Article here. Excerpt:

'We size up men for their potential and then attempt to train and transform them into our ideal image. We pretend to be offended by their masculine presentations and open assertions regarding sex. We turn on the charm and the tears at will and are determined to make the men in our lives responsible for our life experiences and happiness. We hold the power of sex and wield it to trap them and at a moment that suits us, transform it into a tool of punishment and torture for any lack of patronization. Are those mixed messages and abuses of power conducive to the success and happiness we seek?

Editorial here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'They have entirely missed the point. Did you spot the age of the protagonist? Teenage, right? And she's female. And those two things qualify her as a member of the new gross-out generation. It is true that teenage boys, and the teenage boy in every man, have long had a monopoly on disgust. From the Earl of Rochester to Philip Roth, the boys have loved the shock of the “eww!” Our daughters may be made of sugar and spice, but it is not for them that the notorious apple pie scene in American Pie was made. Horrible Histories, the gross-out children's books, are marketed for boys.

Teenage girls are applauded for overtaking their male classmates on most officially gradeable targets. With their typical thoroughness, they now excel in this previously exclusively male skill too: the ability to make a joke about a wet sock, and, for an A*, laugh about it while snorting milk through the nose.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Many parents and educators do not realize that, on average, girls are better readers than boys. In every age group, boys have been scoring lower than girls on U.S. Department of Education reading tests for more than 30 years.

The longer boys are in school, the wider the reading gender gap becomes.
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According to NAEP, males who have made it through 12 years of school have significantly poorer reading skills than their female peers. Among white males of college-educated parents, 23 percent scored “below basic” in reading, compared to 7 percent of their female peers. Among Hispanic males of college-educated parents, 34 percent scored “below basic” in reading, compared to 19 percent of their female peers. Among black males of college-educated parents, 44 percent scored “below basic” in reading, compared to 33 percent of their female peers.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'(AP) A Louisiana woman is accused of trading two young children in her care for a pet cockatoo and $175 cash from a couple who had been trying for years to have their own child, authorities said Thursday.

Donna Greenwell, 53, a long-haul trucker with an arrest record from Pitkin, is charged with aggravated kidnapping, along with would-be adoptive parents Paul J. Romero, 46, and Brandy Lynn Romero, 27, of Evangeline Parish.
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The transaction for the 5-year-old boy and the 4-year-old girl was negotiated by phone after Greenwell spotted a flier posted at a livestock barn selling a cockatoo for $1,500 and called the Romeros on Feb. 18, Dupre said.'

Slideshow here. See if you can spot any women in the pictures.

Article here. Excerpt:

'For the third time in 22 years, Washington state is leading the nation in family law reform. This time, the report is called the Residential Time Summary Report prepared by the state Office of the Administrator for the Courts. This is a first-in-the-nation compilation of post-divorce breakdown of parenting time for children, mothers and fathers. The numbers are collected case-by-case and county-by-county.

Amazingly, 46 percent of children of divorce, statewide, are ordered to spend a minimum of 35 percent parenting time with their biological fathers. Parenting time is broken down by large percentages, and meaningful shared parenting starts in the range of 30-35 percent. This is about 300 percent better results than anyone could have expected from the time the Parenting Act was first approved. If there ever was any doubt, Washington state is now an official shared-parenting state for families impacted by parental separation.'

NYC-AREA SCREENING: MARCH 24

First, we're happy to announce that "Indoctrinate U" has been accepted by the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival!

In accepting the film, the festival's reviewers wrote:

"Well-edited, good looking titles, technically pulled together well so there's no major problems that distract you from looking at it. Content: About the problems of political correctness on college campuses today and how they often impinge on professors and students' individual rights of expression. Great story and content with plenty of examples to draw from, mostly talking head interviews with archival footage cut in, well-shot film that could
easily play on PBS or something along those lines. A wry, hard hitting documentary about the effect of the campus culture wars on individual rights, diversity of opinion, and the life of the mind in American higher education. Very professionally made. Great subject matter, we found it very interesting."

The film will be shown at the festival on Tuesday, March 24th at 6:00PM at the Village East Cinema at 2nd Avenue and 12th Street.

For tickets and other information, visit:

US Family Court Reform Alliance is current accepting applications from other Family Court Reform related websites and Blog operators to establish a presents on our forums using their group name.

