• Resurrecting the Self-Defence Review

  Eeva Sodhi analyses Canadian feminist jurisprudence in light of Justice Canada's March 2003 report on sentencing for manslaughter in cases involving intimate relationships.

  Canadian men have every reason to be afraid, very afraid.
  (2003 04 12)

• Of men, women and freedom of choice, a letter to the editor of the Toronto Globe and Mail (January 30, 2003), relating to the circumstances of the abandonment in freezing cold weather of newborn baby Mira

• It’s time to start listening to the people, Mr. Cauchon!

If the Minister of Justice is not prepared to listen to the people of Canada, then he should resign. January 7, 2003.

(MS Word.doc, 45 kB)

• Bias and injustice in our family court system the root cause of many murder- suicides

• Eeva Sodhi responds to the inauguration of Shelternet, an Ontario-based and nationally funded Internet resource for abused women. As an "abused" woman, Eeva Sodhi voices very strong reservations.

• Activist Supreme Court Justices "without an agenda" who nevertheless collude with other feminist activists to promote one

Reaction and Pro-action: Bringing Family Law Advocacy Into the 21st Century,

Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C. Chief Justice of Canada, Family Law Dinner Ontario Bar Association, Toronto, Ontario, Thursday, January 24, 2002

A critique by Eeva Sodhi — clear, concise, objective and clearly condemning; never mind the B.S.

• Canadian Family Violence Statistics — Analyses

1. Mandatory Arrest Policy in Ontario

2. Spousal Assault and Murder

• Women convicted of homicide, serving a federal sentence

• What were the men doing when they were killed?

• Homicides in Toronto – 1998

• Homicides in Canada – 1997

• Spousal assaults against women in Canada

• Definitions of rape

• Female infanticide

• Male infanticide

• Pro-female bias in data collection
   

3. My letter to the Ottawa Sun concerning Donna Casey's article: "Sleeping with the Enemy"

• Ontario DV convictions

• Penalty for access denial in Ontario

• Ontario false allegation
   

4. The reliability of StatCan's data

• Errors in homicide survey for Ontario
   

5. Child Abuse and Murder

• Women convicted of homicide, serving a federal sentence

• Child homicide

• Child murder "in the best interest of the child"

• Relationship of perpetrators

• What fathers do

• The best source of child abuse information

• Emotional abuse present along with physical abuse

• Substantiated abuse cases

• Incongruous distribution of child-sexual-abuse cases

• Child-sexual-abuse by women

• Characteristics of Child Maltreatment — Table 2

• Reena Sommer, Ph.D., on Spousal Abuse
   

6. The United Way's "Education Wife Assault" (EWA)

• Reflections: Mandatory Arrest Policy

• Anti-male bias

• Scare tactics

• Are you emotionally Abusive?

• Incitement to pillage

• How to make better men

7. Some U.S. data

• Creative statistics

• Number of injury cases treated in hospital emergency departments

• The results of intimate violence: Bruises

• Objective research

• Rethinking Spousal Abuse Laws 
  

End of index for  Eeva Sodhi's paper on Canadian Family Violence Statistics

• Family Violence in Canada: An Alternative Approach 

This document contains critical comments by Eeva Sodhi, pointing out flaws in the method of presentation and in the statistics contained in:  Statistics Canada pub. “Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile 2000” Cat. no. 85-224

The comments by Eeva Sodhi contain as well excerpts from comparable studies and sources that differ widely in quality from the deplorable quality of the information produced by Statistics Canada in their report. 

This critique provided by Eeva Sodhi comes in three parts: 

1. Child Abuse and Murder

2. Spousal Violence

3. Spousal Homicide and Research

See also Eeva Sodhi's annotated bibliography on Family Violence references.

• YMCA — Week Without Violence booklet (2001 edition) — Critique and corrections, by Eeva Sodhi, a letter to the YMCA

• A letter to Health Canada, by Eeva Sodhi, 

in which she provides excerpts from abstracts of family violence studies by eminent and reputable researchers.  The data presented in the studies clearly and irrevocably establish that Health Canada is involved in a massive, feminist-inspired and -promoted, government-sponsored propaganda campaign that actively seeks to demonize all Canadian men.

See also Eeva Sodhi's annotated bibliography on Family Violence references.

• British Statistics on Stalking and "Fear"

• Comments on Justice Canada Public Consultation Document titled: Putting Children’s Interests First: Custody, Access and Child Support in Canada

By Eeva Sodhi (2001 04 27; HTML Version)

Although Eeva Sodhi states in her covering message that even "Though this may apply to Canadians only, I attach my take on the Consultation booklet that is distributed by Justice Canada," the facts and sources she found and cited are far more generally applicable.  The document is also available in MS Word Format.

• Fatherhood — A letter by Eeva Sodhi to DHHS

In the letter Eeva Sodhi calls for the replacement of the term "responsible fatherhood" in the US president's Fathers' Day message with the term "responsible motherhood," as she explains that mothers within and outside of marriage are the gate-keeper to fatherhood.

• Debunking Domestic Violence Statistics — A letter by Eeva Sodhi to the Globe and Mail

• A letter to the Sun, in relation to a Texas father who shot his three children and himself

• Bonded labour by men alive and well in Canada
  Falkiner v. Director, Income Maintenance Branch (May 13, 2002 (A letter to the Globe and Mail, 2002 05 15)

• A letter to the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation