Chas writes "The Australian Federal Parliament "will consider whether parents should automatically be given equal custody of their children if they split up and whether grandparents should have access rights in the event of a family breakdown.

Prime Minister John Howard announced yesterday that the Standing Committee on Family and Community Affairs will have until December to also consider whether the existing child-support formula works fairly for both parents given how much each contributed to the care of a child."

Notable in this enquiry is an investigation in to financial relief from Child Support payments for non-custodial parents who actively care for their children. Not reported in this item is the suggestion that fathers should be offered financial benefits for increasing their time with their children.

Read the report here"

Philalethes writes "Highly recommended: If you didn't hear Glenn Sacks' program Sunday night (June 29), you can still catch it on his archive page for a few days.

'Educator and relationship guru Alison Armstrong, who has given workshops to thousands of women all over the United States, claims to understand men. Some quotes: "In my relationship courses for women a lot of women will say they want a man who wants a six figure income. I'll ask them if they know the percentage of men who earn a six figure income. It's maybe the top 5%. And then I'll ask them 'are you in the top 5% of all women?" ... "Men give women a lot more slack than women give men." ... "Women expect men to act like women--women can't see men for who they are. All they see are rude, hairy women. When a man doesn't do what a woman would do he's immediately in trouble."'

And my favorite: 'The more I'm willing to be responsible for, the more impact I can have in my own life.' I had to go back and listen to this again to make sure I heard it right. Nice to hear a woman willing to talk some sense."

Thunderchild writes "Here's an article claiming that boys are poor readers is a universal phenomenon - I think the scource is UNESCO, so no surprises there then !

TC"

Thunderchild writes "It looks like the message is starting to get through in the
UK. Article

TC"

Mark writes "This article in the Baltimore Sun blames the immaturity of men for the declining marriage rates in America. Surprise, surprise...there is no mention of how women may in any way be responsible for this." Or the government for that matter.

Thunderchild writes "I almost fainted when I read the headline on this one - content leaves a wee bit to be desired !http://www.guardian.co.uk/Distribution/Redirect_A rtifact/0,4678,2-989268,00.html

TC"

Glenn Sacks' latest column, "New Study Punctures Myth of Uncaring Divorced Dad" came out in New York Newsday last week and is now available at http://www.glennsacks.com/new_study_shows.htm>
The column discusses new research which shows that divorced dads are far more generous with their children than they are given credit for.

As far as boycotting particular companies, I have a problem with that. Only a small percentage of employees at a company (or the advertising executives they hire) are responsible for misandric advertisements, and boycotting could result in loss of business, and many innocent people losing their jobs. The only time I would boycott if is hatred of a particular group is a prerequisite for joining, or a high percentage of the members hate a particular group. Since it seems a very high percentage of NOW members are man-haters, I certainly wouldn't buy anything from them.

As far as boycotting Lifetime, they do have many programs that could appeal to men, such as movies with women many men admire. Also, they once had a movie produced called "Men Don't Tell". It features a man who is physically abused by his crazy, maniacal pig of a wife. She is played by Judith Light, who is a tall, menacing woman.

In a climactic scene near the end, she is yelling at him and hitting him. The little daughter runs up and says, "Mommy. Stop it! Stop it!" She then turns and starts hitting the little girl. To protect his daughter, he slugs his wife and knocks her out. My other e-mail address is mcbricker@webtv.net.

CJ writes "

The "Lace Curtain" (feminist tilted media bias) seems to be ripping at some of its seams, but only a little... "60 Minutes" did a story on Title IX. The report pointed out the gains women have made in sports since it was passed, and about the impact this has had on men's athletic programs - basically non-revenue generating men's sport programs have been eliminated on many campuses to meet gender quotas. Of course feminist groups are organized to oppose any reform to Title IX and their viewpoints were a big part of the news story. Title IX was created to stop gender bias, now it is used as a tool to eliminate men's sports despite student interest and participation levels - just to maintain gender quotas, and it is enforced by feminists interested ONLY in the well being of females. Lets support the cause and contact “60 Minutes” with good words for their effort…"

Thunderchild writes "Well, if you got hot under the collar about proposals to ban DNA testing without consent of both parents - this one will really make you steam ! Two women trying to prevent ex-partners from destroying IVF created embryos. Talk about hypocrisy!"

Chas writes "This story reports one man's experience of Child Support Agency contact. It is used to illustrate the damage done to fathers by the laws governing child support enforcement. Within Australia, the male suicide rate in a single year is now four times that of the total number of Australian soldiers killed in the Vietnam conflict. Fathers' groups around the country claim at least three clients of the CSA commit suicide every day. "Jack" was almost one of them.Read the story here:

Luek writes "Resa LaRu Kirkland

has a very witty article, that, effectively debunks the radical feminist fear mongering mantra we have all been browbeaten with for so long. Doing some math concerning the falsehood of "a woman being raped every 6 seconds in this country".

The authorities should find this woman and give her some relief! She must be pretty damn sore by now. :)"

angry_young_men writes "Hey all, thought you might be interested in this story . It details the failed appeal by a female Australian magistrate (!) against her sentence for intimidating a male colleague. Get this pap from a female-inmate support-group mouthpiece: "She's experiencing the cruel and unusual punishment that every woman goes through in prison." Oh please - "cruel and unusual punishment" is intrinsically part and parcel of the female prison experience?"

Chas writes "The federal government's Child Support Agency makes the front page lead story in today's (28/6) edition of "The Weekend Australian". The Agency is responsible for calculating and monitoring child support payments for more than 1.2 million separated or divorced parents [read fathers]. The newpaper's investigations shows that the agency has mishandled or ignored hundreds of threats of assault, murder and suicide by angry parents. This state of affairs has been uncovered by the newspaper's investigations. Elsewhere in today's edition of the paper (see separate post) sympathetic coverage is given to fathers caught up in the child support/separation for children whirligig. Read the lead story here"

Dittohd writes "How many feel that this woman, Sara Saga, couldn't have figured out a way to get herself AND children out of Saudi Arabia if everything she is saying about the father and his supposed abuse were REALLY true? Here's the latest."