Story here. Excerpt:

'The farmers and miners who joined the Rural Network dating agency got a lot less than they wished for. Some fell in love with women who did not exist. Others lost up to A$20,000 (£9,500) as the agency tempted them into parting with more and more cash with the lure of love.
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The dating site, whose director Leanne McDonald was also known as Leanne Viney, Lana Viney and Lana McDonald, had various ploys to cajole men into paying ever higher membership fees.
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Justice Jeffrey Spender said at the time that the agency's conduct was “not only serious but calculated and quite callous” — although he stopped short of closing it.
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Yesterday the agency was back in court, with the commission accusing it of failing to honour any of the undertakings.'

Note: This is in the Women's section of the newspaper.

Story here. Excerpt:

'SANTA FE—A court battle over whether a sperm donor should pay a higher rate of child support has ended with a ruling that the man is liable because he has taken an active role in raising the children.

Kevin Zoernig had argued he was not required to pay child support because he is a sperm donor and is protected under the state's Uniform Parentage Act.

But the state Court of Appeals noted in its July 25 opinion that this was not a case involving an anonymous donor or a known donor who provided sperm to a licensed physician under an agreement in which he agreed to have no parental rights.'

Story here. Excerpt:

"A hateful mother killed her five year old son to spite his father before taking her own life, an inquest has heard.

Emma Hart, 27, force-fed Lewis Dangerfield a lethal cocktail of pain killers and antidepressants at their home then fled to her mother's flat nearby and slashed her wrists.

In a note to the little boy's father, Shaun Dangerfield, which she left by his body, she wrote: 'I told you I would make you pay, enjoy your life now, nothing is stopping you, ha ha ha. Just remember it's your fault.
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Her mother told the inquest: 'She is not a horrible person, she was a loving mum.'"

Story here. Excerpt:

'Last year 87,200 women and girls were arrested for attacks – the equivalent of 240 every day. It is the first time in history that violence has been the most common crime among women and girls, taking over from theft.

The category includes every violent offence from street brawls and assault to grievous bodily harm and murder.
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The Ministry of Justice report, released quietly on to the internet yesterday after MPs had left for the summer recess, also includes alarming figures on the scale of violence by children.
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Robert Whelan of the Civitas think-tank blamed a breakdown in society's values.

He said: 'There are now so many children growing up in broken homes or with disruptive backgrounds that the self restraint taught to previous generations is no longer there. They think when they are angry they can just lash out.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Barack Obama met privately Tuesday with a group of women leaders, seeking their endorsement and also raising a sore point -- the issue of gender bias in his Democratic primary fight with Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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"He talked about his concerns about some of the sexism in the course of the campaign," said Ellen Malcolm, president of the political group EMILY's List and a key Clinton supporter. "But essentially the meeting was forward-looking."
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Obama mentioned that "he knew there had been frustration with stuff directed at Sen. Clinton by the media," said Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A 28-year-old Philadelphia [woman] has admitted repeatedly burning two young boys she was babysitting — with a lit cigarette, a lighter and in one case, an iron.
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Johnson pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and possession of an instrument of crime.'

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Seems like Larry Summers and the recent math-and-girls dust-up just go together far too well to be ignored. So some mainstream and not-so-mainstream news sources have run with the ball. This from the National Post editors, with this from the City Journal. Excerpt from the Nat:

'Unfortunately, journalists of both sexes tend to not be math geniuses. Few of them anywhere on the continent noticed that Ms. Hyde’s data actually come a lot closer to supporting Mr. Summers’ hypothesis than they do to refuting it.

The study certainly does confirm that there is probably no difference between males and females in math ability, on average. This means that, if one were to plot out the observed mathematical proficiency of a large number of male and female individuals, the resulting graphical pattern would produce two sex-segregated bell curves centred on roughly the same average point.

