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'National Parents Organization of Connecticut is proud to announce that on June 25th Connecticut Governor Dannel Patrick Malloy signed into law HB6688 revising statutes relating to the award of alimony. It is effective October 1, 2013.

Working with Connecticut Alimony Reform, our new affiliate has begun to improve alimony statutes in Connecticut. HB6688 highlights the fact that alimony statutes are gender neutral in their application; makes the switch to gender inclusive language; and adds education and earning capacity to the list of factors for consideration. The law changes husband and wife to spouse. A sensible change in a same gender marriage state. It also provides for a study of the fairness and adequacy of state statutes relating to the award of alimony to be conducted by the Legislative Program Review and Investigations Committee.'

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'Allegations of child sexual abuse are being increasingly invented by mothers to stop fathers from seeing their children, says a retiring Family Court judge.

Justice David Collier, retiring from Parramatta Family Court at the end of the month after 14 years on the bench, sees unprecedented hostility infiltrating the Family Court, and a willingness by parents to use their children to damage one another.

”If a husband and wife really get down to it in this day and age, dirt flies,” Justice Collier said.

The worst are those mothers who direct false allegations of abuse against former partners.'

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'The 19 firefighters killed in an Arizona wildfire over the weekend were all part of an elite unit of 20 frontline firefighters. All but one of the firefighters from the Granite Mountain Hotshots unit were killed in a blaze that spread quickly through the town of Yarnell.
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These men truly are an elite group of firefighters as they trek through the woods to reach the fires unobtainable by road. They carrying 40 to 50 lbs of firefighting gear with them. The firefighters in this group sleep out on the front lines as they develop the lines and try to protect homes from the fire.

The 19 firefighters killed from in the Granite Mountain Hotshots were all young, brave and very dedicated men and women.'

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'ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ)— Hundreds of firefighters are battling a deadly wildfire that is still burning out of control in Arizona. It killed 19 members of an elite fire crew as they battled the blaze Sunday.

Twenty-two others were injured.

In Maryland, Anne Arundel County Executive Laura Neuman directed all flags lowered to half mast to honor them.

“I want to honor the brave men and women who lost their lives or were injured battling the wildfire in Arizona,” said County Executive Neuman. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the fallen heroes and the Arizona community as they deal with this tragic loss.”'

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'For the first time since 1912, the USA will not have a male representative in the third round of the men’s singles at Wimbledon.

World No 1, Serbian Novak Djokovic made short work of dispatching the last American standing, Bobby Reynolds, under the Centre Court roof last night.

Any hopes of an American win now lie firmly in the women’s draw, but with Serena Williams' performance this week, things are looking like she could compensate all on her own at the moment.'

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Relatedly: Group blames Title IX for decline of college tennis

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'OTTAWA - The last three decades have been generally good for younger Canadian women in the work force — or at least much better than their male counterparts — a new analysis suggests.

A Statistics Canada comparison of employment trends from 1981 to 2012 shows working women in the 25-34 age group have seen an across the board improvement in employment prospects over the three decades.

Young Canadian women have lower unemployment rates today than they did, more of them are employed full-time, and they are paid better in real inflation-adjusted dollars.'

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'Men’s Wearhouse announced today the launch of its sixth annual National Suit Drive with a goal to collect 150,000 gently used professional clothing items through July 31, to give unemployed men a chance to look their best as they re-enter the workforce. Each year, National Suit Drive, the nation’s largest collection of business attire for men, encourages Americans to donate their gently used business wear to help give a fresh start to millions of disadvantaged workers still facing unemployment.

In its first five years, the Men’s Wearhouse National Suit Drive collected more than half a million pieces of business attire, including 120,000 suits, which helped thousands of men confidently re-enter the workforce.'

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'A national poll released June 19 by Florida-based CapitalSoup.com to mark the anniversary found that 59 percent of Americans are in favor of including women in a future draft. The poll, conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research, found that support is strongest among Democrats, women and people ages 18 to 34.

