Video report here. Caption: "I was robbed up here of my right. My dignity was taken. My dignity. How would you feel if it happened to you?"

Her honor allegedly had her bailiff rub her feet, make her meals and spy on other court employees.

Video report here. Caption: "What the (bleep) are you doing in my apartment?"

Should there be an IQ test before people reproduce? I am beginning to wonder.

Story here. Excerpt:

"The supermum who holds down a demanding career while running the family home is falling out of favour, a high-powered academic report said yesterday.
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Currently, most of the 2.9million children who live below the Government's poverty line come from two-parent families in which only the father works.

At the same time, Labour's flagship tax credits favour single parents over two-parent families in which the mother stays at home.

Professor Jacqueline Scott compared studies of attitudes to working mothers over the past 25 years and found that disillusionment has been escalating since the mid-1990s.'

Here's a real tragic story. Man, this is just stupidity compounded by negligence compounded with nothing short of evil. Excerpt:

"Katelynn Sampson, 7, looked as though she might have been abused for some time, police said Tuesday.
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Ryan said when emergency workers found Katelynn's body in an apartment in the west-end neighbourhood of Parkdale, there was evidence the Grade 3 student had been sleeping on the floor and had been subject to poor living conditions that he did not want to discuss.
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Katelynn's legal guardian, 29-year-old Donna Irving, has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the girl's slaying. Ryan confirmed that Irving has been charged and convicted of violent crimes in the past.
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According to Ryan, Irving was granted sole custody of Katelynn in January, although she has had contact with the girl since May 2007.
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Child services agencies are investigating whether they played any role in placing Katelynn in Irving's care, Ryan said."

Story here. Excerpt:

'Dr. Scott Haltzman, author of "The Secrets of Happily Married Women," says stay-at-home wives constitute a growing niche. "In the past few years, many women who are well educated and trained for career tracks have decided instead to stay at home," he says. While his research is ongoing, he estimates that more than 10 percent of the 650 women he's interviewed who choose to stay home are childless.
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Davis says her life isn't luxurious. "Tuesdays are my laundry day," she says. "I go grocery shopping on Wednesdays and clean house on Thursdays." Mondays and Fridays are reserved for appointments and other errands.

But her schedule also allows for charity work and leisure: reading, creative writing and exploring new hobbies, like sewing.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'NEW YORK - Doctors should stop routine prostate cancer screening of men over age 75 because there is more evidence of harm than benefit, a federal task force advised on a hotly debated topic.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which made the recommendation Monday, reported finding evidence that the benefits of treatment based on routine screening of this age group "are small to none." However, treatment often causes "moderate-to-substantial harms," including erectile dysfunction and bladder control and bowel problems, the task force said.'

Two weeks ago, we asked you to e-mail the president of the ABA to tell him (as nicely as possible) to get his facts straight. This week, we are asking you to do the same thing with the ABA Section of Family Law.

We said, two weeks ago:

On June 2, 2008, RADAR released two special reports, Myths of ABA Commission on Domestic Violence[1,2] that analyzed the 19 statements made in the flyer put out by the American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Domestic Violence, "10 Myths about Custody and Domestic Violence and How to Counter Them."

Among the flyer's 19 claims, 11 were found to be false, three misleading, and three unsupported by existing research. Only two claims were found to be correct. And some errors are egregious.

For example, the flyer states that "False allegations are no more common in divorce or custody disputes than at any time." But this claim, which flies in the face of common sense, is debunked by research showing that false allegations increase four-fold during custody and access disputes.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A trainee GP has told of his "year of hell" after an allegation of rape made against him by a patient was thrown out.

Dr Steven Ashenford said he had "lost everything", including his marriage and home, after the false claim.

He has been suspended by the GMC and said the ordeal had put him off working as a doctor forever. He said he was desperate now to "just get my life back on track".

Dr Ashenford, 33, was working at the Sutton Hill medical practice in Telford, Shrops, when he was arrested last October after the female patient made the allegation.

