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'The real median income of American men who work full-time, year-round peaked forty years ago in 1973, according to data published by the U.S. Census Bureau.

In 1973, median earnings for men who worked full-time, year-round were $51,670 in inflation-adjusted 2012 dollars. The median earnings of men who work full-time year-round have never been that high again.

In 2012, the latest year for which the Census Bureau has published an estimate, the real median earnings of men who worked full-time, year-round was $49,398. That was $2,272—or about 4.4 percent—below the peak median earnings of $51,670 in 1973.

In 1960, the earliest year for which the Census Bureau has published this data, the median earnings for men who worked full-time, year-round were $36,420 in 2012 dollars. Between 1960 and 1973 that increased $15,250—or about 41.9 percent.'

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'LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — A young mother believed to be suffering from depression admitted to investigators that she stabbed her 7-month-old son to death in a Northern California park, police said Sunday.

Ashley Newton, 23, of San Jose was arrested Saturday on suspicion of murder, the East Bay Regional Parks District Police Department said in a statement.

Investigators continue to interview her family and friends in an attempt to make sense of the alleged crime.

"This is an extremely shocking case for us," said Chief Timothy Anderson of the park's police department.

The motive remains unclear, but Anderson said that Newton had a history of depression and appeared to have self-inflicted knife wounds on her wrist.

Police were called at 10:30 a.m. Saturday on reports of a damaged Honda sedan in the Del Valle Regional Park east of San Francisco. They found the car abandoned with the engine running and an empty child's seat.'

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'ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Two former Sandia National Laboratories scientists have come up with what they say is a take-home fertility test for men, the Albuquerque Journal reported (HTTP://BIT.LY/1FEFU8I) Friday.

Researchers Greg Sommer and Ulrich Schaff have created a portable test kit for gauging a man's sperm quality that could be available to consumers as early as 2015.

"It allows men to test and track their fertility from the comfort and privacy of their own homes," Sommer said. "It's a portable, easy-to-use diagnostic system with the accuracy of a clinical lab test."'

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'LAS VEGAS -- Domestic violence is not only a serious crime against women, it also affects a lot of men. According to the Department of Justice, more than 800,000 men in the U.S. become victims every year, but most don't report it due to shame.

One local man decided to break his silence, after years of alleged abuse. He wants to help other men come forward and get support.

Cornell McCrary says he endured more than four years of physical and verbal abuse from a woman he thought he wanted to marry. Today, that woman is behind bars and McCrary hopes she stays there for a long time.'

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'Men should be encouraged into female-dominated subjects such as nursing, teaching and social work, just as science and engineering is promoted to women, the head of Ucas has argued.

Mary Curnock Cook pointed out that although women were outnumbered in subjects such as computer science, the gender discrepancy was actually greater in nursing, for example.

“We hear all these things about [getting] more women into science, and women doing physics, and computers and so on,” she told the annual conference of the Association of University Administrators in Manchester on 15 April.

But she asked: “Why don’t we hear more about getting men into nursing and education and social work where, after all, there’s a very ready supply of a very large volume of jobs?”

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'If you're a single woman looking for a hotel room with free hair straighteners, yoga mats and no interruptions from unwelcome male guests, go somewhere else other than Denmark.

Easter High Court found Bella Sky Comwell Hotel guilty of gender discrimination and of violating the Equality Act on Friday, after the four-star hotel reserved 20 rooms on the 17th floor for women only.

The court's ruling means that the hotel from now on, starting tomorrow, must allow men to book into the rooms designed exclusively for women.

"The case is a trivial matter and it should never have been conducted," Allan Agerholm, the head of Bella Sky, told Berlingske.

"We never discriminated against anyone. It's too bad that we can't aim our products at a certain target group simply because of some rigid interpretation of the Danish Equality Act. It's sad and borderline ridiculous."'

Video report here.

'A Georgia mom and her girlfriend locked a 6-year-old child in a dog cage, poured syrup over him and covered him in cat litter, according to authorities.'

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'HOUSTON (CBS Houston) — A middle school teacher reportedly admits that she gave a student a birthday lap dance in front of the entire class.

KHOU-TV reports that 42-year-old Felicia Smith gave the lap dance to a 15-year-old boy inside a Stovall Middle School classroom on Feb. 26.

According to court documents, Smith stopped the teenage boy from going to his next class and the entire class told him to sit down in a chair placed in the front of the room.

The Houston Chronicle reports Smith then gave the boy a “full-contact lap dance” and the boy told authorities she touched him all over his body, including placing her head between his legs.

