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...

Article here. Excerpt:

'PORTLAND (NEWS CENTER) -- At one time eating disorders were considered primarily as a women's disease. But recent studies show a growing number of men, young children and the elderly are suffering from anorexia or bulimia.

Eating disorder experts here in Maine say more people are getting help thanks to heightened awareness about the disorders.
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But the face of the disease is changing. The New England Eating Disorder program at Mercy Hospital is the state's only comprehensive eating disorders clinic. The clinic used to primarily treat women 14 to 22 years of age, now they have patients as young as 7 and as old as 70 -- and more men are seeking help.
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"Men are more comfortable now than they used to be in acknowledging that an eating disorder could be a possibility, a lot of athletes in particular will have a desired goal and go beyond that into a danger zone, so we work to get them back," said Dr. Lockhart.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'OLYMPIA — A University of Washington study has found disparities in race and gender in the penalties doled out by the state's criminal courts.
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"Our findings show that some people convicted of similar offenses face very different sentencing outcomes, not on the length of confinement but on the financial side," said Katherine Beckett, an associate sociology professor at UW. "It's a huge financial obligation to possess."

The study focused on court fees and fines, not the amount of time that defendants were sentenced to jail or prison.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'BUFFALO, N.Y. - A Buffalo woman has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for shooting her sleeping husband with a shotgun.

An Erie County judge gave Robin Kalinowski the harshest sentence allowed, even as she continued to maintain the November 2005 shooting was an accident.
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Kalinowski still faces charges of conspiring to hire a hit man to kill a man with whom she was having an affair. The would-be hit man was an undercover state trooper.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A woman enraged at her husband's refusal to divorce her launched a furious physical assault on him in a court here.
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Several court guards were forced to intervene and eventually managed to separate the irate woman from her husband, whose clothes were in tatters by that time.

The man at the receiving end was slightly injured and was provided clothes to cover himself. His entreaties to his wife to calm down didn't seem to have the desired impact.
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The court official said the couple had a record of ongoing problems and marital disputes and that the woman had earlier lodged a complaint against her husband accusing him of failing to provide for her.
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This conversation provoked the woman who threw him to the floor and started raining blows on him hysterically.

The court official said the scene created by the woman in the court house was not acceptable, especially since she had given full vent to insults and had manhandled court staff and members of the public at the scene.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'In Nazi art, films and magazines, women were always portrayed as the fairer sex, fighting on the home-front as their menfolk fought on the battlefields.
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But a new book by the historian Kathrin Kompisch has revealed a very different reality.

"Apart from a few particularly cruel examples, the participation of women in the crimes of the Nazis has been blended out of the collective conscious of the Germans for a long time," she wrote in the book, Female Perpetrators: Women under National Socialism.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Monday's front page news contained an unprecedented case of literary lese majeste. A parent of a Grade 12 Toronto high school student petitioned for the removal from the school's reading list of The Handmaid's Tale, a 1986 novel by the queen of Canadian literature, Margaret Atwood.
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The Handmaid's Tale isn't drivel because of the sex and violence that concerned the parent. It is drivel because it is a paranoiac fantasy whose principal purpose and effect is to stir up hatred of men.
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Dystopian fiction deserves critical respect when its premises are grounded in psychological or historical reality. That sexual relations in the West on a collective scale ever did or ever could descend into Ms. Atwood's ideologically self-indulgent nightmare is -- well, fictional drivel.
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Story here. Excerpt:

'There are cases that shock even the toughest of cops. The crimes that make hardened detectives sick to their stomachs. This is one of them.

A mother in Louisiana is accused of killing her own child. Investigators say the murder weapon was an SUV. And published reports describe the suspect as a former police officer.

The incident occurred Saturday morning. At around 9:15am on February 21, a call came into the Saint Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office. A woman said she was walking along a rural road when she noticed a silver Suzuki SUV with extensive front damage. She said the driver told her to contact the police because she had just run over her son.

When the authorities arrived at the scene, they say the driver said the same thing to them – that she had run over her son. They also allege she directed them to his body. The victim was found next to a barn near the road. Samuel Utomeh was 11-years-old.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Sen. Barbara Boxer is urging the U.S. to ratify a United Nations measure meant to expand the rights of children, a move critics are calling a gross assault on parental rights that could rob the U.S. of sovereignty.

The California Democrat is pushing the Obama administration to review the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, a nearly 20-year-old international agreement that has been foundering on American shores since it was signed by the Clinton administration in 1995 but never ratified.

Critics say the treaty, which creates "the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion" and outlaws the "arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy," intrudes on the family and strips parents of the power to raise their children without government interference.
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Parental rights groups are similarly stirred; they see in the U.N. convention a threat that the government will meddle with even the simplest freedoms to raise their children as they see fit.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'For decades women have used the excuse “Not tonight darling, I’ve got a headache” to fend off amorous partners.

But a new survey has revealed more and more MEN are finding excuses to shun sex.

The poll by independent charity the Men’s Health Forum found that 15 per cent of men aged between 18 and 59 admitted to a “lack of interest in sex”.

And relationship counselling service Relate has reported a 40 PER CENT increase in the number of men saying they had gone off sex compared with ten years ago.

These men have no physical problems — they just do not want to have sex.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'First, many pre-modern societies have been run by women and were not strangers to war and suffering. Empresses and queens from Catherine the Great to Queen Elizabeth have created war all around the world. Women were able to gather power outside of Europe. In East Asia, empresses ruled China and not necessarily in peacetime. Empress Dowager Cixi, ruler of China, went to war over Vietnam, one of dozens of examples from the region.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Pretoria - Up to 75% of all perpetrators of human trafficking are women, according to a study released in Pretoria on Wednesday.
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In countries that participated in the study, 30% more women than men were convicted for trafficking.

"Women play an important role, more than men and boys," said Lucas.
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Sexual exploitation was found to be the main form of exploitation in southern Africa and the rest of the world. This was closely followed by forced labour, said Kruger.'