Article here. Excerpt (found on p. 2 of the article):

'Black women have outperformed black men in just about every domain in life, and we're now seeing that phenomenon with whites as well," my brother said.

That means women will "need marriage less and expect more from it," and become less willing to settle for someone who is not an intellectual or professional equal, a social match and emotional partner.

If black women are angry, it's because they're tired of settling, of making accommodations for men who are — and these are my words — beneath them.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Instead, second-wave feminism relied on the power of government instead of the power of the individual. These feminists also refused to acknowledge that there are differences between men and women. Recognizing this fact is an affirmation of a biological reality, not patriarchy.

Unfortunately, these attitudes incline second-wave feminists towards victimhood. And that attitude makes the genuine equality which we all desire harder to achieve.
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Second-wave feminists prefer to blame discrimination. However, sometimes, discrimination is not to blame, and so-called "solutions" predicated on an assumption of discrimination and that expand government power would do more harm than good to millions of American women. Is it really that hard to believe there are women who knowingly take jobs that pay less so they can have more time to care for aging parents or spend more time with their children and families?

Via email from Jeremy S: Article here. Excerpt:

'It’s sickening what some women will do in order to give themselves an unfair “edge” in court. Some exes tend to file and make false allegations of abuse by their ex-husband against their children. This is done in order to add drama and concern in the courtroom, and is done in hopes that the case will be turned in their favor.

Fortunately, by handling a false abuse allegation properly, you can easily have this thrown out or ignored by the court altogether. The idea behind making the false allegations is so that the ex-wife can get the upper hand in the courtroom and is used to try to get the courts to favor their case. Unfortunately, it can do exactly the opposite. Remember, the ex-wife has the burden of proof. If she cannot prove anything in regards to abuse, it will make her look foolish and irresponsible.'

Some of his accompanying comments:

Article here. Excerpt:

"Only 14 of the world's 1,000 billionaires are self-made women, and only seven of them had no help from relatives, a new list has found.

In a list of the world's richest self-made women, American business magazine Forbes published the names of 14 women who have accrued $1 billion or more thanks to their own entrepreneurship rather than inheriting part or all of their fortune.

Seven of the women on the list were Chinese, Harry Potter author JK Rowling was the only British-born woman, and of the fourteen, at least five built their business empires with the help of husbands and brothers or sometimes both.

Article (English translation) here. Excerpt:

'Today it is approved, in Cortes de Aragon, the new law of Shared Safekeeping. We want to pay a tribute to Antonio Henar, unquestionable leader of the fight by Custodia Shared in Aragon. (it follows….)

In this new Law it is observed, like preferred norm to be used by the judges, Shared Custodia.

Antonio Henar, throughout more than 10 years has presided over the APFS of Aragon, with its seriousness, its sobriety and its good one for doing realised multitude of action, manifestations, meetings and different directed activities from the attainment of Shared Custodia in Aragon.'

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Ed. note: Original article in Spanish here. Wikipedia on Aragon here.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Adult children conceived during the wave of sperm donorship in the early 1980s and early 1990s are now telling their stories. They were wanted and loved children, but because of the way they were conceived, there is a world of hurt and anger out there.

Article here, excerpt:

'He saw a 3-year-old girl without a parent. If he had it to do all over again, if he could see the cops, the handcuffs, the TV cameras and the jail cell all awaiting him, I imagine the last thing he would have done was try to help her.

But he did.
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But look at the evidence.

We have the little girl's mother losing track of her daughter.

We have Edwin's mother not taking the girl from Edwin and turning her over to a store employee.

And we have Edwin in handcuffs.

I'm not sure the problem here is with the 14-year-old.

Interestingly enough, the girl's mother never did press charges. But the Sheriff's Office decided it would, ultimately settling on a charge of false imprisonment.

"He was in custody of the child and had no authority to be so,'' said Capt. Angelo Nieves. "The thing is to make clear we have not charged him with an offense that did not occur.''

