Article here. Excerpt:

'CHANDIGARH: Boys are clearly at the receiving end as far as admission to BCom course is concerned due to less number of seats available for them as compared to girls in city colleges.

There are around 4,000 seats available, out of which 2,140 are in 11 colleges. Five are girls colleges whereas five are co-educational and only one is a boys college. This creates a huge difference of around 700 in the number of seats available for boys and girls.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Madison County man wants to be reimbursed for child support and healthcare benefits he allegedly paid for a child that is not his.

Gerald Krug filed a lawsuit July 5 in Madison County Circuit Court Family Division against Anita Dawn Bogle and David Lofink.

According to the complaint, Krug and Bogle were married in 1984 and had two children. They divorced in 1993 but maintained a sexual relationship, according to Krug, that he believed to be monogamous.

During their divorce proceedings, Krug claims Bogle told him she was pregnant with his child. Krug says he and Bogle remarried in 1994 but divorced a second time in 1999. A court order issued at the time of the divorce required Krug to pay child support and medical benefits for three children along with half of his retirement benefits.

Article here. Excerpt:

'For fatherhood in America, these are the best of times and the worst of times. So says a new Pew Research Center report on fathering trends.

The report, released in June, found that today's fathers are active in their children's daily lives to a degree not seen in nearly half a century. Live-in dads now regularly eat meals with their children, play with them, read to them, help them with their homework and ask them about their day. They also log more than twice as many hours on kid duty than did their own dads: In 1965, the average married father spent only 2.6 hours a week caring for his children; by 2000, that average had risen to 6.5 hours.
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But that's where the good news ends. The Pew report found that alongside this rising level of involvement among live-in fathers is a rise in absent fathers — men who live apart from their children and often have little or no role in their children's daily lives.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Fathers and Families has helped introduce two new paternity fraud bills (SB 375 and SB 377) into the California legislature, both sponsored by Senator Roderick Wright (D-Inglewood).

There are many reasons to support these bills, including fairness for the men targeted by paternity fraud. But there are also compelling medical reasons to combat paternity fraud. In our official support letter for SB 375 and SB 377, Ned Holstein, M.D., M.S., F & F’s Founder and Chairman of the Board, wrote:

Thanks to a recent NCFM-LA email:

The Centers for Disease Control recently funded a major study of heterosexual relationships throughout the U.S. and found: "Almost 24% of all relationships had some violence, and half (49.7%) of those were reciprocally violent. In nonreciprocally violent relationships, women were the perpetrators in more than 70% of the cases," and both sexes suffered significant injuries. http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/5/941

The same study also found: "More women than men (25% versus 11%) were responsible. In fact, 71 percent of the instigators in nonreciprocal partner violence were women" and "while injury was more likely when violence was perpetrated by men, in relationships with reciprocal violence it was the men who were injured more often (25% of the time) than were women (20% of the time)." http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/42/15/31-a

From NCFM-LA:

Patricia Overberg, the first known domestic violence shelter director in the United States to help male victims along with female victims, passed away today (August 11, 2011). Patricia is being honored by men's rights activists as a hero and civil rights pioneer, similar to the shelter director Erin Pizzey in England.

The article asks "Where's the parents?" This is not the right question. It's "Where are the fathers?" Answer: They were deemed an annoying inconvenience by society a few decades back and institutions were re-aligned or spawned to get them separated from their children or cause them to realize that it was a greater risk to stay with the child's mother than not to. In my judgment, you have state-implemented policies founded in feminist dogma to thank for the mess in the UK being played out in the streets. And while focus groups and government agencies will spend loads of time and money asking about such factors as economics and race (which undoubtedly play a part), they will conveniently overlook "The Father Factor", the modern 300-lb. gorilla in the middle of the room that everyone will pretend not to see. But I do the article an injustice, as the author does mention 'dadlessness' in it. Excerpt:

Organization site here. A great motive indeed but they have only half the story. They are putting on a golf tourney to help end violence against women and children. Nothing about men.

Presumably, this group doesn't have all the facts. So please inform them POLITELY of the research on DV that shows the extent to which females perpetrate it and how any fair and accurate undertaking to end DV must include efforts to end DV against men as well as women. Contact form is here. I ask that you refrain from making phone calls since that has in the past led to misunderstandings and exchanges that set the cause back -- no one intends for things to go that way but sometimes in the heat of verbal exchanges, they do.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Kevin Mengel gave his all to keep his family together. Eventually he gave his life. Here’s one story (Delco Times, 8/8/11).

