Submitted by Proud_to_be_a_man on Fri, 2011-08-05 07:33
Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2011-08-04 22:04
Article here. Excerpt:
'NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will spend $127 million in public and private funds on programs designed to help young black and Latino men.
Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg will kick in $30 million from his foundation and hedge fund manager George Soros will match that amount, according to the mayor's office. The remaining $67.5 million will be paid by the city.
The Young Men's Initiative was first reported by The New York Times on Wednesday. The mayor's office called it the nation's "boldest and most comprehensive effort to tackle the broad disparities slowing the advancement of black and Latino young men" in a statement.
It will include job placement, fatherhood classes and training for probation officers and school staff on how to help the young men get ahead. More than a dozen city agencies will be involved.'
Submitted by Minuteman on Thu, 2011-08-04 08:06
Link here. Excerpt:
'A woman and her husband have been detained in southern Russia after they kept the woman's 70-year-old father on a chain in their yard for four days.
The couple "tied him to a tree with a metal chain in their yard and kept him there from July 28 to August 1," the Investigative Committee said in a statement.
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The man's daughter, 41, "had grown tired of taking care of the blind and deaf man and simply took him out into the yard and chained him up," the Life News website reported, adding that the couple's children were witnesses.'
Submitted by Broadsword on Thu, 2011-08-04 00:05
Article here. Excerpt:
'The British Medical Association has lost its legal challenge on NHS widowers’ pensions which could have cost the government more than £4bn.
The High Court ruled today that the preferential treatment of widows over widowers in relation to pension payments was "objectively and reasonably justified".
The test case, backed by the BMA, was brought by Iain Cockburn - the widower of Clare Boothroyd, a Warwickshire GP who died of cancer in 2007.
Boothroyd paid into the NHS scheme for 24 years - but widower Cockburn receives £3,200 a year less than he would were he the widow of a male scheme member.
This is because current legislation dictates that service prior to 5 April 1988 is not counted for the purposes of calculating widowers' pensions.
Lawyers for Mr Cockburn argued this amounted to unlawful discrimination that was "blatant" and "as direct as it gets" (PP Online, 15 July).
Submitted by Broadsword on Wed, 2011-08-03 23:59
Article here. Excerpt:
'The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued a solicitation for a contract to provide support services at Fort Detrick in Maryland. Nothing unusual there, except that the contract reflects a new Obama administration program to restrict competition on the basis of gender.
The solicitation explains, “This procurement is set aside for Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) firms only.” No one but women need apply. The WOSB program is a federal contracting preference that hurts male African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans or American Indians in exactly the same way white men are hurt.
Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2011-08-03 20:58
Came across this email from a group called Advocates for Youth. Some of the topics discussed in it have been mentioned here on MANN already. Please take a minute and *politely* contact AFY and ask them to take the gender-blinders off and include males (after all, they are young at some point as well) as imperatively in their campaigns as they do females. Email follows:
We have some GREAT news to share.
Earlier this week, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that starting in August 2012, all new health insurance plans will be required to cover contraception at no cost — including condoms, birth control pills, contraceptive shots, and IUDs. This means that co-payments, which have long been a barrier to many women accessing contraception, will no longer be an issue for women with health insurance!
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2011-08-03 17:01
PRESS RELEASE-Aug. 3, 2011
FATHERS' ADVOCATES MOVE TO REPEAL MASSACHUSETTS DOMESTIC ABUSE LAW
Boston - Members of The Fatherhood Coalition submitted an Initiative Petition to the Mass. Attorney General's office to remove the Massachusetts 209A restraining order law and restore due process rights.
According to Joe Ureneck, chairman for the group, the current restraining order system, misused and abused, is destroying families.
There is not one independent scientific study that the current law has met the desired effect of protecting men and women who truly need help, Ureneck said. Petitioners believe the law unjustly throws fathers out of children’s lives and created a more violent society as all studies demonstrate that when children grow up without a father in the home, they grow up to be more violent teens and adults, both men and women.
Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2011-08-02 23:36
Article here. Excerpt:
'In one of the most outrageous injustices of our time, Peter Spitz (pictured right) was separated from his son and almost lost custody of him after his ex-wife shot him in the face and murdered his mother.
Fathers and Families advised Peter, helped him get legal counsel, and also publicized his case, and we are pleased to announce that Peter has now won full custody of his seven-year-old son.
