Article here. Excerpt:

'Fathers of boys have a perennial subject of conversation. Is it us, our parenting skills or the wider society that is creating so many disaffected, troubled and disengaged young men? One friend of mine has hit on the theory that boys have lost their fear at the same time as having misplaced any sense of ambition. With the two great animators of human motivation – fear and greed (at its best, ambition) – knocked out we have a growing army of underperforming, unnecessarily idle and too often unemployed young men. Unable to motivate themselves, they just stew.

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Article here. Excerpt:

'Anonymity for men accused of rape was introduced in 1976 but reversed in 1988 because it hampered police investigations. The proposal to reintroduce it relies on the sexist myth that women are quick to lie about rape.

Nothing is further from the truth. It is extremely hard for women to report rape, and 90 per cent never do. Those who report often say it was to protect others. But many are disbelieved or dismissed by police and prosecutors and even urged to withdraw – no wonder the conviction rate for reported rape remains 6.5 per cent.

Article here. Excerpt:

'In his cell at HMP Addiewell, Jason Duncan knew it was only a matter of time before the story he had concocted for his own safety would fall apart. Falsely accused of rape, the 22-year-old steel worker had decided it was better to tell fellow inmates that he was in prison for a shooting.
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"In prison, if you are in for anything relating to a sex offence you are the lowest of the low," he explained. "My lawyers and even the prison staff told me that I would be in serious danger if other prisoners found out what I was charged with. So I concocted this story about being a career criminal who was in over a shooting. People seemed to believe it, but when my name was in the paper they realised why I was really there. I didn't leave my cell again."

Story here. She shot the baby in the head, shot the husband in the gut, then shot herself in the head. Mother love - you just cant beat it. Excerpt:

'THE woman suspected of shooting dead her eight-month-old son and wounding her ex-husband had reportedly been involved in a custody fight.

Shortly before 8pm on Tuesday, 22-year-old Gracemere mother Jade Quilligan is thought to have shot her eight-month-old son Anthony.

She is also believed to have shot her ex-husband in the stomach.

As her son was carried to a neighbour's house in a desperate attempt to save his life, Ms Quilligan left in a ute, which hit a tree 10km down the road.

She died at Rockhampton Base Hospital where, The Courier-Mail understands, scans revealed she had a gunshot wound to the head.'

A government web site named Youcut says it's looking for ways to cut wasteful spending in government. Description:

'YouCut is designed to defeat the permissive culture of runaway spending in Congress. We need your help in identifying which program and spending cuts should be featured on this website each week. Use the form below to submit your ideas for YouCut - by working together, we will be able to change Washington's culture of spending into a culture of savings.'

I sent them this:

"Defund the billions for the Violence Against Women Act. There are already laws in place against assault and other violence. VAWA is redundant and a major part of the Democrat welfare state. VAWA follows and promotes the radical feminist religion. Under it, false allegations abound, destroying the lives of innocent men for the sake of VAWA programs and services (housing, etc.). End this family destroying nightmare. Show me Republicans are pro-family."

Article here. Excerpt:

'A Swedish feminist party has publicly burned 100,000 Swedish kronor ($13,000; £8,500) in a protest against unequal pay.

The Feminist Initiative party said the money represented the sum Sweden's women miss out on every minute in comparison to men.

The party hopes to win its first seat in parliament in elections on 19 September.'

Blog entry here. Excerpt:

'Fathers and Families recognizes that sometimes alimony (and alimony increases) are appropriate, particularly when a parent, usually a mother, has had to make large career sacrifices to care for children. This is especially relevant if the children have school-related problems or other special needs. However, Fathers and Families is also concerned about the abuses experienced by California spousal support obligors.

Some obligors assert that their exes are voluntarily unemployed or underemployed, or are artificially lowering their earning capacity because they’d rather keep collecting large amounts of tax-free alimony. SB 1482, a bill recently introduced by Senator Rod Wright (D-Los Angeles), helps solve this problem by allowing obligors to request vocational examinations for the recipients of alimony payments, and requiring judges to follow the examiner’s estimate of the recipient’s earning ability when calculating alimony.

Story here. Excerpt:

'EVANSTON, Wyo. – A woman who has spent 20 years in a mental institution for beheading and mutilating her two young daughters because she said they were evil clones may soon get supervised release.

The Wyoming State Mental Hospital in Evanston has asked a judge to place Laura Lee Rice in a group home or an apartment on the hospital's campus, saying she has not shown signs of violent behavior and is a low risk to re-offend, The Gillette News Record reported Sunday.

Rice, 58, was declared criminally insane and found not guilty by reason of mental illness in the deaths of her daughters, who were 15 and 4 months old when they were killed in 1989.

Police found the children's decapitated bodies in plastic bags at Rice's home south of Gillette. After the children were killed, Rice cut various parts of their bodies in an effort to determine whether the girls were clones, authorities said.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The law – the first of its kind – means that partners who make such insults or threats of physical violence faces up to three years in prison and a €75,000 (£60,000) fine.

French magistrates have slammed the new legislation as "inapplicable", as they argue the definition of what constitutes an insult is too vague and verbal abuse too hard to prove.

Nadine Morano, the junior family minister, told the National Assembly that "we have introduced an important measure here, which recognises psychological violence, because it isn't just blows (that hurt), but also words."

Miss Morano said the primary abuse help line for French women got 90,000 calls a year, with 84 per cent concerning psychological violence.

But men now also have the right to report their wives verbal abuse in a domestic row.

It will apply to both married couples and cohabiting partners.

Article here. Excerpt:

"NHS bosses have been slammed today after spending thousands of taxpayers' cash training jobless women to become stand-up comedians.

Health bosses have launched the scheme to pay for council tenants to attend the lessons to help them make friends.
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The course is supposed to be for women who are at risk of developing mental health problems - but a spokesman admitted participants had not had to provide proof of this.
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Kat Bailey, Women and Theatre's spokesperson, said: 'The scheme is aimed at unemployed women, many of them single mums from deprived areas, who are at risk of isolation.
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'None of the women have existing mental health problems.'
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Public spending watchdog the Taxpayers' Alliance said it was unlike anything it had ever heard of before.

Chief executive Mark Elliot said: 'It is ridiculous to spend NHS resources on something like stand-up comedy.

Without a state budget passed and the governor of New York making good on his promise to veto by July 9 each and every unsigned spending item (a whopping 6,900 of them) placed before him, the New York State legislature somehow managed to find time to allow no-fault divorce. This is not bad in and of itself; what is bad is the presumptions made around it, as reflected in the article reporting it. Left undone was the reclassifying of the regulation of post-first-trimester abortions as a matter of public health instead of a criminal matter, but noticeably absent is any mention of a guarantee of the (purported) father's right to an equivalent form of discretionary choice. Excerpt:

From Dec 2009, but still a good pointer for those involved in church work. Article here (.pdf). Excerpt:

'International Men’s Day probably went unnoticed by most people—just like a social problem that has been overlooked, or ignored, or deliberately suppressed for far too long, by both secular and Christian segments of society. 19 November 2009 saw the quiet launch of the ‘One in Three Campaign’ (www.oneinthree.com.au), which aims to help many silent victims: men who are the victims of domestic violence.
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According to those behind the One in Three Campaign, ‘we could no longer retain our moral or intellectual integrity by ignoring the authoritative and growing body of data that indicates males are a substantial proportion of victims of family violence and abuse. While welcoming the advances that have taken place over recent decades to support women and children suffering from violence, we acknow ledge that there is a complete lack of programs, services and support to help men in the same situation.'

Report here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt: