Article here. Like the NYT, you'll probably get a login challenge, so to get around it, go to Google and enter "Results prove education system favours girls, yet we do nothing" and click the first link in the results list. Excerpt:

'Australian children have been subject to haphazard experiments in reading and writing for a very long time. And not just reading and writing, but in all aspects of pedagogy and curriculum. The ones who have really suffered from all this are the boys.

It was recognised in 2002 that there was a real crisis in the education of boys. Brendan Nelson had an inquiry which produced an important report on the subject. But despite research confirming that boys are doing worse overall than girls, and despite some attempts by individual schools to rectify the problem, the crisis continues.

Article here. Excerpt:

'“I am not a feminist because that’s about equality. Women aren’t equal to men. We are better. We are so much bigger, so much more capable, and can do a lot more than men,” she explains in a straightforward manner.

“I think women have a lot more going on than men – so I wouldn’t call us equal. We are just better.”

Right then. Well that clears that one up. And while we are on the topic of women being badass and brilliant, Gray name checks one of her big female idols: Michelle Obama.'

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Ed. note: I had never heard of her before, so of course went to Wikipedia to find out.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Escambia County investigators arrested a part-time Escambia County elementary school worker today on several domestic violence charges, including battery, torturing a child, caging a child and cruelty toward a child that could result in physical or mental injury.

Dorothea Vega, 59, of Pensacola is in the Escambia County Jail without bond.
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Investigators learned that a child was hit by numerous household objects and was made to take prescription medications in an effort to control the child’s behavior.

Deputies went to the home, where they found alarms on the door of the child’s room.

The child was made to stay in the room, unless she was doing chores. If the alarm sounded, Vega beat the child, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office.

The living conditions were found to be deplorable. The child was not always permitted to eat or take a bath and would sometimes use a school restroom as a place to bathe.'

Article here. (Be advised: Partial nudity in pics shown with the story, so it's NSFW.) Excerpt:

'When the boys of the rowing club stripped off for a charity calendar, it was met with praise, encouragement and the occasional cheeky compliment.

But it seems that it’s one rule for them and another for the club’s girls – who have been accused of being attention-seekers and damaging the feminist cause by posing for their own naked calendar.
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Hettie's comments came in the wake of a blog on the Huffington Post website, which attacked Hettie and her friends, and said they had put the feminist cause back.'

Article here. Excerpt:

Article here. Excerpt:

'Just in case you thought there was even a shred of integrity left in the family court system, let this story lay that misguided notion to rest for good (The Daily Caller, 12/8/12).

Detroit judge Wade McCree was hearing a child support suit involving a mother, Geniene La’Shay Mott and her ex-husband, Robert King. The only problem with that was that McCree and Mott entered into a serious and long-term sexual relationship during the legal case.

“It went from being a summer fling and just something to do to falling in love, promises of marriage, me getting pregnant, us buying a house together, name it,” Mott told WJBK-TV.

Article here. Excerpt:

'After our tears dry for the twenty little darlings and seven others who were mowed down by Adam Lanza, we begin to ask “Why?”

There is always a dominant narrative to explain the unthinkable. Now it is mostly about the absence of effective gun controls, or about mental illness. Or, we hear about the effects of violence on television and video games.

We don’t hear about the effects of fatherlessness, especially on young men. We don’t hear that the most reliable predictor of crime is neither poverty nor race but growing up fatherless. We don’t hear that a large majority of violent criminals were fatherless. We don’t even hear that young male elephants go on violent rampages unless they are kept in line by the old bulls.
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The Daily Mail reports quotes several of Adam’s former classmates to the effect that his problems got much worse after the separation. “He was always weird but the divorce affected him. He was arguing with his mother. He was a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.”
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Article here. Excerpt:

'Fathers and Families is your voice in family law. Fathers and Families continues to grow and so does the strength of your voice. We want to start our next affiliate in your state.

