This harrowing story deals a severe blow to Choice For Men as far as American justice is concerned. A young man agreed to impregnate his girlfriend (who wanted a child) as long as she signed a contract stating he would not be held financially responsible for the child's upbringing and no one would ever know he was the father. Ten years later, the mother filed a paternity suit against him... and won. Scott's note: Thanks also to Neil Steyskal for submitting this story.

LeonardMisner submitted a story about his struggle with the child support system, which overcharged him and apparently made deliberate accounting mistakes to increase his expenses. The following story will be included in his new book, In the Children's Best Interest, available through his web site. Read More below for a summary of his situation.

frank h writes "This article in the Chicago Tribune indicates complete surprise at the "astounding" way in which girls have bested boys in ALL subjects in their most recent standardized tests. These people must have their heads in the sand, what with all the NAEP and other data that's been published on the deficiencies in boys' academic performance. This is something we can do something about on a small scale, because most school districts are operated locally, and it's possible for a small, motivated group to have an impact. Further, few mothers of sons would object to getting help with their boy's reading homework, no matter what their feminist bent."

Trudy Schuett's latest DesertLight Journal is out, No. 16. You probably know the routine by now, click here for the latest issue. This particular issue includes info about a new "Activism for Newbies" section on the DLJ web site and also an announcement of a new electronic publishing company friendly to men's issues, cyberManbooks. Trudy's efforts on behalf of men are truly incredible.

From Men's News Daily: "Hi Scott- here is a link to Lowell Jaks' letter to the DA of Boulder, CO on their decision to prosecute Bob Rowan." With the address of the District Attorney in the letter, I'd encourage others to write in as well.

Neil Steyskal writes "Abigail Trafford's column in the Washington Post health section talks about 9/11 as a catalyst for divorces. It's no coincidence that the examples she gives involve women leaving men. Comment to: health@washpost.com." Talk about a one-sided article - you'd think all divorces are simply about men being inadequate and women righteously moving on.

Neil Steyskal pointed me to this article from the Washington Post. It's about the history of religions and how they are rooted in male contempt (and fear of) women and femininity. Apparently the author of the article hasn't read anything by Rich Zubaty.

krob4399 submitted this New York Times article (free registration required to read) about how men in some parts of Afghanistan are now free to shave their beards since the Taliban have left. I thought this was a very interesting story about the new cultural freedoms men will be able to enjoy in a Taliban-free Afghanistan.

Neil Steyskal sent in this article from TownHall.com and writes "Kathleen Parker says that drafting women will result in a wave of pregnancies" Parker's views are mixed, she is strongly against women in combat but does seem to believe that women should make some sacrifices for the sake of our military. It seems that the main purpose of her article is to refute Anna Quindlen's recent Newsweek article which defends drafting women.

This article in the National Review suggests that Harvard's publishing house refused to publish a book titled The Case of Marriage out of a political bias for feminist orthodoxy rather than the reasons the publishing house's board originally stated: that they believed the book failed to provide evidence of casual benefits of marriage. Now, though, researchers claim to have proven those benefits: For the first time in the history of research on marriage, Ginther and Zovodny appear to have successfully shown that the "marriage premium" — the tendency of married individuals to make more money than single people — is an actual effect of marriage, and not just a function of a preference shown by both employers and potential spouses for people with qualities likely to bring about success.

Cathy Young eloquently writes about the oppression of men under the Taliban regime, and reminds us that the suffering of men should not be forgotten amid all the discussion in the media of the oppression of women.

Here's a refreshing tale from law.com. A man falsely accused of rape by a co-worker was branded a rapist without due process, prodded and invaded by his employer, and subjected to all kinds of humiliation. Subsequently, a jury has awarded him $150,000 in damages.

HombreVIII writes "Bob Rowan, the man who recently became known as El Dildo Bandito, was gracious enough to allow me to interview him via e-mail. I kept it fairly short with just 9 questions, and here are the results." Click Read More below for the interview. And thanks, Hombre! :)

Thomas writes "According to this article in today's Rocky Mountain News, Bob Rowan has received a summons for misdemeanor criminal tampering. The charge is for his removal of the "Hang 'em out to dry" exhibit from the Boulder Public Library. It's worth noting that, when I spoke with him this morning, he was very upbeat because of the amount of community support that he is receiving." Update: Rowan has e-mailed me personally and will be attending tonight's chat! Remember, it starts at 9:30 PM Eastern Time tonight, and you can participate by clicking here to go to the on-line chat page. Update 2: Bob called and said he wasn't able to make it tonight, but would like to come on next week. Sorry about the let-down...

I'm half tempted to not post the latest piece of anti-father psuedo-science by womensenews.org but I think some activism is needed here. To get straight to it, they blame fathers for the nearest mothers' problems and think a socialistic quick fix is the answer, among other points of mindless folly. If you want to respond to this, try writing in the letters to the editors section. And guess what? it says "Note: Women's Enews reserves the right to edit or delete letters." Funny thing is, that wasn't there last week...