Story here. Excerpt:

'Britain faces an investigation by the European Union into secrecy in family courts, amid growing political pressure to overhaul the system.

The Council of Europe has stepped in after allegations that gagging laws designed to protect the rights of children are allowing miscarriages of justice and children to be removed unnecessarily from their parents.
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Opponents of the system say that judges can be too ready to side with social workers and experts who want a child removed but whose evidence is rarely made public.'

Story here. It's a mix of good and bad. The Anti dowry laws could be reviewed where in no longer will the family of husbands be jailed on complaint.

But the dowry death law where in if wife dies within 7 years of marriage the husband and his family is jailed will be made more stupid; that is, on death of any wife at any time in marriage the husbands will be sent to jail if the wife's family so desires. Excerpt:

'New Delhi, July 9: In a significant broadening of the Dowry Prohibition Act, the Ministry of Women and Child Development is planning to change the legislation so that the unnatural death of a woman at any stage of her marriage is covered by it.

Right now, unnatural death of a woman within seven years of her marriage is construed as a dowry death, attracting punishment under Section 304(B).

“There should not be any limit; unnatural death of a woman at any stage should be considered an offence liable to be punished under 304(B),” says a senior official.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Two Fathers 4 Justice campaigners have climbed onto the roof of Labour Party deputy leader Harriet Harman, Scotland Yard said.

It is the second time in little over a month the group has staged a protest at Ms Harman's home in Herne Hill, south London.
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Last month two protesters, Jolly Stanesby and Mark Harris, both from south Devon, scaled the roof of Ms Harman's home in similar costumes.'

Via email:

I have seen this commercial on Spike TV network several times now. This TV ad is absolutely awful. One interesting note though, the Spike television network is actually supposed to target men as their demographic!?!

I guess men and women hitting each other is OK in the minds of Burger King and the marketing industry, but of course, only if it's a guy getting hit by a woman. Unbelievable. I cringe thinking about young, impressionable kids watching commercials like these. Thanks, Dan

Story here. Excerpt:

'The Government says it will increase the conviction rate for rape.
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It comes days after a women's equality group claimed there was a "postcode lottery" experienced by rape victims, with women in some areas five times less likely to see their attacker convicted than in others.

The Government's plans include increasing the number of specialist centres for rape victims from 19 to 36 and running a trial scheme of supplying police forces with sexual violence advisers.'

The 'women's equality group' in question is The Fawcett Society, run by Catherine Rake, a radical lesbian feminist. You can guess who the 'sexual violence advisers' will be.

The article, the police, and the government make no mention of false accusations, which scientific evidence shows are widespread.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Divorce remains equally damaging to a child's prospects in life despite having become more common and more socially acceptable, researchers say.

A study run over several decades has shown that children whose parents split up are more likely to end up without qualifications, claiming benefits and suffering depression.
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Summarising the effects of divorce, the report says it "has repercussions that reverberate through childhood and into adulthood."

The report says: "Children from disrupted families tend to do less well in school and subsequent careers than their peers. They are also more likely to experience the break-up of their own partnerships."'

Article here. I couldn't find this punching bag on the site listed, but it certainly does exist. The picture is proof positive. Excerpt:

"From one bad date to the next, you can’t help but despise the opposite sex. You paid for your own movie ticket (and his) at the children’s rate (his idea, not yours!), and still, he had the nerve to go for a kiss at the date’s termination. Then when you backed away, he suggested a second meeting. As if! Now you just man-hate. Use this Man Bashing Punching Bag ($24.95 at www.wishingfish.com).

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How hard could it possibly be to put your dirty socks in the hamper, cook once in a while, remember your anniversary? Before you kick your detached, scatter-brained boyfriend to the curb, consider reading the “50 Boyfriends Worse Than Yours” ($9.28 at www.amazon.com). If he’s worth saving, this book may just be the thing to help you come to that conclusion."

Story here. Excerpt:

"PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd says a Labor backbencher is wrong to suggest sexism is behind the way MP Belinda Neal has been treated.

Mr Rudd spoke to Ms Neal yesterday and she agreed to undergo anger management counselling after allegations about confrontations in a bar and on the sports field.

Julia Irwin, the Labor MP for the Sydney seat of Fowler, asked whether Ms Neal's gender was an issue in her treatment.

"Why is it that women are singled out by reporting of these instances. Why not the men?" Ms Irwin said on ABC radio today.

Mr Rudd said that was not the case."

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Original story about the incident here.

"Your child will turn into a demon, you have such evil thoughts," Ms Neal is alleged to have told the heavily pregnant backbencher.

Story here. Just look at the picture in the story and you'll see why I submitted this. While boys are never blamed in the article, its obvious they're being targeted as the problem. I wonder which feminist organizations conducted this report? Excerpt:

"Tweens and teens in dating relationships are experiencing significant levels of various forms of abuse, many don't know the warning signs of an abusive relationship, and many parents don't know what's going on in those relationships, a new survey says."

Article here. Excerpt:

"Your goal is to avoid becoming a victim of "Paternity Fraud." This is when a mother lies about who a child's father is for the purposes of monetary gain. In your case, you could be on the hook for 18 or more years of child support for a child or children who aren't yours.

The bad news is that paternity fraud is not uncommon. The American Association of Blood Banks found that 30 percent of the men in paternity tests are ruled out as the biological father (other studies put that number at 25 percent).
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Unfortunately, even challenging paternity within the window doesn't guarantee that you'll avoid being defrauded. In many states, when a child is born during a marriage, the husband is presumed to be the father - biology is irrelevant. So even if DNA shows that he's not the father, he'll still owe child support."

Essay here. Would we ever see a woman chastised to this extent because of an affair? At this point it's not substantiated but the media doesn't care. It's interesting and disturbing how their associating rape and domestic violence with this situation. It seems the author of this article believes Alex Rodriguez should be shamed and cast aside by these corporate endorsements. Correct me if I'm wrong, but when a wife cheats on her husband she's the victim because he was an 'unloving' man who drove her to an affair. A man is simply considered pig. Excerpt:

Feminism and the Glass Ceiling

Since WWII, employers in both Canada and the United States have been hiring and training only women for white collar staff and supervisory positions because women cannot be drafted into the military in the event of a major war. During WWII those corporations lost a lot of their staff expertise to the military as their then male employees left for the war so after the war they imposed anti-male hiring policies to preclude similar future staff losses.

It is for this reason and no other that so many white collar corporations in North America have such a high percentage of female white collar workers and this status quo seems likely to remain for some time.

It is also for this reason that the so called "Glass Ceiling" exists. Senior executive males in executive boardrooms were not going to implement hiring policies which gave all the staff and supervisory positions to women as a corporate hiring hedge and then give women all the management and executive positions too. Unfortunately, this looks like a perk of most corporations being lead by men; men lead the corporations hence they do things the way they like.

There is a commercial running now for the American Express business card showing a man at an airport counter buying a ticket for an important business trip. He plans to pay for it by credit card, but the woman behind the counter sees that the card has a picture of cats on it. this does not meet with her approval [apparently not manly enough for her judgmentally sexist mind] and she signals for two guards to come over and take him away.

One of the guards is a woman who puts on rubber gloves for the obvious reason. Does anyone think that this company would run an ad showing a male guard putting on rubber gloves to examine a female customer. Of course not! I called the company and spoke to a customer service rep who agreed with me and would pass on my comments to management. I also intend to call the advertising department to voice my concern about this issue. I hope others will join me. Contact info here.

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Ed. note: Someone please provide a link to the commercial on-line, if available. I went looking for it but could not find it.

I thought you might find this article interesting. It’s about women who find money to be an aphrodisiac:

There are a three interesting things about this article that call into question certain things we’ve been taught about men and women.

1. Men are often portrayed as the shallower of the sexes, i.e., only interested in looks, while women are portrayed as more emotional and concerned about sensitivity and feelings. Yet, the author states “…if I'm gut-wrenchingly honest with myself, the only reason that I agreed to go out with TFB in the first place -- and the reason I stayed so long -- was that he was loaded.”

Story here. A family court judge gets off after his girlfriend recants her testimony and admits she rubbed her own face on the rug. Meanwhile a retired naval commander is found guilty even after his wife recants her testimony and admits she pulled out her own hair. Man is intent on taking case to Nevada Supreme Court to set a "bright line" standard on recanted allegations. Excerpt:

'Nearly two years ago, Family Court Judge Steven Jones was acquitted of a domestic battery charge after his live-in girlfriend recanted the previous statements she had given in the case.

A month earlier, retired Navy commander Dennis Sarfaty was convicted of the same misdemeanor despite the fact that his wife had recanted her prior statements.

The seemingly conflicting verdicts came from two different judges in Henderson Municipal Court, and Sarfaty's lawyer now wants the Nevada Supreme Court to decide which one was right.'