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'Dear Abby’s June 12 column concerned a mother of five who, according to her sister, has “has full custody and receives child support every month from her ex-husband. The problem is, she has been spending that money on her boyfriends instead of her children. Because of it, they have been homeless twice, and it may happen again.”

Dear Abby’s response implied that if the mother isn’t taking care of her children properly, putting them in foster care is an equally viable option as placement with their father.

In response, we launched a Fathers & Families Protest via the Fathers & Families Action Squad, and Dear Abby was bombarded with letters protesting the wording of the column.

In response, Dear Abby has clarified her views, changing the column to specifically recommend the father as first option for the children. The column was promptly changed in the on-line editions of the hundreds of newspapers where her column is published.'

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'The number of teenagers out of school and out of work has risen dramatically, fuelled by unemployment rates not seen since the early 1990s.

The proportion of 16- to 18-year-olds not in education, employment or training increased from 9.7% at the end of 2007 to 10.3% at the end of 2008. "This is due to reduced employment amongst young people not in education or training," government statisticians said.

Young men are the worst affected with twice the rate of 16-year-old boys not in work or school than girls. In total there are more than 208,000 teenagers not in training or employment - more than one in ten of the total.'

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'(Parenting.com) -- One Mother's Day, I bought my wife what she had wanted for years -- a weeping cherry tree -- and I threw in a bird bath, so that when the tree matures, our feathered friends can happily splash and drink under its loving protection.

For Father's Day, my wife gave me some boxer shorts and a tiny reading light, so I can flip through a book in bed without disturbing her.

My wife is the first to admit it: For her, and for many people, Father's Day is an afterthought, a holiday just a few steps above the one that celebrates the groundhog and that other one that promotes trees.

If Mom's Day and Dad's Day were in a prize fight, we all know which holiday would wind up lying in the corner of the ring, knocked-out teeth on the mat, dazed head stuck in a bucket.'

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'(CNN) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is accepting comedian David Letterman's apology over the controversial joke directed at her daughter, but says she hopes "men who 'joke' about public displays of sexual exploitation of girls will soon evolve."

"Letterman certainly has the right to 'joke' about whatever he wants to, and thankfully we have the right to express our reaction," Palin said in a statement. "And this is all thanks to our U.S. Military women and men putting their lives on the line for us to secure America's Right to Free Speech – in this case, may that right be used to promote equality and respect."

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'The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday reversed a sexual assault conviction against a 28-year-old schoolteacher who had a romantic relationship with one of her former students.

In a 5-2 decision, the court said the teacher, Melissa Lee Chase, should have been allowed to present a defense that the 16-year-old student consented to the sexual relationship.

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'In recent times, there has been a lot of noise over the issue of reservation of women's seats in Parliament. Some existing male parliament members even went to the extent of threatening suicide in Parliament, if the women's reservation bill is passed. The male parliament members are sure that many of them will lose their seats and become politically irrelevant, if the women's reservation bill is passed. Some smaller parties consider it as a conspiracy to finish up smaller regional political parties.

What do men's rights activists think about women's reservations in parliament? From their perspective, they have no trust in any woman parliamentarian. For them, if some fifty women in parliament can bulldoze an extremely biased and badly drafted domestic violence law into being enacted into law, then 200 women in parliament will lead to many more biased laws and serious discrimination of men, which can result in a complete gender war. Such a conflict will not only harm men, but also harm women, children and entire the society.'

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'According to a Harvard Law study, one out of four children commit suicide when the father is "alienated" by the other parent via false restraining orders or unjust visitation rights. We cannot forget or lose sight of the fact that fathers (and mothers) deserve equal rights in child-custody cases.

Unfortunately the courts have been biased, cruel and unfair towards men who actively seek full or joint custody of their children, whom they care for and love.

Discrimination is a two-way street. So is equal rights. Judges: Men are people too. Get with it!

Stop the nonsense! Sometimes men make better parents than women.'

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'Gloversville Police arrested a city woman last week for lying to them about an alleged rape she reported back in April.

According to police, 40-year-old Marybeth Baker filed a complaint on April 26th of being raped by someone she knew while on the Rail Trail.

During police investigation, though, Baker admitted the complaint was false and that she'd lied as retaliation against the suspect.

Baker was arrested June 12th and charged with misdemeanor falsely reporting an incident.'

