Why men won’t get married anymore: Women complain chaps today won’t settle down. Sorry, ladies, but it’s all your fault, argues a wickedly provocative new book

A controversial new book argues that the triumph of feminism has meant men are now second-class citizens.  On Saturday, in our first extract, it laid bare how men are abused, belittled and exploited. Today, it shows how men are treated unfairly in marriage and fatherhood.        According to the Office for National Statistics,

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Why fathers will always matter

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-fathers-will-always-matter/2011/06/17/AGXvyUZH_story.html  Washington Post  By Kathleen Parker Opinion writer June 17, 2011 This marks my 24th Father’s Day as a columnist, my 26th since my son uttered “Dada“and my 16th since my own father joined the legions of Interesting People in the Hereafter. Which is to say, there seems hardly anything new to add to

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The Tommaso Vincenti Case: His Daughter Speaks Out

Remember this… Four girls taken away from their loving Italian father, Tommaso Vincenti and brought to Australia, by the mother who stopped at nothing to cheat and lie her way home. She lied to the Australian Embassy and they fell for her story without questioning it. She arrived in Australia and the media immediately took her

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Meet the feminist who is sticking up for men

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11527238/Meet-the-feminist-who-is-sticking-up-for-men.html Feminist academic Christina Hoff Sommers is attracting attention for speaking out against untruths in the gender equality debate, writes Peter Lloyd For a lot of men, there are two dirty f-words in the English language: the four-letter one we hear at football matches and, at the risk of having faecal matter posted through my

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Why do we believe such terrible things about men that can’t be true?

Femicide has been identified globally as ‘a leading a cause of premature death   for women’, but does such a dramatic statement stand up to scrutiny, asks Neil   Lyndon       Figures from the UN claim that more than one in three of all women is subjected to sexual violence Photo: Alamy   This week, in the New

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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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