He said: "The police were in the house searching it. My belongings were taken away, my computer and my diary. I felt really violated."'

Note: His accuser remains anonymous, and has faced no punishment.

March discussed here. Excerpt:

'To raise awareness for the City of Hope cancer center’s The Underwear Affair 10K Run/ 5K Walk, presenting sponsor Jockey recently activated with a promo event in Los Angeles.

The brand last month donated underwear to hang on a clothesline spanning three blocks along the Third Street Promenade in L.A. Passersby could take a pair of underwear ornamented with a branded tag informing them about the race.

“The whole idea behind The Underwear Affair is to raise funds and awareness of cancers below the waste,” Mo Moorman, director-public relations at Jockey International told Buzz. “So it was a good fit for Jockey since we have a certain specialty in that regard. For us it’s brand awareness and brand relevance.”'

Also see: http://www.uncoverthecure.org/

The Atlanta March passed right by our roommate's place of work.

Gunner Retired

I recently submitted an article speculating about this custody case, now its official. Excerpt:

'MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Mary Winkler, the woman convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2006 shooting death of her minister husband, has taken custody of her three daughters, one of her lawyers said Monday.

Rachael Putnam, a custody attorney, said the former minister's wife picked the girls up Friday from the slain man's parents, Dan and Diane Winkler.
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The grandparents had tried to stop the supervised visits with Winkler, but the state's Court of Appeals upheld the order by a county judge. The Tennessee Supreme Court also rejected the grandparents' appeal.

Winkler was tried for murder after her husband was found slain by shotgun blast to the back, but a jury found her guilty of voluntary manslaughter after she testified about suffering from years of physical and emotional abuse by her husband.'

This from an e-mail I received from Boys and the Boy Crisis (MEC):

'I wanted to let people know that the 2 DVD set of last year's Boys and the Boy Crisis Conference is now available for sale. It's 2 high quality Dvds with over 6 hours of material including all of the presentations at the conference Friday night and Saturday. Warren Farrell, Glenn Sacks, Paul Nathanson, Katherine Young, Tom Golden, Matt O'Connor, Malia Blom, Gordon Finley, J. Steven Svoboda, Stephen Baskerville, and Christina Hoff Sommers are all included in this historic video. We have tried to keep the cost low and the entire set is $24.99 with 4.95 shipping.'

Page found here.

Article here. Excerpt:

Story here. Excerpt:

'Gambril has filed charges against five other women who either tested positive for drugs after giving birth or while they were pregnant and on probation, arguing that it's necessary to bring such cases to deter drug use and protect the children. In one case, the baby was born premature and died after an hour.

Jayasinghe's group and others including the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals and the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence say the law wasn't designed to apply to pregnant women and their fetuses. They also warn that the law could drive women to seek abortions or avoid prenatal care to escape prosecution, and they note that appellate courts across the country have overturned convictions based on similar laws.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Nearly one in five paternity claims handled by the Child Support Agency end up showing the mother has deliberately or inadvertently misidentified the father, figures show.

Since DNA paternity testing figures began to be collected in 1998-99, 4,854 paternity claims have turned out to be false after DNA testing.

Under child support legislation it is a criminal offence to make a false statement or representation, and to provide false documents or information.

However, according to the CSA, there has not been a single prosecution of a woman for making a false claim. The figures showing the number of false paternity claims have been compiled using freedom of information legislation.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Marsh, 41, testified earlier Thursday that every bad act that happened to her son - being tied to his bedposts, having his feet scalded in hot water and dying from a blow to the head - was the result of her housemate Flower Tompson's power over her.
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Marsh testified she told friends she feared Brandon would be killed by the satanic group.
"I was told Brandon was worth $3.4 million dead," Marsh said. "The groups wanted to kill him."
"Groups?" Sonenberg asked.
"(For a) sacrifice," Marsh said.
"Did you believe that?"
"Yes," she said.'