F&F: Call Center to Connect Low Income Veterans, Active Military with Legal Services

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'The Ohio Military/Veterans Legal Assistance Project and Capital University Law School are partnering to make it easier for Central Ohio’s low income veterans and active military personal to get legal assistance they might not otherwise be able to afford.

The Military/Veterans Legal Assistance Call Center at Capital University Law School opened this year as a partnership between the two organizations. The call center is providing referral information and brief legal advice and counseling when possible to low income veterans and active duty military personnel in Franklin, Delaware, Fairfield, Licking, Madison, Pickaway, and Union counties.'

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March 10 is "National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day‏"

How they do it. From an Office of Womens Health mailing-list email:

'Dear Colleague,

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IA: Stand with Intact America on May 4 in New Orleans at Annual ACOG Convention

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'Intact America will be sponsoring a sidewalk demonstration in New Orleans on Saturday, May 4, 2013, at the annual convention of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)—the largest assemblage of baby-cutters under one roof. During this one-day event, we will be protesting the role of obstetricians in perpetrating circumcision in American hospitals.

Will you join us? The more protesters, the merrier! We’ll supply placards and handouts. Or bring your own posters if you are representing another intactivist organization. Want to wear an Intact America T-shirt to show your support? Visit our online store for shirts, baseball caps, hoodies, bumper stickers, car magnets, pins, and more.'

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Dumbing down Dad: How media present husbands, fathers as useless

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'It's not hard to find. If you watch TV, then you've most likely witnessed the portrayal of the modern-day husband and father as lazy, incompetent and stupid.
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If expectations of men within a society aren't up to par, and the only role model young men have comes from Peter Griffin on "Family Guy," there may be room for worry. Along with the stereotype of men being violent, Gurian said he's also concerned about the system that minimizes the father's role in the home.

"They're kind of stupid and they're not needed," Gurian said regarding fathers in the media. "So the message to the young people is that males are not needed, or Dad is not needed. That's dangerous because it's going to set up guys who will not take care of their kids, and kids who will not respect or understand the males and women who will say, 'Ah, they're not needed anyway.'"'

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Childhood bullying can leave lifelong scars

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'WEDNESDAY, Feb. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Children who are bullied often carry the scars of their experience into adulthood and suffer from anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts, a new study indicates.

Even bullies themselves are at risk for psychological problems when they grow up, the researchers added. And children who have been both perpetrator and victim suffer the worst as adults.

"There has been a lot of research into how bullying affects children short-term. We followed kids into their early 20s to see if there was any kind of lasting effects of having been bullied," said study author William Copeland, an assistant clinical professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University in Durham, N.C.

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Salon asks "Why are men so foolish?"

This article is actually pretty interesting and discusses some new research on generalities around men's and women's styles regarding such things as risk-taking. But what's wrong with the article? The title. Why does it have to be categorically insulting the way it is? We already know the answer. Excerpt:

'Many recent findings in scientific research reveal gender differences - differences in when they choose to compete, differences in risk taking during competition, different responses to the stress of competition, and different strategies for dealing with that stress. Men are quicker to bond with teammates; women are more willing to befriend competitors. Women are less rattled by being ranked, especially when that ranking isn't near the top. Men are overconfident of their abilities, while women underattribute success to their own skills. Men get more competitive under time pressure, while women get less competitive under time pressure. Men rate their teammates and competitors lower in ability; women rate them higher.'

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Identity Politics Über Alles

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VAWA Bill Likely To Pass Congress This Week, Despite Violating First Amendment

Article here. Excerpt:

'Congress never lets the Constitution get in the way of passing a law with a catchy title. Thus, the Senate’s version of the bill reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act will likely pass the House this week, even though UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, a leading First Amendment scholar, earlier noted that provisions in it violate the First Amendment. (Legal scholars have criticized other provisions in the bill as violating Articles II and III of the Constitution, and for undermining due-process safeguards.) The House GOP had earlier objected to the Senate’s version, citing various flaws in the bill, but under political pressure, some GOP members in swing districts have switched sides and endorsed the bill, which is backed by Democratic leaders and the White House.'

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UK: Justice for Men and Boys Party seeks input

Request discussed here. Excerpt:

'We’re embarking upon a lengthy public consultation exercise, and the related document (link below) should be self-explanatory. It includes proposals in 18 areas including education, employment, paternity fraud and domestic abuse. We invite feedback on the proposals, and suggestions for other proposals we might include in our election manifesto for the 2015 general election.'

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House GOP decision to move VAWA bill causes conservatives unease

Article here. Excerpt:

'A number of House conservatives are unhappy with the Republican leadership’s decision to allow for the passage on Thursday of a Senate-passed reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.

After spending weeks hashing out their own proposal, House GOP leaders abruptly switched course and decided to approve a process to hold a vote on the Senate bill if their own version failed to pass. The two measures contained significant overlap but differed on a contentious issue affecting tribal courts.'

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UK: Mother conned a Royal Marine serving in Afghanistan that he was the father of her baby for five years

Story here. Excerpt:

'A young mother who tricked a Royal Marine into believing that he was the father of her baby and paying out thousands of pounds in child maintenance has failed to get her prison sentence overturned.

The conned Marine treated the baby girl as his own daughter for five years before the mother's web of lies unraveled.

The mother even lied about the results of a paternity test when he sought reassurance that the baby was his.

She was jailed for six months at Newport Crown Court after admitting two counts of fraud last month.'

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Texas mistaken paternity: Can DNA prove you are not the father?

Article here. Excerpt:

'Imagine the pain of discovering you may not really be the father of a child you thought was yours and for whom you are legally the parent. In Texas, the law provides a way for such a man to learn the truth through the court system and set things right.

The Texas court proceeding is one for "mistaken paternity," sometimes called "paternity fraud." The only person with the right to bring a mistaken paternity action is a legal father who is questioning his parentage when no DNA testing was ever done. This law addresses the particular situation when a man mistakenly believes he is the father of a child because he relied on "misrepresentations," and thereafter either legally acknowledged paternity or was adjudicated to be the father.'

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Title IX for our boys: Column

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U of Toronto's student union to consider men's issues group

Article here. Excerpt:

'When protesters paraded into a University of Toronto lecture hall where Dr. Warren Farrell was hosting a Men’s Issues Awareness event last December, Sarah Santhosh didn’t see a peaceful protest: she saw “closemindedness” and “lots of hate.”

The controversial lecture and its fiery opposition inspired Santhosh to create an official men’s issues group at Ryerson, which she said is tentatively called the Ryerson Association for Equality. The group would offer a forum for students to broadly discuss men’s issues such as dealing with mental health, male youth violence, misogyny, as well as gender disadvantages in education, the workplace and custody battles.'

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UK: Compulsive liar jailed after 11 false rape claims in decade

Article here. Excerpt:

'Elizabeth Jones, 22, admitted she lied about the latest rape allegation because she “did not like” the man she accused of attacking her, Southampton Crown Court was told.

Her latest victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested and questioned for nine hours before being released without charge.

After a judge jailed her for 16 months, it emerged today that she made her first complaint in 2004 aged just 13 before alleging other men had attacked her over the next nine years.

In 2009 she was given a ten month detention and training order for a similar offence.

Between 2005 and 2007 she had made eight other allegations, which police investigated, but she was never charged.'

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