Alanna Newman was conceived via sperm from an anonymous donor and now as an adult she wants to share her opinions and observations on the importance of biological fathers. In particular, she feels it is wrong to deliberately deny a child their relationship with a biological parent. Her web sites:

http://www.AlanaNewman.com/
http://www.anonymousus.org/

Article here. Well at least it's more entertaining than the whole "born in a log cabin" routine. But it does show that feminists' insistence that female pols make categorically "better" political leaders because they're less likely to lie, be corrupted, etc., is hogwash. Excerpt:

'Wendy Davis, the Texas state senator whose filibuster for abortion rights made her a Democratic superstar and launched her campaign for governor, has admitted to the Dallas Morning News that she lied about key events in her life, including her first divorce. Davis may even have lied under oath, testifying in a federal lawsuit over redistricting that "I got divorced by the time I was 19 years old," when in fact she was divorced at age 21.

Link here. Excerpt:

'Do you think about ways of improving the quality of life for yourself and everyone around you?

If you answered yes, then maybe you should consider a career in financial planning.

We recognise that women are known for their strong interpersonal skills, empathy for others and passion for performance, and these are the traits of successful financial planners.

If you want to find out more about this rewarding career, then come along to one of our special ‘Females in Financial Planning’ evenings being held across the country.'

Link here. Excerpt:

'Women in the Blue Mountains will have better access to drug and alcohol treatment programs as a result of additional funding being provided by the Australian Government.

Assistant Minister for Health, Senator Fiona Nash, said today the Government would provide immediate additional funding to the Blue Mountains Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service, to help it to meet increased demand.

“The recent devastating bushfires have impacted heavily on many Blue Mountains people,” Senator Nash said.

Member for Macquarie Louise Markus MP welcomed the additional funding.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'It’s a rare thing to meet an activist who manages to remain persuasive and credible when naked from the waist down.

Judging by the audience’s reaction to children’s rights activist Glen Callender’s presentation at UBC [University of British Columbia] on Friday, he pulled it off.

The talk, hosted by UBC Freethinkers in the Buchanan building, was part of a larger effort founded by Callender, the Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project, or CAN-FAP. Its purpose is to advocate for the right of male, female and intersex children to grow up with intact genitals.
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CAN-FAP’s primary objective is the legal protection of a child’s right to choose whether or not to be circumcised. Callender said that female circumcision is particularly harmful because one can’t cut off as much of a boy’s genitals without restricting his ability to reproduce later in life.

Story here. Excerpt:

'(CNN) - A second Maryland woman has been charged with murder in connection with the Friday stabbing deaths of two children during an exorcism attempt, authorities said.

Two children died of multiple stab wounds and two others are hospitalized with undisclosed injuries, police said.

Monifa Denise Sanford, 21, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder, Montgomery County Police said.

Earlier, authorities announced that the children's mother, Zakieya L. Avery, 28, also faces the same charges. Police said Saturday that Avery stabbed two of her children to death and wounded two others while attempting an exorcism.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'In her thoughtful op-ed in the New York Times, family historian Stephanie Coontz answered the question "How can we help men?" with a ringing endorsement of gender equality: "By helping women," she answered.

I'd like to suggest the converse is equally true. How can we help women? By helping men.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The business secretary, Vince Cable, has called on Britain's biggest companies to increase the number of women on their boards this year.

In a letter to the chairmen of the top 350 listed companies, Cable urged them each to appoint an extra female director in 2014 and to let two senior female managers serve as non-executive directors at another company.

The letter, written jointly with Lord Davies, who champions women on boards, also called on chairmen to publish targets for female representation at board and senior management level and to say how they would achieve them.

In 2011, Davies, the former trade minister and boss of Standard Chartered bank, set FTSE 100 companies the goal of increasing female board membership to 25% by 2015, from 12.5% at the time. The next biggest 250 companies were also encouraged to employ more female directors.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A judge sentenced a "tormented and disturbed" Michigan woman to at least five years in prison Friday for falsely accusing two men of rape, a punishment that came just days after she pleaded no contest to a cancer scam in a separate case that also challenged her credibility.

St. Clair County Judge Daniel Kelly exceeded the guidelines, saying it would be a "travesty of justice" to sentence Sara Ylen to less.

In December, Ylen, 38, was convicted of making up a story about two men attacking her at her Lexington home, 80 miles northeast of Detroit. The jury also convicted her of tampering with evidence by using makeup to create what looked like bruises.