Fathers and Families believes shared parenting is the single most important social change we must make for our children. Society should support shared parenting and the rights and responsibilities of both parents in the same way it supports other children’s issues, including child support enforcement.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'In all the discussion of the horror in Newtown, one factor that should be considered is the absence of appropriate influences for boys and men in our increasingly feminized society. Many of the traditional supports for male maturity have been withdrawn, traditional manhood is often mocked and diminished, and the qualities promoted today tend to be the more feminine ones of acceptance, nurturance, etc., instead of the more masculine demand to measure up. The killers are often misfits of precarious masculinity, who may be unconsciously or consciously furious at a feminized world that denies and denigrates who they are. Years ago psychologist Erich Fromm described the difference between the unconditional love of the mother and the conditional love of the father. Both are needed, and of course it’s possible for both men and women to extend both kinds of love, but in the desire to glorify women, our society has gone too much in the one direction. Instead of teaching self-control, Dennis Prager points out, we teach self-esteem.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'BERLIN — German lawmakers on Wednesday passed legislation ensuring parents the right to have their boys circumcised, bringing a close to months of legal uncertainty set off by a regional court’s ruling that equated the practice with bodily harm.

The measure passed by a vote of 434 to 100, with 46 abstentions, in Germany’s lower house of Parliament, the Bundestag. The vote followed months of emotional debate, and angered and alienated many German Jews and Muslims, for whom circumcision is a religious rite, integral to their beliefs.'

In contrast: U.N. seeks a global ban on female circumcision

Link here. Excerpt:

'As we commemorated World AIDS Day earlier this month, the importance of addressing the needs of women and girls as part of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy was clear. While we have made tremendous progress in learning how to prevent and treat HIV, including among women and girls, much work remains. Of the approximately 1.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States, about 290,000 are women and women account for 23 percent of new HIV infections.

This Administration has made combating the HIV/AIDS epidemic a priority. For women, that includes addressing gender-based violence and gender related health disparities.
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From December 20, 2012 to January 20, 2013 you will be able to submit your individual stories, experiences, and comments to the working group by completing this online form. While we welcome any comments salient to the issue, we also ask that you consider the following questions:

From Warren Farrell:

This, a documentary on divorced fathers called 'Broken', is excellent. It's some touching interviews with divorced dads. I know the fathers with whom you work will feel less lonely and isolated as they see this. The documentarian, Steve Brulé, has submitted this to a Canadian film festival. Brulé interviewed me in my capacity as the author of Father and Child Reunion and my experience doing expert witness work for dads. Feel free to make this available as a holiday present to the dads you are helping.

Warren Farrell, Ph.D.
www.warrenfarrell.com

Press release here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A legal reform organization has unveiled innocence quilts to highlight the growing problem of the loss of the presumption of innocence. Affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court, the presumption of innocence has long been viewed as a bedrock principle of the American legal code.

SAVE – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments -- believes widespread changes are urgently needed to restore the integrity of the criminal justice system, protect civil rights, and thwart false allegations. False accusations serve to divert scarce services and protections from needy victims.

Translated story here. Excerpt:

'TROMSØ (AP) Bodo Woman (73) beat, threatened and insulted her husband at the coarsest for over 40 years without anyone intervening.

Now the former unpunished pensioner zones three years behind bars.

The couple married in 1961. Some years later abuse. The relationship was not revealed until 2010, when the woman Reviewed her husband for harassment.

After Bodø police began to do research, the case was turned completely upside down.

The investigation revealed that the woman in over 40 years regularly had acted violently and threatening to her husband.

"The man has lived for 41 years under an almost constant terror regime, characterized by constant insecurity and fear of violence and other harassment," stated Salten District Court, which earlier this year sentenced the woman to three years in prison.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Swedish woman who kept human skulls and bones in her apartment was sentenced Monday to probation and ordered to undergo psychiatric care after being convicted of “disturbing the peace of the dead.”

The prosecution had argued that the 37 year-old woman, who has a history of unemployment and substance abuse, used the bones “for various sexual activities”, but charges of necrophilia were dismissed by the Gothenburg district court.

“Moving parts of the skeleton is a crime, since she was unauthorised to do so, just as it is a crime to assemble a skeleton and keep it lying on the floor, (and) to keep skeletal parts in plastic bags and use them for trade,” the court said.'