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'(Jamaica Observer) JAMAICA is the lead country in a Caribbean project aimed at developing programmes and strategies to address educational underachievement in boys.

Dubbed: ‘Advancing the Education of Boys’, the initiative is being undertaken as a pilot in Jamaica and three other Caribbean countries through funding and expertise from the Commonwealth Secretariat. It is expected to last three years.

It is being executed locally by the Ministry of Education, through the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) and the Commonwealth Secretariat.

Education Programme Officer for the Commonwealth Secretariat Hipolina Josephs told JIS News that the initiative is in response to the need for support identified by member countries at a consultation in Jamaica a few years ago.'

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'One reason I truly believe the Men’s Human Rights Movement is going to continue to grow is that the children who grew up in the wake of all this family devastation are coming of age, and while some were crippled by it, others have thrived and have begun to speak out about what they’ve seen. Most of them are in their 20s and 30s now. Aimee here is still a teenager, but I think she’s probably not going to be the first, or last, person of her generation who we hear from who deplores the sexist hateful narratives of the gender ideologues, and the corrupt family court system.

You can subscribe to her channel here.'

Aimee's latest video is here.

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'MELBOURNE: An 11-year-old boy in New Zealand has become a father after conceiving a child with the 36-year-old mother of a school friend.

The woman coerced the boy, from Auckland, into repeated sexual encounters over a period of time before becoming pregnant, the New Zealand Herald daily reported. The woman gave the boy beer to drink and then later took part in a sexual encounter with him, the report said. The sexual contact continued for a number of months after the initial encounter. The boy had turned 12 by the time the child was born.

The Child Youth and Family Services, which took a baby into care about two months ago, confirmed it was dealing with a case at the school and that it was before the courts.

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'That's the topic tackled in a recent HuffPost Live segment. Craig Daliessio, the author of "Sometimes Daddies Cry: What a Dad Really Feels About Divorce," shared his experience with the family court system in Nashville after divorce.

"I was paying $1,000 a month because I was a mortgage banker, very successful, and the company I worked for went under in 2008. It takes 11 months to get a modification. During the 11 months, you're rolling up the charge like a taxi meter. I ended up going to jail for 15 weekends because I couldn't pay it," he said. "It is so slanted. I paid $1,000 a month for five years, and I got to see my daughter for six days out of that month. I was basically an ATM machine as far as my ex wife was concerned. I had nothing to do with any of the decisions that were made."'

Story here. Woman kidnaps baby in order to hook her boyfriend, by claiming it is his. Excerpt:

'A 34-year-old St. Paul woman said she kidnapped her friend’s 2-month-old son while everyone was asleep in the Brooklyn Park apartment because she wanted to convince her boyfriend that she gave birth to the baby and that he was the father, according to a charge filed Thursday.

Thalia T. Benson was charged in Hennepin County District Court with kidnapping Elijah Alonzo on Tuesday and remains jailed in lieu of $100,000 bail.

Police tracked Benson to her apartment in St. Paul, Elijah was recovered unharmed and Benson admitted to the kidnapping Christina Alonzo’s son, according to the charge.'

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'A jury of six women, five of them white and the other a minority, was picked Thursday to decide the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who says he shot an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, in self-defense.

Prosecutors have said Zimmerman, 29, racially profiled the 17-year-old Martin as he walked back from a convenience store on Feb. 26, 2012, in the rain, wearing a dark hooded shirt. Zimmerman identifies himself as Hispanic.

The race and ethnicity of the minority chosen for the jury was not immediately available.'

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'School officials in Calvert County, Maryland have denied a request to expunge the suspension of the kindergartener who brought a plastic cap gun on a school bus last month and then wet his pants during a subsequent interrogation.

The refusal came in the form of a letter dated Friday, reports The Washington Post. The letter stated that the five-year-old “did bring a cap gun in his book bag.” It also charged that some other children were frightened and told school officials that they couldn’t discern if the orange-tipped cowboy-style gun was real or fake.
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School officials considered — and denied — the request to eradicate the punishment separately.

The boy’s mother (an otherwise unidentified teacher in Calvert County) expressed frustration that a seemingly serious offense for a look-alike gun will now be part of her son’s permanent record.'

