Announcement here. Excerpt:

Wednesday April 8, 2009

The Australian Government has announced the dates for the third round of community consultation forums for its National Men’s Health Policy, this time in Perth, Kalgoorlie, Whyalla, Adelaide, Geelong and Melbourne. We encourage you to circulate this email widely and attend the forum closest to you to let your views about men’s health issues be heard.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Rachel Summers, a Mufreesboro Tennessee woman is accused of poisoning her her own son to death. A 19 year old Cuban native, Mariafelix Morales is accused of killing the son she secretly gave birth to in her Shelbyville Tennessee home. Even in rural areas like these youll find these headlines. Although it seems unnatural for a woman to kill her own children it is not uncommon. More than 200 women kill their children in the US every year, according to a recent study by the American Anthropological Association.

Essay here. Excerpt:

'On May 19, 1977, 20-year-old Colleen Stan was hitchhiking in California and accepted a ride from a young couple with a baby; Janice and Cameron Hooker had come to an agreement that if Janice could have a child, Cameron could find a woman to whip and torture, as long as he promised never to have intercourse with her.

I figured a good-news story was in order. A father reunited with his two boys. Excerpt:

"A MELBOURNE father's speedy rescue of his two kidnapped sons has embarrassed Swedish police, who struggled with the case for six months.

Armed with just a pair of binoculars and a rental car, it took the dad only one week to find his missing sons, aged 11 and ten, in Sweden.

"It is a genuine failing mark to the work of the police,'' columnist Lars Lindstrom wrote in the Swedish newspaper Expressen.

"(The father) went on leave, flew from Melbourne to Sweden and found them in a week. How did that happen?''"

Story here. Excerpt:

'David Gorn, 72, was leaving a diner Monday night when Harris allegedly confronted him and accused him of abusing a turtle.

Police later said it was a decorative item -- a porcelain turtle if you will that she claims was damaged.

But Harris' lawyer said it was an actual pet turtle.
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Whatever the case, after the argument, cops said Harris grabbed his keys and took off in her car. Harris drove right next door to an adjacent parking lot and Gorn followed desperate to get his car keys back.

Cops said that's when she assaulted him with her Honda Accord, allegedly striking Gorn once, waiting for him to get up, and then hitting him again.
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Harris' lawyer said she's ready to fight the assault charges.

"There's two sides to every story and she looks forward to telling her side," Seeger said.

Harris left court under orders not to contact the ex-boyfriend, who is recovering with a head injury.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'BRIDGET Marks says her nasty custody battle with a philandering ex-lover has transformed her from a buxom nude model into a full-blown political activist.
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Last year, the former Playboy pin-up, now 43, got state Assemblyman Jonathan Bing and Sen. Tom Duane (both D-Manhattan) to craft "Bridget's Law," which protects parents from being penalized in custody cases for making "good-faith efforts" to protect their kids from child abuse. It was signed into law by Gov. Paterson.

"And with the help of Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney*, we'll have a national 'Bridget's Law' in the foreseeable future," Marks told us. "It's a silent national crisis of women losing their children for no good reason. I've been contacted by thousands of women from as far away as Australia."

Article here. Excerpt:

'Whether by disease, accident, murder or suicide, losing a child is one of the worst experiences a person could face. Another tragedy that ranks at the top of the list is having a missing child. Strangers abduct a small percentage of these children. Most are abducted by one of their parents.

Excellent article here, written by a female boss who thought it would be a good idea to set up an all female business... BIG mistake, as she now realizes. Excerpt:

'Over in one corner sat Alice, a strong-minded 27-year-old who always said what she thought, regardless of how much it might hurt someone else. In the other corner was Sarah, a thirtysomething high-flier who would stand up for herself momentarily - then burst into tears and run for the ladies.

Their simmering fight lasted hours, egged on by spectators taking sides and fuelling the anger. Sometimes other girls would join in, either heckling aggressively or huddling defensively in the toilets. It might sound like a scene from a tawdry reality show such as Big Brother, but the truth is a little more prosaic: it was just a normal morning in my office.

