White Males: "The archetypical villains of liberal fairy tales"

Which societal problem does Ann Coulter believe is the worst one? Single motherhood! Ann cites research from many sources showing that children of single mothers have many obstacles to overcome. They are six times more likely to be in poverty than children of married parents. 85% of homeless families are headed by single mothers. 90% of welfare recipients are single mothers. Children brought up in single mother homes are five times more likely to commit suicide, nine times more likely to drop out of high school, ten times more likely to abuse chemical substances, fourteen times more likely to commit rape, twenty times more likely to end up in prison, and 32 times more likely to run away from home. Single mothers cost the U.S. taxpayer #112 billion every year.

Moreover, Coulter believes that a common thread runs through too many of these households: the mothers see themselves as "passive victims of circumstances." All of their life choices are things that happen to them, these "marionettes of happenstance," a term coined by English writer Theodore Dalrymple. Coulter is even tough on battered women, asserting that they are in fact victims and accomplices, because they surely knew their batterers had violent tendencies before they were actually beaten by them. According to Coulter, their overriding concern was to hold themselves blameless.

These comments by Coulter on battered women are extremely controversial. They fly in the face of accepted dogma held by persons in the domestic violence professions, who usually are known as "victim's advocates." Batterers, whether they be male of female, are very good con artists; very good at fooling their mates and others.

Once, when I was a child protection social worker and county director of social services, there was in Denver a national conference on domestic violence. I decided to go, because I had so many cases in which domestic violence was a factor. At the conference there were many hundreds of women, and less than ten males. After attending a large general session, the audience was invited to participate in workshop discussions in smaller groups. I selected the workshop I wanted to attend, and, when I got to the room where the workshop was being held, I was the only man among about a hundred women. Before beginning the workshop, the leaders asked me to leave. I guess it was a public health thing; they did not want me to infect them with a male point of view, and certainly not that of a white male, which Coulter observes is the "archetypical villain of liberal fairy tales."