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WORLDWIDE OBSERVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL MEN’S DAY, THURSDAY, 19 NOVEMBER 2009 BY MEN AND FATHERS, MEN’S GROUPS, FATHERHOOD ORGANIZATIONS, AND FATHERHOOD PRACTITIONERS. AUSTRALIA – 6 NOVEMBER 2009 — Men and Fathers, Men’s Groups, Fatherhood Practitioners, and Fatherhood organizations throughout our global village will observe International Men’s Day on Thursday, 19 November 2009.   Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Australia,... »

People accused of domestic violence have a lot to lose. Not just their freedom, but the right to even visit their children. That was the scenario for a Stamford man who was arrested two years ago for allegedly assaulting his wife. She said he threw her down a flight of stairs and kicked her in... »

From John Stossel: I made The New York Times last week. It even ran my picture. My mother would be proud. Unfortunately, the story was critical. It said, “Critics have leaped on Mr. Stossel’s speaking engagements as the latest evidence of conservative bias on the part of Fox.” Which “critics” had... »

From CNN.com… …In our investigation, we reenacted the crime scene and determined it was impossible to discern any words spoken or shouted from 50 yards away. Later, we tracked down the then-teenage witness who said he saw McKinney that night. The man recanted his testimony on videotape, and told us police beat him. We also found a... »

From the UK Daily Mail… Any parent with a teenager will be painfully aware that for impressionable young TV viewers, there’s nothing sexier than a vampire – and it’s got nothing to do with Halloween. Channel 4’s latest attempt to seduce us with a mixture of swearing and sex comes in the form of True Blood,... »

Satire from The Onion… You know, I’m getting really sick of this. I am a perfectly normal, fully functioning adult, and yet it seems like every other day someone tells me that I need to get professional psychiatric help and probably be put on some sort of medication. Well, if I’m so batty, then answer... »

… we kids growing up in the fifties were better off in all sorts of ways. Mad Men has lots of fun showing the Drapers heedlessly clouding their children in secondhand smoke and letting them run around in dry-cleaner cellophane. But in that less fearful and blissfully P.C.-free age, we also learned independence and... »

From the Daily Mail (UK): Having reached the age of 38 without meeting Mr Right, Karen Shefras decided to become a mother by using donated sperm. As a result, Karen, who runs her own company, has never met her ten-month-old daughter’s father. The closest she came to him was at the clinic where five of her... »

By Stephen C. Webster@rawstory: British police inspectors have been building a massive, secret database containing personal information on thousands of otherwise innocent political activists, an investigative report revealed Sunday. “The hidden apparatus has been constructed to monitor ‘domestic extremists’, the Guardian can reveal in the first of a three-day series into the policing of protests. Detailed... »

A soft-spoken Muslim woman tried to slit her Staten Island husband’s throat as he slept – enraged that he made her eat pork and wear sexy skirts, officials said. “It’s time for you to die!” screamed Rabia Sarwar as she pounced on hubby Sheikh Naseem, sources said. He woke early Wednesday to find her straddling his... »

Be Prepared for the Worst by Ron Paul Any number of pundits claim that we have now passed the worst of the recession. Green shoots of recovery are supposedly popping up all around the country, and the economy is expected to resume growing soon at an annual rate of 3% to 4%. Many of these are... »

From the Calgary Herald… Men walking about in Langley should be wary after a woman viciously kicked a man in the groin, causing him to lose a testicle. ….the force of the assault had caused his testicle to rupture. It had to be removed and will be replaced by a prosthetic before Christmas. Embarrassed by the situation,... »

From the Daily Mail… Human eggs and sperm have been grown in the laboratory in research which could change the face of parenthood. It paves the way for a cure for infertility and could help those left sterile by cancer treatment to have children who are biologically their own. But it raises a number of moral and... »

From the Wall Street Journal Online: Conventional wisdom holds that two parents are better than one. Scientists are now finding that growing up without a father actually changes the way your brain develops. German biologist Anna Katharina Braun and others are conducting research on animals that are typically raised by two parents, in the hopes... »

Women now claim more than 57 percent of all bachelor’s degrees, 61 percent of all master’s degrees, and half of all professional and doctoral degrees, according to Education Department data cited by University of Michigan economist Mark Perry and others. They also earn more Ph.D.s than men in the humanities, education, health sciences, and... »

From John Dias of misandryreview.com… This is an interesting article about a phenomenon known as the Quiverfull movement.  This movement promotes cultural separation from the secular and feminist culture, promoting as an alternative a patriarchal family-oriented structure based on Christian beliefs and male headship. What I find striking is that political conservatism is often embraced by... »

From MRA author Stephen Baskerville… A review of Taken Into Custody has just been published by the economist Jennifer Roback-Morse in the prestigious scholarly journal, The Family in America: http://www.familyinamerica.org/roback.php. She reviewed it together with Alec Baldwin’s book on his divorce ordeal, A Promise to Ourselves , so it is sure to... »

HYDERABAD, INDIA – Mothers-in-law in our country are being severely discriminated against, neglected and subjected to all forms of domestic abuse over the last decade. Unless provisions are made to protect mothers-in-law from discrimination, domestic violence, and legal harassment, and unless steps are taken to ensure their welfare during their post-menopausal years, we will... »

LONDON (Reuters) – Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions. Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world high jump record of 2.45 meters during initiation ceremonies in which they had to jump at least their own height to progress to manhood. Any... »

LOS ANGELES/October 9, 2009 — October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the National Coalition For Men (NCFM) anticipates two successful high profile legal rulings this year and last year in West Virginia and California, respectively, will bring needed attention to the hidden, overlooked side of partner abuse –... »