Someone writing under the name Baden Hill has penned a book entitled "Afraid to Go Home", now for sale also on Amazon.com as a downloadable Kindle book. His (her?) stated reason for seeking to sell it as a Kindle book is because it may be that if an abusive husband caught his wife with the print version, it would probably lead to her being beat up (see the full second "press release" below). Excerpt from the first "press release":

'AFRAID TO GO HOME, a 420 page paperback, is about a White, middle-class, educated, female executive who is taken advantage of at work by the Good Ol' Boys, and is trapped in a violent relationship which she can't free herself and her children from at home.

Story here. Excerpt:

' FOUR students claim they were kept in solitary confinement for two weeks before being expelled from the Oprah Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa, amid allegations of sexual misconduct.

The girls, who were among seven pupils accused of forcing fellow students into sexual relationships and engaging in bullying and harassment, told a South African newspaper of how they were treated before being sent home.
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A 15-year-old confirmed physical contact between students.

"If they say I was touching other learners, it's true," she told The Star.

In her defense, she said, "No one complained to me about it. Obviously if you touch someone, if they are uncomfortable, they will tell you."

On March 26, security guards told the girls to pack their things. They were each allowed monitored goodbyes with three friends for five minutes. Clothes, phones and shoes given to students by the school were taken back.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'UNDATED -- A Sand Springs man, who was murdered last month, had been a battered spouse for years. When men are the victims of abuse, they rarely admit it, talk about it or get help and Jimmy Weaver's case ended in tragedy.
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Jimmy's mother says he was a loving father and skilled carpenter, but developed a drinking problem and married a woman who had one of her own. Records show Deborah Weaver grew violent when she drank and often took it out on her husband and two young daughters.

Jimmy filed several protective orders against her over the years. Once he wrote, "she pushed me off the porch, then hit me in the mouth and pulled my hair."
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Deborah Weaver was convicted in December of domestic violence on Jimmy and is in jail charged with killing Jimmy on March 26th. He'd been shot in the chest and his face had also been beaten.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'If there is a coherent moral order to the present thoughts of the National Women's Council, it is that words no longer mean what they used to. In the Council's prospectus for the year 2009, the word "equality" is used 38 times. Yet clearly, in the sisters' deviant vocabulary, "equality" does not mean equality of pain, or hardship or suffering or poverty. No: it means the opposite of equality. It means a protection from these conditions, regardless of what men are enduring. In other words, lifeboat-feminism, surely the most ignoble and unprincipled of all the many liberal political creeds which dominate our ethos today.'

Web site here. "Dedicated to Madison Nicole Tenn" -- This man had his daughter abducted by her mother from their home and he hasn't seen her since.

This kind of site is important because not only does it raise the chance that the perpetrator will be caught and a father-and-child reunion will occur, but it also helps personalize the experiences of the people in question. It highlights the problem of under-enforcement of equal rights when the mother is the perpetrator and the father the victim in a parental child-abduction case such as this.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Debi Olson had three restraining orders taken out against her. But that didn’t stop the woman from ambushing ex-husband Mauricio Droguett in an Iowa shopping mall last July, fatally stabbing him in front of shocked mall-goers.

Toni Brown of Washington, DC was shot by former girlfriend Raina Johnson on August 12, 2008, leaving the woman paralyzed from her neck down. Johnson is currently serving a 28-year sentence for a crime the judge termed “extraordinarily brutal.” A restraining order had been previously issued against the assailant.

Karen Allende of New York City was walking to work on a September day in 2006 when she was attacked suddenly by her husband. She died that morning on the sidewalk, a restraining order folded neatly in her purse.
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Judge Milton Raphaelson of Massachusetts once opined, “Few lives, if any, have been saved, but much harm, and possibly loss of lives, has come from the issuance of restraining orders and the arrests and conflicts ensuring therefrom.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'In the end, it was one tiny voice that silenced anyone who still had doubts that parental alienation is real and one of the most insidious forms of child abuse.

The voice wasn't real – Dashiell Hart opened his arms wide and threw himself off a Vancouver bridge eight years ago at the age of 16.

But his voice was brought to life at a Toronto conference by his devastated mother, Pamela Richardson, who endured a 12-year court battle with her ex-husband to try to win back the heart and mind of her son.

Dash was just one tiny soldier in the growing army of children who are becoming collateral damage in bitter battles between ex-spouses that are overwhelming Canada's divorce courts, the first Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) heard recently in Toronto'