As it is in the West, so it is in India only worse. This article reports on Indian men's protests on International Men's Day (DNA India, 11/20/09). In Mumbai, men and women (often second wives) took to the streets holding signs and shouting slogans like these: "Indian male - hapless animal"; "women empowered men unpowered"; "husband not... »
There aren't many invariable rules in life, but I'm pretty sure this is one: if you hear someone say "his lack of presence" when he means "his absence," you're dealing with a bureaucratic mentality, possibly in its terminal stages. Look out for trouble. Not long ago, according to this article, in North Coventry, Pennsylvania, a... »
A while back, I posted a piece about two separate Canadian surveys that show overwhelming support for equally-shared parenting laws. Each showed support of around 78%. At the time (and maybe still), there was a bill before Parliament to establish the presumption of equally shared parenting in divorce and custody cases. The bill was... »
When parents are at loggerheads, there should be much more done to sustain the interests of the father and child. When a mother turns her child against the father, when a mother refuses to comply with a court order on contact, nothing is done because it is felt sanctions against her would not be... »
It's been many years since feminists like Katha Pollitt at The Nation waxed apoplectic about a Washington, D.C. mother who lost custody of a child to her ex-husband. The woman was a hardworking senior aide to, if memory serves me, a Congressional representative. As the job requires, she pulled long hours, leaving home early... »
In the United Kingdom, a recent poll has revealed some facts about the children of divorce and the divorce process itself that are at once disturbing and completely expected. This article reports on the the survey conducted as part of the 20th anniversary of the Children's Act of 1989 (Telegraph, 11/16/09). It polled 4,000... »
I can't agree with the headline of this piece, but then, I'm not sure the writer does either (The Guardian, 10/26/09). And beyond the headline, it's a pretty good piece. "Men Should Be Encouraged to Be Full-Time Fathers" is not an idea I can support. For decades now, feminists have rightly argued that full-time parenting... »
According to this article, Australian Attorney General Robert McClelland has been "urged" to recommend the "Canada model" of child custody to replace Australia's shared parenting statute that is barely three years old (The Australian, 10/26/09). Just who's doing the urging, the article doesn't tell us. But whoever it is, it's clear that the writer is... »
A case decided November 10, 2009 by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals could have an enormous impact on fathers' rights to their children. (Note: The case is not yet published, so I can't provide a link to it.) It holds that even a divorced father with no right of physical custody must be given the... »
One last word on the Global Gender Gap Report. I've criticized the Report for being a transparent fraud. To the uninitiated, its title might suggest that it's some sort of dispassionate accounting of the many ways in which men have it better than women and women have it better than men in 134 different... »
Nowadays, the majority of pregnant women I know take close to a year off, during which they are entitled to statutory maternity pay for up to 39 weeks. They return with the expectation and right to have their old job back after 52 weeks.Except that, when they do return, many of them don't want... »
This looks like a pretty standard case of domestic violence (York Record, 10/27/09). Oh, don't get me wrong, the article doesn't call it domestic violence, and you can guess why that is - a woman stabbed a man and to call that domestic violence would violate a cardinal rule of DV reporting. It seems that... »
I wrote recently about the false and misleading claims of pro-choice advocates like Kate Michelman and Frances Kissling regarding the so-called Stupak Amendment to the House health care bill. The amendment, if enacted, would prohibit federal subsidies for insurance policies that cover abortion services. Michelman, Kissling and others have claimed here that the legislation would prohibit any and all insurance... »
Months ago, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, a scandal came to light. Prosecution is still underway, so we don't know the outcomes of any criminal trials. But the allegations are that two juvenile court judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, were taking kickbacks from operators of juvenile correctional facilities. The scam has been called "cash for kids." ... »
It's good to read a story like this one that actually makes sense (Courier News, 11/10/09). It's not fraught with silly claims or absurd reasoning. No misinformation, no disinformation. Back in April of 2000, a Kane County, Illinois judge issued an order in the custody case of two children of Crystel Strelioff and her ex-husband... »
Jessica Lynched, that is. Shortly after the massacre at Fort Hood, newspaper accounts were full of the heroism of Sgt. Kimberly Munley who, so they said, had taken on the alleged shooter almost single-handedly, was injured by him, but immobilized him with a shot to the torso. I reported on what looked like accurate descriptions... »
This article reports that reports of child sexual abuse by women in the United Kingdom have risen five times faster than those of abuse by men (BBC, 11/9/09). The numbers are for abuse reported by children to the charitable organization Childline. Since 2004-05, reports of female abuse have increased 132% and compared to 27% for reports of male... »
As if there aren't enough barriers between fathers and their children, here's another one (Selma Times-Journal, 11/7/09). The writer, Terry Lewis, is a non-custodial father. But whatever parental rights the family court and family laws of Alabama believe he has, his ex-wife and bureaucrats in the educational establishment have other ideas. His case is a simple one;... »
Unsurprisingly, those who favor abortion rights are not pleased at the passage in the House of Representatives of health care legislation that included the so-called Stupak Amendment. Named for Michigan representative Bart Stupak, the amendment prohibits federal tax dollars from being used to fund abortions. It therefore prohibits women who would receive federal subsidies to purchase... »
This article tells us that, in the state of Victoria, family law now provides that common-law couples now have the same rights and duties as married couples (Daily Mail, 11/9/09). So when a Melbourne businessman broke up with his mistress of 20 years, she sued him and received a court order that he pay... »
