From Jeremy S.: Today I can guarantee an uptick in DV and Child Abuse allegations, specifically in New York .

Pulling out a 1997 New York law, Homeless shelters are going to start charging the homeless parts of their incomes in order to live in homeless shelters.

Domestic violence shelters do not do this!

Document EVERYTHING, if you are on rocky ground in your relationship...if you are about to lose your home, if you have an abusive partner/spouse...you could be a target for false allegations...but not in the normal 80 percent range now. I expect that reports of Domestic Violence will surge, over four hundred percent or more during this time of economic crisis, in any place where homeless people are being charged parts of their income in order to live in a homeless shelter. Excerpt:

'The Bloomberg administration has quietly begun charging rent to homeless families who live in publicly run shelters but have income from jobs.

Essay here. Excerpt:

'Lately I have been getting quite a few emails from parents (mostly fathers of course) who are asking what to do about their ex’s not complying with parenting plan final orders, such as; not allowing full visitation, not allowing phone calls, etc.

Some of these parents are telling me they are going to their local courthouses and asking for help or contacting certain court officials seeking help only to be told, “sorry, can’t help ya”.

Well, they are not blowing smoke in your face, they can’t help you nor do they want to help you. Most attorneys won’t help you either nor really want to get involved, unless of course you throw thousands of dollars down on the table first. Even then they will grab your money and put it in their bank account and slowly forget about you. Why should they be concerned, it’s not their life or their children they are fighting for.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'STOCKTON, Ala. -- A Baldwin County woman duct-taped her 2-year-old son and herself in an effort to make it look like her house had been burglarized and she had been raped, according to the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office.

The woman later confessed that it was all a lie, and she was arrested, Sheriff's spokesman Maj. Anthony Lowery said.

The woman, identified as Tonya Yolanda McRae, 27, called for help Thursday morning.

She told deputies that someone broke into her Stockton home and raped her.

Lowery said several aspects of her statement led deputies to suspect that her story was untrue.

After a rape test came back negative, Lowery said, McRae admitted that she made the story up.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A report about a rape along a jogging trail in an unincorporated part of Santa Ana was found to be false today after investigators interviewed the woman for the third time, authorities said.

Authorities with the Orange County Sheriff's Department were preparing to release a sketch Thursday of a man described by the woman to investigators. But during the third interview of the woman Thursday, investigators found that the report had been falsified, said Jim Amormino spokesman for the Sheriff's Department.

"She made it up," he said.'

Story here.

'AN 18-year-old girl who claimed she had been dragged into a town centre alley and raped, made up the story, it has been revealed.

Detectives say the complaint was false and is no longer being investigated.

The girl could face prosecution for wasting police time.

She claimed she had been dragged into the alley off Bradshawgate at around 2.30am after a night out on Saturday, May 2.

Police launched a hunt for her attacker and cordoned off the area. They also appealed to a mystery "Good Samaritan" to come forward. The girl claimed he had disturbed the rapist, and then escorted her home.

Police reviewed CCTV cameras in the area and found no sign of the incident taking place.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'UTICA — Local advocates for the rights of fathers are asking New York Governor David Paterson to form a human rights commission to look at what they call unfair treatment of fathers in divorce proceedings in the state.

“I am calling upon you to assemble a non-partisan commission of New York residents to study and remedy ongoing violations of human rights in our domestic relations courts,” National League of Fathers Director John Kalil Jr. said in a letter to Paterson dated Monday.

He cited what he termed “the systematic removal of mainstream fathers from the lives of their children,” and said the way the laws are structured now create a financial incentive for governments to perpetuate the system.

Laws relating to custody and child support are often biased toward mothers, New Hartford resident Kalil said.

Utica-based lawyer, Leon Koziol who is the organization’s attorney, agreed.

“They are bankrupting fathers and forcing them out of their children’s lives,” he said.'

Via Jeremy S.: A very brave Irish Journalist, Kevin Meyers, who wrote the two columns below and has coined the term “Lifeboat Feminists” may be subjected to a negative email campaign by feminists who oppose his writing style. He has requested letters to his editor to provide him support independent.letters-at-independent.ie, kmyers-at-independent.ie

I think all of you could understand a man writing this would be subject to a great deal of hate mail. As Barbara Kay, a Canadian female journalist, who writes about similar subjects, points out not many editors would allow their male columnists to continue dealing with these topics under the circumstances. I am asking the MRAs so inclined to write a letter to his editor as shown in his email and mine already completed, to provide solace and encouragement to Kevin. We are not likely see this kind of writing by a man in North America very often, if at all. Links to his articles with respect to feminists are ">here and here and in the columns.

Of note Una Hardester’s mother now has a blogspot blog with a statement to the press on the circumstances surrounding the false allegations. It is here.

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Kevin Meyers writes:

Sorry to add to your burdens, and I am extremely grateful for your support, but I have just learnt that a major e-mail campaign against me is being organised on this issue.

