Article here. From 2012, but still very relevant. Excerpt:

Press release here. Excerpt:

'TARRYTOWN, NY—The American Academy of Pediatrics should be reeling today from two independent blasts of criticism from doctors and medical ethicists saying the AAP’s Task Force report last summer, which softened its opposition to routine neonatal male circumcision, is unsupported by scientific data or medical ethics.

Articles in the AAP’s own journal Pediatrics, and in a special issue of the British Journal of Medical Ethics, took the AAP to task for its report issued in August 2012 that stopped short of recommending in favor of circumcision, but called for public and private medical insurance to cover the costs for an unnecessary and inherently risky surgery performed more than a million times a year in the United States.'

Article here. Excerpt:

Story here. Excerpt:

'The lawyer who represented three women who accused New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez of employing their services as prostitutes now says he made up the entire thing at the behest of multiple American media outlets.

Melanio Figueroa, who stands accused by Dominican National Police of paying women to fabricate stories about sleeping with Menendez for money, told Dominican investigators Thursday that news outlets are to blame for the plot.

Figueroa blamed four news outlets — CNN, The Daily Caller, Telemundo and Univision — for allegedly encouraging him to fabricate false accusations about Menendez. Pressed further by investigators, Figueroa alleged that a man employed by this news site named “Carlos” offered the lawyer $5,000 to invent the prostitution allegations, according to a Thursday evening television report by Univision.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Brian Banks may yet play in the NFL. But he knows it's a long shot after spending five years in prison on a rape charge for which he was later exonerated. Banks is now set on getting tryouts with pro football teams and has put the tragedy of his jail time behind him, even refusing to want punishment for the woman who falsely accused him. James Brown reports on a once promising high-school football prospect blindsided by injustice in a 60 Minutes story to be broadcast Sunday, March 24 at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT.

Ten years ago, a high school make-out session turned into a nightmare for the football standout at Poly-Tech High School in Long Beach, Calif. The girl Banks was with, Wanetta Gibson, accused him of rape. Persuaded by questionable legal advice, he pleaded guilty to a crime he denied doing in a deal that avoided the possibility of a decades-long sentence. When he got out after nearly five years, he went on Facebook one day and had a shock: His accuser wanted to be "friends."'

Article here. Excerpt:

"No. 1 deadbeat parent pleads guilty to owing $1.2 million" reads the headline from the Associated Press. The article details a father fleeing first to Florida and then to Thailand, resulting in child-support arrears since 2002.

His name is Robert Sand and he sits in jail. Deported from the Philippines in November, he was sent to Los Angeles where he was arrested by federal marshals, and then extradited to New York where he has been held without bail since December. Next, this dad became front-page news. The AP article was careful to use the term "deadbeat parent," but my Facebook feed doesn't subscribe to such neutral speech. My page lit up with moms rallying in solidarity. The target? Deadbeat dads.
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Are there toxic parents who neither love nor support their child? Sure. But forced money gained can't disguise that ugliness. A child who experiences a truly negative parent doesn't need money, they need healing. It's hard to heal a child's pain when the focus is on the toxic parent.

Article here. Excerpt:

'In my practice as a divorce lawyer, the vast majority of the fathers whom I have represented want to remain actively involved as parents after their divorce has been settled. Very few want to sever ties with their children, even when they cannot stand the sight of their ex-wives.
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From my perspective, the courts should not arbitrarily favor mothers over fathers. I believe firmly that the spouse who has served as the primary parental figure should remain in that role after the divorce has been finalized. And as such, they should receive a corresponding amount of the post-divorce estate. This is the case regardless of the gender of the primary conservator.
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And now, for my fellow mothers who are reading this article:

Story here. Excerpt:

'Have you ever wondered if you were raising another man’s child?

We sure hope not! This sounds like something you’d hear on a soap opera.

Unfortunately, that was the nagging question on Richard Rodwell’s mind soon after his marriage to his wife Helen fell apart.

As their marriage began deteriorating, Helen would disappear from their home in Peterborough, England, for several days at a time without letting her family know where she was. And when she would return and he would ask where she had been, she would say, “It has nothing to do with you.” This woman would never even leave a note or message letting her husband or children in on her whereabouts.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'In a rare show of solidarity, Governor O’Malley and Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot have sent the Towson University President a message.

