Link to article here. Excerpt:

'A woman who drowned her two-year-old daughter in a Sydney river had thought she was a bad mother and wanted to die with the child, a judge has been told.

After the drowning, the woman asked officers: "Do I get to go to jail soon? I deserve to be locked up forever."

The woman, who suffers from a mental illness, pleaded guilty in the NSW Supreme Court on Wednesday to the manslaughter of her two-year-old daughter in March 2010.
...
"Help me, help me, I've killed my daughter," she said to a man walking past with a mobile phone. He ignored her and kept going.'

Link to article here. Excerpt:

'An Adelaide woman allegedly killed her sick five-year-old son by putting methadone in his cordial bottle, a court has heard.

The 44-year-old woman appeared at the Holden Hill Magistrates court on Wednesday charged with manslaughter and administering prescription medication to the boy.

Police prosecutor Jessica Esplin said the woman's two older sons, aged 15 and 16, had told police their mother had given their younger brother the drug during the night after mother and child had been coughing.

"(The older boy) states that some time during the morning he woke with his mother yelling...(that) his brother was not breathing," she said.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A monster mom tried to soften her tale of setting a six-year-old daughter on fire in a voodoo ritual even as she pleaded guilty to the "barbaric" crime today — but a Queens judge would have none of it as he coaxed the truth from her and then sentenced the woman to 17 years behind bars.

Marie Lauradin, 29, pleaded guilty to assault last month for setting little Frantzcia Saintil on fire in a ritual called "Loa." But in a pre-sentencing report she changed her story, saying she was merely "rubbing [Frantzcia] down with alcohol because she was sick with fever when a nearby candle fell and set her on fire."
...
"Did you douse your child with accelerant and light her on fire?" the judge said as he began to quiz Lauradin about what happened to the little girl.

"Yes," she said through an interpreter.

"The only demonic presence this child had to worry about was her mother," the judge said, lashing into her.'

This story tells of a man who protested the abortion of his child by putting up a billboard. The woman is complaining it's a violation of her right to privacy. The issue I find interesting is not abortion but whether the woman can deny the man his right to express his opinion. Perhaps more interesting are the comments. One issue being discussed is whether men should have any reproductive rights. A lot of man-haters are saying no. Excerpt:

"A New Mexico man's decision to lash out with a billboard ad saying his ex-girlfriend had an abortion against his wishes has touched off a legal debate over free speech and privacy rights.

The sign on Alamogordo's main thoroughfare shows 35-year-old Greg Fultz holding the outline of an infant. The text reads, "This Would Have Been A Picture Of My 2-Month Old Baby If The Mother Had Decided To Not KILL Our Child!"

Fultz's ex-girlfriend has taken him to court for harassment and violation of privacy. A domestic court official has recommended the billboard be removed.'

Article here. Excerpt:

This fine woman is spreading the word about the horrors her poor husband went through when diagnosed with penile cancer. It's true about the lack of support for male cancers here in the UK. A woman gets a pimple on her breast and she's almost mobbed by agencies wanting to support her etc., etc. A man gets penile cancer and he's virtually told 'Oh, it'll have to be chopped off, but here's a leaflet to explain it all...' Excerpt:

'To mark male cancer awareness month Health Wales and Tenovus have joined forces to encourage men to be aware of the signs and symptoms of cancer. In the first of four articles, Health Editor Madeleine Brindley spoke to Wendy Gane about her husband's dying wish to spread the word about penile cancer

MIKE GANE was a private man but he was adamant he wanted his wife of 15 years Wendy to raise awareness of the disease that killed him.

Translated article here. Article in original Swedish here. Excerpt:

U.S Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Special Report: Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities Reported by Youth, 2008-09

'Highlights
...
- Approximately 95% of all youth reporting staff sexual misconduct said they had been victimized by female staff".'

News submitted by

Ulf Andersson
PappaRättsGruppen
http://www.dads-r-us.se/

Story here. Excerpt:

'Safeway shoppers and employees joined together each year in June to raise money to fund critical research programs aimed at finding a cure for prostate cancer. By making donations when shopping at local stores, the fundraising program is making a huge impact, raising $50 million since it began in 2000.
...
"Prostate cancer has a 90 percent cure rate. Screenings, early detection and education can save lives," said Safeway Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Steve Burd. "During the month of June we hope to make a difference by not only encouraging screenings, but by raising funds to help find a cure for this disease."'

More info: Supposedly you will see a small sign above the credit card swipe saying that 1 in 6 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer and when you check out you will be asked if you want to donate.

Also, last year Safeway raised $11.6 million.

