A man who was kind enough to donate his sperm to a lesbian couple has now--18 years later--been stabbed in the back and hit up for child support. According to the New York Post:
"A sperm donor who sent gifts signed 'Dad' to his biological son has been slapped with a child-support order, 18 years...
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Below are some recent articles and items of interest from Fathers & Families' latest News Digest.
Planet feels heat of divorce (The Sunday Times, 12-2-07)
New child support debit card system hits glitches (Wisconsin-Madison News, 11-27-07)
Wrongly convicted man upset over child support case (WRAL.com, 11-28-07)
Carver County gives aid, not jail, to deadbeats (Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 11-28-07)
Mothers scrimp...
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The Government Accountability Office’s Forensic Audits and Special Investigations team, which was created in 2005 as an interdisciplinary team consisting of investigators, auditors, and analysts, conducts covert tests at the request of the Congress to identify vulnerabilities and internal control weaknesses at executive branch agencies. These vulnerabilities and internal control weaknesses include those that...
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Background: In October I partnered with Dr. Ned Holstein and Fathers & Families in a campaign to protest Florida Department of Children & Families' actions in the "Elian Gonzalez II" case in Miami. In that case, Rafael Izquierdo, a fit, loving father, faced numerous obstacles to reunite with his 6-year-old daughter.
The case pitted Izquierdo...
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American heavy metal performer Ozzy Osbourne, who became famous as the lead vocalist for Black Sabbath and later as a solo act, has raised more than US$800,000 for The Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program, founded by his spouse Sharon Osbourne at the Cedars Sinai Hospital, by auctioning off personal items. A number of the...
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American heavy metal performer Ozzy Osbourne, who became famous as the lead vocalist for Black Sabbath and later as a solo act, has raised more than US$800,000 for The Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program, founded by his spouse Sharon Osbourne at the Cedars Sinai Hospital, by auctioning off personal items. A number of the...
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The 20th annual World AIDS Day was December 1, 2007. The theme selected by the World AIDS Campaign is “Stop AIDS: Keep the Promise” as it will be through 2010. The day was marked by thousands of events around the world. “It is now time for bold leadership at all levels in order to...
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Three men were arrested Wednesday following a police raid in Slovakia near the Hungarian border. A Ukrainian citizen and two Hungarians were arrested while trying to sell nearly half a kilogram of enriched uranium, Slovak police said. The 481.4 grams of powdered material seized were examined by experts who determined that it was comprised...
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Voters across Russia are choosing a new parliament in an election nearly certain to be won by President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. Polls opened in Moscow and other western cities Sunday, hours after voting began in frigid weather in Russia’s far east. More than 100 million people are eligible to vote for legislators...
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Russian opposition movement “Smena” has published a clandestine video of what it claims is falsification during the Russian elections. The video allegedly shows the election zone no. 730 in Moscow. “Smena” claims a woman is illegally voting on behalf of soldiers as she feeds their voting bulletins into the electronic voting machine, while a...
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Chinese officials have confirmed that a man admitted to a hospital on November 27, died on Sunday from the deadly H5N1 Avian Flu virus. The man, only being identified as 24-year-old Lu, is from the Jiangsu Province of eastern China and was admitted to the hospital after having severe flu-like symptoms. Lu was originally...
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Venezuelan voters rejected a referendum on changes to the constitution. The chief of the National Electoral Council said it was rejected by a margin of 51% to 49%. The referendum vote on sweeping reforms to the constitution would have allowed Hugo Chávez to run for reelection indefinitely, control Venezuela’s foreign currency reserves, appoint loyalists...
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Venezuelan voters rejected a referendum on changes to the constitution. The chief of the National Electoral Council said it was rejected by a margin of 51% to 49%. The referendum vote on sweeping reforms to the constitution would have allowed Hugo Chávez to run for reelection indefinitely, control Venezuela’s foreign currency reserves, appoint loyalists...
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Representatives of more than 180 nations gathered on the Indonesian island of Bali today to kick off a United Nations-sponsored conference on global climate change. The U.N. hopes the meeting will conclude with a road map toward a new agreement on reducing the types of air pollution many scientists believe are driving changes in...
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Kevin Rudd has been sworn in as Australia’s new Prime Minister with an agenda of action on climate change and the repeal of unpopular industrial laws. The new Labor government has signed ratification document to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and also plans to withdraw Australian troops from Iraq by the middle of...
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Kevin Rudd, current Australian Labor Party leader, was sworn in today as Prime Minister of Australia by Governor-General Michael Jeffrey. Rudd has become the 26th Prime Minister since Australia’s federation in 1901. Former Prime Minister John Howard and the Liberal Party and Coalition were beaten in the 2007 election which took place last month,...
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The Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir has issued a full pardon to British school teacher Gillian Gibbons who was sentenced to 15 days in jail after allowing children in her class to name a teddy bear “Muhammad”. The decision came after a meeting with two members of a British Muslim group, Lord Ahmed and Baroness...
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Dollar Signs in Her Eyes
There’s a bottom-line question every man must ask himself about the woman in his life: Does she view you as a phallus or a trailer hitch? If you’re on the fence about it, allow me to suggest a test query: Will she be in your bed tomorrow if you stop...
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Background: We've done several protests against ads which portray men and fathers as clowns--see Campaign Against Anti-Father Verizon Commercial, Campaign Against Anti-Male Advertising, Campaign Against Detroit News ‘Get Her a Gift or She’ll Give You a Black Eye’ Ad and Portable On Demand Storage Decides to Remove Anti-Male Ad in Face of Protests. To...
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Background: Recently I told you about a new New York bill which would make staring at women a crime. I wrote:
"I agree that in some cases staring at women can be rude. Making it a crime is quite another matter. I would also add that some women do everything they possibly can so men...
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