This story on News.com.au is a classic. Woman dumps a baby in a public toilet, in a plastic shopping bag. But, of course, police hold 'grave concerns for the mother's wellbeing, fearing that she may be suffering emotionally'. Poor thing. And of course should a father ever dump his baby in a toilet, he'd be lovingly looked after. Right.....

Article here. Excerpt:

"While fathers are usually blamed for divorce’s negative economic impact on children, what’s often overlooked is the simple fact that the income that once supported one household cannot support two at the same level, no matter how many punitive measures the government employs or how much fathers pay. Those who insist that the average child’s standard of living will not or should not decline after a divorce are kidding themselves."

Misery Loves Company - Have A Piece Of VAWA/I-VAWA Pie

In 1996 Congress found "Marriage is the foundation of a successful society." In 2005 the Deficit Reduction Act provided $150 million a year for healthy marriage promotion and fatherhood. So why was the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) extended in 2006, when it directly affects the stability of marriages and relationships between fathers and children in America? (http://mediaradar.org/docs/VAWA-Threat-to-Families.pdf)

The way VAWA is written, a woman can report that she's in fear, and with just her word she can get a temporary restraining order and emergency child custody order. Every day innocent fathers visit their children in jail-like supervised visitation centers and are forced into anger management classes, sometimes for years. (http://mensnewsdaily.com/2007/02/26/cant-find-a-husband)

Article here. Excerpt:

'A northwest Harris County junior high school teacher has been accused of having sex with a student, KPRC Local 2 reported Monday.

Harris County sheriff's officials said a deputy caught teacher Emily Willis with the 14-year-old male student near Greenhouse Road and West Little York Road at about 1:45 a.m. Saturday.'

Article here. Excerpt:

Prosecutors refiled murder charges against a USC student accused of abandoning her newborn son's body in a trash bin after a judge dismissed the original count.

Superior Court Judge David Wesley said Friday there was only sufficient evidence for Holly Ashcraft to stand trial on lesser charges of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment.

Essay by Teri Stoddard here. Excerpt:

'I have bad news for the ladies out there looking for a husband. Today's men are afraid of marriage and having kids. This is most likely because their male friends and relatives have told them what usually happens in the event of a divorce with children. In fact, some men are calling for a marriage strike.
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If we want men to embrace the idea of family life, we need to ensure they have equality in family law. Equal parenting laws, favored by 85% of people polled, need to be passed nationwide and a Federal Family Rights Act needs to be established immediately to protect families dealing with Child Protective Services and parents in divorce and child custody cases. The time has come to restore human and civil rights to all fit parents.'

Essay here. Excerpt:

'Unfortunately I’ve begun to notice that over the past few years the situation has become rather complicated, thanks to the appearance of a whole new breed of woman: one who marries for money, spends her marriage spending money, aggressively takes her husband to the cleaners in a divorce and, having secured X million pounds, moves on to the next hapless sap having a midlife crisis (he sweetly believes that it’s his double chin that’s reeled her in) and starts the pattern all over again."

Story here. Excerpt:

'NASHUA, N.H. -- A Nashua man has been charged with selling a car to his sister, who was allegedly using a stolen identity.
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Marios appeared in Nashua District Court on Friday. He told police that his sister told him that she had remarried and had a new name. He said she told him that the different first name, date of birth and Social Security were because she had left a battered women's program.'

No mention of charges against the female.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A 54-year-old Town of Plymouth woman was charged Friday after authorities say she ran over a man outside an Elkhart Lake restaurant while allegedly driving drunk in the early morning hours.

Anne M. Harvey, of N7041 Apple Lane, was in her car arguing with a 40-year-old Plymouth man — who was standing behind the car's open passenger door — when she accelerated backwards, knocking the man over with the car door and running over his legs, according to a criminal complaint.'

In fairness, the drugs for the most part were originally intended to treat heart conditions, but that's not exactly what they've become most well known for...

Article here. Excerpt:

"Erectile dysfunction drugs may be better than nitroglycerin in protecting the heart from damage before and after a severe heart attack, Virginia Commonwealth University researchers report today.

During a heart attack, the heart is deprived of oxygen, which can result in significant damage to heart muscle and tissue. After the attack, most patients require treatment to reduce and repair the damage and improve their chances of survival. With the exception of early reperfusion, there are no available therapies that are truly effective in protecting or repairing such damage clinically."

From Marc A.:

Springer Publications, a major publisher of public health materials, just posted an interview of the honest domestic violence expert John Hamel, author/editor of "Gender Inclusive Treatment of Intimate Partner Abuse," on gender-inclusive treatment and female violence. Excerpt:

-->Both of your books are based on the concept that men and women are equally capable of abuse against each other. This runs completely counter to conventional thinking, which insists that men are always aggressors and women are always victims. What first led you to this line of research, and what prompted you to begin writing about it?<--

In 1991, I took over a domestic violence caseload and was trained in a variation of the well-known “Duluth” model. In the Duluth theoretical framework, domestic violence is caused by a patriarchal society that sanctions violence by men against their female partners. Women are assumed to be either victims or, when they are found to aggress against their male partners, to be doing so in self-defense.

Article here. Excerpt:

"Over the years, statistics show girls have surpassed boys in school. They are scoring better on standardized tests, achieving more academic honors, and receiving better grades. Educators call this a gender gap.

The Gurian Institute in Colorado Springs started examining why this is happening. Researchers found that boys’ brains work differently than girls’ brains, so they must be addressed differently in the classroom."

This story (video) from Germany. Regardless of the substance of the crime (incest), the issue here is that it is against German law to have sex with a sibling. It doesn't say it's only illegal if a male does so, but you'd think that was the case. The story mentions only that the man did two years in jail, nothing about the woman.

Story here. Excerpt:

'ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -- Florida prosecutors charged an astronaut Friday with trying to kidnap a woman she saw as a rival for a space shuttle pilot's affections, but they declined to file an attempted murder charge that had been recommended by police.

Lisa Nowak, 43, was formally charged almost a month after she was arrested at an Orlando airport parking lot.

Police have said the Houston mother of three had raced 900 miles in her car from Texas to Orlando on February 5 to confront the woman. She reportedly donned a wig and trench coat, then sprayed a chemical into the woman's car when she wouldn't let Nowak in, police said.

In addition to attempted kidnapping with intent to inflict bodily harm, state prosecutors charged Nowak on Friday with burglary with an assault using a weapon and battery.'

This is an interesting insight into what MSN's writers classify as a woman who should make us cringe. I think we can agree with a lot of them, I'm just not sure how they narrowed it down to 10 from such a large field.