IA: AAP meeting in New Orleans in two weeks

In less than two weeks, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) will gather in New Orleans for its annual conference—and Intact America will be there, inside and on the ground, demanding that the AAP retract its new pro-circumcision Task Force Report.

THE TIME TO GIVE IS NOW. We need to reach America’s pediatricians and remind them that circumcision is medically unnecessary AND harmful to the infant—and thus violates the very ethical principles they swore to uphold.

Why now? Because if you donate before midnight on October 15, your gift will be matched dollar for dollar (up to $10,000), thanks to a very generous pledge from intactivist Dan Bollinger. This match will double the impact of your gift!

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Why Some Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Mothers Sabotage their Children

Article here. Excerpt:

'Many men and women in my practice have made the above observations and asked the above questions. The subject of maternal sabotage is also one of the many common themes on the Shrink4Men Forum. It can be difficult to wrap one’s mind around this topic. What kind of a mother would deliberately try to sabotage her child’s intellectual, emotional, psychological, physical and moral development?

A bad one.

That’s a simplistic answer, but an accurate one. Sabotaging one’s own children is frequently a common trait of abusive personality disordered women and men specifically, borderline (BPD), narcissistic (NPD), histrionic (HPD), and dependent (DPD) personality disordered parents.
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Common reasons BPDs/NPDs and other personality disordered parents sabotage their children’s development:

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High court denies area man’s plea for lower child support

Article here. Excerpt:

'SALEM — The South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled a judge was correct in denying a McCook County man’s request to have his child support payments reduced.
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Heumiller asked a circuit court to lower his payments to reflect his past overpayments. Heumiller’s monthly payment was reduced to $699, but the court refused to lower the payments further to compensate for the times he paid the original $1,238.36 payment after two of his children no longer qualified for support.

Heumiller appealed the decision.

The Supreme Court ruled Heumiller should himself have requested his payments be modified as soon as he was no longer required to pay support for one or more of his children. In addition, the Supreme Court pointed out there was no agreement between Heumiller and Snyders for any “credit or offset” as was requested by Heumiller.'

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Paternity establishment: undue influence, misrepresentation & mis-service

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'Men suffer from lack of good biological paternity knowledge. That’s not a matter of biological destiny, men’s personal faults, or men’s free choices. Legal processes of paternity establishment support false biological paternity beliefs through undue influence, misrepresentation, and mis-service.

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Stay-at-home dad honored by national organization

Article here. Excerpt:

'Not all men can be defined by their careers, and as the father of 8-month-old triplets, Matt Batchelor can attest to that.

The father of two boys and a girl from Warminster was the recent recipient of a scholarship honoring him for his work as a stay-at-home dad.

Selected as the recipient of the 2012 Brian Dickson Memorial At-Home Dads Convention Scholarship Award, Batchelor was helped financially so he could attend this year’s convention.

Batchelor said he was searching for networking contacts when he came across The National At-Home Dad Network on the Internet.'

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Tammy Sytch Fourth Arrest: Ex-WWE Diva Violates Restraining

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'Former WWE diva Tammy Sytch had her fourth arrest in four weeks in crimes related to "domestic violence," reported TMZ. Sytch was arrested in Connecticut on Monday after she violated a restraining order that her ex-boyfriend had against her.

Sytch was taken into custody on charges of violating a protective order, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief. Police say she appeared to be intoxicated at the time of arrest.

Tammy Sytch, arrested under the name Sunny, is currently being held on$25,000 bond and is set to be arraigned Tuesday morning.

In September, Sytch was arrested three times in three days for charges related to domestic violence. All three incidents involved her ex-boyfriend.'

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Men owe child support despite not being fathers

Article here. Excerpt:

'HOUSTON—A new estimate shows an overwhelming number of child support owed statewide in Texas. According to the Texas attorney general’s office, there is nearly $11 billion of unpaid child support to date.

The attorney general’s office says the majority of those who don’t pay, have the ability to do so, but choose not to.

On the opposite spectrum, there are a small percentage of men who pay child support for kids that aren’t theirs. A family law attorney in Houston estimates that there are more than 120,000 men in this predicament in Texas.

A new state law says men no longer have to make child support payments if they can prove the child is not theirs. However, there appears to be a loophole in that law. It does not erase back child support.'

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Mother admits gluing two-year-old daughter's hands to wall and beating her into a coma

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'A young mother admitted on Thursday to gluing her two-year-old daughter's hands to a wall and beating her into a coma.

When Elizabeth Escalona, 23, left the courtroom after pleading guilty to injury to a child charges stemming from the horrific abuse in September.

She told reporters afterward, 'I have no comment, and only God can judge me. That’s all I gotta say.'

The toddler, Joselyn Cedillo, was briefly on life support in a coma.

According to police records, glue and paint were stuck to her palms, with skin torn away in places.
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Escalona could face life in prison if convicted.

She remains eligible for criminal adjudication, which would leave her without a criminal conviction on her record.

The girl and three other siblings were taken into custody.'