Both want Maravene Loeschke to come to Annapolis to explain how her school’s baseball and soccer teams were eliminated. And, in the meantime, they are both refusing to vote on Towson University’s planned construction of a building on the Harford Community College campus.

Loeschke confirmed to WBAL News that she is planning to meet with the two officials. She added that she was suprised by the request from the Governor and Comptroller.

Earlier this month, President Loeschke talked to a hastily called meeting of the men’s baseball and soccer teams and told the players the sports were being eliminated. According to reports, she walked into the meeting with uniformed police officers, delivered the message and left without taking any questions.'

Latest interview with Mike Buchanan available on YouTube here. The channel page is here. The official blog is here. Excerpt:

'Welcome to the official blog of a new British political party. The party will seek to raise public consciousness about the many disadvantages and discriminations faced by men and boys in modern Britain.

An article published on a leading men’s human rights website, ‘A Voice for Men’, reveals some of the thinking behind our decision to form a new party:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/government-tyranny/fighting-feminism-lets-get-political/
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Thank you for your interest. We’re working for a brighter future for men and boys, and the women who love them.'

The new VAWA Inclusion Mandate offers us countless opportunities to reform the domestic violence field - abuse shelters, criminal justice programs, information and training activities, and more.
 
Now we need to seize the moment - carpe diem! On Monday, SAVE will be unveiling our new Inclusive-VAWA Resource Center: http://www.saveservices.org/inclusive-vawa/resources
 
Whether you are an activist, a citizen-lobbyist, a blogger, or whatever, you can help make this happen.
 
Join us for a one-hour teleconference, Monday evening, 9pm ET, 8pm Central, 7pm Mountain, 6pm Pacific. To get dial-in information, send me a message at tstoddard-at-saveservices.org
 

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

CNN hits bottom in the title* for this article by assuming that the default for boys is to grow up to be rapists. Excerpt:

'In the aftermath of the guilty verdict in Steubenville, Ohio, parents should be taking this opportunity to ask themselves this painful question. But what parent can even contemplate that a child they love could so callously disregard someone's basic human rights? At the same time, the media is filled with experts chastising parents for not being involved with their kids and wanting to be a friend instead of a parent.
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We must talk to our kids as possible perpetrators and bystanders. And our advice about what to say has got to go beyond, "How would you feel if this happened to your mother or sister?" First, no one has any idea what the perpetrator's relationship is like with those women in his life, but it's not a huge leap to think he doesn't hold a great deal of respect for them. Second, these boys have dehumanized their victim. In that moment, they don't care.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'An unnamed mother, who pleaded guilty to attempting to kill her two young children in a murder-suicide, received a prison sentence in Melfort on Thursday.

Justice R.S. Smith handed down a sentence of four years in a penitentiary, less one year for time served in remand.
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Defense counsel brought up the fact that after her arrest, the woman had gone through a psychiatric assessment that found her to be suffering from severe paranoia and depression.

The defense went on to suggest that at the time of the incident the mother was not in the proper state of mind due to her depression. She stated the mother had said she had suffered a lot from abuse from men and she wanted to save her children from that abuse.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'I recently read a magazine article that explored the problems modern men face, which, despite all the hoopla, aren’t as serious as, say, the problems men faced during the Great Depression or World War II.

The headline asked, “What makes a real man anyway?” The writer suggested that things are going terribly wrong, so men need more therapy and medication. That’s certainly original thinking. While some social critics blame the feminist movement for our disorientation, I have doubts about that theory. If anything, we’re to blame for the problems women face.

Nevertheless, I’m worried about young men, because they don’t seem to be motivated by anything but money, power, sex, and partying. There has to be more to a man’s life than that. (OK, maybe iPhones, sports cars and video games instead.)'

Article here. Excerpt:

'It has been a hard year but very slowly I can see more and more people are beginning to realise that domestic violence is not and never has been a gender issue.

Also the gender war against men and boys has resulted in the collapse of family life and and created a hostile environment for relationships between the sexes.

Western governments played their part in refusing to see quite clearly that the state has usurped the role of fathers.

Men as fathers are being forcibly made redundant.

The new family is now ‘woman and their children.’