Luek writes "Seems like Texas is setting some type of record for murdering moms who plead (temporary) insanity as their defense.

The trial for Dena Schlosser, 37 a sole custody mom who cut off the arms of her infant daughter starts. Remember Texas is also the home of Andrea Yates who slaughtered her five children by methodically drowning each one in the bathtub. She is now out of prison on a technicality and will be retried. The "fix" is obviously in to get her off on an insanity plea too. Also, Texas recently found murdering mom Deanna Laney not guilty by reason of insanity for fatally beating two of her young sons with rocks and seriously injuring a third.

Someone needs to check the water out there!"

Ed. note: Stories from Texas make the news a lot these days perhaps because our current president is from there. However I don't think it's fair to the state of Texas as a whole to single it out as having more than the average number of problems with abusive mothers/parents in general. Child abuse is a nationwide problem, as is the under-reporting and overall lack of awareness of the rate of abusiveness by mothers of their children. Also, the fact that mothers get off far more often on insanity pleas than dads do when charged with child abuse-related crimes is also a nationwide, of not also a worldwide, problem.

AngryMan writes "The feminist/psychotherapy led education system is branding many thousands of normal healthy boys as mentally ill, mainly because they do not act like girls, and is turning them into drug addicts. Evidence is mounting that Ritalin is actually causing death from heart failure. Who is it that is dying? Boys of course. Some sources:

The UK Guardian newspaper.

Bereaved US parents tell their story.

Another excellent article, Psychiatrists and Ritalin.

This pathologisation of boys must stop."

Dittohd writes "In this case, how do you feel about the guy not pressing charges against this crazy woman? Not only that, even the police let her off with just a warning when they caught her breaking the law."

Anonymous User writes "Maharashtra State Women's Commission decides to help men who are victims of harassment or false accusations by women. I live in this state, and so very pleased with this development! This is also a state where the feminist lobby has been very powerful, so looks like men's activism is beginning to make an impact. Story here."

bulldogo.1 writes "This and this may be evidence that the message is finally getting through; women are violent too. Hopefully, judges, family courts and governments will take their heads out of the sand and realise that they are wrecking children's and fathers lives by believing that only men are violent.
Notice, however, that when women are finally identified as capable of violence, authorities start talking of mental health etc. Before it was simply; men are violent. Also, the Florida woman says it happens because 'you just get pushed and pushed', which means, it's men's fault. And as for men 'are becoming victims', there have always been male victims of domestic violence. But, it's a start.

-- Bulldogo."

EvilPundit writes "An outspoken men's activist and critic of New Zealand's legal system has been told he is not a fit and proper person to be a lawyer.

But Peter Zohrab, acting president of New Zealand Equality Education Foundation, says he will not let matters rest there. "I just intend to keep at it and see how long it takes," he said of his quest to become a lawyer."

Misandrope writes "In several cases that came up on appeal this fall and winter, New Jersey has shown that they are taking cohabitation more seriously. In one case, a woman was actually ordered to pay back alimony recieved when it was found that she was already cohabiting at the point where she signed her divorce agreement."

bull writes "Montreal school teacher tapes student in his chair, then, gags him and two other students as punishment.

click here"

For the last decade there has been a concerted effort to convert
Valentines Day from a celebration of loving relationships between men
and women into a day reserved for vilification of males as perpetrators
of "rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation and sexual
slavery." (http://www.vday.org/contents/vday/aboutvday)

This story covers how especialy harmful teasing is to boys in terms of how they perceive their weight and how they react to it. Note however that the article still panders to feminist "sensibilities" in its reporting. Excerpt:

The researchers suggest that teasing may have a greater impact on boys because they are not used to facing a negative reaction to their weight.

Girls, in comparison, are constantly bombarded with a variety of media messages and images hammering home the need to stay slim.

The Washington Post, on the same day it all but places the blame for the increase in cigarette, alcohol, and drug usage by girls on boys and men, also reports that an FDA Panel is urging the use of very serious notices with ADHD drugs "because of reports that they may have caused sudden deaths or serious complications." It makes some reference to how 10% of 10-year-old American boys have been placed on these drugs (you read that right: TEN PERCENT) but doesn't spend a lot of time suggesting that it's the fault of girls that they "need" it.

You can be pretty darn sure though if 10% of America's 10-year-old girls were on ADHD drugs, just as with their other article, the Post would be blaming males for it.

Roy writes "In her
February 8th newsletter, NOW's Prez Kim Gandy approaches her usual near-hysteria over program funding cuts proposed for the FY 2006 federal budget, while shrieking especially loud about funding fathers' rights groups and pro-marriage initiatives:

'This legislation includes up to $50 million annually to fund questionable fatherhood programs ... NOW suspects that some of those monies will end up with extremist "fathers' rights" groups. The authorized total would be $150 million annually for both fatherhood and marriage promotion initiatives; all states will be mandated under this bill to establish marriage promotion programs and to meet numerical performance objectives. NOW regards marriage promotion efforts targeting low-income women as potentially coercive, discriminatory and an invasion of privacy.'"

Roy writes "A first grader was suspended for three days after school officials said he sexually harassed a girl in his class by allegedly putting two fingers inside the girl's waistband while she sat on the floor in front of him. The boy's mother said she "screamed" about last week's suspension, and added her son doesn't know what sexual harassment is. "He doesn't know those things," she told The Enterprise of Brockton, MA. "He's only 6 years old." Proving that for the feminists who dominate K-12 education nowadays, it's never too soon to identify a predatory-patriarch-in-training!"

Seems the girls themselves can't be blamed for it. Read it here. Excerpt:

"It's really sad the girls are winning," said Warren Seigel, chairman of pediatrics at Brooklyn's Coney Island Hospital. "This isn't the game they should be winning at."

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There is no single reason why girls are smoking, drinking and taking pills more than ever. Academics, therapists, teachers and teenagers themselves report that today's young women live in an increasingly stressful environment; many are worried about their appearance, eager to date older boys or recovering from physical or sexual abuse. Unlike young men, who often use illegal substances for an adrenalin rush, teenage girls use alcohol or drugs as an escape."

Only toward the end is parental behavior mentioned as a contributing factor. No one would want to imply "maternal permissiveness" though in any way, given that such isn't P.C., despite the facts that single-parent households are now 28% of all households with children, that 84% of these households are headed by women (ie, are single-mother households), and that the number of single-parent households continues to grow. [You may want to browse more stats and facts on this topic here].

There's so many ways this article ignores relevant facts and tries to shift/conjure blame, it's hard to just get through a single sentence of it without wanting to eat glass!

klp writes "Deputies in Pinellas County, Florida can now be suspended for cheating on their own spouses or doing another person's spouse.

Query: How will the complaints be handled? Will this give a new retaliation vehicle to criminals? Or vengeful ex's?"