Marc Rudov debates Lis Wiehl concerning why Heather Mills should not receive a dime from Paul McCartney. Congrats to Marc for not pulling any punches.

Watch the video.

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Article here. Excerpt:

"In acrimonious divorce and child custody disputes emotions are tense and tempers flare. Buoyed by litigious attorneys, each side engages in strategic maneuvers to gain the greatest legal advantage. Sometimes a parent, fearing a loss of control or custody over a child, crosses the ethically acceptable bounds of legal warfare. An unfortunate but all too frequently used tactic by mothers is to accuse the father of sexually molesting their child. The mere accusation is sufficient to strip the father of all his custody rights and launch a criminal investigation. Even when no evidence is found to substantiate the allegation, family law courts typically "err on the side of caution" and award full custody to the mother. While national statistics reveal that the majority of all child sex abuse reports are legitimate, when such claims are made by a mother in the context of custody litigation, an estimated 77% of allegations are determined to be unfounded (Tong, 2002).A false child sex abuse allegation made during child custody litigation is a destructive legal stratagem."

BBC Radio 5 Live in the UK (693/909 MW and digital) will be running a feature on male DV victims from 10pm on this Sunday (24th). It may come on later than 10pm so you may have to listen for a while.

Please tune in and if there is a phone-in/text-in on the show then please take the opportunity.

It should be available for those outside the UK via http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/

Just as the New England Patriots were looking to cap off a perfect season, Boston Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss was hit with a claim of "serious injury." The allegation made by Rachelle Washington over an alleged altercation on January 6, 2008.

Washington is an old paramour of Moss's who was unemployed and behind in her rent payments. Reports suggest that Washington had a soft-tissue injury to her finger, but how it occurred remains a mystery. Hospital X-rays were negative.

A temporary restraining order was quickly entered against Moss.

According to Moss' agent, attorney David K. McGill demanded a $500,000 payment and threatened to reveal "lots of dirt" about Moss if the money was not paid by January 11th. McGill has refused interviews and has not explained the specifics of the allegations.

Video report here. The story reports she was originally facing 60 years in jail total, but the judge reduced it to six (of course). One comment:

"Typical. If a man had raped 5 teenage girls he would have been sentenced for much, much longer. But a woman raping young boys does not receive the same level of attention or reprimand. She is a sexual deviant and justice has again been denied."

Posted by "Scott". Hmm, is that our very own Scott, I wonder? :)

Article here. Excerpt:

"Men who smoke, drink heavily or are exposed to pesticides while trying for a baby could harm not only their baby but future generations of offspring too, scientists say...

..."They said traditional assumptions that the health of fathers was less important than that of mothers in determining how healthy their babies would be should be revised.

Dr Cynthia Daniels of Rutgers University, said: "If I were a young man I would not drink heavily and I would not be smoking two packs of cigarettes per day while trying to conceive a child.

"Studies have shown significant associations between male toxic exposures and increased rates of infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth and childhood health problems."

I hope you guys enjoy this video as much as I did. It's a series of different male issues played through music and realistic images.

The video manages to address some of the most important MRA issues citing legitimate statistics.

Clinton's struggle vexes feminists

Excerpt:
"WASHINGTON - As Hillary Clinton struggles to regain her momentum in the presidential race, frustrated feminists are looking at what they see as the ultimate glass ceiling: A female candidate with a hyper-substantive career is now threatened with losing the nomination to a man whose charismatic style and powerful rhetoric are trumping her decades of experience."

Historic Domestic Violence Conference Includes Male Victims

"From Ideology to Inclusion: Evidence-Based Policy and Intervention in Domestic Violence," a conference addressing issues pertaining to domestic violence, was held in Sacramento, California or Friday, February 15, 2008 and Saturday, February 16, 2008.

Shortly before 7:30 A.M. on Friday, the "Terrace Room" began to fill and shortly thereafter, the room was full, but people were still standing in the lobby and standing on the "terrace," waiting to register. So many people attended this event that an overflow room was opened to handle the crowd.

The highlight of the conference, in my opinion, came on the second day, when Erin Pizzy spoke. Pizzy was the founder of the first battered women’s shelter in the world. Preceding her speech, Pizzy was presented with a lifetime achievement award by Phil Cook, for all of the work she’d done to care for victims of domestic violence. Pizzy remarked. “This is a first.”

Story here. Excerpt:

'A report out of the state of Oregon reinforces the results of a CBS News investigation from last November that found high rates of suicides among those who served in the military.

The state health report, “Violent Deaths in Oregon: 2005” found 18 to 24-year-old male veterans had the highest rate of suicide among all males in the state from 2000 to 2005 – almost 5 times higher than non-veteran males the same age. (The bar chart above shows the figures.)'

Story here. Excerpt:

"A Florida grandmother was arrested Saturday after police said she beat her grandson at a busy intersection so badly that the child lost consciousness, WESH.com reported.

Dolores Henderson, 55, was described by witnesses as beating the 2-year-old as she was pushing him in her stroller and slamming the child into the curb, WESH.com reported. As officers arrived at the scene, police said the woman was continuing the beatings.

“As he drove up, he saw her hitting the child in the head,” Cocoa police spokeswoman Barbara Matthews told WESH.com. “She was slapping him with her open hand," Matthews said. "The officer described it as looking like a rag doll. She threw him back in the stroller and started to hit him again.”

As if anyone needed further evidence that when you marry someone you are placing the disposition of everything you own or ever worked for into the hands of two other parties: your spouse and the state -- read it here.

Wonder what the court's "administrative fee" will be for this one? Probably go into the millions of GBPs. Excerpt:

'Mills, 40, smiled as she left London's Royal Courts of Justice with her entourage. McCartney, 65, did not attend, although he was in court to face his estranged wife every day last week.

Media reports have suggested McCartney offered his wife around S$50 million and that she was seeking at least double that amount.
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The couple married in June 2002 — four years after the death of McCartney's first wife, Linda — and their daughter Beatrice was born in October the following year. They announced their separation in 2006, and McCartney filed for divorce alleging "unreasonable behavior" by his wife.'

DADS ON THE AIR

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Local Sydney Time: 10.30am to 12 midday Tuesday 19th February 2008
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THE WOMAN RACKET

With special guests

* Steve Moxon
* John Flanagan

Article here. Excerpt:

"Casting your eyes over this year's roster of film award contenders, you'd be forgiven for wondering why women, more than ever, have been relegated to the margins. The stories Hollywood wanted to tell last year were about fathers and sons, the American west, and machismo run amok.
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Where are this year's The Queen, Erin Brockovich, Far From Heaven, The Hours? Even this year's Chicago? Oscar-watchers can only point to the best picture nominees Atonement and Juno as examples of female-led cinema, and neither of these will quite do.
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It does seem that Hollywood has been overwhelmingly working out maleness issues, rather than feminine ones - whether it's rampant capitalism (There Will Be Blood, Michael Clayton) or essays on violence (No Country For Old Men, Jesse James) or paeans to male solitude (Into the Wild)."

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August 7th 2008 12 Noon - Lansing Capitol Lawn - Lansing, MI.

There will be a media frenzy over the excitement surrounding the 2008 departure for the 758 mile Equal Parenting Bike Trek... Lansing, Michigan to Washington, D.C.

We are very excited to announce that Dance4Equality will be at the departure for the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek. This will be at the Lansing Capitol on August 7th 2008 12 Noon.