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'A 23-year-old Texas mother who beat her daughter and glued her hands to a wall told a Dallas judge on Wednesday that she was a monster a year ago, but she has changed.

"Elizabeth Escalona is not a monster," she said of herself, according to a tweet by Dallas Morning News' crime reporter Scott Goldstein. "I want everybody to know that I'm not a monster. I love my kids. I love my babies."

Escalona pleaded guilty in July to first-degree injury to a child, a felony. Prosecutors are seeking a 45-year prison sentence.
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She cried as she recounted what she did to her daughter, according to Goldstein: "I hit her, I kicked her constantly and she didn't deserve that.”

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'Researchers at the University of Michigan compared data from four-year public high schools across the country, including schools that do and do not offer interscholastic sports. They broke the data down by regions, what type of communities the schools were in (rural vs. city, etc), and how much money the schools spent on athletics. Then they compared data from the 2009-10 school year with data from school years 1993-94 and 1999-2000.
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The studies' authors warn that their findings indicate that progress towards gender equity has reversed over the past decade thanks to a false sense that girls were finally receiving an equal chance to play sports and less funding due to the recession. "One sociological tenet contends that, during times of economic hardship, social inequalities tend to grow more marked rather than diminish," the researchers explained. "This dynamic may be playing out with regard to gender equity in high school sports."

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'Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he won't be retreating from his criticism of Prime Minister Julia Gillard and called on Labor to stop playing the gender card.

Ms Gillard on Tuesday accused Mr Abbott in parliament of having a record of sexism and misogyny.

The comments came in a debate over whether to sack Speaker Peter Slipper, who is facing court action by a former male staffer over alleged sexual harassment.

Mr Abbott said the attack was "a bit rich" coming from the person who was "prepared to knife Kevin Rudd, but wasn't prepared to sack Peter Slipper".

The prime minister should be prepared to accept fair criticism.

"Just because the prime minister has sometimes been the victim of unfair criticism doesn't mean she can dismiss any criticism as sexism or she can dismiss any criticism on gender grounds," Mr Abbott told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday.'

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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'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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'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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'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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'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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'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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'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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'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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'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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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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'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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'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?

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