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'It could be the ultimate fraud. Across Britain, thousands of men are likely to be raising children that they have been tricked into believing are theirs, when they were really fathered by another man. And now one victim of paternity fraud is calling for it to be made a criminal offence after he spent six years bringing up a boy he thought was his son, only to find out that his wife had used the sperm from her ex-boyfriend at an IVF clinic.

The man sued her for the £60,000 he had handed over in child maintenance after they split up, but only gained a small amount of compensation, even though the judge said he had been a victim of “clear deceit and fraud”.

It sounds like an extreme and isolated case. But studies suggest somewhere between two and 10 per cent of men have been fooled into raising another man’s child.

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'If you aren’t the daddy, is it your baby?

In March, a businessman in Britain sued his ex-wife, a similarly successful businesswoman, because she has fraudulently convinced him that his “son” was of his own DNA. Turns out, she had used a sperm donation from her former boyfriend to conceive the child during a time of “trouble” within her and the man’s marriage.

From birth, the man was convinced the child was his. (Obviously. Who thinks to DNA test your wife’s baby?) But, these hoes ain’t loyal.

The ex-boyfriend later told the court, “Her main objective was to have a baby but she wanted me to be the father.”'

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'Skylar is a rambunctious toddler who runs and plays and giggles with her father, Chris Emanuel.

But she has no idea she sat at the heart of a massive custody battle with far-reaching implications for fathers' rights.

Emanuel, a 25-year-old from Aiken, South Carolina, met Skylar’s mother, whom he now refers to as simply “the egg donor,” through their work as fork lift drivers at a manufacturing company three years ago. He said they started off as friends before it escalated into something more.

“She wasn’t the ordinary girly girl. She was a girly girl but she could play pool. I could sit down and play pool with her,” he said. “She listened to the same music that I listened to but she rode horses. You know, it was different. I never met someone of that nature before but I definitely enjoyed the moments that we shared.”

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'The Australian Rail Track Corporation has been given permission to hire only women for track maintenance roles across Newcastle and the Hunter Valley.

Currently only 18 per cent of the ARTC's workforce is female and the company would like to increase that proportion to 30 per cent.

In the Hunter region, the figure is 12 per cent.

It has obtained permission from the Anti-Discrimination Board to specifically target women for some current vacancies, based in Muswellbrook, Scone, Maitland and Newcastle.

ARTC CEO John Fullerton said increasing workforce diversity is vital and will lead to greater innovation and creativity.

He said businesses like ARTC must 'lead from the front' to ensure change in what has traditionally been a male-dominated industry.'

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'Democrats in the Michigan state legislature are set to propose a “Yes Means Yes” bill this week.

State Senator Curtis Hertel Jr. and State Representative Tom Cochran said Tuesday they will propose the bill in an effort to combat sexual assault.

The legislation proposes additions to the state’s standard high school sexual education curriculum to teach the “yes means yes” concept of sexual consent.

If the bill is passed, the state’s curriculum will be changed to “teach pupils that in order for consent to be given by both parties to sexual activity it must be affirmative consent.”
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“Affirmative consent is a dangerous policy and we [should] strongly oppose it,” stated Gina Lauterio, policy project director for Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE), in an email to Campus Reform.

“Yes means yes flips the burden of proof onto the accused student, who then must show how he or she received consent for each particular sexual activity.”'

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'A University of Cincinnati senior football player who was suspended over what he says was a false sexual misconduct allegation filed a lawsuit against the school on Wednesday over its handling of the case.

This is the latest in several lawsuits filed by students against Ohio colleges and universities this year claiming that strict sexual misconduct policies are slanted in favor of female accusers. They claim the U.S. Department of Education’s crackdown on campus sexual assaults has forced schools to create unfair policies or risk losing federal funding.

“No student who has been accused of serious sexual misconduct at UC has ever been exonerated. You can’t win,” said Joshua Engel, an attorney for the football player, who is identified as John Doe in the lawsuit.

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'A former San Diego State University student accused of sexual assault last December has announced plans to bring a lawsuit against the institution after charges were dropped and the student’s suspension was lifted.

Francisco Sousa, a transfer student from Portugal, faced charges of forcible oral copulation with force and false imprisonment with force before the District Attorney determined the charges could not be proven beyond reasonable doubt, according to an April report in the University’s newspaper the Daily Aztec.

Sousa has now said he will seek not only monetary damages from the University, but also an apology from officials for sending an all-campus email that informed the University community that he had been arrested 10 News reported. Sousa’s suspension was lifted when the university determined the sexual misconduct allegations were unsubstantiated.

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'College Fix readers are undoubtedly aware of the Occidental College sexual-assault case, which we’ve covered several times as a prime example of the near-impossibility of male students defending themselves against accusations even when hard evidence is solidly in their favor.

Even when their accusers appear to have initiated sexual relations.

One due-process lawsuit and one Department of Education complaint later, the accused student “John Doe” has filed a second lawsuit against Occidental, this time claiming it discriminated against him based on his gender, City News Service reports:

`The current suit alleges Title IX violations and maintains Occidental’s discipline of Doe occurred in part because of “internal and external forces demanding Occidental find more male students responsible for sexually assaulting female students.”

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'The barrister who exposed a senior lawyer who she accused of sending her sexist messages has previously commented on pictures of friends online, calling them 'sexy' and 'hot stuff'.

