Story here. Excerpt:

'A WOMAN who cried rape and got her partner and a friend locked up is today starting a four month jail term.

Burnley Crown Court heard how Dana Doherty, 22, had called police and claimed her then boyfriend Ben Stanworth and friend Martin Massa had pinned her down on a bed and forced her into sex.

Both were arrested, medically examined, kept in the cells and questioned before she owned up and admitted her claims were not true true, Burnley Crown Court heard.

She later told police she had been angry with Mr Stanworth after a row and wanted to hurt him - but she had no reason to accuse Mr Massa.

Doherty, who has convictions for attacking her father and her sister, was said to have a personality disorder. Her solicitor pleaded for her to keep her freedom and said she was on the waiting list for treatment.'

Wikipedia entry here. Excerpt:

'Missing White Woman Syndrome (MWWS) is a term used to describe what is alleged to be a disproportionately greater degree of coverage in television, radio, and print news reporting of a missing person case involving a white woman, compared with cases concerning male or non-white individuals. In the United States, a very small percentage of missing persons are victims of non-family abductions, and these victims are, according to the FBI, the most endangered. The majority of these missing persons are white female juveniles.

The essential features of a missing person said to give rise to Missing White Woman Syndrome are sex,her race, (relative) prettiness, and age. These features are said to provoke positive discrimination in the reporting as news of the disappearance of a young white woman, and so to increase public interest in her disappearance.'

From the article:

'A Baldwin PTA official has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after she and a 13-year-old boy were caught in the backseat of a vehicle parked behind an elementary school, Nassau police said.

Joan Tuckruskye, 44, of 1111 Steele Blvd., was in the backseat of a 2008 Nissan Pathfinder in a parking lot behind Meadow Elementary on Northern Boulevard with the boy Friday night, said Det. Lt. Kevin Smith.

Tuckruskye and the boy, who police did not identify, were naked from the waist down, Smith said.'

It never ends.

On July 31, 2008, H.Res. 1397 was introduced to commend "the important achievements of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence as it celebrates 30 years of service to local domestic violence shelter and service programs and the victims of domestic violence." [Bill text (.pdf file)]

Last week, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) sent out an action alert urging their supporters to contact their representatives and request that they co-sponsor the resolution. (http://www.ncadv.org/publicpolicy/AlertsandUpdates_112.html)

Story here. Excerpt:

'NEWARK -- The University of Delaware subtracted one sport and added another Tuesday but, in its view, gained in the effort to keep in line with Title IX gender-equity mandates.

Golf will become UD's 13th women's sport sometime in the next few years, athletic director Edgar Johnson said.

And while Delaware was able to preserve men's cross country and outdoor track and field, where team members feared elimination, the men's indoor track program will be downgraded from varsity to club status next year.
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Men's indoor track and field will be the first sport Delaware has discontinued since another men's activity, wrestling, was axed in June 1991.

There was widespread speculation that men's cross country and both indoor and outdoor track would be cut. Johnson confirmed for a Nov. 12 News Journal story that no decisions had been made, but Title IX put some men's sports at risk.

Article here. Excerpt:

"My expectation is that over the next year or two we are going to see more" cuts of men's teams, Brand said Wednesday in a telephone interview, "and so I am trying, frankly, to pre-empt the argument against Title IX, an unfair argument, I believe, and dissuade universities from going public with this approach.
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Schools must pass one part of a three-part test to meet the participation requirements of Title IX: have numbers of male and female athletes proportionate to enrollment; have a continuing history of expanding opportunities for women; or meet the interests and abilities of the women on campus.

Schools must consider Title IX because they cannot pass the second or third tests if they drop women's teams.

"Title IX is a factor because fairness is a factor," Brand said.

Article here. Excerpt:

'To encourage anyone who's feeling depressed to seek professional help is a primary objective of a Remembrance Open House being hosted by the Survivors of Suicide Grief at the ADAMH Board office, 142 S. Prospect St. at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Another goal is to promote awareness of the reality that men are more at risk to commit suicide because they aren't as likely as women to seek help, said Jody Demo-Hodgins, executive director for the ADAMH Board.

Three members of the support group have lost sons, boyfriends or husbands to suicide, Demo-Hodgins said.

"They're really concerned that men are more challenged to cope because society expects men to toughen up and live with it," she said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Meltdown. Collapse. Depression. Panic. The words would seem to apply equally to the global financial crisis and the effect of that crisis on the human psyche.

