Article here. Excerpt:

'State officials are challenging county child support agencies to spike their collection rates, setting ambitious goals in hopes of improving children’s lives and keeping Ohio competitive in seeking financial incentives from the federal government.

Letter here. Excerpt:

'... I have a good relationship with my ex and trust him to pay his child support directly to me. As it stands now, he pays a fee to the collection agency and 5 percent of the actual support payments are kept by the court trustee. The entire process slows down the payment and takes money away from my children.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The topic is also timely. Non-custodial parents are in the news as never before. Frustrated parents are seen scaling the walls of Buckingham Palace and other monuments, dressed as superheroes. They stare out angry and stone-faced from the front cover of The New York Times Sunday Magazine. Their grievances against a family law they see as stacked against them are splashed across billboards and newspaper advertisements. And they are said to be coming soon to a theater near you: Miramax recently bought the movie rights to the life story of the founder of Fathers 4 Justice, the British group responsible for much of the surging media attention.

Story here. Excerpt:

'The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that Baby Veronica, the 3-year-old girl at the center of a years-long custody dispute, should temporarily remain with her biological father in Oklahoma instead of being returned to her adoptive parents in South Carolina.
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It was not immediately clear Tuesday why the court made the emergency ruling or for how long Veronica would remain with her biological father, Dusten Brown.

From an IA newsletter:

Thank you for signing our letter demanding that Good Samaritan Hospital stop its outrageous baby-cutting study!

In just a few weeks, Intact America will travel to Cincinnati to deliver that letter in person, because, even now, none of the researchers or hospital administrators—nor the Cincinnati Archdiocese—has bothered to respond to our many letters and phone calls.

We have to make it clear that this heinous experiment on innocent babies will NOT go unheeded, and it will NOT go unchallenged!

I know you’re as incensed by this study as I am, and I need you to take the next step. Can I count on your financial support to help make our presence in Cincinnati as powerful as possible?

Here’s what we have planned for October 3:

Article here. Excerpt:

'Then of course, the recent birth of royal baby George across the pond generated a lot of news. The Huffington Post ran a piece speculating about the royals’ imminent decision, and titled it “The Royal Snip.”

Snip? Snip is scissors opening up a pesky package of salted peanuts. Snip is a hair trim. Snip is hardly the word for circumcision, which removes not only the sexually sensitive foreskin tissue, but the entire epithelial lining, leaving the glans of the penis completely exposed.

Washington Post reporter Ben Pershing is so passionate about politics he was blinded by someone's political pandering, inadvertently sharing misinformation with WP readers. Yeah, maybe that's what happened. We're calling his article a WaPo Whopper!

Pershing criticizes a Virginia gubernatorial candidate because he was one of three state attorneys general who did not sign a letter urging federal lawmakers to reauthorize a particular version of the Violence Against Women Act. He didn't inform his readers that leading women's groups such as the Independent Women's Forum, Concerned Women for America, and the Mommy Lobby also strongly opposed that version of VAWA.

Link here. The Department of Health & Human Services Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) is accepting written comments about "Matters Related to the Protection of Human Subjects and Research Studying Standard of Care Interventions" via Regulations.gov until 9 September 2013, presenting an opportunity for readers from the U.S. to express some of their concerns about the Good Samaritan hospital Gomco v. Mogen trial and similar circumcision "studies". Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

"I am the director of Wellbeing of Women and consider myself privileged to be working for a fantastic charity that prioritises women's health.

My own feeling is that female wellbeing is still vastly under resourced, and often our more personal health issues are considered taboo or somehow trivial. Many women are slow to take the time to go to their doctor and poorly informed about the possible causes leading to delayed diagnosis and treatment.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'How many times have you heard that “women are paid 77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men”? Barack Obama said it during his last campaign. Women’s groups say it every April 9, which is Equal Pay Day. In preparation for Labor Day, a group protesting outside Macy’s this week repeated it, too, holding up signs and sending out press releases saying “women make $.77 to every dollar men make on the job.” I’ve heard the line enough times that I feel the need to set the record straight: It’s not true.

Link here. Excerpt:

'Males may be the more vulnerable sex when it comes dying young -- not just from accidents, but from a range of causes, a new study finds.

Looking at a decade's worth of data on U.S. children and teenagers, researchers found that boys had higher death rates than girls from 17 of 19 broad causes.

Those included not only accidents -- in which boys' greater risk-taking can come into play -- but also cancer and diseases of the heart, lungs and nervous system.
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Figuring out why boys have higher death rates could also aid in the wider understanding of different diseases, Feudtner noted. "It could help everyone if we understand the factors at work," he said.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A man has been arrested after dressing up as Spiderman and protesting above a busy Bournemouth road.

The protest in aid of Fathers 4 Justice took place on A338 Wessex Way flyover at the Cooper Dean roundabout this afternoon (Saturday).

Dorset Police closed the road to southbound traffic after a man, dresses as Spiderman was standing on the wrong side of the barrier, carrying a banner stating "4 fathers there is no justice."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) said Sunday that before the United States takes additional steps toward military action in Syria, the country should reinstate the draft.

“I truly believe we should have a national draft act before the Congress acts,” Rangel said on “Weekends with Alex Witt” on MSNBC.

Rangel has long been a proponent of reinstating the draft so that every socioeconomic group is required to fight when military actions are undertaken. He has introduced several bills over the years to bring back conscription. In addition to reintroducing the National Universal Service Act in February, Rangel also proposed the All American Selective Service Act, which would require women in the 18-25 age demographic to join men of that age in registering with the Selective Service.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A Norwegian woman has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison after she admitted to falsely claiming to have been raped.

But Rudolf Christoffersen, the prosecutor in the case, said it was important for the courts to deal stiffly with such false accusations.

"If it had not been for a thorough police investigation, this case could have had grave consequences for the man who was unjustly accused of rape," he said. "In cases of sexual abuse cases, it is of the greatest importance that the police can give credence to the information submitted."'