According to police records, Mengel was murdered by his wife and her boyfriend on June 17, 2010. The West Goshen Township, Pennsylvania man had had a stormy relationship with his wife, Morgan Mengel, throughout the 12 years of their marriage.

That included his leaving her once and her filing for divorce and then withdrawing the petition. They had three children, 12, 10 and 6.

Friends and neighbors say that Morgan Mengel had numerous extra-marital affairs throughout the marriage and that Kevin knew about them.
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"[Detective David S.] Maurer testified that Morgan Mengel said he wanted her husband dead because she did not want to go through a “messy divorce” that would likely prompt her husband and his mother to seek custody of the children."

Article here. Excerpt:

• Nearly one in five moms admits medicating their child to get through a special event like a plane flight; one in 12 does it just to get some peace and quiet on a regular night.
• Half have knowingly sent a sick kid to daycare or school.
• 85 percent use their kids to get out of social obligations.
• Nearly one in three uses work as an excuse to avoid taking care of the kids.

And sometimes the secrets are thoughts we don’t dare tell anyone else:

• 44 percent of moms would rather be 15 pounds thinner than add 15 points to their child’s IQ.
• One in four fears their partner is a better parent than they are.
• One in ten wishes their child was the opposite sex – and of those moms, 60 percent have boys.

It seems that there are many companies which effectively pimp men to lonely "single"* women on cruise ships.

Here is one particularly egregious example of a company which provides "gentlemen hosts" to single women on cruises. The men are compensated to a very limited extent with free or very inexpensive cruises and screened to ensure they meet the company's standards for dancing ability, appearance and wardrobe.

Add this to the fact that most guest-contact positions (i.e. well-paid jobs requiring little or no manual labor) on a cruise ship are filled with light-skinned women, while most of the labor-intensive jobs on the lower decks go to darker-skinned men who rarely see the light of day, and you can safely conclude that the cruise industry routinely objectifies men in order to attract women and increase their profits.

Next time you're planning a vacation for yourself or your family, remember to choose someplace else to take your money.

Article here. Excerpt:

'NCFM filed a grievance against one of the State of Maine’s Assistant District Attorney, Mary Kellett.

The grievance was filed primarily because NCFM and many others believed Kellett’s behavior violated the Maine Bar Rules. We all felt that she persecuted rather than prosecuted certain people including Vladek Filler, a man falsely accused of spousal rape and numerous other things.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The jobs landscape is bleak for any unemployed American, but for black men it's virtually a desert.

For them, the Great Recession not only led to the largest increase in unemployment for any category of American worker, but it also is pinching a lot longer. About 1 in 6 black men over age 20 in the labor force is jobless – and that number has barely improved since the economic recovery officially began two years ago.

In Detroit, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Min­neap­olis-St. Paul, and several other US cities, Depression-era unemployment rates above 20 percent beset the black community, estimates one economic policy group, citing government data. Moreover, the problem may get worse because city governments, which traditionally employ many African-American men, are laying off workers to cope with budget shortfalls, say experts on black employment.'

Article here.

'NEW PORT RICHEY - They say boys will be boys, but Kris Bucher says not always.

"A guy not wanting to have sex with somebody -- that seems impossible. But I expect it," said Bucher.

Kris claims he was raped by his old girlfriend Jessica Fuller. She got pregnant and had their son Joshua. Kris was never a part of his son's life.

In fact, Jessica never asked Kris for help in raising their son, but after moving to Michigan the young mom fell on hard times and got government assistance. Now the state of Michigan wants Kris to start paying child support.

"I'm a victim of a crime. Why should I have to pay the perpetrator?" Kucher said.

Kris and Jessica met at Hudson High School. Kris says the two had a tumultuous relationship from the start. Jessica suffered a miscarriage at one point, and so they decided to avoid sex altogether.

But Kris says one night in the back seat of a friend's car, it happened.

Article here. Excerpt:

'South Carolina health officials are petitioning the federal government to overhaul its "discriminatory" Medicaid rules after a local construction worker was denied coverage for breast cancer treatments because he is a man.

Raymond Johnson, 26, found out about his cancer last month. He visited the emergency room after a pain in his chest became unbearable. He already knew he had a lump there but, "being a male," assumed it was a cyst.

When the tests came back, "I found out I had cancer."
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But when Johnson, who is uninsured, applied for Medicaid, he was swiftly rejected. The reason? He is a man.

"To me it's really dumb. ... It's not as common as a woman having breast cancer, but we do have it," Johnson said.