of the domestic violence industry is how much of the hysteria is fomented specifically for the purpose of removing children from their fathers. “All of this domestic violence industry is about trying to take children away from their fathers,” says Irish Times columnist John Waters.

Feminists themselves point out that most domestic violence occurs during ‘custody battles’, and the vast preponderance of domestic violence cases arise among divorced and separated couples with children.

The late senator Paul Wellstone says: “Up to 75% of all domestic assaults reported to law enforcement agencies were inflicted after the separation of the couple.” This is another way of saying that an intact family is the safest place for women and children, and fathers who may have become violent did so, not surprisingly, when their children were taken away.

Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.