Additionally, we have a state that knowingly, violates equal protection by allowing women to make rape or domestic violence claims with no evidence, and requires tghe State and Federal government to prosecute cases they otherwise would not through a program called VAWA. Remember the atrocities of the Duke LaCrosse case, this goes on across the country every day, and most don't have a million dollars to defend themselves, so they have little choice but to accept a plea bargain to avoid jail time.
If this takes place within a broken marriage, the result is a loss of parental rights for the father (almost always the claimant is the mother and the defendant is the father) this despite 20 years of studies showing near equal rates of violence by men and women.
Why does this state ignore the fact that DV is gender blind?  You might ask Governor Granholms Secretary of State, Mary Lanoyye, as she is on the Board of directors of the Capital city's Domestic Violence shelter, as shown by the organization's tax filings.  and interestingly, that organization is almost entirely funded by Grants, yet clearly states in their mission statement and public literature that they do not provide services for men.  In fact the last published literature I saw said there are only two DV shelters in the US that will accept men, and Lansing's isn't one of them.