Trudy W Schuett writes "The founder of the Abused Guys Yahoo Group and much-loved friend, Richard Hayden, has passed.

I will provide information on the memorial and other things in a few days, when I have them. There will be an in-person memorial service in Northern California in about three weeks. At the same time, I will set up an online service for those who are unable to attend the physical memorial.

For those of you who depend on the Yahoo group, please do not be concerned as I promised Richard some time ago that it would continue. It will. It is one of a very few resources for abused men anywhere, and so we will make sure men will continue to have a place to seek help and get support.

Love and light!

T____"

The current Violence Against Women Act will expire on September 30, and the renewal legislation is expected any day now. It is expected that the new VAWA bill will propose to expand and enhance services – but only for female victims.

That represents gross discrimination against men.

But this time, RADAR is ready for the expected round of media coverage that will extol the proposed law and will perpetuate the myth that women never assault their male partners. This is our 8-step game plan...

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Five years ago, the Washington Post was one of the most ardent supporters for the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). News articles, columns, and editorials appeared on a regular and continuing basis, all designed to convince wavering lawmakers to vote “yes” for this $1 billion dollar-a-year pork.

Last year the Washington Post knew that VAWA would be coming up for renewal in 2005, so they ordered up more DV blood-and-guts stories. In December the Washington Post ran a three-part, high-octane series on Maternal Homicide.

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The article is here.

Anonymous User writes "British newspaper The Guardian reports, Wednesday May 18, 2005, on a very young girl (aged under 10 years old) who fabricated an elaborate rape story.

What are young girls learning this behavior from? What are they being exposed to in the media, from their parents and in schools to make them behave this way?

The police investigation is estimated to have cost £120,000 (approx US$ 250,000). More money wasted in the pursuit of the misandric agenda."

Anonymous User writes "It is refreshing to see this story. Too bad the rest of the media are dragging their heels."

frank h writes "For those of you who are interested in what would happen were the gender roles reveresed in the Terry Schiavo case, watch this one"

Ray writes "The National Coalition of Free Men, Los Angeles and concerned citizens participated in a protest outside a "Domestic Violence Industry Gala" held in San Diego last weekend. We protested the Women's Industries' abuse of men. Ironically, while the "rich and famous" of the Domestic Violence Industry feasted on delicacies inside, an apparently abused, homeless man (with his kids in tow), approached the group. It seems the well dressed, well fed in that group would do nothing (no hotel voucher) to get a man experiencing domestic violence a room for he and his kids for the night. We took up a collection and got him a room. How appropriate that many of us wore T-shirts saying Shame on the Domestic Violence Movement for Lying. There were many things those well dressed, well fed "discriminators against men" should be ashamed of as our protest signs indicate."

One can only wonder what the Washington Times had in mind when they published their May 11 article Protecting the Children. The article ignores the predominance of women among perpetrators of child abuse and leaves the very strong impression that most cases of child abuse are perpetrated by men.

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What's a sentence or two worth? To some, $50 million. Read it here.

Tirryb writes "News.com.au reports that a study of 10,000 children from birth age up has shown that girls outperform boys almost from day 1, learning to walk and talk earlier. Quote: "Boys lead girls in every measure of disengagement and psychological disorder from attention deficit syndromes to at-risk social behaviour. The latest neuro-imaging research has identified gender differences in brain maturation, with boys slower to develop impulse control and executive planning skills.

Although boys and girls are parented in a similar fashion, levels of hostile parenting were higher for boys than girls."
So given this evidence, what does the (female) federal Minister for Family and Community Affairs say? "I have consistently said that children are better off in a household where both parents have a job," she said...."

AngryMan writes "In British high schools, 'girls are up to 115 per cent more likely to achieve an A or B grade than boys.' Boys problems at school are still not being effectively addressed. Not surprising when one school principal 'David Haywood believes this is to do with the intrinsic ability of boys rather than the school's educational ethos.' Article here."

It is not good news that British female alcohol consuption is skyrocketing, outpacing any other group in Britain. What is also bad is that in an effort to reduce it, the UK gov't is using scare tactics with men as the target pariah group to try to discourage it. Not to put too fine a point on it, but it is reminiscent of the anti-Semitic posters used by the Third Reich to get the Germans to fear and hate Jews, isn't it?

Ray writes "Taron James is member of the National Coalition of Free Men, L.A., and a veteran of the 1st gulf war. For a long, long time he's been fighting an act of paternity fraud commited against him. "After more than a decade of legal battles the court ruled he wasn't the father, but his child support judgement has yet to be reversed." XETV, Fox 6, San Diego has a story on his struggles here , Scroll down the page of listed videos to the one titled "Paternity Fraud" and click on the link to the video. In the video there are also shots of NCFMLA's protest at the "Deadbeat Dad's Courthouse," comments by Marc Angelucci, NCFMLA President and Taron's attorney, and near the end is a shot of "the truck" with a 4' X 8' sign in the bed saying PATERNITY FRAUD IS DEADBEAT GOVERNMENT."

Ed. Note: Requires use of IE for the in-line video player to work. Also this post is time-sensitive since the video may be bumped by new stories at any time.

bandersnatch writes "From This is London, Scotland Yard today revealed it has been unable to trace all but two of 300 black boys aged four to seven reported missing from school in a three-month period. Child welfare experts say the number highlights the scale of the trade in children brought to Britain as domestic servants and covers for benefit fraud. Detectives asked each London local education authority to give them details of black boys aged four to seven reported missing from school between July and September 2001. It emerged 300 had vanished, 299 from Africa and one from the Caribbean. *gasp* You mean it's only not young girls being trafficked? Imagine that!"

Ed.: Also this is covered here.