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'One of North America’s leading scholars on domestic violence is trying to persuade the B.C. government that it has adopted a failing approach to a serious problem.

UBC psychology professor Don Dutton, who has studied domestic violence for 40 years and written eight books, has told the B.C. Liberal government it has adopted a “false” premise that will do little to diminish partner-on-partner violence.

“It is understandable how an uninformed observer in British Columbia would tend to believe that family violence perpetrators are male and victims are female,” Dutton wrote in a recent letter to Premier Christy Clark.

“But that assumption could not be more incorrect,” Dutton said, objecting to the way virtually all B.C. government documents describe domestic violence as being perpetrated by men, with women as the victims.'

Article here. This one leaves me speechless. It's the classic man-bites-dog story. Excerpt:

'Hillary Clinton’s top campaign aide, and the woman who might be the future White House chief of staff to the first female US president, for a decade edited a radical Muslim publication that opposed women’s rights and blamed the US for 9/11.

One of Clinton’s biggest accomplishments listed on her campaign Web site is her support for the UN women’s conference in Bejing in 1995, when she famously declared, “Women’s rights are human rights.” Her speech has emerged as a focal point of her campaign, featured prominently in last month’s Morgan Freeman-narrated convention video introducing her as the Democratic nominee.

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'A 19-year-old BSc student of Maharani's College was arrested by Galta Gate police for allegedly blackmailing a 47-year-old Gurgaon businessman after threatening to lodge a rape case against him. Police also recovered Rs 27 lakh* from the teen, given to her by the businessman following the blackmail.

The girl allegedly was not happy with the Rs 27 lakh given to her and demanded a further Rs 18 lakh or his SUV from the victim. The victim had, meanwhile, recorded the conversation with the blackmailer and her promise to not lodge a rape case against him after receiving the money. Following her new demand, the victim approached the police who finally arrested the girl late on Tuesday for extortion and cheating.'

*About US$40,200.

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'Harrisburg police are looking for a 28-year-old woman they say stabbed her boyfriend in the shoulder early Sunday, puncturing his lung.

Police charged Catherine L. Boykin, 28, with three felonies and a misdemeanor in connection with the 4 a.m. attack in the 2200 block of North 5th Street. Boykin was charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, burglary of a home with someone present and possession of an instrument of crime.'

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'First, IPV occurs across all age groups and ethnic, racial, and cultural backgrounds. Secondly, men and women show near-equal rates of IPV perpetration with women perpetrating at slightly higher rates.

It is important to note that counseling for IPV perpetrators is widely available, with well over 1000 programs in the US. Most of these programs, however, predominantly serve court-mandated populations and are focused on men who have assaulted women. While men cause the bulk of physical injury, many men are unwilling to come forward for fear of stigma.

Although clinical approaches based on long-standing models of IPV intervention have modest efficacy, there is a solid conceptual rationale for several alternative strategies for IPV perpetrators.'

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'Now 40 years later, the coalition is under fire amid reports of mismanagement. The Department of Human Services, which has funding oversight of the coalition, earlier this year released the results of an audit that found poor financial controls and questionable expenditures by the organization.

A program that once directed to local programs the money collected in canisters placed in convenience stores, was found by auditors to have hundreds of thousands of dollars in questionable costs. They ranged from inappropriate payroll adjustments to the billing of questionable expenditures, including tickets to a baseball game.

In May, the Department of Human Services extended only a three-month funding stream — out of its $28 million annual allotment — to the organization, pending the resolution of the audit.

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'The first national guidelines for the judiciary on domestic violence has urged judges to look at traits beyond physical violence when granting a restraining order, such as 'mind games'.

The bench guide book states that domestic violence does not just include physical attacks but can include verbal abuse, criticism of their partner's physical traits or refusing to show affection.
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The guide said social abuse could include criticism of their partner's obsessive housework duties and emotional and psychological abuse included 'angry verbal outbursts, staring, silence, ignoring and withdrawal of affection'.

It warned the judiciary to focus on all elements of family abuse, including a 'complex pattern of violent or abusive behaviours' which could be physical or psychological.'