Story here. To think, one can embezzle millions from an employer and walk with a slap on the wrist. Corporations can fail to pay billions in taxes without so much as a fine. But a man behind on "child support" payments either willfully or by force of circumstance moves to a different country and it's a no-holds-barred effort to track the rat-fink down! I mean, he had the temerity to do what women with custody of their kids do all the time-- move to a new country-- and that's all that needs saying for yet another search-and-destroy law. Excerpt:

'THOUSANDS of deadbeat dads are fleeing to New Zealand to escape paying child maintenance.

More than 20,000 Australian parents have escaped overseas to avoid paying child support, with figures revealing NZ is a favourite haven, the Herald Sun reports.

These parents owe around $90 million in unpaid child support, but the Australian Government is about to crack down on them.
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Human Services Minister Senator Joe Ludwig said parents who avoided financial obligations to their children would be tracked down.

Story here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON - July 24 - The American Civil Liberties Union today urged the House Education and Labor Committee to pass H.R. 1338, the Paycheck Fairness Act, with no weakening amendments. This important legislation would update the Equal Pay Act, one of the primary laws addressing pay discrimination.

Court decisions and loopholes have chipped away at the Equal Pay Act over the years, making it less effective in combating pay discrimination. The Paycheck Fairness Act, with 228 cosponsors to date, would strengthen and improve protections against workplace discrimination.'

If you want to read it, track it, learn about committee membership (including contact info), etc., go here.

Some commentary by Carrie Lukas challenging the underlying assumptions is here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'Judges in Michigan now can order domestic violence suspects - even before they go to trial - to wear global positioning system (GPS) devices, which monitor their whereabouts to ensure that they stay away from their alleged victims. If a suspect comes near a victim, the system sends out an alert. Not only are authorities notified, but the victim gets a cell-phone call letting them know that the suspect is nearby.'

Wonder if female suspects will get the same treatment as male ones?

A mere three days before that article went to print, this one was published. Excerpt:

Story here. Excerpt:

'Tokyo, Japan (AHN) - A Japanese woman went on a spree, stabbing seven men at a crowded train station in Hiratsuka, 43 miles southwest of Tokyo.

Hidetoshi Yukitake, a Japanese police spokesman said the woman tried to slash her wrist with an army knife inside a shopping mall Monday night near the train station. The woman was bumped by a passing pedestrian, which further enraged her.

Yukitake said, "She was screaming as she was slashing people at random. She said she was frustrated. She was also angry at her father."'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Detectives say Mrs Lees suspected the 43-year-old Navy avionics lecturer of being unfaithful, and administered a toxin to try to coax him into admitting his infidelity.

She is said to have made the repeated attempts, despite having a long-term affair with a neighbour herself.

Police, who said Mr Lees had been having an affair, are still waiting to find out what drugs she used in the last attack.

But they believe they may have been those prescribed for her own depression. They are investigating if she may also have used the date rape drug GHB.'

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Ed. note: Notice that "date rape drug GHB" reference. The GHB date rape drug myth has been exposed as an urban myth but still, it continues. But the BBC just had to slip that in there, didn't they?

Story here. Excerpt:

'The 22-year-old, who was not identified, has pleaded not guilty in the District Court to endangering the life of the baby at her Blakeview home in May, 2007.

The father, who also cannot be named, told the court he and his then-partner had been arguing on the night the baby was allegedly put into the aquarium.

He said the child had been crying and his partner was not able to make her stop. He saw his partner walk past their bedroom and then saw her walk back without the child.'

Activism has its effects; read it here. Looks like Ms. Dunleavey got the message. And while she isn't filled with contrition for her previous column, she at least responded to the input. It's a start. Excerpt:

'Most of the letters were from men. Many were morally outraged. And most said: Why don't you write about how to leave your wife without going broke?
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State laws, your personal circumstances, the lawyers or mediators involved in the case and, perhaps especially, a judge may all determine how equitable the terms of a divorce are.

"If you choose to go before a judge, you are subject to the biases of that judge, and they cut both ways," Smith says.

Smith also took issue with the motive behind my initial article, which stemmed from my conviction that women need a bigger push to take the reins of their finances. "I see just as many men who don't want to deal with these issues," she says.'