Article here. Excerpt:

'The number of girls committing suicide in Canada has risen in the past 30 years, a troubling trend that’s prompting some experts to question the role played by social media.

In a study published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, researchers from the Public Health Agency of Canada report that on a whole, youth suicide rates have declined since 1980. But closer inspection reveals the decline is evident only in males, while female suicide rates rose from 1980 to 2008.
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In 1980, a total of 249 males and 50 females between ages 10 to 19 committed suicide in Canada, according to the study. By 2008, that number had fallen to 156 for males but rose to 77 for females.
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Dr. Manion says the trend could be explained in part by the fact more females are being affected by substance abuse or behavioural issues, problems traditionally associated with males.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Women at board level are "less experienced", "more aggressive" and "more likely to take risks" with a bank's finances - a report by an all-male group of academics and bankers has found.

The Bundesbank’s Thomas Kick led the study, entitled Executive board composition and bank risk taking, that flies in the face of the theory that women in senior management take a more balanced, risk-averse approach.

The German central bank's research found that female board members were more likely to take risks with a bank's finances than their male counterparts.

It urges financial institutions to be cautious when re-addressing the gender balance: "Employing a higher proportion of female board members significantly increases risk taking."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A woman who falsely accused two Victorian policemen of sexually assaulting her after they arrested her for being drunk outside a South Yarra nightclub has been convicted and fined $2000.

Karly Enid Jean Mitchel, 25, had formally complained after her release from custody that she had been "groped" on her breasts by the police and touched on her inner thighs and outside her crotch.

Melbourne Magistrates Court heard today Mitchel had been refused entry about 2am on August 6 last year to the Circus Nightclub and then spent 45 minutes abusing crowd controllers.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A woman gaoled for making false marital rape allegations has lost her appeal. Others had little appeal in the first place, including Christine Jordan, who had consensual sex with a man who couldn't even remember her name.

Pips Taylor was recently given space by the BBC to indict the men of Britain, plucking figures for unreported rape statistics out of thin air. Here, we concentrate on actual cases of false allegations. This short round up of recent proven fabrications is in no particular order. The first concerns marital rape, which is a fairly new development in English law.

Three years ago, the non-victim's husband was charged with six counts of rape - on her word alone - pleaded not guilty, and no evidence was offered against him when he appeared at Mold Crown Court, Wales. Then she admitted she had accused him falsely, and was charged with perverting the course of justice.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'(Longview, Washington) In 2001, a disgruntled daughter, upset over her parents’ divorce and mad at her dad, told Washington State Police that her father raped her on several occasions back when she was 11-years-old. The dad, Thomas Edward Kennedy (now 43), denied the allegation at the time, but was convicted by a Washington jury and sentenced to more than 15 years in the slammer. Now 23-years-old, the daughter, Cassandra Ann Kennedy recanted her 2001 rape allegation – after her father spent more than 9 years behind bars.

According to tdn.com in Washington: “ … she made it all up. So after serving more than nine years in prison, her father was released last week and the charges against him were dismissed.”'

Story here. She beat him up in bed after a marriage counseling session:

'Wife arrested for assault. On March 13, sheriff’s deputies were called to Swedish Southwest Emergency Room, 6196 S. Ammons Way, to investigate an assault. The man suffering from head and shoulder injuries said he had been beaten by his wife in bed after coming home from a session of marriage counseling at their church and arguing. The woman later agreed to meet the deputy at the Jefferson County Jail and was arrested for assault.'

Story here. Disturbing because the baby is presumed dead and father and grandmother offered to take the child--but Social Services say mom has all the rights. Excerpt:

'The father of a 7-month-old Commerce City boy missing and presumed dead said he offered to take the child when the baby's mother expressed dissatisfaction with her baby.

Sharrieckia Trinette Page, 22, is being held in the medical unit of the Adams County Jail in lieu of a $100,000 bond on suspicion of child abuse resulting in death. She appeared in Adams County court for an initial advisement via a video link, said Krista Flanagan, an Adams County District Attorney's Office spokeswoman.

Torrey Brown Sr., the father of the child, said he visited Page's home on Wednesday, the day before the baby was last seen.
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Brown said he offered to take the child but was denied."
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"'She has more rights, she is the mother,' " Brown recalled of her conversation with a child welfare agent. "That is what I was told."'

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'NEW YORK -- A woman accused of stalking and shaking down New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman peppered him and his office with odd phone calls, posing as other people and disguising her voice as a man's, a new indictment says.