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'FARMINGTON -- A woman accused of blackmailing a man at Hill Air Force Base over a rape allegation will go on trial next month.

The 31-year-old woman appeared in 2nd District Court on Monday where she was expected to tae a plea deal. However, her attorney announced that she would like to take the case to trial.
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The case is complicated, with the woman charged with second-degree felony theft by extortion. Her attorney said she is the victim of a rape and filed a police report in Seattle. Davis County prosecutors said any rape investigation has no influence on their case against her.
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Court documents say the woman blackmailed the man out of nearly $50,000 by saying she would not report the alleged sexual assault to military authorities in exchange for the money.'

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'Talk about a hot-button issue: Despite women's social and economic gains over the last 35 years, more American women report being less happy. In fact, a new gender gap has emerged: men are now happier than women.

That's according to a study, "The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness," by two University of Pennsylvania economists to be published in the American Economic Journal in August.

But the word's out, igniting gender battles online as both sides point fingers. "Typical complaining women," and "raving, loony feminists," snipe some males. "We have too much to do," and "sexist jerks," females retort.

None seemed overly surprised by the U.S. study, that women are unhappier now than in the 1970s. "There's no `me time,'" says a 38-year-old bank analyst with two children.
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"Maybe women voice their feelings now. They were unhappy before but didn't say it," suggests a 45-year-old administrative assistant.

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'he reluctance of men to adopt a healthy lifestyle and visit the doctor may be fuelling a gender gap in cancer cases and deaths, experts say.

Among cancers which affect both sexes, men are 60% more likely to develop the disease and 70% more likely to die from it, Cancer Research UK said.
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They found that overall men are 40% more likely than women to die from cancer and 16% more likely to develop the disease in the first place.

But excluding breast cancer and other cancers that are gender specific, as well as lung cancer which is more likely to affect men because more men smoke, the difference between the sexes was far greater.
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Sara Hiom, director of health information at Cancer Research UK, said: "We know that around half of all cancers could be prevented by changes to lifestyle and it's worrying that this message could be falling on deaf ears for men.

"Delays in reporting symptoms to a doctor could be helping to fuel this gender gap in cancer mortality."'

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'Men enjoy power, privilege and status at the expense of women, a fact that contributes to persistent and widespread gender-based violence.

Stephen Fisher, an Australian trainer on masculinities at the Chisholm Institute [hyperlink added], Melbourne, was speaking at the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre’s (FWCC) Pacific Regional Meeting on Violence Against Women at the Naviti Resort on the Coral Coast in Fiji.

Fisher said the concept of masculinities was a major factor that reinforced male behaviour normalising demeaning and violent treatment of women.

Many men enjoy maintaining their dominance role in their personal relationships and in and this is expressed through their masculinity, Fisher said.'

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'Kim Gandy, a savvy former prosecutor, is stepping down as NOW president after eight years leading the battle against many Bush-era policies.

The election to succeed her, set for NOW's three-day national conference starting Friday in Indianapolis, is both an unusual clash of generations and an opportunity for activists to confront some of the challenges facing the feminist movement.

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'HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana woman accused of hiding the body of her 2-year-old son in the trunk of her car for most of last summer pleaded guilty Friday to negligent homicide and evidence tampering.

Summer ManyWhiteHorses told detectives that her son, James, fell from a high chair on the night of May 28 while she was watching television in another room.

She put his body in the trunk of her car and drove around the state with her 11-year-old daughter for nearly two months, paying for food, gas, hotel rooms and alcohol with government checks meant to take care of the boy, who was autistic.

ManyWhiteHorses appeared before a judge in Great Falls on Friday, three days before her trial was scheduled to start. The 31-year-old woman could be punished with up to 100 years in prison when she is sentenced next month in Cascade County District Court.'

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'A Millcreek woman is free Monday night, just hours after a jury was selected to hear the case against her.

Catherine Cates faced 4 charges of rape of a child, and was arrested back in March.

Prosecutors alleged Cates had sex with a 13-year-old boy, whom she tutored.

Monday afternoon, the Prosecution filed a motion to dismiss all charges. Cates' roommate, who was going to testify for the prosecution, told them she remembered more details, and it hurt their case.

"She said she had been in the house every time they were together, and she didn't walk in on them and she didn't believe they had any kind of sexual encounter," said John Walsh, Cates' attorney.'