At the end of the four-minute long lap dance, Smith reportedly told the boy, “I love you, baby. Happy birthday.”
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Smith has been charged with improper relationship with a student and had her bail set at $30,000.'

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'There’s a two-person protest underway in Highlands County, Florida. The two aren’t terribly articulate, but they know what they’re talking about; the points they make are some of the most trenchant on the subject of their protest, which is child support. These two know whereof they speak because they’ve been abused by the system, so they’re passing out fliers on the steps of the courthouse trying to recruit supporters to their cause. Read about it here (Highlands Today, 4/11/14).

Via general email announcement from Warren Farrell:

I’d like to invite you or your members to join me on an official Reddit IAMA (Ask Me Anything) this Tuesday, April 29 at 10 am Pacific time/ 1 pm EST.

Between the research I did for Father and Child Reunion, and the research I’m doing now on The Boy Crisis, I’ve come to see that the “father wound” that will be experienced among our children is akin to the “money wound” my dad experienced after the depression.

My expert witness work is making it apparent to me that courts have a money-generating system that blinds them to the presumption of equally-shared parenting. That you already know. But some of your members may wish to know about the three other parameters that are needed for children raised in non-intact families to nevertheless do well.

I hope you'll use your questions to make sure this Reddit gives plenty of attention to our children’s needs for dads who care enough to fight for them.

Warren Farrell, Ph.D.

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'Why do mental health professionals and attorneys who evaluate or work with alienated children frequently mistake alienation for estrangement?

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'A mother of three severely disabled young children is suspected of smothering them to death.

Tania Clarence, 42, was last night described as a devoted mother who ‘doted on her children’.

She was arrested after police discovered the lifeless bodies of three-year-olds Ben and Max and four-year-old Olivia at the family’s £2million home in south-west London.

Friends said all three children suffered the degenerative condition spinal muscular atrophy – sometimes described as ‘floppy baby syndrome’ – and received specialist care around the clock.

Their father, investment banker Gary Clarence, 43, had travelled to the couple’s native South Africa with their eldest daughter Taya – who was not disabled – to celebrate her eighth birthday.'

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'A former Xavier University basketball player who was expelled over what he says was a false rape allegation has settled his lawsuit against the Cincinnati school over its handling of the case.

Federal Judge John Arthur dismissed Dez Wells' lawsuit, which had claimed that Xavier and its president used him as a scapegoat to demonstrate an aggressive response to sexual assault allegations in the wake of two unrelated federal investigations.

Arthur said both sides had resolved the conflict, but that the case could be reopened by either side within two months if the agreement is not fulfilled. Terms of the settlement were not released in court records.
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Xavier kicked Wells out of school in 2012 in the aftermath of a student's accusation that he raped her.

Wells said he had consensual sex with the student following a game of "Truth or Dare," during which he said the woman took off most of her clothes, kissed him, and gave him a lap dance.

At first reading this story seems to a satire from "The Onion." But it's true. He has blood running down his face in his booking photograph and has sent photos of his previous bruises to his wife's parents. Yet he is charged and convicted of domestic abuse. The upside down world of domestic abuse in the USA. Excerpt:

'Rob Morrison, the former New York City CBS anchorman forced to quit his $300,000 a year job after he was arrested for choking his wife walked away from court on Thursday with all charges dropped.

Morrison, who is still married to former CBS MoneyWatch anchor Ashley Morrison was allowed to withdraw his previous guilty plea for the assault after completing a domestic violence program.
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Morrison was joined in court briefly by his wife of 11-years, who left him last year after he was accused of strangling her in a drunken argument in the early hours of the morning.
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'My behavior was reprehensible,' he said according to the Stamford Advocate.
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According to Darien police, Morrison had acted violently towards his wife that evening and ended up choking her with both hands.
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Arresting officer, Patrick Clohessy said that Morrison, 'threatened that if he was released from police custody, he would kill his wife,' according to note taken down after the arrest and filed in court as evidence.
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A source who spoke to the Stamford Advocate said that the dispute began after they got into a fight over Facebook picture updates.

The source claimed that Morrison said he wife hit him and that he sent pictures of his wounds to her parents to show them and to get them to calm down his wife.

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'A detailed genetic analysis of the Y chromosomes of a wide range of mammalian species, including humans, shows that far from continuing to wither away unremittingly, it has remained remarkably stable for at least the past 25 million years.

The research also found that the few remaining genes on the Y chromosome include some that perform vital regulatory control of other genes that are active throughout a man's body - making each of his cells distinctly and subtly different from those of a woman.

This would suggest that medical treatments should in future be tailored more towards a patient's gender, and that doctors may have more reason to treat men and women differently according to their sex, said Professor David Page, director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts.