It’s insulting to label dads as only stand-by parents

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/its-insulting-to-label-dads-as-only-stand-by-parents/story-fni0fhk1-1227273564392 IT speaks volumes about the esteem in which we hold the parenting skills of fathers that when TV personality Chrissie Swan went away for six weeks’ work, she was attacked for leaving her children with their dad. Swan’s critics thought they were landing a punch on the polarising figure for being a “bad mother”

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USA – Georgia House Bill 568 would require DNA test for child support

House Bill 568 would require DNA test for child support                             http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/news/local/house-bill-would-require-dna-test-for-child-support/article_60b734ba-c93f-11e4-ba3d-7b19ecda16b5.html                                                                                            Georgia General Assembly Rep. Katie Dempsey said Thursday that requiring DNA testing in new child support cases is a way to end wrongful paternity claims prior to legal action.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               The Rome Republican authored House Bill 568, which would allow the

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Male victims of domestic violence: Police facebook post stirs debate on controversial issue

  A Facebook post by NSW Police has sparked a passionate social media debate on an issue many suggest society — and the police themselves — sweep under the carpet. The post, written this morning, sets a typical domestic violence scene but plays with assumptions to highlight this statistic: “Last year, 1 in every 5

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Facebook defamation: man awarded $12.5K after estranged wife’s ‘domestic violence’ post

A woman has been ordered to pay $12,500 to her estranged husband after she defamed him on Facebook by accusing him of subjecting her to years of abuse. In the latest of a growing number of cases over defamatory comments on social media, school teacher Miro Dabrowski sued his estranged wife, Robyn Greeuw, over a December

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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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Queensland woman, 58, ‘tried to kill two boys in house fire’

A WOMAN has been charged with trying to kill two young boys in a house fire in southeast Queensland.  The 58-year-old woman was charged on Tuesday with two counts of attempted murder and one count of arson in relation to the fire at a house at Morayfield, north of Brisbane, in February. It is alleged

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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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