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'A northern Michigan man’s bid to establish parental rights to a 2-year-old boy was shot down by the state appeals court in a decision that rested on the marital status of the mother when the child was born.

It’s another case where a man has no automatic right to paternity in Michigan if a child is born to a woman while she’s married to another man. The law has changed since John Sprenger filed a lawsuit in 2011, but the new version hasn’t helped him, either.
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The appeals court viewed the case under an old version of Michigan’s paternity law. While the case was pending, the law was changed in 2012 to give men a better chance at establishing fatherhood.
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“Justice fails when the truth is made subservient to procedural rules,” his attorney, Eric Phelps, said.'

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'Domestic violence is a crime in which, overwhelmingly, the victims are women and the perpetrators are men. A recent 11-year summary of domestic violence trends in Victoria by the Department of Justice found that nearly 80 per cent of victims were female and over 90 per cent of perpetrators were male.

Yet lately it seems that there has been a subtle shift in community perception. Whenever the topic of domestic violence is raised in the media, talkback radio, online comments and letters to the editor are suddenly flooded with demands that we acknowledge that men, too, are victims. According to a VicHealth report, one fifth of the community now believes that men and women are equal perpetrators of violence in the home.

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'Over the last couple years, especially during the 2012 general election, I have become more and more aggravated with the Left’s use of the term “War on Women.” The United States has been one of the best countries to live in since we declared our independence. While we have had our ups and downs concerning equal rights, we have come a long way and are still far ahead of the rest of the world.
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Those who say there is a “War on Women” seem to ignore the fact that women have a brain and are not just sexual creatures that cannot make choices for themselves. They also seem to believe that it is the government’s responsibility to take care of women. They ignore the simple fact that women can take responsibility for their actions. After all, isn’t that a right that we have been fighting for all along: personal responsibility, rather than having others be responsible for us?'

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'Many people are asking silent crisis is consuming the future of our male children. Fathers are spending more time away from their families either toiling at work, lounging with their buddies at the club after a hard day’s work, or generally involved in one thing or another that takes them away from home. They have surrendered the nurturing and upbringing of their children, especially boys, to women – their mothers, aunties, female house helps and nannies. Absentee fatherhood is taking an awful toll on our boys. Children need the presence of strong male role models as psychological, spiritual and moral anchors. This is the essence of the divinely ordained role of males as family heads.

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'I AM so glad I wasn't born a man.

This has got nothing to do with facial hair or the fact that woman can have babies while men can't.

It's that women don't automatically get branded as a pedophile or a sexual predator based purely on their sex.

I was doing a story last week on a single dad offering his help for free to other single women.

On the surface, it seemed like an honest gesture of goodwill.

I don't know the man and I can't pretend to know his intentions.

But what disturbed me was a phone call I had from another woman who had called the police about him.

This man had approached her with an offer for help and, from what I can tell, had also suggested they might end up going on a date.

The woman was concerned he was looking to take advantage of vulnerable women.

The reason? "Nothing is for free in this world."

The fact that a man can't offer his help to a woman without being assumed to have an ulterior motive makes me feel tired and angry.

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'A Wymore man falsely accused of rape will appeal the dismissal of his lawsuit against Gage County and several of its deputies, his lawyer said Friday.

Elliot Hawkins, 50, sued the county and law enforcement officials over his 2011 arrest, accusing officials of negligence and saying they violated his due process rights by conducting a reckless investigation and intentionally ignoring leads that would have exonerated him. The lawsuit sought an unspecified amount for lost earnings capacity, damage to his reputation and emotional distress, among other things.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Cheryl Zwart granted the county's motion for summary judgment, saying the defendants have immunity from liability.

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'I recently appeared on MSNBC’s The Cycle to discuss the new edition of my book The War Against Boys. The four hosts were having none of it. A war on boys? They countered with the wage gap and the prominence of men across the professions. One of them concluded, “I don’t think the patriarchy is under any threat.”

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'We've probably all ended up sitting next to that guy on the train. You know, the man who insists on resting his elbow basically on your body, or takes up one-and-a-half seats in order to keep his legs spread or stands unnecessarily close to you even when the car is mostly empty.

