http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:51:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/07/aussie-backlash-against-equally-shared-parenting-to-promote-move-aways/ 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 ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/07/female-police-officer-a-hero-in-ft-hood-massacre/ 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 ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/07/ct-supreme-court-establishes-basic-rights-for-those-accused-of-dv/ 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 ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/06/her-neglect-killed-one-child-now-she-wants-custody-of-other-two/ 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 ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/06/slate-com-salon-com-criticize-the-fatherhood-movement-part-i/ 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 ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/06/nyt-article-nails-many-fatherhood-issues/ 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 ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/05/here-it-is-the-solution-to-the-problem-of-falling-male-college-enrollment/ 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 ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/05/global-gender-gap-report-iii-womens-advocacy-gender-neutrality/ 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 ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/05/u-k-judge-prison-inevitable-in-false-rape-cases/ 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 ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/04/stimulus-package-created-mostly-teaching-jobs/