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'A first lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps, a captain in the Marine Corps Reserves, a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserves and a major in the U.S. Air National Guard filed suit Tuesday against the Department of Defense, challenging its rules restricting women in combat under the Fifth Amendment.

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'The 52-year-old woman, who cannot be named to protect the victim's identity, pleaded guilty in the Victorian County Court on Tuesday to repeatedly having sex with the teen over a four-year period.
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After one sexual encounter the teenager vomited in the bathroom for half an hour.

"I'd never had sex before this and I felt sick to the bottom of my stomach," the boy said in a police statement that was read out in court.

The sexual relationship began in 2002 when the victim was aged 13 and the woman was 41.

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'Solicitors specialising in divorce and child contact say they have noted a marked rise in allegations of one parents exerting undue influence on children to try to turn them against the other.

New mobile phones, computer games, designer clothes and even exotic holidays have been deployed in attempts to win children’s loyalty.

In other cases parents have openly resorted to trying to blacken their former partner’s name in the children’s eyes.

Naomi McGloin, a solicitor at Pannone, said allegations of “brainwashing” had become an increasingly common feature of acrimonious separations in her experience.

Parents desperate to keep their children have attempted to exploit a requirement on the courts to take a child’s feelings into consideration in determining where they should live.'

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'So her entry into the debate about women’s place in society is likely to raise some eyebrows, whether plucked or au naturel.

The 44-year-old, who was France’s first lady for four years until May, has declared: “We don’t need to be feminist in my generation.” Instead she suggests a woman’s place is in the home with her children.

In an interview for the January issue of Vogue magazine, to be published on Dec 1, she develops her views on the women’s liberation movement, adding: “There are pioneers who opened the breach.

“I’m not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I’m a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.’

Article here. Seriously... I mean, for real? They actually asked this? Pardon me, but what planet does one have to be living on to imagine this would happen? It's simply more out-and-out misandry, state-sponsored, too. [Fla. DOH contact info is in the first comment to this story.] Excerpt:

'FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The state of Florida is asking thousands of young women some intimate questions their sex lives and is giving them a $10 gift card in return - but some who received the survey are offended.

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'The 18th Annual "A Woman's Journey" health symposium at the Baltimore Hilton highlighted lung disease and the health of women in the military.

Herrera was first deployed in 2004 to Fort McCoy in Wisconsin. Her son was 31/2 and her daughter 2. She was deployed again a year later to the William Beaumont Army Medical Center near El Paso, Texas.

Women in the military often suffer from back and joint problems from carrying heavy equipment and wearing ill-fitting uniforms that sometimes cut into a woman's breast area, Herrera said. Extreme weather conditions can lead to skin disorders. And hearing problems can arise from gunshots, bombings and loud military equipment.

"I was never able to get used to the hum of the generator," Herrera said. "It was noisy all the time."

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'Katherine Hasson’s son was born addicted to cocaine and other drugs. So when Riviera Beach police said Hasson told them she took drugs while pregnant in an attempt to kill her son, they thought they had probable cause to arrest her on child-abuse charges.

But the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office said Thursday it will not file such charges against Hasson — because it can’t.

“We need a statute that specifically punishes a mother when she harms a child in utero,” Assistant State Attorney Kirk Volker said.
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Hasson gave birth to a boy Oct. 15 at St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach. The boy was born blue in the face and motionless, and he was experiencing withdrawal symptoms. He was hooked up to a ventilator.'

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'We all should have someone in our corner like Sharain Spears, especially when experiencing the kind of month her cousin Brian Ingram is having.

Ingram was stabbed three times by his girlfriend, Diane M. Romano, on Nov. 4, after an argument at their home on Van Norwick Avenue in Batavia, according to police. Romano, who police say also knifed her 19-year-old son, was charged with three felony counts. Ingram was hospitalized with two punctured lungs.

Romano, 38, bonded out and went home. Ingram, released from Delnor Hospital in Geneva last Wednesday with no place to go, began living in a borrowed truck. Which is not a great place to bunk, especially after his wounds became infected.

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'November 25th, 2012 (InsideCostaRica.com) A group of over 60 people marched through Paseo Colon yesterday, with the message “we are functional parents, not ATM machines.”

The march was to demand men’s rights, and to demand the creation of an institute that could provide them with protection and support when assaulted by their partners or facing unfair legal treatment.

The protest began at about 10:00am yesterday in Paseo Colon, and proceeded towards the central Park in San Jose. There, the group spoke about various problems that men face in a family environment.

Eugenia Quesada, director of the foundation “Support to Men Institute” (FUNDIAPHO, in Spanish), said they are demanding the government to create an “Institute for Men.”

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'Masculinity is at the forefront of bullying in schools. Hypermasculinity and flamboyant heterosexuality are markers of masculinity that contribute to bullying. Boys should exhibit a tough, aggressive and violent masculinity that is based on heterosexuality. Boys who are considered nerdy, weak, or who do not live up to these standards of masculinity are often called gay or faggot and are assumed to be less masculine than those who exhibit traditional masculine behavior. The school climate is therefore built on a acceptance of hypermasculinity, and as Klein notes, school shooters often fail to live up to the standards of masculinity, choosing instead to respond to the bullying and failed masculinity in a violent last attempt to assert their power and questioned masculinity.

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'A coalition of women's groups has called for the issue of sexism in the media to be taken on by a new regulatory body in the runup to publication of Lord Justice Leveson's report on the press this Thursday.

Four women's organisations monitored the content of 11 national newspapers over a randomly chosen fortnight in early September, finding more than 1,300 articles and images that raised concerns over how women and violence against them are portrayed in the British press. They say their findings should inform proposals for a new era of newspaper regulation.

The analysis, published on Sunday – International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – warns that newspaper coverage is glamorising and, on occasion, eroticising violence against women and girls, and helps normalise rape while undermining the criminal justice system by creating jurors who hold prejudices against female victims.'

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'So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.'

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'London: Men might think they hold the purse strings but it is actually women who control the family finances and make the biggest decisions on spending, according to a new UK study.

Nine out of ten middle-aged women in Britain take control of paying bills, financial planning and buying goods for their household, the study found.

Dubbed the family CEO, these women believe the term housewife is old-fashioned and no longer relevant to them. Instead, they say their wide range of responsibilities mean their role is more akin to the boss of a company, the 'Daily Mail' reported.'

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'A DEDICATED team of police officers is being launched to tackle a spike in domestic abuse over Christmas.

Operation Nightwing has been set up in Hull to ensure victims who call police are seen quickly.

Between 13 and 15 officers will be available to respond solely to calls regarding domestic abuse in the city during the operation.

Detective Sergeant Stuart Fox, who is leading the operation, said: "We know there is an increase in domestic abuse over Christmas and the new year.

"This can be down to rising stress levels – perhaps relating to money worries – the alcohol that is consumed as people are celebrating, and the fact families are spending more time together.'

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'ALWAR: A seven-year-old boy is battling for life after a circumcision surgery went horribly wrong at a private hospital in Alwar on Thursday. The boy's genitals had to be cut off in an attempt to save his life, said sources. An FIR has been lodged against the hospital authorities after the relatives of the boy created a ruckus.'