Article here. Excerpt:

'National Child Health Day is a Federal Observance of the need for all of us to direct our thoughts to the health and well-being of our children. This year is was Monday, October 6th. National Parents Organization celebrates it daily through our work to make shared parenting - the child custody arrangement that federal statistics as well as child development studies consistently show serves the best interest of children’s health and well-being after parents divorce or separate — the norm.

National Parents Organization recognizes that preserving a strong bond between children and their parents is critically important to children’s emotional, mental, and physical health. Shared parenting is the simplest, yet most difficult to implement, solution to most of the challenges facing our children today.

Article here. Excerpt:

Letter here. Excerpt:

'This is a response to Annie Kuster’s viewpoint Oct. 9 viewpoint, “A personal invitation to embrace feminism.”

I remember first hearing about Emma Watson’s UN address, initially thinking to myself this was probably just another popularity boost for the feminist movement. ...
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There I found the HeForShe Commitment, which reinforced my initial speculation and the overarching reason for the men’s rights movement: Feminism is not interested in men’s problems.

Link here. Excerpt:

'Unfortunately, we live in a world where girls are often not valued. Today, 250 million girls live in poverty, one in three girls in the developing world will be married before turning 18, and 62 million girls are out of school--deprived of an education that would lead to positive health and economic outcomes. Worldwide, an estimated 150 million girls have experienced sexual violence, and nearly half of all sexual assaults are committed against girls younger than 16 years of age. In 2013, nearly 80 percent of all new HIV infections among those ages 15 to 24 affected adolescent girls and young women. Thus, the consequences of failing to adequately invest in girls are enormous.

Article here. Excerpt:

'I don’t feel it’s an overreach to say we’re building the Yahoo for men. When I was at Yahoo, I discovered that the big-scale male demographic sites, for the most part, were not befitting of major premium brands because men tend to gravitate to the lowest common denominator when it comes to concepts. So, looking at the media and content for women, there’s lots of high-quality premium safe content for brands to associate with. But for men, there’s a only handful at scale. That’s where we want to play.'

Link here. Excerpt:

'Some subjects can be easier to ignore than confront. Sweep them under the rug and maybe they will go away.

But as we all know, there are very few problems that go away simply through wishful thinking. Gender-based violence is one such problem that will not fade away unless we act. That’s why this year’s “Day of the Girl Child” on October 11th is drawing attention to “Empowering Adolescent Girls: Ending the Cycle of Violence.”

Story here. Excerpt:

'Casa Presidencial has promised a men’s rights advocacy group that it will form a new interagency commission to study legal imbalances in domestic abuse, custody rights and child support policy in Costa Rica.

President Luis Guillermo Solís’ administration on Monday related the news to members of the Foundation to Support Men (FUNDIAPHO), which last week marched from their offices in the northeastern San José suburb of Guadalupe to Solís’ residence in Barrio Escalante, east of the capital.
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“A new era will soon begin for Ticos and Costa Rican society,” Herrera told The Tico Times. “We are extremely excited, and we hope to finally achieve true gender equality.”
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“Women who are victims of abuse are offered free counseling and health care. Abused men, meanwhile, get nothing,” Herrera said.

Article here. The author is the same Wendy Murphy who said the kinds of things and did the kinds of things she did during the now-infamous Duke lacrosse player case. Having her denounce the recent CA bill is not a bad thing; it's *why* she's doing it. Seems she feels it doesn't go far enough in guaranteeing that any man on a college campus is eminently slam-dunkable by any given female. Excerpt:

'The idea is insulting and dangerous. Here’s why:

1. Sexual assault on campus is a civil rights violation under Title IX and requires proof only of “unwelcomeness,” which is much easier to prove than lack of “affirmative consent.” Terms such as “non-consent” and lack of “affirmative consent,” are used only in the criminal justice system and are much more difficult to prove compared to “unwelcomeness.” Burdensome criminal laws should never be used on campus.

PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Gina Lauterio
Telephone: 301-801-0608
Email: info-at-saveservices.org

California Affirmative Consent Policy Portends ‘Unraveling of the Democratic Coalition,’ Columnist Warns

WASHINGTON / October 8, 2014 – SAVE, a national victim-advocacy organization, istoday launching a campaign to highlight the controversies surrounding the so-called Affirmative Consent proposals which advocates claim will curb campus sexual assault. Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed bill SB-967 which will require California students to provide ongoing “affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity.”