On the second count, the commission found that Gormley entered a change of custody order that removed a child from the custody of her father but denied the father the right to put on his own evidence. Gormley, the commission found, acted as an advocate for the mother in that case. A Kentucky family court... »
For women to have more equality at work, we (men) need more equality at home; in this struggle for equality, fathers and feminists are on the same side (parenthetical mine). That's not quite a direct quotation from GlennSacks.com, but it's close. We've been saying the same thing for years and at long last this article chimes... »
For many years now, DOJ sponsored reports have encouraged pro-arrest, preferred arrest, mandatory arrest and now default arrest policies. Regardless of the label there is no question that the majority of studies sponsored by the DOJ are recommending arrest policies “as the default position” for law enforcement...aw enforcement administrators are acutely aware that if... »
National Organization for Women president Terry O'Neill has proclaimed that Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable must lose his job because he apparently hit his first wife and may have done the same to a past girlfriend. As this article tells us, O'Neill asks why anyone who has allegedly committed DV in the past... »
There was a time when liberal sages pretended to be sensitive to what the late Edward Said called "Cultural Imperialism." Said, being Palestinian, informed us that European countries and their progeny like the United States, have for 500 years or so, done more than simply assert military and economic power over nations and continents occupied by darker-skinned,... »
Australia is well-known to be backtracking on its equally-shared parenting legislation. It's only been three years since the Howard Government enacted the presumption of shared parenting and, according to studies I've reported on before, few courts have actually established equal parenting arrangements in divorce cases. Still, that's been too much for the forces who are... »
As we all know by now, carnage erupted at Fort Hood army base in central Texas on Thursday. Allegedly, an army psychiatrist opened fire on enlisted men who had lined up for inoculations and eye tests. When it was all over, 13 people were dead and 38 injured. Of the 13 dead, the names... »
Perhaps the bedrock principle of due process is that, at a bare minimum, a defendant whose rights the state wants to infringe or remove entirely is entitled to notice of the charge against him/her and a hearing before an impartial arbiter. The most heinous mass murderer is entitled to those two basic things. Actually,... »
He was divorced. She had custody. But she had problems with drinking and drugs. So he reported her repeatedly to Child Protective Services, which took no action. One day his ex got drunk and passed out, leaving their four-year-old daughter trapped inside a car in the hot Arizona summer. The little girl, Haley Gray,... »
Better late than never. This article could have been gleaned word for word from GlennSacks.com pieces over the past few months (New York Times, 11/2/09). They didn't mention us, so I'm sure it's all original material. I wonder if their other writers will read it and remember what it says the next time they're... »
I suppose it had to happen, but I certainly didn't see it coming. This article informs us that a number of colleges in the Northwest are restarting football programs, not because their teams had much success in the past or because current students particularly want them, but in the hopes of attracting male enrollees... »
I've dealt with the categories of Education, and Health and Survival in the Global Gender Gap Report, which I assume Barbara Kay would prefer I call the Global Women's Interests Gap Report, since that would be less misleading. But I think I won't. Here it is again (WEForum, 2009). The Report includes two other categories, Economic Participation and... »
There are a good many judges and prosecutors in this country who would so well to read this article (Telegraph, 10/30/09). Nominally, it reports on the fact that an appellate court in the United Kingdom has upheld the two-year prison sentence of Jennifer Day for making a false rape claim against Andrew Saxby, her... »
The best symbol of the $787 billion federal stimulus program turns out not to be a construction worker in a hard hat, but rather a classroom teacher saved from a layoff. That's the latest news from the employment front. It seems that, of the over 600,000 jobs saved or created by the federal stimulus spending... »
I've blogged before about the Global Gender Gap Report for 2009. Here's a link to it (WEForum, 2009). I won't repeat the tedious explanations of what it claims to be or its frankly anti-male scoring system. If you want to read about that, click here. The Global Gender Gap Report is at pains to avoid any admission... »
I'm sure artist Ben Stone of Chicago feels much safer now. After all, he's protected by a restraining order. He's got the order itself in his hands. It's signed by Judge Daniel Miranda and signed and stamped by County Clerk Dorothy Brown. He's even got his own videotape of police officers serving him with... »
To read the Global Gender Gap Report for 2009 is to enter a truly Orwellian world (WEForum, 2009). (And please note that I don't like the word "Orwellian" because it's overused. But the GGG Report is Orwellian as I will soon make clear.) The Global Gender Gap Report is a publication of the World Economic Forum which is... »
It's a continuing saga. The mere allegation of domestic violence can lead to dire consequences even if disproven, even if recanted by the accuser. In this case, it's high profile TV anchorman Dominic Carter of NY1 television (New York Daily News, 10/29/09). He's one of their most-watched news anchors, but he's been yanked off the... »
The recently released report on homicide in Canada by that nation's official statistics agency shows that Canadians enjoy safety undreamed of by Americans (StatsCan, 10/28/09). Canadian women in particular are safe. Indeed, homicides to Canadians who manage to stay out of gangs are vanishingly rare. The most recent figures are for 2008. They show that,... »
But there's one need most shelters are not even close to meeting."I'm a single dad and I have this baby and we've fallen upon hard times," says Attila Streyar as he holds his toddler daughter, Layla."I needed some help, just to get shelter. There was no place in this town that I could find... »
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