The Honorable Judith Sheindlin has made it clear that the no-nonsense judge will not tolerate the manipulation of the judicial system by litigants who try to use restraining orders and false allegations of domestic violence to their advantage.

During the April 30, 2009 episode of Judge Judy, Her Honor told her audience of 10 million people that the female defendant was not about to "put one over" on her. "That's how well I know your game," she told the defendant. "... you may get over on a judge tomorrow, but you're not getting over on me today ... I am going to tell you what you did wrong ... you didn't play fair!"

This episode can be viewed at YouTube: Part 1 and part 2.

Judge Judy is viewed by 10 million people daily. That is a quick and efficient way to spread the word to the masses that the this type of abuse should not and will not be tolerated.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Regina woman who left her baby in a stroller in the bitter cold has changed for the better, according to presentations made during a sentencing hearing on Friday.

Natacha Araya, 22, should not be behind bars according to submissions from both the Crown prosecutor and defence lawyer on the case.

Araya had already pleaded guilty to failing to provide the necessities of life after leaving her six-month-old son inside a baby stroller on a Regina sidewalk on a winter night.

It was 1:10 in the morning of Feb. 28, 2008, with a temperature of –20 C, according to information provided to the court on Friday.

Court was told how Araya was seen struggling to make her way as she pulled a stroller along a snow-clogged street, at one point dragging the baby carrier behind her like a sled.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'As male students decline in proportion in almost every field across US undergraduate and graduate/professional schools, little attention has been devoted to systematically exploring the causes of this trend; or, in an age in which education is vitally important, its implications for men's roles in American society, culture, economics, and politics more generally. This breakfast discussion, involving practitioners and a range of academics from NYU and elsewhere, will help launch such a sustained investigation of these vital themes. The breakfast will include an announcement regarding forthcoming fellowships for scholars focusing on men's studies and related issues.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Educators are expressing concerns about the trend, which is backed up by National Education Association reports showing that only one in five public school teachers are men, with that number being even more disproportionate (one in nine) for elementary school educators.

An NEA report formulated using survey information from education departments in all 50 states estimates there are 785,151 male teachers in public elementary and secondary schools across the nation, compared to 2.4 million women counterparts.
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She also suggests having middle and high school male students be encouraged to job shadow teachers to help steer them into a possible career in the classroom.

"It is an unfortunate truth that men commit the majority of violence in our country, often toward each other. Until we demonstrate that men can teach, be productive and help our children succeed, everyone will lose," Washington wrote.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The good news is that reading scores for 9 and 13-year-olds are the highest ever according to results released this week from the 2008 National Assessment of Educational Progress.

The bad news is that boys trail girls in reading performance at all age levels. The gap at age 9 is 8 points, at age 13 is 8 points, and at age 17 is 11 points. This is not a new trend—boys have been scoring lower than girls on U.S. Department of Education reading tests for more than 30 years.

The reading gender gap spans every racial and ethnic group, and categorically finds boys underperforming girls regardless of income, disability, or English-speaking ability.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Rather than home economics, in the minds of most people I know women's studies means militant, obnoxious feminism that is filled with man-hate and rubbish/rot academic courses preached to the closed ranks of a male-bashing all-female choir.

Unfortunately, what started as a good idea with noble aims was politicized by radical elements to become a female version of a good-old-boys club.
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In short, women's studies programs in most U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities have become radicalized, exclusionary, impractical, and dangerously self-isolated. That is a recipe for demise. Women's studies does NOT allow us to evaluate the world through women's experience because it does not reflect the attitudes, beliefs and lives of a great majority of women in this world.'

Survey here. Main page reads:

'Thank you for agreeing to participate in this short survey, conducted by researchers from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Your participation is very important to us.

Our study examines how people choose to resolve interpersonal problems.

You are about to be presented with a short story describing a situation. After reading the story, you will be asked to answer a few multiple choice questions regarding how you would deal with the situation.

The survey is anonymous, and all your answers will be kept confidential. Your participation is entirely voluntary, and you may exit the webpage at any time. The survey should not take more a few minutes to complete.

Please only complete the survey once.

Thank you very much!'

Article here. Excerpt:

"A COURT has denied the former wife of a rich City financier all access to their three children after she was found to be turning them against him.

In an extraordinary ruling, the woman, who was also judged to be too indulgent a parent, has been legally barred from seeing her children for three years. She was jailed for approaching one of them in the street and telling him she loved him in breach of a court order. She is facing a possible return to jail this summer for posting a video about her plight on the internet.

The woman judge presiding over the case justified banning contact between the mother and her children because they were being placed in “an intolerable situation of conflict of loyalties resulting in them suffering serious emotional harm”.

During supervised visits with her, the children made serious allegations about their father which were later shown to be unfounded. Social workers believed the mother was either prompting them to make the claims or they were saying them just to please her."