Special credit and thanks goes to talented Colorado family law attorney Brett Martin (pictured below), who took on Spitz’s case and won a decisive victory–the court decision is here.
We also thank Fathers and Families Board Member Robert Franklin, Esq., who covered this case extensively and helped to advise Peter–his write-up of the new decision is below.'
Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2011-08-02 23:32
Via email:
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its Women's Preventive Services requirements for qualified health plans yesterday. Some of the rules are reasonable, like screening for diabetes in pregnant women.
But the document requires that health plans conduct "screening and counseling for interpersonal and domestic violence" on an annual basis for women...but not men: http://www.hrsa.gov/womensguidelines
The rule was issued exactly three weeks after Catherine Becker of California drugged and bound her husband. Then she severed and disposed of his genitalia. If he had sought medical care prior to the incident and the doctor had performed an abuse screening, it's possible the gruesome event never would have occurred.
Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2011-08-02 23:31
Article here. Great to see it in the news, too. Excerpt:
'ANN ARBOR, MI--Therapist and author Ken Land is seeking true, first-person accounts of men who have suffered abuse in relationships with women. The Ann Arbor-based therapist began the project in 2006 as an effort to raise awareness and support for male victims of abuse. Land is the Founder and Clinical Director of The Counseling Center of Ann Arbor, a comprehensive outpatient mental health and substance abuse clinic located in downtown Ann Arbor since 1983.
"Men are often victims of physical, verbal, and emotional abuse in relationships," says Land. "Their stories go untold for a variety of reasons: shame, guilt, feeling 'unmanly' and the justifiable belief that now one will believe them. And the criminal justice system is often either unresponsive, dismissive or biased in the favor of the woman."
Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2011-08-02 13:49
Story here. Excerpt:
'A woman allegedly beat her boyfriend to death with the spiked heel of a stiletto shoe.
Thelma Carter, 46, struck her live-in boyfriend Robert Higdon, 58, with the shoe at their trailer park home in Augusta, Georgia, police said.
Authorities are unsure how many times Mr Higdon was hit with the shoe before he died.
Carter has been charged with murder.'
Submitted by Minuteman on Tue, 2011-08-02 11:55
Somewhat tastelessly, there is a link on the page to a completely unrelated January 2011 magazine section article entitled "More on circumcision: The Kindest Cut" about HIV/AIDS and mass circumcision in Swaziland, presumably to down-play the grotesqueness of this article. Link here. Excerpt:
'Similar attacks were recorded elsewhere in Kibera and in other parts of the country, including the volatile Rift Valley, up until late February 2008, when Kibaki and Odinga reached a power-sharing deal. The lack of reporting on the part of victims, however, has complicated efforts to arrive at a national total. A government inquiry noted, for instance, that many victims in the Rift Valley were "too traumatized" to come forward.
Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2011-08-02 01:32
Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2011-08-01 21:37
Article here. Excerpt:
'A WOMAN who threatened to make a false rape claim against a taxi driver has been jailed for robbing him.
Brighouse Taxis employee Mohammed Asif had picked up Natalie Woods in Rastrick, along with Nicola Cliberon and Mark Mbye, and was taking them into Huddersfield town centre last November when she began making fake sexual advances towards him.
Prosecutor Simon Batiste said Mr Asif eventually stopped the taxi and asked for his fare, but after Cliberon and Mbye got out Woods, 38, who was in the front passenger seat, asked him to drive further up Chapel Lane.
At one stage Woods told the cabbie to give her his money or she would scream and say that he had tried to rape her.
Mr Asif called Woods' bluff and threatened to call the police, but she asked him not to and he drove the car back down the street.'
Submitted by Minuteman on Mon, 2011-08-01 14:46
Link to news release here. Excerpt:
'Historic new guidelines that will ensure women receive preventive health services at no additional cost were announced today by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Developed by the independent Institute of Medicine, the new guidelines require new health insurance plans to cover women’s preventive services such as well-woman visits, breastfeeding support, domestic violence screening, and contraception without charging a co-payment, co-insurance or a deductible.
“The Affordable Care Act helps stop health problems before they start,” said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. “These historic guidelines are based on science and existing literature and will help ensure women get the preventive health benefits they need.”
Before health reform, too many Americans didn’t get the preventive health care they need to stay healthy, avoid or delay the onset of disease, lead productive lives, and reduce health care costs. Often because of cost, Americans used preventive services at about half the recommended rate.'
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