Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2013-05-26 18:18
Video interview at Israeli DV conference on YouTube here. Dr. Strauss' web site is here. Some from his Biographical Summary:
'Professor of Sociology and founder and Co-Director of the Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire (since 1968).
Previously taught at the Univ of Minnesota, Cornell, Wisconsin, Washington State, U of Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
Visiting Professor: U. of Kentucky, U. Bombay (India), U. of York (England), Columbia Univ, U. of Leuven Belgium
EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1956.
Submitted by charlie on Sun, 2013-05-26 18:06
Story here. A Minnesota college football coach tells his story of being fired for allegations of child pornography, based on home videos of his own children. He has been totally exonerated by the courts and social services, yet he has still been fired by Minnesota State Mankato. Excerpt:
'IT TOOK FOUR hours in jail before Hoffner was told that the charges against him related to videos of his children on his cellphone. It took a night behind bars and then another day for police to allow him to watch those videos with his lawyer. A police officer sat in the room with them to provide supervision. The lawyer took notes. Hoffner tried to pretend the children on the screen were strangers, hoping it would help him critique the videos more harshly.
They watched in silence. The police officer fidgeted in his seat.
Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-05-25 22:19
Article here. Excerpt:
'A Virginia high school teacher who slept with a student will only spent four months of her 11-year sentence behind bars after she was diagnosed with hypersexuality.
Kathleen Cawthorne, 33, will be freed more than a decade early after a judge ruled she could not control the sudden sexual urges that took over her body.
A court heard how the bipolar educator seduced a 17-year-old boy at William Campbell Combined School in Rustburg in March 2012.'
Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2013-05-25 16:25
Book here. From the intro:
Submitted by Minuteman on Sat, 2013-05-25 05:05
Link here. Excerpt:
'On May 28 – 30, leaders and advocates from 160 countries are gathering in Kuala Lumpur for Women Deliver 2013, one of the decades' largest conferences on girls' and women's health and rights. USAID is proud to be a sponsor of Women Deliver 2013. A number of our technical experts will present at the conference on the latest progress and challenges around family planning, maternal and child health, and other programming that addresses the needs of girls and women.'
Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-05-25 04:32
Article here. Excerpt:
'The most comprehensive review of the scholarly domestic violence research literature ever conducted concludes, among other things, that women perpetrate physical and emotional abuse, as well as engage in control behaviors, at comparable rates to men. The Partner Abuse State of Knowledge project, or PASK, whose final installment was just published in the journal Partner Abuse, is an unparalleled three-year research project, conducted by 42 scholars at 20 universities and research centers, and including information on 17 areas of domestic violence research.
Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-05-25 04:13
Article here. Excerpt:
'Sari had been working in book publishing for a long time. And she was the first to admit: She preferred to work with women. In her experience, women were far superior to men as editors. They were better suited to collaborating with writers. They were more patient, more nurturing. “Women can coax far better material from writers than men,” Sari told me plainly. “It’s just a fact.” She believed it to her core.
Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-05-25 04:02
Story here. Excerpt:
'A San Benito woman is facing new criminal charges after police learned she lied during a domestic disturbance and faked her injuries to get her boyfriend in trouble.
San Benito police arrested 25-year-old Evangelina Perez on a false report to a police officer charge last week.
Police officers were originally called to a domestic disturbance on Chapman Street back on April 16th.
Investigators arrested both Perez and her 47-year-old boyfriend Salvador Mercado, Jr. for the incident.
Perez claimed Mercado had scratched her while Mercado claimed Perez threatened to have drug cartel members kill him.'
Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-05-25 03:58
Article here. Excerpt:
'PHOENIX - Jodi Arias’ claims that she killed Travis Alexander in self-defense have set actual domestic violence victims back ten years, according to one abuse survivor.
“Travis was the victim of domestic violence,” said Leah Pettyjohn, a domestic violence survivor. “He ended up the ultimate victim when his ex-girlfriend murdered him.”
Pettyjohn escaped a dangerous relationship and now advocates for other victims. She does not believe that Arias, now a convicted murderer, was an abused woman.
“To stand there in court with a 'Survivor' shirt, it’s sickening,” Pettyjohn told ABC15.'
Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-05-25 03:55
Story here. Excerpt:
'The head of Multnomah County's health department was arrested on an accusation of domestic violence this week after she allegedly bit her husband, who had filed that day for divorce.
Lillian Shirley, 65, was taken into custody and later released. Her husband, Tom Davidson, declined to press charges, according to the Portland Police report.
Shirley has headed Multnomah County's health department since 1999 and has been involved as a board member in numerous health and community organizations in Portland and nationally. She previously served as executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission.'
Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2013-05-24 20:33
Article here. Excerpt:
'Rebecca Walker explained her family feud for The Mail Online, a personal essay blasting her mother's lifelong hatred of motherhood.
"The truth is that I very nearly missed out on becoming a mother - thanks to being brought up by a rabid feminist who thought motherhood was about the worst thing that could happen to a woman.
You see, my mum taught me that children enslave women. I grew up believing that children are millstones around your neck, and the idea that motherhood can make you blissfully happy is a complete fairytale ... Feminism has much to answer for denigrating men and encouraging women to seek independence whatever the cost to their families."'
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Wikipedia on Alice Walker here.
Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2013-05-24 20:32
Article here. Excerpt:
'Yesterday, journalist Melissa Kite became the latest woman to publicly trash men in a sexist, undeserving rant - this time, by saying those exercising a human right not to become fathers were 'selfish'.
Just days after champagne socialist Diane Abbott claimed that modern masculinity is Viagra-chomping, whiskey-swigging homophobia - even for the millions of men who are gay, Kite jumped on the bandwagon with her own sweeping statements.
In a finger-pointing, foot-stamping article for MailOnline she said men 'do not always play fair in matters of fertility', adding that they 'increasingly behave with terrible selfishness when it comes to giving up their bachelor lifestyles'.
She then added that men who date women without immediately signing up for parenthood are committing some sort of 'fraud'.'
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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2013-05-23 18:12
Article here. Excerpt:
'The public relations officer for the Massachusetts Trial Court informed us that the task force continues its work reviewing the child support guidelines.
Currently, Chief Justice Paula Carey is leading the review of the child support guidelines and serves on the Governor’s Working Group on Child-Centered Family Laws. On July 16th, Chief Justice Paula Carey will take over as Chief Justice of the Trial Court for a five year term replacing Judge Robert Mulligan who plans to retire.
It is the Chief Justice of the Trial Court who has final approval for the work of the child support guidelines review task force, as well as the recommendations for openings within the trial court, including the vacancy of Chief Justice of the Probate and Family Court created by Judge Paula Carey’s promotion.'
Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2013-05-23 16:38
Kia Motors seems to think they will sell more cars to women if their ads include a little female-on-male abuse. In the following ad they've made the woman a human-looking robot. We think it's offensive, whether she's a robot or not.
Please contact Kia Motors today. Use whichever link below is the most convenient.
Tell them you won't be buying any of their cars as long as they try to sell them with "humorous violence."
On behalf of every victim of violence, thank you.
Teri Stoddard, Program Director
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
www.saveservices.org
Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2013-05-23 01:27
Article here. Excerpt:
'(TEL AVIV) - One subject we cover frequently at Salem-News.com is the stark reality of circumcision of boys and girls. Our articles examine the physical and emotional implications, the modifications of laws regulating this practice, and the cultural changes and developments that are raising awareness in leaps and bounds.
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Gonnen and Ben Shalem (The Israeli Association for the Abolition of Circumcision), two Israeli Intactivist groups, have produced stickers and postcards in Hebrew:'
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