Article here. Excerpt:

'MTV's Teen Mom "star" Amber Portwood was officially charged last week with two felony counts and one misdemeanor for domestic violence and battery. The charges against Amber were derived from footage recorded by MTV during the shoot.

This news came immediately on the heels of an episode of MTV's 16 & Pregnant, which featured yet another unhealthy relationship segment. A young woman, Markai, physically attacked her boyfriend James, after learning that he cheated on her in the beginning of their relationship. On the show, James attempts to escape Markai's aggression but she pursues him.

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'FORT WORTH, Texas -- Police suspect a teacher accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student, may be pregnant with the teen's child.

25-year old Jennifer Riojas is in police custody charged with sexual assault of a child.

The 9th grade teacher taught science at Carter-Riverside High School before resigning last month.

She was arrested after the student came forward fearing he may be the father of Riojas' baby.'

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'Boy or girl? Blue brain or pink brain? Dr Cordelia Fine's new book, Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences, and Professor Rebecca Jordan-Young's latest, Brainstorm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Difference, have raked over research data and mined the controversies on how male and female brains differ -- no holds barred.'

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'[State of Ohio] Senator Shirley Smith yesterday called Donald Hubin, Ph.D., Chairman of Fathers and Families of Ohio’s Executive Committee, to open up a dialogue about Senate Bill 292, the child support legislation that Senator Smith sponsored.

F & F of Ohio has been actively campaigning in the legislature and the media against certain aspects of the bill, which will raise child support obligations in the middle of the worst economy since the Great Depression. To participate in F & F of Ohio’s campaign against the bill, please click here.'

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'What Kimmel fails to grasp in his concepts is that men’s “idea of masculinity” has been socially criminalized and legislated as such. It is a street level experience that is less political and much more personal. Men no longer possess a concept of themselves that would offer a safe place to start or belong in the social equation. Men in fact are found guilty before a crime is ever committed. That guilt is assigned to masculinity only in the proximity of women, only in a social construct that includes women. It is less about a zero sum game than a negative sum prosecution for being a man. While many men may support doctrines such as Kimmel’s and support a feminist cause, they are only one finger point away from the truth. The role they play in their own lives is leased to them by women and requires no notice, evidence or reason under the law to terminate that agreement.

There's always a sympathy card to be played. Link to article here. Excerpt:

'A Victorian anorexic woman has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of her identical sister.

Geelong Magistrates Court was told Rachel Wallmeyer was trying to strangle twin sister Clare when police arrived at the apartment they share in Grovedale, the Geelong Advertiser reports.

The 40-year-old was also charged with recklessly causing injury and unlawful assault.

Police prosecutor Sergeant Peter Beard said both women were "extremely intoxicated" when police were called to their flat at 10.30am on Saturday morning.
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However, police are likely to remove the attempted murder charge against Rachel and replace it with a lesser charge, the Advertiser reports.'

The National Coalition For Men now has a chapter in Bangalore, India that is very active. Here are pictures of their recent booth for International Men's Day.

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'Anderson, Ind. police have formally charged Teen Mom star Amber Portwood for attacking Gary Shirley, her ex-fiance and father to her daughter Leah, 2. (HollywoodLife.com first reported the news.)

Portwood, 20, has been charged with two felony counts and one misdemeanor count of domestic violence and battery. If convicted, the reality star faces up to three years in jail and fines of up to $10,000.

Authorities launched their criminal investigation seven weeks ago after an episode of the MTV show aired in which Portwood hit Shirley, 24, numerous times. Using both that footage and unaired tapes, police charge that Portwood attacked her beau on three separate occasions.

Documents report that, on Aug. 14, 2009, she shoved, slapped and choked Shirley -- all while young Leah watched nearby. On June 14, 2010, she was taped slapping, punching and kicking Shirley. Finally, on July 18, she was again caught slapping and punching him as Leah watched.'

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'A 17-year-old village boy has been gang raped by 10 knife wielding women in Papua New Guinea, police say.