Over-criminalization is a hot-topic in America. And for good reason. Last week we told you about the Center for Prosecutor Integrity's recent survey on the criminal justice system, where two-fifths (42.8%) of the respondents said they believe that prosecutor misconduct is widespread.

We learned that 71.4% believe most cases of prosecutor misconduct are kept hidden from the public. And 73.5% believe prosecutors who commit misconduct are almost never punished. Now it's time to do something about that.

Contact your state lawmakers* today, and ask that they put effort towards ending over-prosecution.

Thank you for joining our efforts to restore confidence in America's criminal justice system.

Teri Stoddard, Program Director
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
www.saveservices.org

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'Lulu’s founder, Alexandra Chong, says that the service is simply the natural extension of women’s longstanding desire to see if a guy is everything he’s purporting to be. And while some may consider that a worthy goal, the site’s methods should draw serious scrutiny from anyone remotely concerned with their digital privacy.

Men, whose Facebook profiles provide the foundational content for the site, are explicitly banned from the app. Furthermore, they are not notified when their information is captured, nor when their profiles are viewed, saved, or reviewed. In fact, the only way a man can have his information removed from the site is to email his Facebook profile name to privacy@onlulu.com or to download a separate app (conveniently also made by Lulu) and then deactivate his own profile.'

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'Had a shocker in the bedroom but keen to keep it under wraps? Had a date from hell but happy to forget?

Well, guys, the worst has come…in the form of a new app called Lulu.

Allowing women to anonymously and publicly rate former boyfriends, the app is banned for males and is taking the world by storm.
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And to make matters worse for the male population, any romantic and sexual value ratings are linked to the man’s Facebook account – allowing only women to access it.

With over 200,000 users as of April, the guy-bashing app allows women to add guys to the database, along with photos and hashtags of the male in question.

But with tags such as #smokeslikeachimney, is the app sexist?

“If there was a man’s version of Lulu, women would absolutely not stand for it,” said one review, describing the app degrading to both men and women.'

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'A Madison woman will spend the next 13 years in jail for killing her son in 2011.

A judge admonished Maria Castillo-Dominguez in court Monday for changing her story about her son's injuries too often.

Castillo-Dominguez was sentenced to 13 years in prison, and three years' probation, for the death of Luis Angel.

Castillo-Dominguez took her son to the hospital in June 2011 and said the child fell from a swing and hit his head.

She later told police she pushed the boy.

But doctors said his brain swelling and injuries were consistent with being thrown against a wall.

"You were frustrated and I have a good, great deal of sympathy for you," said Judge Julie Genovese in court Monday. "I know it must be very difficult to come to foreign country, you don't know the language, where you're work at minimum wage job. I believe you were victim of domestic violence."'

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'Dr. Stevenson’s diverse research touches both policy and daily life, and has been widely cited in the news media. While she has written prolifically on a number of subjects, Dr. Stevenson is perhaps best known for her work on the impact of public policy on labor markets, marriage and divorce, women and families, and happiness and well-being.
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Furthermore, we cited her research when she found that girls’ participation in sports led to increased college attendance and higher wages, as a result of Title IX, which bans sex discrimination against girls and boys in all programs at schools around the country.

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'There's no question that Title IX has been abused - see any of the hundreds of men's sports teams that have been disbanded as a result of the landmark law as examples. Title IX was supposed to provide opportunity to women, not take it away from men - but the way various federal agencies interpret Title IX, as a de facto quota system, has had a huge impact on men's sports, mainly at the collegiate level.

It's neither the fault of athletes nor educators that spectator interest level just isn't there for women's sports. An easy comparison is the NBA and its sister league, the WNBA. The male team that has the worst attendance still draws nearly twice as many fans as the WNBA's league average, which has dropped steadily since the women's game came into being in 1999.'

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'When tennis legend Jimmy Connors released his memoir last month, one revelation fixated the media: Connors' disclosure that nearly 40 years ago, his then-fiancée, fellow tennis great Chris Evert, had had an abortion. Reaction was swift and negative. Evert issued a short statement expressing extreme disappointment that her former partner had revealed such a "private matter. " Writing here, Jessica Luther criticized Connors, arguing that this "was not his story to tell."