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.

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'Can teaching middle school boys a lesson help fight domestic violence?

The Portland Police Bureau hopes so.

The Bureau has started sending police staff into a couple middle schools through a pilot program called BoyStrength.

The staffers spend a couple hours a week teaching sixth-grade boys to choose compassion over violence.

PPB Capt. Derek Rodrigues said the program has a focus on learning to treat women well.

“I just see a lot of men that don’t handle themselves with self-respect. They feel that anger is the only way that they can get across their feelings,” Rodrigues said.'

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'Larry Summers, former secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton and the director of the National Economic Council for President Obama, has written a great article arguing for a substantial expansion of public infrastructure investment across the US in a bid to boost the economy:

The American economy is not performing to the satisfaction of the American people…

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'A report released earlier this month suggests that prescription drugs for emotional or behavioral problems may be unevenly prescribed to children in the U.S., with gender, age, race, and family income possibly playing a role in the issue. The National Center for Health Statistics finds that 7.5 percent — or one in every 13 kids overall — between the ages of 6 and 17 had been prescribed and were taking pills for emotional or behavioral difficulties during the statistical period studied (six months in 2011-2012). The authors of the report did not identify the diagnoses of the children taking medication, yet LaJeana Howie, a statistical research scientist and one of the authors of the report, told MSN that 81 percent of the children had received a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at some point in their lives. The report also neglected to estimate prescriptions written versus use of drugs.

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'A father was arrested and banned from seeing his daughter after a social worker falsely accused him of abusing the little girl.

Jonathan Coupland, 53, was handcuffed in front of his neighbours, thrown in a cell and interrogated for ten hours after Suzi Smith claimed she saw him sexually assaulting his daughter Jessica, then six.

The social worker is said to have made the allegation in a fit of pique after the single father criticised the way she was handling a custody battle with his former partner.

Mrs Smith, 53, later retracted her claims and Mr Coupland has been paid £86,000 damages by her employer, the Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service (Cafcass).

The public body - accountable to Justice Secretary Chris Grayling and funded by his department - has sacked Mrs Smith and apologised to Mr Coupland.

The latest from YouTube contributor "BraveTheWorld" is here. Her channel is found here.

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'We hear a lot about “rape culture” on college campuses nowadays. The basic idea behind the concept is that there is a widespread tolerance of rape at Cornell and other universities, largely because society teaches men to disregard the importance of the consent of women in sexual encounters. To those who believe in “rape culture,” rape is not the result of a few bad actors, but is tolerated, even encouraged, in our college culture. Few people seem willing to challenge this narrative for fear of being called insensitive to the suffering of those who have experienced sexual violence.

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'Lily had grown up in a rural town, more than an hour from Kansas City, Mo. She was four months pregnant and not feeling well, and she was in tears. She was also not married, but that’s not what was upsetting her. The car that she needed to get to her two jobs in the city had broken down, and she had no other way to get to work. We asked whether her boyfriend, Carl, could help her. Lily frowned. She had recently broken up with Carl, she explained, because “I can support myself. I always have. I can support myself and our kid. I just can’t support myself, the kid, and him.”
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A generation ago her decision would have seemed narrow, misguided, and difficult to understand. But now we have to conclude that it makes a lot of sense. Although it defies logic, socioeconomic, cultural, and economic changes have brought white working-class women like Lily to the point where going it alone can be the wiser choice. And the final irony: The same changes that have made marriages more equitable and successful among elite couples have made it less likely that marriage will look attractive to Lily.

When Lily looks around at the available men, they don’t offer what she is looking. Lily, just like better-off men and women, believes that marriage means an unqualified commitment to the other spouse. When you marry someone, you support him in hard times. You stick with him when he disappoints you. You visit him if he ends up in jail. And you encourage him to become an important part of your children’s lives. It’s just that Lily doesn’t believe that Carl is worth that commitment. Nor does she believe that she will meet someone who will meet her standards anytime soon, and the statistics back her up.

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'The gender gap debate has taken some surprising turns in recent days. Conservative critics have argued for years that the reason women make only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men is that they work fewer work hours and in lower paid occupations, not because of rampant sexism at the office or factory. Once it came to light that President Obama and several Democratic senators presided over sizable gaps in their own offices, this criticism of the 77 cent meme gained some new followers, including reliably left-leaning Ruth Marcus who went so far as to accuse the administration of “demagoguery.”
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Get rid of gender stereotyping, inflexible workplaces, bastards on the couch, and mom-shaming, and we will have a society where, as Sheryl Sandberg has put it, “half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women.”

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'A North Carolina deputy with the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office was caught on video confiscating two different cellphones and detaining a former U.S. Marine after she claims he got “aggressive.” Her claims are now being called into question after video of the incident surfaced online.

The deputy, identified as Natalie Barber by Photography Is Not a Crime, was responding to a dog-related dispute between Carlos Jaramillo and a neighbor on Saturday.