Article here. Excerpt:

'The excellent Dr. Linda Nielsen has an article in the most recent edition of The Nebraska Lawyer, the house organ for that state’s Bar Association (The Nebraska Lawyer, January/February, 2013). Put simply, Nielsen’s article should be read by every family law judge and every state legislator in the nation. It addresses and lays to rest the most common claims made by those who seek to eliminate or marginalize fathers in the lives of their children post-divorce.

Entitled “Parenting Time and Shared Residential Custody: Ten Common Myths,” Nielsen’s article essentially says that the state of authoritative social science demands shared parenting. In addition to destroying the various myths, Nielsen cites readers to some of the social science supporting children’s need for shared parenting.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'"At-home dads aren’t trying to be perfect moms, says a recent study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Instead, they take pride in letting their children take more risks on the playground, compared with their spouses. They tend to jettison daily routines in favor of spontaneous adventures with the kids. And many use technology or DIY skills to squeeze household budgets, or find shortcuts through projects and chores, says the study, based on interviews, observation of father-child outings and an analysis of thousands of pages of at-home dads’ blogs and online commentary."'

Story here. I found the stats in the story to be interesting:

'Her execution would have been the first since a Virginia inmate, Teresa Lewis, became the 12th woman put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital punishment to resume. In that same time, 1,309 men have been executed.

McCarthy also would have been the first woman executed in Texas in more than eight years and the fourth overall in the state, which executes the most people in the nation — 492 prisoners since capital punishment resumed 30 years ago.

Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics compiled from 1980 through 2008 show women make up about 10 percent of homicide offenders nationwide. According to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 3,146 people were on the nation's death rows as of last Oct. 1, and only 63 — 2 percent — were women.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'For starters, the programs operated under VAWA have never undergone scientifically rigorous evaluations to ensure that they are achieving their intended results.

Furthermore, because VAWA was initially established on the premise that violence is caused by institutionalized sexism and patriarchal beliefs, the law has allocated financial and legal resources primarily to female victims, while ignoring the complex nature of violence and its causes. Consequently, very little of VAWA's funds are used to address proven causes of violence, such as substance abuse, emotional and psychological disorders and marital instability. The National Research Council reported that many of VAWA's programs are "driven by ideology and stake holder interests rather than by plausible theories and scientific evidence of fact."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The small in-depth neurological study of 16 subjects, commissioned by the Geek Squad, could eradicate once and for all the popular misapprehension that men are more ‘geeky' than women and have a natural affinity with technology. Its results show that women are naturally more comfortable than men with high-tech terminology.

When confronted with tech jargon, the stress and frustration levels of the study's male participants increased considerably. Their negative reactions to terms such as 'OS' and 'vlogging' were 138% higher than those of their female counterparts.'

Today we have an urgent request.  
 
As we told you last week, S. 47, a Violence Against Women Act reauthorization bill has been introduced in the Senate. Unfortunately, S. 47 is very similar to last year's VAWA and ignores well-documented problems.  
 
You'd think that with all of the controversy surrounding VAWA, the Senate would afford time for discussion and the possible addition of amendments. But this may not be the case! Word is that it may skip the Judicial Committee and go straight to the floor for a vote!   
 
We believe that these VAWA Reform Principals are vital and urgently needed to create a comprehensive and effective VAWA: http://www.saveservices.org/pvra/vawa-reform-principles/
 
Our urgent request: Please call your Senators RIGHT NOW. Tell them, "Say NO to S. 47 and YES to Real VAWA Reform!" 
 
Find your senators here: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
 

Article here. Can't make this stuff up. Wonder when they'll hold an event discussing ways to get guys off? All at taxpayer expense, no less! Excerpt:

'The University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (UMTC) is set to hold an event this spring designed to help its female undergraduate students achieve more and greater orgasms.

A promotional poster for the event says it is all about "sexuality and pleasure."
The university’s official online description of the event entitled, “The Female Orgasm,” describes it as open to both male and female students.

“Orgasm aficionados and beginners of all genders are welcome to come learn about everything from multiple orgasms to that mysterious G-spot,” reads the description posted on the school’s official events calendar.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Women are still awaiting a gender revolution in Britain's boardrooms but Norway's corporate culture has undergone a radical change that has transformed the career of one woman in particular.