Charlotte Proudman, 27, posted screenshots on twitter of 'misogynistic' messages from Alexander Carter-Silk, a senior partner in a top London firm who she said had ‘objectified her’ on the professional networking site LinkedIn.

In a response to the married 57-year-old, which she also posted online, she said: "I am on linked-in for business purposes not to be approached about my physical appearance or to be objectified by sexist men."

The Daily Mail has now reported that Ms Proudman, who is also studying for a PhD at Cambridge University, has made several comments on pictures of both male and female friends in the past, praising their physical appearance.

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During question time in parliament on Wednesday, the new man in charge was accused of "mansplaining" by Labor deputy leader Tanya Plibersek.

Mansplaining is when a man explains something in which he is less of an expert, to a woman who is more so, because he assumes she is ignorant.

Ms Plibersek had asked whether Mr Turnbull could "confirm how much he will restore to the foreign aid programme after the cabinet he was part of cut the budget by $11.3bn dollars" in the last budget.

Mr Turnbull responded: "If the honourable member wanted to get a serious answer she should ask a serious question. If all she's interested in is making an allegation, making a political argument across the dispatch box, that is fine. But it's a complete waste of Question Time."
Unimpressed with the verbal jousting, she replied: "Mr Speaker, I'd rather have an answer than the mansplaining by the prime minister."

Within minutes, "mansplaining" was trending on Twitter in Australia, winning Ms Plibersek - and the word itself - both fans and critics.'

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'Australian women are most likely to experience physical and sexual violence in their home, at the hand of a male current or ex-partner. For 62% of women who had experienced physical assault by a male perpetrator, the most recent incident was in their home.

The Weatherill Government has made a strong commitment to addressing domestic violence in our community. Last year, the Premier reaffirmed domestic violence prevention as a priority for this Government with the release of the ‘Taking A Stand – Responding to Domestic Violence’ paper. Since then, the Government has embarked on a series of initiatives to address domestic violence in our community. To build on these initiatives, the Government is pursuing changes to strengthen the level of protection afforded to victims of domestic violence in the tenancy sector.

The proposed changes will recognise domestic violence in our tenancy legislation, and provide further protections for victims in the tenancy sector, including rooming house residents, to either continue in the tenancy without the perpetrator, leave the tenancy and no longer be liable for the premises, or terminate the tenancy altogether. The South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (SACAT) will be empowered to determine that one or more, but not all co-tenants, are liable for compensation to the landlord and order that the bond be paid to the landlord and any co-tenants not liable for compensation as it thinks fit, but not so as to unduly disadvantage the landlord.
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'Legal scholars across the nation have spoken out against affirmative consent sexual misconduct policies implemented at many universities, including LSU, with proponents of the policy saying it bolsters the fight against rape culture at college campuses.

Affirmative consent, as it applies to sexual misconduct policy, means a person who initiates sexual contact must hear “yes” from the other person before engaging in a sexual act, said Morgan Lamandre, Vice President of Survivor Services at Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response in Baton Rouge.

Former American Civil Liberties Union President Nadine Strossen recently said the policy violates rights of due process, according to a news release from Stop Abusive and Violent Environments.

“They reverse the usual presumption of innocence,” Strossen said. “Unless the guy can prove that his sexual partner affirmatively consented to every single contact, he is presumed guilty of sexual misconduct.”'

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'"No Means No" could soon change to "Yes Means Yes." Some local lawmakers proposed that bill on Tuesday, hoping it could help prevent sexual assaults on campus.

The general idea is anything less than yes, should mean no when it comes to sexual assault.

"It's not about what she wore, it's not about what she drank, it's about whether or not the perpetrator got consent and it was a mutual interaction," said Erin Roberts, Executive Director of E.V.E.

Working with victims Roberts says that distinction makes a big difference. Which is why she supports "Yes means Yes" -- meaning that only a sober yes on both sides counts as consent.
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Police officers who investigate sexual assault cases say this could change investigations because it creates a clearer standard for holding perpetrators accountable.'

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'Hillary Rodham Clinton is once again pandering to women with her three-pronged proposal to end the “epidemic” of campus sexual assault, but Mrs. Clinton’s own actions directly contradict her newly released plan.

“It is not enough to condemn campus sexual assault. We need to end campus sexual assault,” Mrs. Clinton said to a group of supporters on Monday at the University of Northern Iowa.

But while the former secretary of state claims to be fighting a sexual assault “epidemic” on college campuses, what she is really fighting for are female votes.

“To every survivor of sexual assault … You have the right to be heard. You have the right to be believed. We’re with you,” Mrs. Clinton tweeted out on Monday.

Mrs. Clinton’s newly proposed standard violates the most sacred principle of the American criminal justice system, innocent until proven guilty.'

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'Colorado Congressman Jared Polis claimed in his local newspaper that he "misspoke" when he called for innocent college students to be expelled simply for being accused of sexual assault.

He can claim whatever he wants, but his actions last week tell a far different story than that of someone who merely didn't choose his words carefully.

First, we have to go back to his original statement, made during a House hearing on campus sexual assault. During a back-and-forth with a panelist advocating for due process rights for students accused of sexual assault, Polis said it's better to throw out accused students even if they're likely innocent, just in case.'