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'As Father’s Day approaches, it may be time to rethink the question of a father’s rights and responsibilities, to take some of our most cherished and unexamined slogans and see if they are fair. (This is a dangerous prospect: Obviously there is a reason that we cherish and don’t examine our slogans.)

Take for instance the idea of “a woman’s right to choose.” I believe absolutely that a woman should decide whether to terminate or go forward with a pregnancy. The man’s opinion is only secondary, and if there is a conflict, entirely negligible.

But is this fair? The social scientist Dalton Conley wrote a provocative op-ed, “A Man’s Right to Choose” in The New York Times on this subject a few years ago. He wrote, “But when men and women engage in sexual relations both parties recognize the potential for creating life. If both parties willingly participate then shouldn’t both have a say in whether to keep a baby that results?”'

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'Have you noticed how guys are being portrayed in movies lately? Unless you've been living under a rock you've seen at least one of these: Knocked Up, Failure to Launch, Hall Pass, Old School, or the Jackass series.

All the leading male characters are presented as expendable losers usually incapable of taking responsibility for themselves, often plotting intricate but seldom realized plans to get laid, and generally running the opposite direction of any kind of commitment. Not only do they avoid the future, sometimes they attempt to re-live past glory in order to avoid living in the present. It seems these guys don't have much value to contribute to society beyond their ability to entertain the other male characters, and of course, the audience.'

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'"Why don't we recognize that when a woman gets pregnant with a man to whom she is not married, the pregnancy should be both parties' responsibility?" she writes in the Stanford Law Review. Not to say that some men don't help out; many do. But for those who don't "the law gives them a free pass. In short, until and unless paternity has been established, a pregnant woman and the man with whom she conceives are legal strangers."

Except they aren't really strangers; they've shared an intimate act. But they aren't spouses, either. They're something in between, either as tenuously connected as a no-strings-attached situation or a cohabiting couple. "When a man and a woman have nonreproductive sex, they knowingly engage in an act that has a reasonable possibility of radically interfering with the woman's life, and disproportionately so," she says. "Preglimony is a new word; it is not a new practice. It's time the law noticed."'

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'And those discussions have their place – just not on Father’s Day.

We don’t have this problem on Mother’s Day.

Nobody talks about the moms who made poor choices.

Nobody talks about the moms who walk out on their kids or unnecessarily puts them in harm’s way to hold onto a destructive relationship.

Nobody dares to talk about the things moms sometimes get wrong.

For one day, moms are simply celebrated, their importance and sacrifices highlighted and appreciated.

Dads don’t receive the same blanket courtesies on Father’s Day, even though we have 364 other days every year to point out things fathers get wrong.

It took almost six decades after Mother’s Day was recognized to have the United States officially begin acknowledge Father’s Day.'

From the WILL publisher:

WILL Magazine Volume 1 Issue 10, has been given a makeover. The highlighted topics in this Issue are Old Age & Male Breast Cancer.

Article here. Ever notice that when a woman kills her cheating husband, "he had it coming," while when a man kills his cheating wife, "he's a monster!" Truth is, murdering a spouse over an affair is wrong no matter who gets murdered. Try telling that though to the average person. Excerpt:

'A Brazilian woman has admitted to shooting her husband and cutting off his limbs before scattering his body parts in plastic bags.

Elize Ramos Kitano Matsunaga, 38, killed her husband, Marcos Kitano Matsunaga, 42, in their apartment in Sao Paulo, Brazil, last month after an argument over his infidelity.

Police found his body parts spread along a road in the city of Cotia, about 20 miles outside Sao Paulo.

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'In a strongly worded statement, Dr. Thomas Farley said that direct oral-genital suction, known as metzitzah b'peh, should not be performed during Jewish ritual circumcision. He said that several hospitals, including those serving the haredi Orthodox Jewish community, have agreed to distribute a brochure that describes the risk of contracting the herpes virus from the practice.

The controversy over metzitzah b’peh was reignited in March after it came to light that an unidentified infant died Sept. 28 at Brooklyn’s Maimonides Medical Center from “disseminated herpes simplex virus Type 1, complicating ritual circumcision with oral suction," according to the death certificate,

The Connecting for Change Summit is the pivotal event in a transformation of the false allegations reform movement. Come to Washington, DC, June 30. Be part of this historical gathering.