Launch of “All India Men’s Welfare Association (AIMWA)” 11 October 2009 Venue: Public Gardens, Opposite Jubilee Hall Hyderabad, India Why do we need an “All India Men’s Welfare Association”? Welfare of boys and men has been seriously neglected in India over the last two decades. While proudly championing the cause of women’s rights and women’s empowerment, the government and... »

From Mike McCormick of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children (ACFC): Many of our readers have experienced the problem of false allegations of abuse in the context of divorce and custody proceedings.  Today in West Virginia a significant decision was released in the case of Men and Women Against Discrimination (MAWAD) versus The Family... »

From Wendy McElroy… I’ve been asked where I stand on the Polanski case. With so many dimensions to the case, I will be brief and comment only on a few. First, I believe a rape occurred. Second, the victim — now in her forties — has asked repeatedly and without duress from Polanski to have the matter... »

A Mount Airy cabinetmaker and maintenance worker found dead Friday evening in his home along with his wife and two children shot them in their sleep before killing himself, state police said Saturday. Charles L. Dalton Sr., 38, shot his wife, Jennifer A. Dalton, 37, their son, Charles L. Dalton Jr., 14, and daughter, Emmaline... »

Smoking Gun has made available the… 1977 grand jury testimony of the 13-year-old California girl with whom the director had sex after plying her with Champagne and a Quaalude at the Los Angeles home of Jack Nicholson. Polanski, now 74, fled the U.S. for Europe before he could be sentenced for the sex crime and... »

Japan is one of the world’s most rapidly aging countries and has one of the lowest birthrates – a result, says the institute, of socioeconomic changes brought on by a rapid period of economic growth. Since 1970, the number of Japanese over 65 has tripled to 22.1 percent of the population in 2008. The... »

It is interesting to see how evolutionists respond to failures of their theory. For all their talk of following the evidence and adjusting to new data, evolutionists find all kinds of ways to resist learning from their failures. Consider one of the major failures of evolution, its view of the very nature of biological... »

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) — Had this custody drama played out in the United States, Christopher Savoie might be considered a hero — snatching his two little children back from an ex-wife who defied the law and ran off with them. But this story unfolds 7,000 miles away in the Japanese city of Fukuoka, where... »

A new study by psychologists Cindy Meston and David Buss, “Why Women Have Sex,” has just been published. “Many of the women were having sex purely because they wanted the experience, they wanted the adventure, they wanted to see what it was like to be with men of different ethnicities,” she said. “Some women said... »

While demonstrators chide Switzerland for “philistine collusion” in the Roman Polanski US extradition case, some US bloggers wonder at the tendentious hypocrisy of the Left as evidenced by the lack of criticism from women’s groups, and the unstinting support of Polanski from the Hollywood/cultural elite. From Bruce McQuain: Got that? He raped a child. He plead... »

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice is under fire over her decision not to prosecute the woman who falsely accused 5 men of gang rape. Rice’s decision to support Danmell Ndonye over the 5 wrongly accused men was examined by Newsday here. Attorneys for two of the four men falsely accused of gang-raping a... »

Watson hits Rice on Hofstra case Republican Nassau County District Attorney candidate Joy Watson slammed incumbent Kathleen Rice’s decision not to prosecute Danmell Ndonye, the woman who lied about being gang raped on Hofstra University’s campus. Watson said that by not going after Ndonye, Rice was, once again, “minimizing criminal activity like she did with the... »

Film director Roman Polanski, arrested in Switzerland over a U.S. charge of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, will fight extradition to the United States, his lawyer said on Monday. Polanski, 76, who has dual French and Polish citizenship, was detained on Saturday after arriving to receive a lifetime achievement award at the... »

“Unilateral divorce involves government agents forcibly removing legally innocent people from their homes and seizing their property. It inherently abrogates not only the inviolability of marriage but the very concept of private life.” By Stephen Baskerville In 1947, with the baby boom in its infancy and few disposed to hearing of family crisis, Harvard sociologist Carle... »

From our friends at RADAR: Have you, or a person you know, ever been falsely accused of domestic violence? Targeted with a restraining order? Put in jail? Each year over one million Americans are hit with a false or trivial accusation of partner abuse. It’s now reached the point that domestic violence laws represent the largest... »

The 18-year old high school senior who was accused of being involved in a gang rape of a Hofstra University student, only for the student to recant her claim and admit the sex was consensual because there was a video of the encounter, told the NY Post, “I was so afraid. Words cannot even... »

The woman who falsely accused four men of gang-raping her in a Hofstra University dormitory bathroom is “likely” to face charges this week, a law enforcement official said, as the case became fodder for Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice’s election opponent. Nassau police and the district attorney’s office are awaiting “a few pieces of... »

Danmell Ndonye, 18, was with her father Thursday night at a Riverside Drive apartment building and had no comment. She’s wasn’t talking about her recanted claims she was tied up and gang raped inside a Hofstra University dormitory bathroom after a video of the incident emerged and shot holes in her original assertions. Prosecutors said... »

A police spokeswoman confirmed that a three-year-old had been spoken to in relation to a vandalism complaint. Another three-year-old boy is said to have been reported to Central Scotland police for vandalism. The boys are among 10 under-fives who have been reportedly interviewed by officers in Scotland this year. In another case, a five-year-old boy received... »

Before going through a divorce or custody issues, please take advice on how the family law courts handle issues. First off, if you don’t have money for an attorney, you should reconsider your options. If you want what’s best for your children, don’t let the courts dictate that to you; they have and never... »