Affirmative Consent has been criticized by commentators from all points on the political spectrum.

Writing in Time magazine, Camille Paglia recently warned, “Colleges should stick to academics and stop their infantilizing supervision of students’ dating lives, an authoritarian intrusion that borders on violation of civil liberties.” http://time.com/3444749/camille-paglia-the-modern-campus-cannot-comprehend-evil/#3444749/camille-paglia-the-modern-campus-cannot-comprehend-evil/

Hoover Institution fellow Peter Berkowitz observed, “Indeed the indifference to and sometimes outright disdain for due process among our faculty and administrators is transforming our universities into bastions of authoritarianism”  http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/10/03/lawsuit_casts_harsh_light_on_due_process_at_colgate__124167.html

Article here.  Excerpt:

'Indeed, the law’s advocates don’t uniformly believe its written standards will actually be followed at all. This defense by Amanda Marcotte is telling: “The law has no bearing on the vast majority of sexual encounters. It only applies when a student files a sexual assault complaint.” So the law will not come into play because nobody will actually try to enforce it. Instead, it will technically deem a large proportion of sexual encounters to be rape, but prosecutors will only enforce it if there is an accusation. And since most, and possibly nearly all, sexual encounters will legally be rape, then accusation will almost automatically result in conviction.

Indeed, this may be the point. Culp-Ressler dismisses concerns about convictions of innocent people. (“In reality, false rape allegations are very rare, comprising about two to eight percent of all reports.”) Two to 8 percent seems like a fairly high number of innocent people to convict as rapists, and of course that proportion could well rise quite a bit under a legal regime that expands the definition of rape in ways that are both extremely broad and extremely confusing.
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Article here. Excerpt:

'Under ordinary circumstances, the facts alleged by Abrar Faiaz in the legal complaint he filed last spring in U.S. District Court in New York against Colgate University [link added] would strain credulity [sic]. But because Faiaz’s allegations are consistent with the organized offensive against due process perpetrated by universities in recent years, they should be considered with an open mind.

The lawsuit accuses Colgate and several members of the university's administration, faculty, and staff -- including President Jeffrey Herbst, Provost Douglas Hicks, and Dean of the College Suzy Nelson -- of multiple civil rights violations as well as false imprisonment, breach of contract, and failure to substantially observe the school’s established procedures. The court is currently weighing Colgate’s motion to dismiss the suit.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A disturbing trend of filing of false rape cases has come to the fore, mocking stringent laws adopted by the parliament last year to prevent crime against women. The Delhi Commission of Women (DCW) has come out with startling statistics showing that 53.2% of the rape cases filed between April 2013 and July 2014 in the capital were found 'false'.

The report says that between April 2013 and July 2014, of the 2,753 complaints of rape, only 1,287 cases were found to be true, and the remaining 1,464 cases were found to be false.

The report further revealed that between June 2013 and December 2013, the number of cases found to be untrue were 525. And in between, January 2014 and July 2014, the number of false rape cases were 900.'

Articke here. Excerpt:

'I have a slightly different take on California's recent decision to regulate college sex. Don't get me wrong, it's beyond idiotic, unworkable, even borderline Orwellian. We'll get to all that.
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The incredible overreach of the law has been discussed at great length. The Times editorial board expressed its own sensible misgivings in an editorial before Brown signed the bill into law. "It seems extremely difficult and extraordinarily intrusive to micromanage sex so closely as to tell young people what steps they must take in the privacy of their own dorm rooms."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'There’s really only one thing that progressives get wrong: human nature. This leads them into error on economics, where they imagine they can micromanage billions of individual decisions every day; foreign policy, in which they overestimate the appeal of “talks” and underestimate the ferocity and opportunism of aggressors; and sex, in which, well, where to begin?

California proposes to stop campus rape and sexual assault with a law redefining consent. Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation last week specifying that verbal consent must precede all sexual activity. Further, consent cannot be given if someone is incapacitated by drugs or alcohol.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Policywise, it's easy to argue that Barack Obama is a feminist president. The first bill he signed was for equal pay. He launched a White House task force to fight sexual assault and ensured mandatory contraception coverage in Obamacare, a decision he has had to fight for. So why does the president keep making sexist jokes casting his wife in the role of the mommy who has to take care of him?