Keynote Speaker: Michael McCormick
Exec. Dir., American Coalition for Fathers & Children
"False Allegations: A Blight to Families and Society"

"How to" Presentations
Write your own legal briefs.
Draft a bill while avoiding the legal fees.
Become a party delegate.
Lobby successfully.
Grow an organization.
Use traditional and social media.

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'The National Organization for Women is pretending that the failure of the Paycheck Fairness Act in the Senate is a big blow to women.

It’s not: This bill would have encouraged more class-action lawsuits and made workplaces less flexible and efficient by encouraging the adoption of one-size-fits-all compensation practices. Trial lawyers would have been the only real beneficiaries of the Paycheck Fairness Act’s new legal regime. Women who want more job opportunities and greater flexibility should welcome the bill’s defeat.
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Of course, this didn’t stop the National Organization for Women from repeating the tired line, “It is unacceptable that women are still paid, on average, 77 cents for every dollar paid to men,” with the clear — and misleading — suggestion that this gap is driven by discrimination. Yet certainly the Washington Post’s exposé on the statistic is a step in the right direction.'

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'America’s “wage gap” between men and women may be more paper-thin than Democrats are letting on, and it’s non-existent among those with a college degree.

President Obama and Senate Democrats have recently taken to repeating Census Bureau numbers showing that U.S. women earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, but that figure may not be the best representation of the facts. At the least, it’s not the only representation.

The Census Bureau report is based on workers who earn an annual wage, so it doesn’t take into account professions like school teachers who don’t necessarily work year-round, the Washington Post reports.'

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'IOWA CITY -- A mother who falsely represents the identity of the father of her child can be sued for fraud and ordered to pay back financial support she received, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday.

The court reluctantly opened the door to claims of paternity fraud, a controversial and particularly messy area of litigation that had not been recognized in Iowa. Chief Justice Mark Cady warned litigants to use caution in bringing such cases, saying they would be hard to prove, emotional and embarrassing.

"In the end, it becomes painfully obvious that parties pushed into the justice system over a paternity fraud claim could never leave it unscathed, and the standards of justice will certainly be stretched to their limits, even if justice is attainable," Cady wrote in a concurrence to the 7-0 decision. "This consequence may cause many reasonable, caring people to simply leave the claim dormant for the betterment of others."'

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'After giving his concession speech in the race where Governor Scott Walker won his own recall election, a woman came up to him and asked, “Can I slap you?” Apparently, she was upset about him conceding while she felt there were still votes to be counted, reports Politico.

Barrett responded, “I’d rather you hug me.” Thinking he had made himself clear, he leaned down and received a slap in the face.

The Washington Times reports that Barrett was stunned and “just simply walked away after that.”'

PRESS RELEASE

In Wake of Abdalla Suspension, SAVE Says Sex Abuse Policies Recall ‘Soviet-Style’ Justice

WASHINGTON / June 5, 2012 – Following revelations of denial of due process protections to Hany Abdalla, accused by an anonymous source of sexual abuse of an 8-year-old student, Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) is calling on lawmakers to investigate the problem of false allegations of abuse.

Abdalla, who works as a teacher’s aide in a New York City school, was arrested on April 25. The next day the Manhattan district attorney’s office announced it would not prosecute the case and released the man. Abdalla, father of 3, had worked at the school since 2007 and had no prior investigations or convictions on his record. Abdalla always worked with other adults in the room, according to the man’s attorney.

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'TAMPA, Fla. -- A Florida woman was being held without bail Monday after she allegedly doused her husband with nail polish remover and set his arm on fire.

Idalmis De Armas, 40, faces charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and resisting an officer, the Tampa Bay Times reported.

She poured the chemical on her husband's arm and shorts and lit it with a cigarette lighter at around 11:00pm Saturday at their home in Tampa, according to an arrest report.

She admitted to officers who arrived at the scene that she had lit her husband on fire, and tried to pull away when they attempted to handcuff her, police said. The motive for the attack was not known.'

Readers knowledgeable or with direct experience of such issues may want to ensure that mens' fertility concerns are also adequately addressed.

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