Mothers are using false allegations to win custody. Studies show 60 to 80% of allegations are unnecessary or false. And now we have The National DV Volunteer Attorney Network Act - H.R. 6088 and S. 1515 - recently introduced in Congress. This bill would authorize $55 million for volunteer lawyers to help victims of...
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Watching a program about humanity’s furry friends and the multitude of ways people and other animals interact, I learned about an incident that stuck heavily in my mind long after the program was over. The show talked about a dog that had long been known for appropriating items and taking them to his own...
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Some, but by no means all, contributors to this website have a pronounced nostalgia for earlier historical periods. The 1950s in particular are an era many recall fondly. Some would like to see us return to prevailing mores and ideals of that period. I myself have a special liking for some TV shows that...
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“What is this type of writing doing in the Bible?†a shocked young girl once asked when she came across the Song of Solomon. She had not expected to find such explicit, albeit poetic, descriptions of sexual relationships in the Bible. The Song of Solomon has been described as “pornography†but it is really...
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Marriage on the Rocks: New Hope for a Relationship Revolution Gone Blindly Astray. By Richard Driscoll, Ph.D. with Nancy Ann David, Ph.D. Knoxville, Tennessee: Westside Psychology, 2007. 148 pp. www.westsidego.com. $22.00. Richard Driscoll has published a rare thing: an original, even superlative book on two well-worn topics: relationships and gender. Moreover, he appears to...
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Awhile ago I put up a blog about how often a woman will appear on a talk show saying that she is completely certain that a particular man is the father of their children. She may seem to be utterly stunned when DNA evidence proves her wrong. Since I’ve done an essay on moms...
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Suppose someone says, “There’s a bunch of winos on that street corner.†You approach the indicated area. You expect to see a group of women in ragged dresses passing around a bottle of wine that is perhaps still in its brown paper bag. Or at least that is what you expected to see prior...
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In a previous blog, I wrote about a major disadvantage of fulltime homemaking as an occupation: there is no retirement from it. In that blog, I mentioned that my father is retired from being a cab driver. In the years since that retirement, he has never once expressed any guilt feeling about failing to...
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Author’s Note: I want to encourage my readers to go to http://www.epinions.com/content_432280931972 if they have an opinion about this review and rate it there. I’d like comments both here on the blog and at epinions.com The Museum of Dr. Moses This volume of short stories by the extraordinarily gifted Joyce Carol Oates is subtitled...
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the modern celebration of Father’s Day in the United States. The third-Sunday-in-June celebration first took place in Spokane, Wash., in 1910. However, the first modern Father’s Day celebration in the United States took place on Sunday, July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, W.Va. at a memorial service at...
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Why is it that every single holiday is turned into a way to bash fathers and men? With Valentine’s Day, a day to celebrate the love of men and women comes the Vagina Monologuesâ€â€Âa twist on the V-day promoting awareness how men are abusive to women. On previous Mother’s Days in Berkshire County of...
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Cafeteria of Endless Options Barack Obama’s misandrist “Fathers’ Day Speech of 2008″, in which he transparently pandered to female voters by solely blaming men for the epidemic of fatherless homes, was a watershed moment in US history: he officially released girls and women from all reproductive responsibility. The Roe v. Wade ruling of 1973...
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Grieg didn't just harbor Fuith all these years. She interfered whenever Hindle needed a visa to attend custody hearings, arranged for his improper arrest, imprisonment and deportation by the immigration department, and tried to set him up to be arrested for violence. And all the while, during her many lawless and reprehensible actions, she...
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The Defeatist Generation Tom Brokaw’s book, The Greatest Generation, is filled with personal accounts of brave American soldiers who fought in World War II. Until Brokaw interviewed them, in their august years, they never had spoken to anyone of their wartime experiences, believing that feelings are better left undisturbed and unarticulated, that silence and...
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Lessons from Childhood Have you ever argued with your girlfriend or wife and realized — after hearing her words and voice tonality, viewing her facial expressions and body language, weighing the facts of the situation, and objectively assessing your personal behavior — that she was fighting not with you but with her father, mother,...
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Bob Barr, former Member of Congress from Georgia and current candidate for President for the Libertarian Party, today issued the following statement in reaction to today’s decision by the California Supreme Court allowing for the recognition of same sex marriage in that state: “Regardless of whether one supports or opposes same sex marriage, the...
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Denise Noe’s note: The book reviewed here is oriented primarily toward girls and women so some readers are likely to criticize me for putting this review on Men’s News Daily. However, I do not believe that it is irrelevant because men have wives, girlfriends, mothers, sisters, daughters, and other female relatives as well as...
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Note: This review was originally written for a library service called Tele-book in which people could call a special number to hear reviews read. I also used this book extensively in the article I wrote about the Jean Harris-Herman Tarnower case that appears at http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/harris/1.html. Very Much A Lady by Shana Alexander, author of...
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In my last article, “Domestic Violence Prevention – More Hyperbole Than Truth: Part 1″, I wrote about Jackson Katz, an anti-sexist advocate who’s work focuses on the so called “crisis” in masculinity, and how this crisis leads to violence against women and other men. I wrote that I’m sure Mr. Katz means well, and...
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As a writer of male issues, I find myself facing a paradox when I come across individuals that are showing a genuine concern for men’s issues, but after further review, find their ideology behind the work is suspect, and/or their methods to address the problems appear to exaserbate the problem rather than offer a...
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Domestic Violence Prevention – More Hyperbole Than Truth:Part 2
In my last article, “Domestic Violence Prevention – More Hyperbole Than Truth: Part 1″, I wrote about Jackson Katz, an anti-sexist advocate who’s work focuses on the so called “crisis” in masculinity, and how this crisis leads to violence against women and other men. I wrote that I’m sure Mr. Katz means well, and...
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