At one point Mai-Lill Ibsen held more than 185 Norwegian boardroom seats and was undisputed queen of the so called "golden skirts" – experienced executive women who found themselves in demand when Norway in 2006 passed a law requiring 40% of boardroom seats to go to women (or men in the rare case of a female-dominated directors' suite).
...
Nonetheless, Ibsen opposes the quota system as a way to get women into the highest echelons of business. "I've never seen the glass ceiling," she says, raising her arms against an imaginary barrier. "I'm against quotas. They are discriminatory in a way. I feel we [women] are so strong we don't need that.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'At the beginning of her freshman year at Upper St. Clair High School, Kallan Piconi had plenty of decisions to make. Which classes would she take? Which clubs would she join? Most importantly, which fall sport would she play?
...
On Sept. 11, Kallan's mother, Eden Piconi, arrived at her seat for the game at Peters Township, ready to watch her daughter compete. Quickly, Mrs. Piconi saw something in the action that jarred her: Running up and down the field with the girls was a boy wearing a kilt and a Peters jersey.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A former beauty queen who was once married to the owner of a Kentucky Derby-winning thoroughbred has reportedly struck a deal with prosecutors who were preparing to try her for allegedly luring a man to his death nearly a decade ago.

The Seattle Times reports that Peggy Sue Thomas, 47, will spend four years in prison when she is sentenced next month on charges of first-degree rendering criminal assistance. Thomas, who was crowned Ms. Washington in 2000, had faced a first-degree murder charge in the death of Russel Douglas, who was found fatally shot two days after Christmas 2003.

Thomas, a former beautician, once worked at a salon owned by Douglas’ wife, and allegedly plotted with her then-boyfriend, James Huden, to kill Douglas.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Casey Anthony, the Florida mother who was acquitted of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee in 2011, has filed for bankruptcy, The Associated Press reports.

Anthony filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Tampa Friday, claiming about $1,000 in assets and $792,000 in debts, according to the AP. Many of the liabilities come from legal fees associated with her trial, as well as taxes and a $145,660 fee she was ordered to pay the Orange County Sheriff's office for misleading police during the investigation into Caylee's murder.

Anthony, who is unemployed and living in an undisclosed location due to threats she received after the verdict was handed down, is still listed as a defendant in a number of civil suits linked to the case.'

Story here. Seriously, what a nasty person. And of course, were the sexes reversed, not only would the plot not include him walloping her, but if it had, he would have apologized profusely. Instead, she taunts him about it with a "memento" reminding him of her assault. And of course, the story reports that the 'he' character shouldn't have even tried to fight back. I'd like to suggest a boycott of this film. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'Genital integrity activists from across the country are demanding that lawmakers ban the practice of circumcising boys. Popularly known as “intactivists”, these children’s rights advocates submitted the Male Genital Mutilation (MGM) Bill proposal to more than 2,000 legislators this week in an effort to require gender neutrality in federal and state laws that regulate genital cutting.

As director of MGMbill.org’s Indiana state office in Indianapolis, Jeff Cowsert wants all boys to be able to grow up with their genitals left intact. “When I was eight years old, my religious friends told me about circumcision,” said Cowsert. “I was silently outraged, and for the remainder of my childhood I mourned the fact that I didn't have a complete body. I would not have chosen to be cut if given the choice, and I strongly feel that infant circumcision needs to be banned so that men can make their own choices about their own bodies when they are mature adults.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Gender equality is an admirable goal that is almost universally agreed upon in our nation. We want men and women to have the same rights and equal access to opportunities. That is uncontroversial. What is wrong, however, is seeing unequal results and categorically inferring unjust treatment. In other words, what looks, feels and smells like sexism may not actually be sexism.

We must first understand that seemingly organized, designed patterns may naturally arise from individual decisions that are not motivated by bigotry. For example, in seminar classes, the men and the women often sit on opposite sides of the table with no interlay. Is this evidence of a conscious decision to segregate due to sexism? No, of course not. If every member of the class prefers to sit next to at least one person of his or her own sex, then the pattern of complete segregation will occur organically. Thus, patterns of behavior that seem collectively organized can emerge from the aggregation of individual choices that stem from innocent motives.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'European rules on quotas for women on company boards are necessary because businesses aren’t doing enough themselves, according to European Union Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding.

“I don’t like to intervene very strongly, but I thought it was the only way,” Reding said today in a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “I tried to do it first with asking the companies to do it by themselves. What was the result? Nothing.”

Reding set out draft legislation in November asking governments and the European Parliament to approve rules for a 40 percent quota to favor women over equally qualified men for supervisory board seats. She said today such legislation was needed as the population ages.