Story here.

How many years in prison would a father have received if the circumstances were reversed?

Excerpt:
"A woman convicted of letting her three young children drown in a car that sank in a lake was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison.

Amanda Hamm, 30, was convicted in December in the deaths of Christopher Hamm, 6, Austin Brown, 3, and Kyleigh Hamm, 1, who were trapped in the car in Clinton Lake in 2003. She was cleared of first-degree murder charges that would have sent her to prison for life."

The New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Men (CSM), the first state commission of its kind in the United States, is set to sunset (expire) in September of this year. Legislation is currently entering the NH House which would remove the CSM's sunset provision and add state funding. Currently, the CSM is prohibited from receiving any state funds, while the NH Commission on the Status of Women receives approximately $120,000 annually, allowing them to have a full-time staff member and budget for research projects.

Passage of this renewal legislation is expected to be difficult, as opponents of the CSM's work are well-entrenched in the NH political system. Furthermore, there is a worrisome lack of awareness about the Commission's work, something which we ask for your help in changing. Read More to continue...

Story here. Excerpt:

"India has made history by sending the first all-women police unit to serve with the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Liberia.

The 103-member contingent, which arrived in Liberia yesterday, will help strengthen the rule of law and maintain peace in the West African country. The contingent also has 22 men but they would engaged in logistic work and not participate in operations.
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The Indian women "are the right people at the right time to come here now," said Malor. "They are professional, skilled, capable, and they will be able to do the job just as well as their male counterparts are already doing on the ground if not better in some instances."'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Well, I'm sorry, but in the real world life is full of winners and losers. And right now, the losers are a generation of boys who have been betrayed by an education system that no longer recognises crucial differences between the sexes.
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The simple truth is that by the time our boys have done 12 or even 14 years in the feminised environment of today's schools, they all ask: "What's the point?"'

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Ed. note: These also from Anthony in a closely-related vein:
Job prospects fear as boys shun university
and
Boys flee 'feminised' primary schools

Story here. Excerpt:

"A father seeking to regain parental rights to his son won an appeal this week in a Dade County case.
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The judges found that the Missouri Department of Social Services did not contact the father or anyone on his behalf to get his position on the childs best interest. The father is not named in court documents."

Article here. Excerpt:

"A paradigm of victimhood, especially of women who allege rape, is on the line. The core of the paradigm is the assumption that women do not lie about crimes like rape.

The widely used and accepted statistic on false accusations of rape is that about two percent of charges are false. However, legal scholar Michelle Anderson of Villanova University Law School reported in 2004 that "no study has ever been published which sets forth an evidentiary basis for the two percent false rape complaint thesis."

Story here.

Excerpt:
"A SERIAL bride who left a string of broken hearts and plundered bank accounts after fleecing men she met through lonely-hearts adverts was jailed for two years yesterday.

Emma Golightly, 22, met her victims, seduced them and then stole their cash, spending the money on exotic holidays, chauffeur-driven cars and expensive hotels and restaurants."

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'REGINA (CP) - Fathers embroiled in custody battles for their children face an "unfeeling" and "unfair" justice system, an activist group charged Tuesday after a controversial court decision in Saskatchewan.

The group Fathers for Justice said the case of a Saskatoon man who lost custody of his biological baby son shows the system is plagued with problems, but at least one legal expert disagreed. "It's a horrendous experience," said Kris Titus, one of the group's founding members. "And I think a lot of people are losing custody of their children unfairly."

On Monday, a judge ruled it was in the best interest of the nine-month-old baby to stay with a Prince Albert couple who were given custody by the biological mother and have raised the child since birth.'

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'KUSA – Community and faith-based organizations that help fathers can now sign up for a grant from the federal government.
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The department calls the grant “groundbreaking.”

“From our perspective, it’s the first time that we’ve actually had funding and resources available to fathers, particularly here in Colorado,” said Ruth Glenn with the Domestic Abuse Assistance Program for the Colorado Department of Human Services, “that really is geared toward services for them in the areas of parenting skills and healthy relationship building and really geared toward the final outcome, which is healthy children.”'

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Here we go again! This sociological ignorance based on a young boys supposed "fantasy" regarding sex with a teacher is the definition of a double standard. The teacher is attractive, but its still rape. Having two sets of rules based on gender is an example of the judicial system's leniency regarding women who commit crimes.

Excerpt:
"A Larimer County judge has signed a new arrest warrant for Carrie McCandless after prosecutors alleged that the former Brighton Charter High School teacher contacted the alleged victim in her sexual assault case.
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McCandless, 30, faces charges of sexual assault and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. She was ordered not to have contact with the alleged victim - a former student - or any other minors as a condition of her release on $20,000 bail."

Referring to this prior post, the update is here. Excerpt:

"SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A woman accused of poisoning her Marine husband with arsenic to cash in on his $250,000 life insurance policy was convicted of murder on Tuesday.

Prosecutors argued Cynthia Sommer, 33, wanted a more luxurious lifestyle than she could afford on her 23-year-old husband's $1,700 monthly salary and saw the military life insurance policy as a way to "set herself free."

Sommer's friends and co-workers testified during the trial that she threw wild parties, got her breasts enlarged and had casual sex with multiple partners in the weeks after her husband's collapse.

Todd Sommer was in top condition when he collapsed and died at the couple's home on the Marine Corps' Miramar base in San Diego."

Senator and would-be President Joe Biden wants Congress to pass his International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA). He seems to want to do for the world what his VAWA law has done for the U.S. But what exactly has VAWA done for the U.S.? RADAR's latest special report,
A Culture of False Allegations: How VAWA Harms Families and Children (.pdf file) explains the harm caused by VAWA and the various state laws it has spawned.

An interesting article that examines the media portrayal of older women engaging in sexual relations with under age males. Excerpt:

"The older woman and young boy affair has played out on the movies and television for years from Summer of '42 to The OC. Often there's no creepiness, no outrage, no mention of statutory rape."
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"In the reverse, it's kind of sexy, every schoolboy's fantasy. Both are statutory rape. But the aggressive predatory woman is perceived much more of the stuff of allure and fantasy than the stuff of creepy."

The Canadian legal system strikes again!

In a nutshell:
- Mom gets pregnant, doesn't tell dad it's his. They break up.
- Dad finds out shortly before his son is born that mom is planning to put child up for adoption
- Dad intervenes immediately. Takes legal action to be re-united with his son and stop the adoption
- Child lives with "adoptive" parents while this is sorted out through the courts; the "adoptive" parents even sue the biological dad for child support in the meantime
- Court ruling came down today on the custody of the child: the adoptive parents win. Dad can't see his kid for a year.

Story here.

Reported from a speech by Hillary Clinton in Iowa:

'One questioner asked Clinton if her track record showed she could stand up to "evil men" around the world.

"The question is, we face a lot of dangers in the world and, in the gentleman's words, we face a lot of evil men and what in my background equips me to deal with evil and bad men," Clinton said. She paused to gaze while the audience interrupted with about 30 seconds of laughter and applause.

Meeting later with reporters, she was pressed repeatedly to explain what she meant. She insisted it was a simple joke.

"I thought I was funny," Clinton said. "You guys keep telling me to lighten up, be funny. I get a little funny and now I'm being psychoanalyzed."'