Congratulations.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'This private member’s bill, introduced by Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott, would amend the Divorce Act to mandate “equal shared parenting” when parents split up. Courts would start from the presumption that parents share time with the kids and decision making on a 50-50 basis, and put the legal onus on parents to show that such an arrangement would not be in the child’s best interest.

Article here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'To commemorate Father’s Day, the Atlantic Monthly published the anti-father article Are Fathers Necessary? A paternal contribution may not be as essential as we think (July/August 2010). It’s no surprise that author Pamela Paul’s arguments are factually flawed. Fathers & Families Board member Robert Franklin, Esq. explains:

Pamela Paul tells Atlantic Monthly readers that “there’s nothing objectively essential about his (dad’s) contribution.” Of course she could have said that about anyone; no one’s “contribution” is “objectively essential.” That Paul chose fathers about whom to make the observation speaks volumes about her bias in the matter.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Boston Globe’s Sunday lead editorial Child-custody cases demand discretion, not new laws (6/13/10) focuses on Fathers & Families’ shared parenting bill HB 1400. The editorial arose out of contacts between Fathers & Families’ Board Chair Ned Holstein, MD, Massachusetts shared parenting activist Dr. Peter Hill, and the Globe. The Globe had previously endorsed shared parenting in principle in its 2008 editorial A fair role for fathers (Boston Globe, 2/23/08) after meeting with Dr. Holstein.

From Abusegate Bob:

Monday, June 14, 2010

Recently Abusegate announced the names of 20 Senators and Representatives we are targeting for electoral defeat on November 2. One of those persons is Ben Lujan, Democratic congressman of New Mexico, who is a co-sponsor of the family-destructive International Violence Against Women Act.

So when Lujan found out his name was on our list, he issued a press release in which Lujan’s campaign manager called Abusegate a “fringe” organization that represents “domestic violence deniers” — see below.

Rep. Lujan may believe there are good reasons to support the International Violence Against Act. But engaging in political name-calling does little to burnish his image as a lawmaker who is working to help New Mexico families, as he claims on his website.

Rep. Lujan should apologize for his demagoguery — call his Washington office at 202-225-6190. Or shoot him an email at https://forms.house.gov/lujan/webforms/issue_subscribe.htm

Story here. Excerpt:

'It used to be that the definition of hutzpah was a man who had murdered his parents pleading for mercy from the court because he was an orphan.

We have for our delectation an update on this definition out of Sacramento, California, in a story about a woman – the wife of a police detective, to add spice to the narrative — who, disgruntled over the loss of custody of her children to the husband (and going by the stats on this subject, she must be a piece of work to begin with to have lost custody in today’s mother-friendly courts) hires a motorcycle gang hit man to off her husband.

Or she thinks she did. Members of the hit man’s gang tape damning conversations with her and alert the police, who arrest her and eventually convict her for solicitation to murder. The story doesn’t say why, but I’m thinking the gang probably has enough problems with the police, and don’t need the aggravation of a furious vendetta from their proposed victim’s colleagues.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A 12-year-old Calgary boy is back on Canadian soil after being shuffled through a series of foster homes in the U.S. for nearly two years.

The boy, who cannot be named now that he has returned to Canada, has been in foster care in Oregon since he was picked up by police for biking without a helmet while on a summer vacation with his stepfather in 2008.

U.S. officials didn't recognize the boy's stepfather as his legal guardian, so the boy was sent to a foster home.

After a lengthy legal battle, a U.S. judge ruled in May the boy would be allowed to return to Canada.

He arrived at Calgary airport on Friday afternoon, where he was reunited with his mother.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'THE LATEST Sarah Palin controversy has to do with feminism. In a recent article in the Washington Post, feminist author and blogger Jessica Valenti blasted the former vice presidential candidate for “adopting the feminist label.’’ Valenti believes that any talk of a conservative version of feminism is a cynical right-wing ploy to fool women into supporting reactionary antiwoman policies. But while Palin may be far from the best spokeswoman for conservative feminism, the idea itself is essential to feminism’s health.