Ylen's integrity has been shattered after years of being considered a sympathetic figure in eastern Michigan.

Article here. Excerpt:

'When we're walking home after school, I often hear stories about how the boys in our daughters' classroom misbehaved in this way or that way. I've read a lot about how classrooms are geared towards girls, who are more likely to sit quietly for long periods of time doing detailed work. I've wondered how this focus on girls has affected the boys in their school. The article below answers many of my questions, and gives me a lot to think about as we enter a new year. I hope it inspires you to reconsider how we educate our kids -- both boys and girls.
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A recent study from researchers at the University of Georgia, which followed 10,000 students as they moved from kindergarten to eighth grade, indicates that though boys scored well on tests, indicating mastery of material, girls got better grades. Researchers account for higher scores in girls because they comported themselves better than boys while in the classroom.

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'I've blogged about this movie before, and here is a quote from the post:

I can start by saying that the film hardly had a sportkepa of a chance of being produced in Sweden. For who would even try to apply for grants and funding for a film about a man who works at the kindergarten and who innocently gets singled out as a pedophile??

If the movie had been about to catch and convict the perverted bastard to life for the sexual abuse so the film had guaranteed to become produced in Sweden, but now it's about the witch trials that Lucas is exposed, and as I said the part has not really come to Sweden than. Taking hold of the false allegations of sexual abuse that men accused are notified, prosecuted and convicted for.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The bill, HB 933 introduced in Virginia’s House of Delegates would increase the state’s child-support schedule, would further increase child-support obligations that are already excessive for many (but not all) non-custodial parents. The “bill is a recommendation of the Child Support Guidelines Review Panel,” whose proposed child-support increase ignores basic economic realities and overestimates the cost of raising children. It also appears to double-count expenses and make non-custodial parents pay custodial parents for costs that custodial parents have indirectly been reimbursed for by federal and state tax codes. It would force some low-income parents to pay what they cannot possibly pay, and substantially increase high-income parents’ obligations based on a misreading of Virginia child-support history and a likely failure to consider tax increases recently imposed on upper-income households.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Texas woman arrested on suspicion of killing her newborn son and dumping him in the trash told detectives she "strangled the baby and watched him die," according to an arrest affidavit released by San Antonio police on Wednesday.

The body of the infant, likely less than a week old, was found stuffed in a duffel bag on the intake conveyor belt of a Waste Management recycling center in San Antonio two days before Christmas.

Nidia Alvarado, 25, was taken into custody on Tuesday night without incident at her home and charged with capital murder, which carries the possibility of the death penalty, police said.

"It's believed that the suspect gave birth to that baby boy, and shortly thereafter murdered him by strangulation," police Sergeant Javier Salazar told reporters.
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Under Texas law, a child under 60 days can be left in the care of an official employee at designated safe places, such as hospitals, fire houses or police stations.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Titusville woman was arrested on aggravated child abuse charges for allegedly abusing her fraternal twin children, arrest documents show.
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Police say Victoria Williams, 26, hit her 7-year-old boy and girl in the head with a belt and slammed their heads onto a table because they didn't get a homework problem correct.

Williams posted bond and was released from jail Tuesday and Local 6 went by her Titusville apartment Wednesday but all she said was, "No questions."

According to the arrest report, the boy had abrasions and contusions on his face and head. Police say when they asked him what happened, he said he was holding a pencil when his mother pushed his head against the table.
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According to the arrest report, the father of the twins called police when he noticed his kids had "injuries consistent with excessive corporal punishment."

Article here. Agreed; the idea of a truly united MRA-FRA movement may be the only concept that truly scares the hell out of feminists, since that is the only thing that is likely able to stop them.

'I´ve been thinking about how many years the Fathers´ Rights Movement have lost because of territorial pissing between different groups - all claiming to have the universal solution to the problem.

It´s misguided nationalism to believe that children and fathers are only affected by the court system in custody cases in one´s own country. And calling other father groups ”copycats” doesn´t help much either – does it?

Some father groups have received a lot of media coverage. But the situation hasn´t really changed that drastically to the better for the majority of the children and their fathers, neither nationally nor globally.

If some kind of a Global Father Alliance would be formed, we would actually have a chance of making a real change. All right, if the world is too big to take on at once, let´s start with Europe.