Louise Neathway also called Cashman's estranged wife, according to the indictment, obtained Monday. The indictment adds a slew of charges to the initial stalking, grand larceny and harassment counts Neathway has faced since her February arrest.

Neathway, a 36-year-old medical sales worker originally from Great Britain, now also is contending with charges that range from lying about her income on an application for her Manhattan apartment to lying to the grand jury -- and from squeezing Cashman for thousands of dollars to harassing her ex-husband and another man.

Article here. Excerpt:

'A new ad campaign aimed at British youth is causing critics to claim the shock value of one public service announcement goes too far, with many others saying the "shocking" ad is necessary to open eyes.

In the ad, as part of the "This Is Abuse" campaign, a young man is seen forcing himself on a young girl in a bedroom. As she tries to resist, the teenage boy continues to advance on her.

The hook comes near the end, when a carbon copy of the boy is seen screaming at "himself" to stop. Viewers are then prompted to ask themselves, "If you could see yourself, would you see rape?"

The Huffington Post reports that the ads are aimed to British teenagers aged 13-18 years old. The PSAs typically run during shows geared toward that age range.'

Article here. Something tells me if it was a woman the Supreme Court would have came to a different decision. Excerpt:

'Washington (CNN) -- A New Jersey man who was strip searched in prison after being accused of failing to pay a traffic fine lost his Supreme Court appeal Monday.

The 5-4 divided court found two county jails "struck a reasonable balance between inmate privacy and the needs of the (correctional) institution."

The conservative majority concluded a "reasonable suspicion" standard could be applied when conducting examinations of newly admitted prisoners.
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Albert Florence said he was subjected to what he called a pair of intrusive, humiliating searches six years ago.'

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'TAYLOR MILL, Ky. - The Ben-Gal cheerleader and her middle school principal mother involved in a sex abuse scandal will make their first court appearance Monday morning.

Pleas of not guilty are expected to be entered in Kenton Circuit Court for Cheryl and Sarah Jones, both of Independence.

Sarah Jones, Captain of the Ben-Gals cheerleading squad and a former Dixie Heights High School teacher in Edgewood, is accused of sexually abusing a student and unlawful use of electronic means to induce a minor to engage in sexual activities. She resigned from her teaching position Nov. 30 for personal reasons.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The men’s basketball program at St. Johns River State College is in imminent danger of being eliminated, but those wishing to prevent the removal of the school’s oldest sport aren’t going down without a fight.

School president Joe Pickens will be asking the Board of Trustees to consider several options at a Wednesday meeting on the McClendon campus to keep the college in compliance with Title IX regulations, including the controversial measure of dropping basketball, which has been in place at the Palatka school since the early 1960s.
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Video here. Caption:

'Calling violence against women "as American as apple pie," Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), testified on behalf of the Violence Against Women Act which would would renew grants to U.S. domestic violence prevention and survivor support programs, would increase availability of legal assistance to victims and would extend assistance to battered undocumented immigrants and same-sex couples.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'I’m no fan of “father’s rights” attorneys. I think that they are just marketers who prey on the fears of Dads (or in some case Moms) who are worried about losing their kids or not seeing them as much as they want.

Despite me cringing when I hear one of these Dad’s rights commercials, there is a law that really screws some fathers that needs to be changed.

In Illinois, if you sign the birth certificate to a child and don’t reverse that within 75 days of doing so, you are legally the Dad. That’s it. So if your wife sleeps with her boss and gets pregnant (as happened to a recent caller to my office), and you sign the birth certificate, you are on the hook for child support for that kid. If you get a paternity test later on that shows you aren’t the father, you are out of luck.

Story here. (About Jackie Mason.) Excerpt:

'It was no laughing matter for Jackie Mason.

The elderly stand-up comedian called cops early today after he and a gal pal got into a tiff in his apartment and he wound up scratched on his arm, law-enforcement sources said.

The 48-year-old woman, Kaoru Suzuki- McMullen, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault.

Mason, who cops said is 83, was at his W. 57th St. apartment with Suzuki-McMullen, who they described as his girlfriend, at 6:30 a.m. when they got into an argument, according to law-enforcement sources.

Mason wanted her to leave, and he grabbed his cellphone to call the doorman, the sources said.

Suzuki-McMullen tried to take the phone from his hands, and he suffered scratches and bruises on his left wrist in the struggle, sources said.'