Advocacy group backs order to send girls back to Italy

The World Today Video: Anguish as custody case sisters leave Brisbane(7pm TV News QLD) Related Story: Sisters in custody dispute leave Australia Related Story: Father relieved daughters returning to Italy Related Story: Court orders sisters to return to Italy   Map: QLD Despite distressing scenes of a mother screaming for her children at Brisbane’s international

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Happy marriage a cure for all ills, Lib MP says

MARRIAGE can help prevent cancer. It is the best chance of fulfilment in life and divorcing parents should be encouraged to reconcile, says a book by the MP who could become Australia’s next families minister. Senior Liberal MP Kevin Andrews has rated the breakdown of marriage and the family a greater threat to the western

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Sisters ordered back to Italy

 The mother of four girls at the heart of a custody dispute arrives at court today. Photo: Harrison Saragossi UPDATE A Family Court judge has ordered four sisters involved in an international custody dispute be returned toItaly”as soon as practicable”. Justice Colin Forrest took six days to consider his judgment, having previously told the concerned

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Men are victims of domestic violence

Men ARE victims of domestic and personal violence. Some years ago, John Bailey, an Art Director with McCann Worldgroup Indonesia was so moved by the plight of men who are victims of domestic violence he designed 3 press advertisements and 1- 30 second television commercial portraying men as victims of domestic violence. Sydney photographers, models and make-up

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Industry CEO complains to Qantas and Virgin

The Qantas policy appears to promote a message that men cannot be trusted when children are involved and your organisation from its public response seems ambivalent to the notion that there is this clear link in this concept. The perception from outside is that the company has merely applied some damage control to the issue in the hope that it may just go away.

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Every 2nd Weekend

Avoca Beach Picture Theatre Coasties 2012 Winne Every 2nd Weekend Every father who is separated from his children understands the meaning of the term “Every 2nd Weekend”. The ‘every 2nd weekend’ template was the standard contact a newly separated father could expect to have with his children. The devastation in firstly, losing one’s wife/partner and then

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Unlike those vile trolls, Catherine Deveny and Mungo MacCallum are a picture of civility

       Just as well The Age and the ABC don’t give oxygen to people who seek attention by slagging off…..     Catherine Deveny in The Sunday Age, Sunday: I REMEMBER when I was about 14 slagging off some poor girl with my classmates … I am no stranger to trolls. They try to get

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Celebrating Father’s Day? White Ribbon prefers man/dad-bashing

To celebrate this Father’s Day, White Ribbon engages in a spot of good old man- and dad-bashing http://www.menshealthaustralia.net/content/to-celebrate-this-fathers-day-white-ribbon-engages-in-a-spot.html If you want to enjoy this Father’s Day and celebrate being a Dad, or indeed celebrate your own father, it might be wise not to read the latest ‘paper’ from the White Ribbon Research Series titled Fathers, Fathering

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Let’s hear it for dad, he’s the man says Kylie Lang

http://www.couriermail.com.au/spike/columnists/lets-hear-it-for-dad-hes-the-man/story-fn8fquew-1226463025067     Fathers will be able to embrace quality time with their children.Source: National Features DEADBEAT dads has a certain ring to it, probably because we’ve heard it so often. But for every father who is at best useless and at worst destructive in the lives of their children, there are others who are

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Paternally grateful

IS there a word for it? I can’t think of one. The label “maternal” is fenced off by women, exclusively, proudly; “paternal” – well, feminism has stained its meaning, it’s veered into something hegemonic, domineering, controlling, hardened, a word a lot of females flinch from by instinct. But how to describe what I see all

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