Southern Highlands Province police commander Teddy Tei told AAP the gang of women attacked the schoolboy just outside the provincial centre of Mendi on Friday.

"This is a serious matter and police are trying to identify who these animals are," he said.

"More than 10 women with kitchen knives attacked him and four women had sexual intercourse with him".

The boy went to hospital for treatment, he said.

Police commander Tei said he feared the women may have infected the young man with HIV/AIDs.'

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'(CNN) -- In the California city that banned Happy Meal toys,outlawed sitting on sidewalks during daylight hours and fined residents for not sorting garbage into recycling, compost and trash, Lloyd Schofield wants to add a new law to the books in San Francisco: A ban on all male circumcisions.

Those who violate the ban could be jailed (not more than one year) or fined (not more than $1,000), under his proposal. Circumcisions even for religious reasons would not be allowed. At this point, Schofield's proposal is an idea that would have to clear several hurdles to be considered.

Schofield and like-minded advocates who call themselves "intactivists" seek to make it "unlawful to circumcise, excise, cut, or mutilate the whole or any part of the foreskin, testicles, or penis" of anyone 17 or younger in San Francisco.

The circumcision debate has passionate advocates on each side.'

Convention on the Rights of the Child, New York, 20 November 1989:

Article 18: "States Parties shall use their best efforts to ensure recognition of the principle that both Parents have common responsibilities for the upbringing and development of the Child. ..."

This is the first UN world resolution giving to children the right of co-parenting (shared parenting between father and mother).

Please watch a short movie to celebrate and wish the return of Father and Fatherhood in the Society

Best regards,
F.BARZAGLI
fatherhood-at-email.it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio_Barzagli#Ethical_and_social_contribution

Link to article here. Excerpt:

'A woman who bludgeoned a 16-year-old girl to death with her lesbian lover has applied for publically-funded compensation for injuries she received from a road accident before the murder.

Valerie Parashumti was 16 when she was hit by a car while riding a bike in Perth in 2004, the Sunday Times reports.

Parashumti was taken to hospital with leg injuries but court-ordered medical assessments during her 2008 murder trial showed she may have also suffered frontal lobe damage to her brain.

She now could be compensated up to $337,000 for pain and suffering following the crash, and there is no limit to damages that could be paid to her for future medical treatments and loss of earnings.'

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'A young woman who had ambitions of becoming a glamour model falsely accused a man of raping her as part of a ‘wicked’ scam to clear her £3,000 drug debt.

Samantha Merry, 21, claimed that she had been sexually assaulted by the man in a brutal attack which allegedly happened in front of a group of people.

Her victim was arrested in front of his partner and their children at 4am and driven to a police station where intimate swabs were taken and he was held in a cell for 23 hours.'

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'After seven years of legal wrangling, Ruby Ann Ruffolo of Saanich was found guilty of the first-degree murder of her husband Thursday and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years.

The Victoria courtroom, filled with John Ruffolo's extended family and friends, burst into applause after B.C. Supreme Court Justice Mary Humphries took her seat and immediately announced she had found Ruffolo guilty of killing John by sedating him with amitriptyline and injecting him with a lethal dose of heroin on Oct. 19, 2003.

Ruffolo, 54, who appeared nervous and teary-eyed as she sat in the prisoner's box before the verdict, gasped and lowered her head. Behind her, in the front row, the couple's 20-year-old daughter, Jovanna, sobbed in the arms of a friend.'

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'SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - An Idaho judge has set bond at $100,000 for a Boise woman police say posed as a physician and duped at least two other women into having their breasts examined by her at Boise-area nightclubs.

Kristina Ross, 37, remains in Ada County Jail in Boise on two felony counts of practicing medicine without a license.

Police say Ross introduced herself to victims -- one at a downtown Boise bar and the other at a nightclub in a Boise suburb -- as a plastic surgeon named Berlyn Aussieahshowna, a name that turned out to be bogus.'