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'A trial court’s findings do not “clearly and convincingly support” its decision to terminate a father’s parental rights to his son based on it being in the best interests of the boy. In fact, the findings show that the father and son have a bond and often spend time together, the Indiana Supreme Court found Tuesday.

Father R.S. had a no contact order between himself and R.S.’s mother and was incarcerated for a Class B felony. While in prison, he stayed in contact with his son by writing him letters on a weekly basis. A year after father was released on probation in 2013, R.S., now 10, was found to be a child in need of services as to his mother and father based on his mother’s drug use and his father’s lack of involvement. R.S. began living with his maternal grandmother.'

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'Kasey Warren, 27, a former tutor within the Carlisle County Schools District, Kentucky, US, allegedly had sexual contact with two pupils aged just 16.

One boy was said to have been attacked at the beginning of June while the other was attacked about two weeks later.

Police say Warren met the pair while working in the district in the latter half of the 2015-2016 term, but did not disclose which school the boys attended.

Officers say the alleged attacks took place in neighbouring McCracken County, but did not give any further details.

Cops say they received a report of the attacks on June 28, and a grand jury indicted Warren on Friday last week.'

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'It is ironic that this female domination of campus comes at time when the feminists are still trying to sell us the lie that there is a ‘rape culture’ on aforementioned campus. I wonder how long they will be able to keep it up as some universities become women-only domains?

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'Oklahoma Wesleyan University recently agreed to join a lawsuit against the Obama Administration over campus sexual assault case standards, arguing that they violate student rights to due process.

The Christian school filed the suit Monday, becoming the first and thus far only higher education institution to challenge a 2011 mandate from the federal government regarding campus sexual assault cases.

In a statement released Monday, Oklahoma Wesleyan President Dr. Everett Piper declared that "OKWU will always defend our students' constitutional rights."

"We also refuse to accept any government intrusion that would require OKWU to teach the antithesis of our Christian beliefs concerning sexual behavior," said Piper.

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'A former "Inside Amy Schumer" contributor generated a social-media firestorm by calling out some women for making allegations of sexual assault about a fellow comedian but not reporting them to police.

"Guys I have just heard some disturbing news, this guy Jiff Dilfyberg is a rapist!" writer-comedian Kurt Metzger wrote on Facebook over the weekend after learning that the New York-based Upright Citizens Brigade banned comedian Aaron Glaser — the target of the anonymous accusers. "I know because women said it and that's all I need! Never you mind who they are. They are women! ALL women are as reliable as my bible! A book that, much like a women, is incapable of lying!"

Metzger then sarcastically argued that the alleged rape victims are afraid to report the assaults to authorities because they are "too brave" and that would be "tooooo rapey."

Now Metzger is being accused of victim-blaming the women in a series of social-media posts.'

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'An official for a national women’s advocacy group claims that Title IX is used “almost exclusively as a tool for advancing women’s interests,” rather than for promoting true gender equality.

Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) Managing Director Carrie Lukas argues in a recent op-ed for Acculturated that an excessive focus on the areas in which males outperform females has led society to overlook the many areas in which the opposite imbalance holds sway.

Citing a study featured in Education Week asserting that struggles with calculus cause women to drop out of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields at higher rates than their male peers, Lukas said she finds “frustrating” the study’s implication that “systematic sexism” is to blame whenever women lag behind men.'

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'This year, girls are 30 per cent more likely than boys to win a university place – a figure that is being celebrated because it’s down on last year’s 31 per cent. The gap is narrowing, but this is not progress worthy of the name.

This trend is at its most pernicious at the bottom end of the income scale, and worse still when you strip out ambitious immigrants and their children. Poor white children always fare worse under the state school system, but poor white boys do worst of all. It’s the inequality that dare not speak its name.
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Mary Curnock Cook, the head of Ucas, has worried aloud about all of this: surely, she says, such a huge gender imbalance at school will lead to gender imbalance later on? On current trends, she says, girls born today will be 75 per cent more likely to go university than boys.

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'The Princeton University HR department has largely wiped the word “man” from its vocabulary.

The relatively new policy in effect at the Ivy League institution spells out the directive in a four-page memo that aims to make the department more gender inclusive.

Instead of using “man,” employees are told to use words such as human beings, individuals or people.'