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Article here. I think the writer omits a few cliches and negative stereotypes about men, but not many. Of course, there's hope here to--if a writer this bad can keep a job, anyone can.

Excerpt:

"Let's start with the myth of the new diaper daddies. The American Time Use Survey shows that in fact laid-off men tend to do less—not more—housework, eating up their extra hours snacking, sleeping and channel surfing (which might be why the Cartoon Network, whose audience has grown by 10 percent during the downturn, is now running more ads for refrigerator repair school). Unemployed women, in contrast, spend twice as much time taking care of children and doing chores. Nor do former working stiffs necessarily reconnect with their families: following alcoholics and drug addicts, they're the most likely demographic to beat their female partners."

Via Jeremy S.: In collaboration with the professional filmmakers at Kaeco Productions and Derringer Productions and Post, we have produced a full curriculum series of 13 video vignettes specifically designed for counseling female abusers.

Nonviolent Alternatives
View a sample of one of our videos on YouTube. "I produced 13 videos that are just like Duluth videos except they are women who are abusive. We took a large collection of child protective services reports and police report narratives documenting abusive women, then we grouped them into similiar behavior patters. Then we narrowed the group to a top 13 and wrote scripts for the videos. We would have done more but I only had enough money to produce 13. There is a sample of one of the videos on our website at http://www.cognitiveaccountability.com/. Terry A. Moore, Program Director

Article here. Excerpt:

'In other words, more than 1/4 of white children, 1/2 of Hispanic children, and almost 3/4 of black children were born to mothers who did not feel that marriage was necessary. Since marriage reflects the commitment of mother and father to stay together permanently, it means that a large proportion of women chose to give birth without taking steps to make sure that the father would live with his child and be a permanent presence in his or her life.
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However, as the birth statistics demonstrate, the problem is not simply one of abandonment. Women are actively conceiving and bearing children in the knowledge that their fathers will almost certainly not be living with them throughout childhood. Simply put, women are behaving as if fathers are optional.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Of course there will always be a place in the world of business for exceptional women. Women also have an important role to play in jobs that are too demeaning for men, like teaching. But the general employment of women is another matter. Indeed, working women almost certainly caused the credit crunch by bringing a second income into the average household, pushing property prices up to unsustainable levels.

Whether working women actually caused the credit crunch is now a moot point. The point is that removing women from the workforce would mitigate its effects.

Consider the issue of unemployment. There were 221,301 men on the live register last month and just under one million women in work.

Surely at least half these women have a partner who is earning? Surely at least half would be happier at home? One half of one half is a quarter and one quarter of a million is roughly 221,301. I think we can all see where this argument is going.'

The Creation of F.R.A.M.E.D.

F.R.A.M.E.D. (Fathers Rights And Men Ending Discrimination)

By FramedFather

Was I FRAMED by the family court system here in Union County, Georgia? Oh Yes I was Folks!

I have been the target of a 'mock trial', allegedly found - capriciously - guilty, and convicted for being a loving Father and a concerned Parent.

I have done nothing wrong, I tell you all here and now. Notably 'folks' not a thing was said badly about me at the trial. The opposing attorney even suggested 50/50 custody in their closing arguments.

At 'the mock sentencing' farce, I was stripped of my rights to be a Father and Parent by the human rights violator Judge. Who then falsely sentenced me to only be a visitor not the father, with limited visitation rights only of: (4 days a month and even though I live only 3 miles from my daughter). I was also fined $10,400.00/yr. at the sentencing hearing, 66% of my income. The federal government also makes me pay taxes on that $10,400.00 dollars each year, which brings the fine up to almost 70% of my income -- for one child.

Story here. Excerpt:

'Even though there is no specific law that enforces paternity leave, more and more companies in India are increasingly offering paternity leave to their employees...

In the good old days, dads didn’t dare enter the delivery room, let alone take time off from work to bond with junior or care for their wife...

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, paternity leave is a paid leave granted by the company to an employee when he becomes a father.

And even though there is no specific law that enforces this leave, more and more companies in India are increasingly offering paternity leave to their employees.
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So how do the employees feel about this gesture? Says Bangaru Babu, IT manager at Omega Healthcare services, Bangalore, “It is a great concept and is also very useful. I took my paternity leave last month as my wife delivered our baby in Hyderabad...