Article here. Excerpt:

'SANTA MONICA, Calif. — When a group of activists proposed banning circumcision in San Francisco last fall, many people simply brushed them aside. Even in that liberal seaside city, it seemed implausible that thousands of people would support an effort to outlaw an ancient ritual that Jews and Muslims believe fulfills a commandment issued by God.

But last month, the group collected the more than 7,100 signatures needed to get a measure on the fall ballot that would make it illegal to snip the foreskin of a minor within city limits. Now a similar effort is under way in Santa Monica to get such a measure on the ballot for November 2012.

If the anticircumcision activists (they prefer the term “intactivists”) have their way, cities across the country may be voting on whether to criminalize a practice that is common in many American hospitals. Activists say the measures would protect children from an unnecessary medical procedure, calling it “male genital mutilation.”'

There is still time to sign up & support for this symposium. In addition to focusing on Latino males specifically, this group often presents statistics, data, and new perspectives on the decline of men of all races in college. An acquaintance of mine is on the team spearheading this project, and from what I have seen I know that they are doing a lot of good work. The aims of the group, as cited from their website:

"To explore innovative ways to establish mentoring links between Latino male role models, current UT Latino male students, and younger Latino males within the Austin area and surrounding communities. The Project will be inter-generational, and it will have a strong focus on leadership development, community engagement, and service, all of which research suggest are critical to the academic success and retention of male students of color in both secondary and post-secondary education."

Good minds, and more importantly good hearts, are working on this project. Feel free to lend them your support.

- Gogonostop

Article here. Excerpt:

'But now we have rampant fatherlessness, (Mattapan Shootings) and glorify single mothers and feminism.
...
Now before you get all excited, I’m talking about reasonable punishment, not serious abuse. However, where we draw the line is getting more and more blurred.

In my opinion that line is getting pushed more and more too far to the “teaching” and “time-out” side. A screaming two-year-old is not in a classroom nor is she a lawyer, but I see plenty of folks in the supermarket, church or fancy restaurants addressing them as if they are equals a the Harvard University Debating Society.

Sometimes it’s hard for me to figure out who needs the spanking more, parent or child.
...

Translated blog post here. Excerpt:

"Since the early 2000s, I work part time at a shelter in mid-Sweden. And it is part of the task for the job to try to tilt and twist the facts to help women against their ex-men. Most women, indeed virtually all my colleagues and people on the board, are totally unscrupulous and unconscionable, and men openly to make every effort to get former men / cohabiting couple convicted of incest, pedophilia, rape, women and child abuse, plus it is then either nothing morally wrong with the kidnapping of children by fathers sentenced to custody / visitation with."

Original story here.

News submitted by

Ulf Andersson
PappaRättsGruppen
http://www.dads-r-us.se/

And the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is here to remind you that your problems are all your own fault. Link here.

'Learn the Facts

When you get a preventive medical test, you’re not just doing it for yourself. You’re doing it for your family and loved ones:

* Men are 24 percent less likely than women to have visited a doctor within the past year and are 22 percent more likely to have neglected their cholesterol tests.
* Men are 28 percent more likely than women to be hospitalized for congestive heart failure.
* Men are 32 percent more likely than women to be hospitalized for long-term complications of diabetes and are more than twice as likely than women to have a leg or foot amputated due to complications related to diabetes.

* Men are 24 percent more likely than women to be hospitalized for pneumonia that could have been prevented by getting an immunization.

Well, according to Eleanor Smeal, anyway. You thought the Times had a sort-of-kind-of feminist bent before? Hold onto your hats! Well, we'll see, I guess. In any case, congratulations to Ms. Abramson and good luck to her in her new position. (She has a lot of challenges in front of her getting the Times competitive in a digital -- ie, free -- news age. And indeed, the Times is not alone in this.)

'Statement by Eleanor Smeal, Publisher of Ms. and President of the Feminist Majority:

The selection of Jill Abramson, an accomplished feminist, as executive editor of The New York Times, which is not only the most influential newspaper in the United States, but also the premier online news platform, smashes a barrier to women's achievement in print and digital media.

Story here. He earned every year he got sentenced to and has no business ever getting released from jail. But his wife who is as far as any reasonable person can see as guilty as he is gets only 36 years in jail, which with "good behavior" will probably become something substantially less. Excerpt:

'PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- A serial sex offender was ordered Thursday to spend the rest of his life in prison after the California woman he kidnapped, raped and held captive for 18 years said he and his wife-accomplice had stolen her life.

Victim Jaycee Dugard was 11 when she was abducted by Phillip and Nancy Garrido as her stepfather watched her walk toward a school bus. She gave birth to two daughters fathered by Garrido while he held her in a secret backyard compound.
...

Garrido, who was on parole for a 1976 rape when Dugard was abducted, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and 13 sexual assault charges, including six counts of rape and seven counts of committing lewd acts captured on video.