Domestic abuse cuts differently for women and men – Douglas Todd (Canada)

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-domestic-abuse-cuts-both-ways-and-differently-for-women-and-men Supporting survivors ‘should not be a zero-sum game’ in which only one gender receives empathy, says noted researcher and Simon Fraser University criminologist Douglas Todd Updated: June 7, 2019 Simon Fraser University criminologist Alexandra Lysova began to investigate spousal violence in her home city of Vladivostok, Russia, almost two decades ago. NICK PROCAYLO /

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Happy Men’s Mental Health Week, discarded Dads

https://www.spectator.com.au/2019/06/happy-mens-mental-health-week-discarded-dads/ Rob Tiller My early years as a counsellor taught me the ‘how does that make you feel’ style of therapy I’d learnt at grad school generally didn’t work so well engaging men. Guys aren’t simply ‘hairy women’ and if life-bettering change is the goal of counselling, men require a different, more male-friendly approach. Encouraging the

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The future of men and marriage is bleak

  by Suzanne Venker  | June 14, 2019 08:00 AM With Father’s Day upon us, the time has come to address as a nation what Heather Mac Donald noted earlier this year is “the greatest social catastrophe of our time”: fatherlessness. Fatherlessness is the No. 1 cause of nearly all social ills we face. We

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Family Court Report Writer takes Mum to Wine Bar

Well worth reading and covers many of the complaints we have raised over the years. All interviews with children or adults need to be video taped to ensure the reports written accurately describe the words and views of the  interviewees. The videos clearly need to be made available to both parties. Psychologists, psychiatrists, social worker

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Does The Goverment Owe You A Duty Of Care re CSA?

Falsely accused of rape, locked up and suspended from work as a teacher.  What else could go wrong?  Then the Child Support Agency garnished his wages without notice when he had no obligation to pay child support, causing him shock, upset and concern. Is A Government Liable For Damages? This recent case raises a very

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Stand by your Manhood – Bettina Arndt’s Interview with Peter Lloyd

Message from Bettina Arndt Hi Everyone,   I have a fun video for you – my interview with UK journalist Peter Lloyd, author of the 2015 book Stand By Your Manhood which did a great job pulling together all the evidence about what was happening to men in our society and presenting it in a

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University justice stacked against men

Bettina Arndt   Columnist Australian Financial Review May 30, 2019 — 11.46am According to the angry mob that targeted Cardinal George Pell, one of his key mistakes was the Melbourne Response, a scheme designed to offer justice to sexual abuse victims without establishing legal liability. They were outraged the scheme circumvented proper legal processes, denying

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Suicide figures are the tip of the iceberg: new research

28 May 2019 SUICIDAL behaviour among men could be up to three times higher than some estimates, according to ground-breaking research backed by Beyond Blue and Movember. Beyond the Emergency, a world-first study by Turning Point and Monash University in partnership with ambulance services, investigated the scale and nature of ambulance call outs to men

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Recent Australian intimate partner violence research finds high rates of male victimisation

http://www.oneinthree.com.au/news/2019/5/30/recent-australian-intimate-partner-violence-research-finds-h.html Recent Australian research by Ahmadabadi et al in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence has found that males more often remain in an abusive relationship and report experiencing higher rates of intimate partner violence in their current relationships compared with females. The paper, Gender Differences in Intimate Partner Violence in Current and Prior Relationships, adds to

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Focus on traumatized boys critical to gender equality, research shows

Boys were more likely to report being victims of physical neglect, sexual abuse and violence, the study found The Canadian Press · Posted: May 20, 2019 1:12 PM ET | Last Updated: May 21 A study from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health looked at childhood traumas suffered by 1,284 adolescents aged 10 to

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