That's why the "Men Taking Up Too Much Space On The Subway" Tumblr is so great. It shows photographs of what the curator calls "a classic among public assertions of privilege" -- men taking up much more space than their size calls for.

Of course, the men photographed in this Tumblr aren't doing anything malicious, but it's an interesting visual representation of the way that men feel totally empowered to take up a lot of public space -- and women often do not.'

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'A judge on Thursday ordered a Montana woman who allegedly killed her new husband by pushing him off a cliff to be released from jail and placed in her parents' custody pending trial, legal documents show.

Jordan Graham, 22, was arrested on Monday on a federal charge of second-degree murder stemming from the July 7 death of her husband of eight days.

Authorities allege Graham lied and tried to cover up the crime before confessing she shoved Cody Johnson, 25, of Kalispell, Mont., over a cliff at Glacier National Park during an argument and after expressing doubts about the marriage, according to court records.'

Video here. Author/producer does the math on "dead-beatedness".

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'Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick, born January 4, 1935, died last month, to the relief and comfort of the children whom she spent a lifetime (in their words) "torturing in every way possible." Those children, now grown, marked her passing by submitting the most chilling obituary you will ever read to her local newspaper, the Reno Gazette-Journal. While it appears to have been scrubbed from the paper's website, here's the full text, as it appeared online earlier today:

"Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick born Jan 4, 1935 and died alone on Aug. 30, 2013. She is survived by her 6 of 8 children whom she spent her lifetime torturing in every way possible. While she neglected and abused her small children, she refused to allow anyone else to care or show compassion towards them. When they became adults she stalked and tortured anyone they dared to love. Everyone she met, adult or child was tortured by her cruelty and exposure to violence, criminal activity, vulgarity, and hatred of the gentle or kind human spirit.
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'A South Carolina couple is thanking their dog for saving their 7-month-old from an abusive babysitter.

Benjamin and Hope Jordan, of Charleston, hired 22-year-old Alexis Khan to care for their son, Finn, last year.
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Suspecting that their pet might be on to something, the Jordans placed an iPhone under the couch to record what happened when Khan and their son were alone.

The recording revealed the babysitter swearing and slapping the infant as the child's cries changed "from a distress cry to a pain cry."

Khan pleaded guilty to assault and battery Monday and was sentenced to one to three years in prison. She will also never be allowed to work with children again.'

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'An IT worker accused of snatching a woman’s mobile phone on their first date to ‘teach her a lesson’ when she refused to pay half of the drinks bill was cleared of theft today.

Kishore Nimmala, 32, was said to be furious after Fakhara Sultana told him she had no cash during a romantic rendezvous at the Ruby Blue Bar in Leicester Square.
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But a jury cleared Nimmala of theft after deliberating for just 53 minutes following a three-day trial.

Nimmala said he took Ms Sultana’s phone thinking she would give him £25, but insisted he never intended to keep the device.'

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'Feminism is an old topic, like polytheism and why it’s bad to kick cats. It’s concepts are widely understood and mostly accepted – men have after all, for the most part of human history, generally been total cock-Nazis to women. Yet opposing these arguments are male right’s activists, men that claim male discrimination is as rife and unacknowledged as herpes in the 70s. They claim much of society is anti-male, snubbing men’s issues and focusing on a crude view of women as victims and men as wrongdoers.

Tom Martin made headlines back in 2011 when he attempted to sue London School of Economics for gender bias. Since then he has established himself as a leading male rights activist with a large following. A lot of people don’t like him.'

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'September 12, 2013 9:26 PM

ROYAL OAK (WWJ) – A local hospital facing some opposition to a somewhat standard cultural practice. A demonstration against circumcision is being held this Saturday at noon outside of Beaumont Children’s Hospital.

Norm Cohen is the director of a group called No Circ Michigan. He says his parents had him circumcised and he resents it. He says circumcision is not healthcare.

“It’s not normal to be cutting off normal parts of a child’s body. It violates children and their rights. Every part of our body has a function, so when doctors push this as healthcare, it’s really a pretense that’s done simply for profit and for old-fashioned ideas that do not hold up,” he says.'