Missouri bill to require father’s consent on abortion revives men’s rights issue

  A bill in the Missouri legislature would block doctors from performing an abortion unless the father consented. (Image courtesy of thestar.com). more >                    A Missouri bill to require women seeking abortions to get the written, notarized consent of the father of the fetus is reviving a long-standing argument about men’s rights in abortions. For

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No contraception, no dole

IF a person’s sole source of income is the taxpayer, the person, as a condition of benefit, must have contraception. No contraception, no benefit.  This is not an affront to single mothers or absent fathers, or struggling parents. Such a measure will undoubtedly affect strugglers, it undoubtedly will affect Aboriginal and Islander people in great

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Children most often killed by mothers – NZ

Chilling New Zealand figures http://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/227441/children-most-often-killed-mothers New Zealand mothers kill more children than any other group in society and men are victims of domestic violence as often as women, a police investigation has found. The Family Violence Death Review, released today by police, found mothers were responsible for 45 per cent of children killed by domestic

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The Contradiction That Rules Feminism

    Image credit:  Barbara Kelley Feminism in the universities is nothing new. The movement had its start among intellectuals outside universities—Simone de Beauvoir in Paris, Betty Friedan in America—but soon made its way to academia. Feminism was able to change American society from the top down, but that did not prevent feminism from expressing,

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British Government Statistics: ‘Fathers Who Aren’t Living with Their Children Don’t Count’

[Attachment(s) from Yuri Joakimidis joakimidisyuri@yahoo.com.au [euro-dads] included below] https://www.nationalparentsorganization.org/recent-articles?id=22102  Following up on my post of yesterday… There I made the point that we can’t seriously expect fathers to act the part of dedicated, selfless parents when our culture simmers in a toxic stew of anti-dad messages. Amazingly, even with all the obstacles placed between men

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Non-dom dads: the forgotten men of single-parent families

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/11284758/Non-dom-dads-the-forgotten-men-of-single-parent-families.html Official attitudes towards non-custodial fathers are several decades out of   date, leaving them effectively cast out of society, writes Neil Lyndon  ‘No matter how devoted he may be, a father who does not live with his children will almost certainly find it impossible to be recognised as an equal parent’ Photo: Alamy   By Neil

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UK: Male domestic abuse victim: men are scared to come forward

By Nomia Iqbal Newsbeat reporter 5 Dec 2014 A man, whose ex-girlfriend left him with life threatening injuries, has spoken for the first time about the domestic violence he suffered. Mark Kirkpatrick was found on a street in Lancashire seven months ago after his former partner Gemma Hollings attacked him with a pole, hammer and

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