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Female Police Officer a Hero in Ft. Hood Massacre
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... »
CT Supreme Court Establishes Basic Rights for those Accused of DV
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,... »
Her Neglect Killed one Child; Now She Wants Custody of Other Two
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,... »
Slate.com & Salon.com Attack the Fatherhood Movement (Part I)
Two major online publications--Salon.com and Slate.com--recently did articles about the men's and fathers movement. The articles discuss various aspects and actors in the movement, and also quote and misquote me. This series of posts will comment on the articles and also straighten out certain misrepresentations. Kathryn Joyce of Slate.com is a feminist writer who has... »
NYT Article Nails Many Fatherhood Issues
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... »
Here it Is! The Solution to the Problem of Falling Male College Enrollment
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... »
Global Gender Gap Report III: Women’s Advocacy = Gender Neutrality
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... »
U.K. Judge: Prison ‘Inevitable’ in False Rape Cases
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... »
Stimulus Package Created Mostly Teaching Jobs
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... »
Global Gender Gap Report II: Women’s Longer Lifespans = Anti-woman
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... »
Artist: Save Me From Myself! Judge Does
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... »
Group of 50 Mental Health Experts Pushing to Add Parental Alienation to DSM
Now 23, divorced, and a parent herself, Anne has recognized only recently that she was manipulated, that her long-held view of her father isn't accurate. They live 2,000 miles apart but now try to speak daily. "I've missed out on a great friendship with my dad," she says. "It hurts." A group of 50 mental... »
Don Henley: ‘My dad taught me responsibility and the value of hard, physical work’
Singer/songwriter Don Henley was a founding member of the Eagles and a seven time Grammy Award-winner in his solo career. In 2008, he was ranked one of the 100 greatest singers of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. In my humble opinion, he wrote one of the greatest songs about divorce ever, "Heart of the... »
Global Gender Gap Report I: Inequality = Equality
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... »
Wife Says ‘He Never Put One Hand on Me,’ but DV Charge Takes NY Anchorman off Air
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... »
Homicide News in Canada is Good; DV Advocates Glum
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,... »
In Tucson, No Room at the Inn for Homeless Single Dads
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... »
International Group of Scientists to Push for PAS Inclusion in DSM
Bernet is leading an effort to add "parental alienation" to the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the American Psychiatric Association's "bible" of diagnoses, scheduled for 2012. He and some 50 contributing authors from 10 countries will make their case in the American Journal of Family Therapy early next... »
More on the Great Sex Trafficking Scam in the U.K.
In this BBC Newsnight interview, moderator Jeremy Paxman questions former British MP for Europe, Dennis McShane and Nikki Adams of the English Collective for Prostitutes about the recent article in The Guardian showing that the Home Office had, over many years blown out of all proportion the problem of human trafficking for sex in... »
New Trend in Law Enforcement – DV Fraud
“For everybody who calls, everyone who walks through the door, their claims are taken at face value.” That's Yolanda Jimenez talking. She's the commissioner of the New York City Mayor's Office to Combat Domestic Violence. It seems six women have just been popped for posing as DV victims in order to receive subsidized public housing. ... »
Barbara Kay Speaks; Do Canadian Pols Listen?
They should. For a long time now, Barbara Kay has been calling Canadian liberal feminists on their multiple hypocrisies and overall lack of intellectual honesty. This article is more of the same (National Post, 10/23/09). If more people read Kay's work, it would go a long way toward restoring a measure of sanity to... »
Passing the Buck for Homicide to the Guy in Diapers
You've got to love anyone with a new idea. After all, that's the entrepreneurial spirit, the spirit of invention and discovery. It's what makes America great, right? This article is about just such a person with a cutting edge idea (Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 10/28/09). Now, as with all new ideas, it didn't work out so well... »
Animal Studies Show Fatherlessness Alters Brain Structure and Functioning
This article is about the neurobiology of developing animal brains (WSJ Online, 10/27/09). And because it's about laboratory animals, it can't be extrapolated to humans. Still, when neuroscience seems to corroborate sociology, it's easy to want more. It seems German scientists have been doing controlled experiments on degus, a rodent related to chinchillas. Degus are... »
Case Throws Light on Underreporting of Husbands Murdered by Wives
We don't yet know what happened in this case (WHSV, 10/27/09). The pair have just been arrested and of course are presumed to be innocent of criminal wrongdoing. What appears to have happened, though is that Dennis "Chip" Taylor and Lorie Taylor were married and had three children. They got divorced and were in the... »
Stuart Taylor: Feminist Hypocrisy, Inaccuracy about S.T.E.M. Hiring
To this article by Stuart Taylor, I have little to add (National Journal, 10/24/09). It seems that the campaign by feminists against men in academia continues. Needless to say, it is a campaign based on sex; many men, after all, agree with and promote feminist values and support feminist positions on many issues. They should be aware that... »
Shriver Report Does Hatchet Job on Fathers, Family Court Reform Movement
Maria Shriver, California's First Lady, has issued the new report "A Woman's Nation Changes Everything." The Shriver Report, which was written for the think-tank the Center for American Progress, begins: This report describes how a woman’s nation changes everything about how we live and work today. Now for the first time in our nation’s history,... »
No Contact Orders Expand State Power, Split Up Families
In essence, the criminal justice system is forcing couples to separate—whether they want to or not. This excellent piece takes on the human side of the TRO system (Seattle Weekly, 10/30/07). Without saying so outright, it shows in disturbing detail the nitty-gritty of how the state has used the domestic violence scare to reach into... »
UK Home Office Lied about Sex Trafficking; Rape Too!