Of course, it is too soon to gauge the true psychiatric consequences of the economic debacle; it will be some time before epidemiologists can tell us for certain whether depression and suicide are on the rise. But there’s no question that the crisis is leaving its mark on individuals, especially men.
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I have plenty of female patients who work in finance at high levels, but none of them has had this kind of psychological reaction. I can’t pretend this is a scientific survey, but I wonder if men are more likely than women to respond this way. At the risk of trading in gender stereotypes, do men rely disproportionately more on their work for their self-esteem than women do? Or are they just more vulnerable to the inevitable narcissistic injury that comes with performing poorly or losing one’s job?'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Men still significantly outnumber women at the state's prisons and county jails, but it's women whose incarceration rate is climbing the fastest, according to a study released yesterday by The New Hampshire Women's Policy Institute.

Drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence, and unemployment are behind the increase, the study found. But those factors - and child-care responsibilities - also complicate the treatment and rehabilitation needs for women, who more often than men are their children's main or only provider.

If the trend continues, the study said, six of the 10 county jails will have to add 52 beds just for female inmates by 2012. That's expensive, not just for taxpayers, but for children and families separated by jail and prison sentences, lawmakers and corrections officials said yesterday.'

Story here. Excerpt:

"We've seen huge, huge increases in test scores," said Kiner, who presented the data this fall at the National Association for Single Sex Public Education's international conference here.
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"Boys like nonfiction. They like gory, bloody stories. They like protagonists who look like them, sound like them and act like them," she said. "We know from research that girls are more comfortable with other girls. That's why we all go to the bathroom together.
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"We told the kids they could have dress-down days for every 20 days we went without a fight," Pointer said.

"The boys came to us and said they were losing their dress-down days because the girls were fighting."

Turner said it's possible the fight-free message was unconsciously directed to the boys.

So, he stepped up the message to the girls and now records school fights by grade and gender.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The media will be able to report legal proceedings in family courts as part of sweeping changes proposed by ministers.

Cases heard in family courts, such as divorce and custody, will be open to the media subject to some restrictions such as not identifying those involved.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw said the changes would help "lift the veil" on how the legal process worked.'

From Glenn Sacks' newsletter here. Excerpt:

'Ned Holstein, MD, MS, Executive Director of Fathers & Families, is a central figure in the new Newsweek article Not Your Dad's Divorce: How changes in child support laws, and a push by fathers for equal time, are transforming the way this generation of ex-spouses raise their children (12/15/08).'

Story here. Utterly shocking, almost beyond comment. Excerpt:

'Thirty-one crosses made of tubular steel and painted white line up unevenly in the grass and weeds of what used to be the grounds of a reform school in Marianna, Florida. The anonymous crosses are rusting away but their secrets may soon be exposed.

When boys disappeared from the school, administrators explained it away, said former student Roger Kiser.

They'd say, "Well, he ran away and the swamp got him," Kiser recalled. Or, "The gators got him." Or, 'Water moccasins got him."
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Colon recalls his visits to the white house as if they were yesterday:

Video report here. And to think, if a Japanese woman wants a divorce she could simply say he is "never home" and that's good enough. It's even easieR than that; after WWII, the constitution the US gave Japan guaranteed the right of divorce for cause to Japanese women (that particular clause was inserted by a member of the constitutional scholar team Douglas MacArthur put together - it was added by, you guessed it, a feminist). So any time a mother wants to shed her "old man" and keep him paying anyway for the kids, she can do it. Meanwhile, Japanese men work themselves into an early grave under a legal system that views them as dispensible in every way except where money is concerned.

Story here. Excerpt:

'EAGLE POINT, Ore. -- Parents in a Southern Oregon school district submitted a petition seeking the removal of a bus driver accused of spanking a 6-year-old boy who wouldn't sit down.

The parents also contend the woman is a bad driver.
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The alleged spanking occurred Oct. 30. The boy's 10-year-old sister submitted a statement saying the driver grabbed her brother's arm and "hit him on the thigh four to five times."
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Parents also said they are unhappy with the way the driver handles disciplinary matters, including shouting and whistling loudly into the intercom.

"I don't feel it's safe with her as a driver, and I don't think the kids should be treated like this," Parent Leah Ferrell said.'