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Advocacy group backs order to send girls back to Italy

Article here. Excerpt:

'On Monday the Family Court dismissed the mother's last ditch attempt to keep her four daughters in Australia after she brought them here two years ago from Italy, ostensibly for a short holiday.

The Brisbane court ruled the children, aged between nine and 15, be returned to their father in Italy and they were immediately taken into the custody of the Queensland Department of Communities.

The girls' distraught mother was seen yelling out to her screaming daughters around 3:30am on Thursday as they were escorted onto a plane by police and an official from the Italian embassy.
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The legal action has run for more than a year and men's rights advocates say the court was correct to uphold the rules of the Hague Convention.

Men's Rights Agency director Sue Price says while the mother is grieving, she should not have flouted the law.'

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Former NFL cheerleader pleads guilty in student-sex case

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COVINGTON, Ky. — A former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader pleaded guilty Monday to having sex with her 17-year-old former student while she was a teacher at a northern Kentucky high school, a move that will allow her to avoid jail time.

In a tearful admission in Kenton County Circuit Court in Covington, Ky., 27-year-old Sarah Jones pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct and custodial interference in place of more serious charges as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors.
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Jones said the relationship began in February 2011 when the boy was 17, saying that the two had sex, that she sent him sexually explicit text messages and lied about the relationship to police.

The teen had been in Jones’ freshman English class in 2008, and she was his peer tutor in 2010 and 2011 before he graduated at the age of 17 this year, according to Monday’s plea agreement, signed by Jones.

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'Kissing Sailor' Photo Depicts 'Sexual Assault, Not Romance,' Says Feminist Website, Blogger

Article here. Excerpt:

'Touted as an "icon of American culture" and celebrated as one of the most romantic moments ever captured on camera, Alfred Eisenstaedt's "Kissing Sailor" image is one familiar to most of us.

But now one website is turning our understanding of this saucy picture on its head, saying the image "unambiguously depicts an act of sexual assault " and not a romantic moment between lovers.

Feministing.com, quoting a blogger from London known only as "Leopard," argues that "far from being a kiss between a loving couple, we learn that George and Greta were perfect strangers. We learn that George was drunk, and that Greta had no idea of his presence, until she was in his arms, with his lips on hers…It seems pretty clear, then, what George had committed was sexual assault."'

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Finally, a Book on How to Raise a Sexist Jerk! (Every Mom's Dream Read)

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'Dear Adriana: I'm raising a young boy and I want him to grow up to be a big, strong man. But I also want to make sure he's a sexist asshole who can't cope with everyday civilized life in these modern times. I want him to feel totally out of sync with the rest of the world's sexual politics. I want women to avoid him like the plague and for men to be embarrassed around him. What's the most important thing I can do?

Fake letter writer who I just made up, I'm glad you asked that question! I have a book for you. It will do all of these things for your son. It's called Raising Boys Feminists Will Hate by Doug Giles. Let me tell you more about this extremely useful tome.

And because honestly, I couldn't possibly put it better myself, here is the book description from the back cover.'

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Arrested Moms Stay with Kids Instead of Jail

Another case of women getting therapy while men get prison time. Full Article here. Excerpt:

'A unique program in New York City allows mothers to live with their children in a private apartment building instead of prison while they serve out court mandates.

Five families live in the building, all sent there by the district attorney's office for felony offenses. Some involve drugs, others weapons, and still others violent crime.
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The program has been lauded as a successful, more supportive and cheaper alternative to prison. But space is running out, and it needs funding in order to grow.'

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Does Title IX Need Fixing?

Article here. Excerpt:

'Richmond is getting rid of men’s soccer and men’s track in order to add men’s lacrosse, which a university committee decided would be more attractive to students and advantageous for Division 1 play. The university’s athletic director is blaming Title IX because – he says – if they add men’s lacrosse without scrapping another men’s sport, they’d have to add a women’s sport. He says they can’t afford that and don’t want to reserve more spots for student-athletes.

The university president claims the decision to substitute lacrosse for men’s soccer and track wasn’t connected to the $3 million in donations pledged for an endowment for the new lacrosse team.'

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'Lies our fathers told us: The men's rights movement and campus-based misogyny'

Article here. Excerpt:

'I first encountered the Canadian men's rights movement directly when I was in Peterborough last November.

Some friends and associates of mine and I had driven from Toronto early one morning to attend the Policy Assembly of the Socialist Party of Ontario that was being held at Trent University. Upon arriving, we were greeted by the usual array of posters that litter the halls of any university. Among them were dozens of posters for what was a newly formed campus "Men's Issues Awareness Society."

The posters were juvenile in both presentation and content. They made a variety of claims, entirely out of context, that, simply put, attempted to make the case that not only are women no longer victims of systemic inequality, but also that the shoe is now on the other foot. It is men's issues that are being "ignored" and it is men that are now allegedly facing discrimination. This "discrimination," further, is being disregarded due to the influence of feminism in our society.

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