As I wrote in a recent piece, British government documents reveal that the problem of human trafficking for prostitution, long described by the Home Office and media outlets as a problem engulfing as many as 18,000 women and girls in the UK, turns out to be almost non-existent. One of the largest law enforcement operations in the... »
Part III: Bazelon Gets it Wrong on False Rape Claims
In addition to the various shortcomings of Emily Bazelon and Rachael Larimore's article in Slate that I've discussed in Parts I and II, they miss an important concept in trying to arrive at an incidence rate for false rape claims. Read it here (Slate, 10/1/09). A reader of GlennSacks.com who is knowledgeable about false rape... »
Fathers & Families Hosts Debate Between 2 Leading Domestic Violence Authorities (Part VII)
Domestic violence and the DV policies of family courts and law enforcement is a multi-faceted issue that has an enormous impact on American families. Fathers & Families is hosting a debate between two of North America's leading domestic violence authorities, feminist DV expert Professor Evan Stark, Ph.D, MSW, and dissident DV expert Dr. Donald... »
False Rape Claim Nets Woman Jail Time
I've written before about what I think should be the correct approach to sentencing false rape claimants. What I would have judges do is look at the effects of the false allegation on its target. Second, I'd have the judge consider the amount of time and effort expended by law enforcement on investigating the... »
Harm to Boys and Leniency Toward their Female Abusers in Australia
If women are treated more leniently, it may be that there is a pervasive view that no real harm is done. But there is growing evidence that not only are young male victims of female sexual abuse severely affected, but that they are also at higher risk of going on to become abusers themselves. This... »
Maternity Leave for Non-Mothers? Yes! Say British Women
Hot on the heels of two high-ranking female corporate executives telling Parliament that employment laws that are biased in favor of women (such as those governing parental leave) run the risk of disadvantaging female employees, comes a survey commissioned by Red Magazine. Read about it here (Telegraph, 10/16/09). It finds that 74% of women think... »
After Big Hype, Huge UK Investigation Can’t Find 1 Person Who Forced Anybody into Prostitution
"The Home Office estimates that there are between 6,000 and 18,000 trafficked women and girls being forced to work as prostitutes in the UK." That was the news in the United Kingdom as of July, 2008 (Telegraph, 7/2/08). Every single police force in the country plus those of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well as... »
‘As a stay-at-home/homeschooler mom, I find myself on the short end of the stick in divorce’
Terri, a reader, sent me a letter concerning my recent co-authored column With Gay Marriage Comes Gay Divorce: The Rise of Lesbian Custody Battles (MSN.com, 10/15/09). In the column, we asserted that regardless of whether one supports or opposes gay marriage, lesbian custody battles are enormously illustrative of the dynamics behind heterosexual family court... »
Kids Teach Teacher a Lesson – Children Need Fathers
"Why don't you guys study like the kids from Africa?" In a moment of exasperation last spring, I asked that question to a virtually all-black class of 12th-graders who had done horribly on a test I had just given. A kid who seldom came to class -- and was constantly distracting other students when he... »
Part II: Slate.com’s Bazelon Gets It Wrong on False Rape Claims
Usually, Emily Bazelon's work is the prose counterpart of aromatherapy - soothing, but unscientific and ultimately not of much use. So it's strange to read this piece (Slate, 10/1/09). Maybe it's because she has a co-writer, Rachael Larimore, but her tone is more urgent, more agitated than usual. The piece seems a bit desperate to... »
The Shriver Report Proclaims a New Day, but Anti-Male Bias Remains the Same
Liberal feminists have seized on the massive loss of jobs held by men to declare that "A Woman's Nation Changes Everything." That in fact is the title of "The Shriver Report," whose raison d'être is the fact that men have lost so many jobs that women have become almost half the labor force. (If anyone out there actually... »
A Media Star 2 Years Ago, False Accuser Megan Williams Comes Clean
Two years ago, the nation was agog at the story of Megan Williams. The young West Virginia woman had been kidnapped, held against her will, repeatedly beaten, tortured, burned with hot wax and raped. In February of 2008, seven people were indicted by the Charleston, WV district attorney. Eventually, all seven pleaded guilty to... »
He did nothing wrong; She doesn’t want it, but Judge Issues a TRO Anyway
Here's an interesting personal story by a woman who's just learned a hard fact about life in our brave new world of VAWA (Crosscut, 10/19/09). The author, Ann Bauer, drove their children from the mid-West to Washington State to join her husband, "J," who'd relocated there for work. After a bottle of wine one night, she and J decided to... »
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