It’s not the first time Americans have voiced support for the change.

Article here. Tangentially related to men's rights, admittedly, in that men are far more likely to be arrested and prosecuted on flimsy pretexts than women, much less on valid ones. Further to it, all I can say is fathers have been getting treated as criminals upon mere accusation and presumed guilty in courts as well as in public opinion now for decades. Seems the context of being presumed guilty and breadth of frivolous prosecution is now expanding. Once we start down the "slippery slope", it's hard to stop. Excerpt:

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'As our nation rounds the corner on another birthday and continues its long history of trying to figure out exactly what it means to be a nation of liberty and justice for all, it's a good time to look at an increasingly "lost" group in our culture: our sons.

First, some fast facts about our boys. According to New York Times bestselling author Michael Gurian:

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'A message to British Politicians, and the public regarding family law.

Hi there, my name is Aimee Nicholls, I’m 16 years old, and 11 years ago, my parents divorced. It doesn’t matter why right now, that’s history. But it is important that you know that it wasn’t down to my dad. It wasn’t something that he wanted, and he couldn’t do anything about it. It’s certainly not something that I wanted, but I also had no say. My dad is definitely the more natural parent out of my mum and dad, and I’ve always been closer to him. I do love my mom and dad both the same. But, if I could only live with one of them, it would be my dad, and it’s been that way for 11 years. There was no reason for that not to happen. He hadn’t harmed me in any way, and he didn’t pose any risk, or threaten me. My dad shared my care before my parents split.

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'A British taxi driver has used a voice recording app on his phone to prove a female passenger lied about him raping her at knife-point in his cab.

Astria Berwick was jailed for 16 months in Nottingham Crown Court yesterday after admitting to perverting the course of justice by wrongly accusing Mohammed Asif of rape on February 20, the Telegraph reports.

The court heard the CCTV in Mr Asif’s car was broken on the day of the alleged attack so he switched on the app as a makeshift replacement.
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"I keep thinking, 'I just dropped her off, she was just a normal passenger, why has she done that?’," he said.'

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'Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of Canada stayed proceedings against Nicole Doucet, who sought to hire at least one hit-man to kill her then-husband, Mike Ryan. Eight of the nine Justices accepted the unproven contention that Doucet “was the victim of a violent, abusive and controlling husband,” and that “she believed that he would cause her and their daughter serious bodily harm or death and that she had no safe avenue of escape other than having him killed.”

In response, Dalhousie University law professor Archibald Kaiser is calling for a public inquiry to rectify what he is calling a “stain on the justice system.”

A stay of proceedings, he writes in the journal Criminal Reports, has no precedent “without an abuse of process or charter violation” — and neither element is present here. Professor Kaiser adds: “In [the case of Doucet-Ryan], the courts lost their vision of the nature of Canadian society and the function of the criminal law.”'

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'Proposed measures include docking maternity leave from couples if fathers fail to take proper leave too, enabling courts to accelerate restraining orders, trials and compulsory "awareness-raising courses" for violent male partners. The law also envisages providing females considered under threat of violence with free emergency mobile phones to alert police.

Divorced men who fail to pay alimony could see the owed funds taken directly from their social benefits.

Companies that fail to respect gender equality could be excluded from public contract tenders, while sports federations will also face penalties for shunning equality. Fines on political parties failing to respect gender parity in legislative elections will be doubled. Currently only 26 per cent of French MPs are women.

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'In this talk (audio- MP3) , Brian D. Earp argues that the non-therapeutic circumcision of infant males is unethical, whether it is performed for reasons of obtaining possible future health benefits, for reasons of cultural transmission, or for reasons of perceived religious obligation. He begins with the premise that it should be considered morally impermissible to sever healthy, functional genital tissue from another person’s body without first asking for, and then actually receiving, that person’s informed consent—otherwise, this action would qualify as a criminal assault. He then raises a number of possible exceptions to this rule, to see whether they could reasonably serve to justify the practice of infant male circumcision in certain cases.