ArticlesBy Medline Plus 9/6/2010 "As parents prepare for their children's return to school, they need to remember that healthy meals and snacks are essential for learning." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102999.html By FoxNews.com 9/7/2010 "Thanks to a long Labor Day weekend, most students heading back to school today will enjoy a four-day school week. But for some students around the country, every week this school year will be only four days." Read the entire article: http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/09/07/shorter-school-weeks-to-save-money/#ixzz0ysfR0qa0 By ABC Online – New Zealand 9/3/2010 "...Beyond the children's books there's a plethora of titles telling me how to be a better parent, and with luck a better man too - or, if not, then a better gardener and handyman, which feels more practical as well as more honest somehow. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s3001801.htm By St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Missouri 9/2/2010 "...Leonard Wilson, 36, admitted that he sold the boxes to others knowing that the pills would be used to manufacture methamphetamine and that he used the money to pay child support and other expenses. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_321ebbb4-b6a2-11df-871e-00127992bc8b.html By Time 9/1/2010 "...But now there's evidence that the ship may finally be turning around: according to a new analysis of 2,000 communities by a market research company, in 147 out of 150 of the biggest cities in the U.S., the median full-time salaries of young women are 8% higher than those of the guys in their peer group. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599201527400
By Voxy – New Zealand 9/2/2010 "..."The care of children and their best interests when their parents separate is not just a financial issue," says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ. "Children are being hard done by because the Family Court system is not starting with a presumption of shared parenting. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/family-first-review-child-support-and-child-contact/5/61290 By app.com 8/29/2010 "...Early on the morning of Aug. 16, Moore — driving his mother's car — dropped his 20-month-old daughter off at his ex-wife's home on Lockwood Place in Ocean Township. He was never seen alive again, authorities said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.app.com/article/20100829/NEWS05/8290370/Manchester-man-who-was-murdered-ex-wife-at-odds-over-child-rearing
By PennLive.com 9/2/2010 "Now 39 and the father of two sons ages 21 and 17, Moffitt is still learning about fatherhood." Read the entire article: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/09/fatherhood_academy_helps_men_l.html By The Royal Gazette - Bermuda 8/31/2010 ""Deadbeat parents" will be stopped from licensing their motor vehicles until they pay outstanding child support under new legislation to be tabled this autumn." Read the entire article: http://www.royalgazette.com/rg/Article/article.jsp?articleId=7da8fb730030000§ionId=60 By Miami Herald 8/31/2010 "A man who claims to be Miami Heat star Lebron James' father has filed a $4 million paternity lawsuit, and James has asked the court to dismiss it, TMZ reported Tuesday." By Las Vegas Review Journal 8/30/2010 "...The gunman who killed five people and wounded a sixth in a Lake Havasu City shooting spree before committing suicide was facing criminal prosecution for theft and legal action from his estranged girlfriend who was seeking financial support and custody of their two children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.lvrj.com/news/police-seek-motive-in-arizona-mass-shooting-101846083.html?ref=083 By Associated Press 8/27/2010 "The U.S. birth rate has dropped for the second year in a row, and experts think the wrenching recession led many people to put off having children. The 2009 birth rate also set a record: lowest in a century." Read the entire article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmy8vp2IF0hXIS66YjPRglOJg52QD9HRVQF80 By Cleveland.com 8/25/2010 "Police were able to arrest a woman Wednesday evening who had beaten her sister with a handgun and locked herself in their home for nearly two hours." Read the entire article: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/08/post_344.html By US Politics Today 24/7/ Press Release 9/3/2010 "A recent decision by the German Constitutional Court provides that men who father children out of wedlock need not obtain the mother's consent to seek legal custody." Read the entire article: http://uspolitics.einnews.com/pr-news/156565-european-court-decision-advances-fathers-rights By Western Leader 8/31/2010 "Mark Leggett says fatherhood in the 21st century isn't an easy task." Read the entire article: http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/western-leader/4075847/Dads-role-challenging By USA Today 8/27/2010 "A jury on Thursday rejected a claim by billionaire Donald Bren's two grown children for $134 million in retroactive child support." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2010-08-26-bren-child-support_N.htm?csp=34money By Moonee Leader News 8/31/2010 "...Moonee Valley Council’s fatherhood forum Discovering ‘Dadhood’ aims to allow fathers to discuss their children and experiences of fatherhood, and talk about the challenges of the role and any positive changes in their lives. ..." Read the entire article: http://moonee-valley-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/moonee-valley-dads-speak-out-about-fatherhood/ By Medline Plus 8/25/2010 "Men who have undergone surgery to treat earlier stage prostate cancer may not need to keep up yearly PSA tests to screen for a cancer recurrence, a new study suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102621.html By Medline Plus 8/26/2010 "New research shows older men's sex hormone levels depend on both race and geographical location, casting further doubt on the criteria for "male menopause."" Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102663.html By MedlinePlus 8/29/2010 "Anxiety can be a problem for some college and university freshmen, but there are a number of ways they can cope with new experiences and challenges, an expert suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102730.html By George F Will -- Washington Post 8/29/2010 "...Employment prospects for young black men worsened even when the economy was robust. By the early 2000s, more than a third of all young black non-college men were under the supervision of the corrections system. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/27/AR2010082703805.html By Neighborhood Star.com 8/26/2010 "A Frankfort man, being forced to pay child support for a son who was kidnapped by his mother and taken to Poland 10 years ago, has won a key legal ruling in his case." Read the entire article: http://www.southtownstar.com/neighborhoodstar/frankfort/2638818,082610gerardo.article By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "...Find the best application for your iPhone, why you should have them, and how they can make your job as a father easier. ..." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/technology/a/iPhone_apps.htm?nl=1 By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "... More and more adults are connecting with one another through what has been called Web 2.0. While women are still more likely than men to connect via social networking, men are increasingly using social networking online. ..." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/technology/a/social_net_sites.htm?nl=1 By Jornal.us "...The court said that Willie’s ex, in perfect physical and mental health and capable of full time employment had refused to contribute to her own upkeep. She held a college degree but testified that she had no intention of getting a job. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.jornal.us/article-5175.Child-Support-the-war-against-fathers-Part-2.html By Good Morning America 8/26/2010 "A jury sided today with real estate tycoon Donald Bren, ruling that he did not have to pay more than $130 million in back child support payments to his adult children." Read the entire article and watch video: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/donald-bren-jury-begin-deliberations-billionaires-child-support/story?id=11485446 By Idependent.ie -- Ireland 8/26/2010 "'IT'S a hamster wheel of misery -- a game of control over me. Why is she allowed to sabotage my attempts to be a loving dad? Why is she able to use my children as a weapon to beat me with?"" Read the entire article: http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/martina-devlin/martina-devlin-law-not-only-failing-fathers-its-failing-their-children-too-2311897.html By 24/7 Press Release 8/26/2010 "...Miriam Lee took the singer to court, alleging that he was the father of her 14-year-old son. When McKnight failed to respond to her claims, the judge ordered McKnight to pay more than $340,000 in past due child support payments. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/establishing-legal-paternity-in-florida-167189.php By The Daily Times 8/26/2010 "...Watch D.O.G.S. is a National Center for Fathering initiative that organizes fathers and father figures in order to provide positive male role models for the students and enhance school security. Foothills Elementary School’s program is open to dads, stepdads, grandfathers and other father figures. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/20100826/NEWS/308269988 By Medline Plus 8/25/2010 "Men who have undergone surgery to treat earlier stage prostate cancer may not need to keep up yearly PSA tests to screen for a cancer recurrence, a new study suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102621.html By Medline Plus 8/25/2010 "Men who show signs that their disease has returned after prostate cancer treatment are still more likely to die of other causes, a new study in US veterans shows." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102618.html By CNN Health 8/26/2010 "...Children across the country are heading back to school, and new research from the Partnership for a Drug-Free America shows that a third of parents are concerned computers and texting make it harder to communicate with media-engrossed teens about sex, drugs, alcohol and other risky behaviors. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/08/26/kids.drugs.text/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn By Edge Boston 8/23/2010 "...A Brockton woman walked into that city's police station on Aug. 9 and allegedly confessed to killing her exgirlfriend's Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor because the woman allegedly had come between the couple. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc3=&id=109418#discussion By Sydney Morning Herald 8/26/2010 "...In a report that might not be well received by some single mothers, the acting Ombudsman, Ron Brent, found that the Child Support Agency had at times been unduly influenced by stereotypes about fathers not meeting their obligations. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.smh.com.au/national/fathers-stereotyped-by-child-support-agency-20100825-13s89.html The Washington Times 8/24/2010 "...Times may have changed for some, who more readily accept the family variations that increasingly are called "normal" in American culture, but times have not changed for children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/24/hicks-and-the-winner-is-sperm-donor/ By The Washington Times 8/23/2010 "...At some point, we will have to come to grips with the fact that a very large percentage of our students fail because they lack a father and mother who value, encourage, support and reinforce their efforts to learn. Common sense tells us there is no surer recipe for the child to lag behind in learning than having to contend with the strain and disruption of a broken, dysfunctional family..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/23/why-young-black-men-dont-graduate/?page=2 By Medline Plus 8/20/2010 "Being bullied in cyberspace and "sexting" are major problems for school-age children, and parents need to be aware of this to protect them, says an expert." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102438.html By EHow 8/23/2010 "Parents who do not have child custody can still have relationships with their children through visitation." By CNN.com 8/23/2010 "...Alesaundra then escorted rescuers back to her house, where her father was 'sitting in the living room, needing medical care,' Villalovoz said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/22/california.toddler.heroine/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn By New York Times 8/18/2010 "...It's a development that predates the current economic doldrums, and no one knows yet what the impact will be — on the prospects of the young men and women, on the parents on whom so many of them depend, on society, built on the expectation of an orderly progression in which kids finish school, grow up, start careers, make a family and ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22Adulthood-t.html?emc=eta1 By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "Aim High! 101 Tips for Teens is a very quick read with short (sometimes too short) tips on issues that teens confront every day. From the practical aspects of getting along, such as homework, compromise and friends to important traditional values like loyalty, forgiveness and modesty, this book helps teens take a moment to think about their actions and the consequences of their choices." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/dadsandteens/gr/aim_high.htm?nl=1 By Medline Plus 8/10/2010 "Enzyte, a popular dietary supplement marketed for "male enhancement," causes electrical abnormalities in the heart that could be potentially fatal in some people, new research suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102047.html By The Southwest Times 8/25/2010 "The Kansas Payment Center has introduced an electronic method for parents to make their child support payments." Read the entire article: http://www.swdtimes.com/article_2336.shtml By Hattiesburg American 8/21/2010 "...All wanted to be better fathers and do what they could to keep their children from following in their footsteps. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20100821/NEWS01/8200357 By Madison County - St. Clair Record 8/24/2010 "A case brought by a man who claims a laboratory failed to follow procedures and botched a paternity test more than a decade ago is set for case management on Wednesday." Read the entire article: http://www.stclairrecord.com/news/229088-case-over-botched-paternity-test-set-for-case-management-wednesday By Seattle Post Intelligencer 8/23/2010 "A Federal Way woman faces multiple charges in a case involving a faked pregnancy and thousands of dollars in child support payments." Read the entire article: http://www.seattlepi.com/sound/425615_sound101319679.html By Medline Plus 8/19/2010 "...Surveys by Mental Health America and other researchers have found that people affected by the lousy economy have a higher risk for mental illness, especially such conditions as depression and anxiety. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102374.html By Medline Plus 8/19/2010 "Drugs and gangs are common problems at public schools in the United States, a new teen survey shows." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102382.html By OMG! 8/25/2010 "..."If he was of legal age," Kim, 29, said when asked if she would date 16-year-old Biebs. "He definitely has this swag to him."..." Read the entire article: http://omg.yahoo.com/news/kim-kardashian-would-definitely-date-justin-bieber-if-he-was-legal/46182 By Medline Plus 8/16/2010 "Eating more oily fish like sardines, salmon and yellowtail could help teenage boys feel less blue, suggests a new Japanese study. The same does not appear to hold for teen girls, however." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102255.html By New York Times 8/20/2010 "A tragic crisis of enormous magnitude is facing black boys and men in America." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/21/opinion/21herbert.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 By Wayne Parker, Fatherhood Guide "...I love books for teens and youth that help them learn values and principles like those espoused and taught here by Peter Buffett. I wrote a brief review of the book, and really feel like it is an important addition to any family library where teens are growing up. An even better use of the book would be for fathers and teens to read it together. ..." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/b/2010/08/03/life-is-what-you-make-it.htm?nl=1 By ABC News 8/19/2010 "Massachusetts high school teacher June Talvitie-Siple learned the hard way that a Facebook wall is probably not the best place to spout off about the students and parents in her community." Read the entire article: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebook-firing-teacher-loses-job-commenting-students-parents/story?id=11437248 By Slam "...The joint statement said "the (divorce) judgment provides for shared parenting of their two children."..." Read the entire article: http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Golf/News/2010/08/23/15114241.html By Toronto Sun -- Canada 8/12/2010 "Burt Reynolds has been given a reprieve from his ex-wife Loni Anderson as he continues to recover from heart surgery - she's waived the $400,000 he owes her in back child support, according to a U.S. tabloid report." Read the entire article: http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/celebrities/2010/08/11/14993041-wenn-story.html By Catholic.net 8/19/2010 "Christians are uniting to affirm the importance of fatherhood and the truths of John Paul II's teaching in the theology of the body, says Glenn Stanton." Read the entire article: http://www.catholic.net/index.php?option=zenit&id=30102 By Laurel Leader Call - Missouri 8/19/2010 "All wanted to be better fathers and do what they could to keep their children from following in their footsteps. “I have a 12-year-old son,” said John P. McCullum, 31, of Laurel. “When I see him, I see a carbon copy of myself." Read the entire article: http://leadercall.com/local/x107497509/Inmates-learn-to-become-better-fathers By New York Times 8/20/2010 "Paul Hillier, the conductor who was arrested en route to his appearance at the Mostly Mozart Festival for nonpayment of child support, said he was withholding the money from his ex-wife because she did not allow his daughters to visit him, The Daily Mail of London reported on Wednesday." Read the entire article: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/after-arrest-over-child-support-payments-conductor-speaks-out/?src=mv By Washington Times 8/19/2010 "They were unlikely dance partners in an unlikely dance hall: a 29-year-old murderer and a 10-year-old boy doing an impromptu tango as Luther Vandross' "Dance With My Father" sounded from a boom box in a prison gym." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/19/kids-head-to-prison-camp-to-visit-dads/ By Medline Plus 8/19/2010 "Men who have a brother with prostate cancer are more likely than other men to be diagnosed with the disease, but the reason may have more to do with greater surveillance than genetics, a new study suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102386.html By Washington Times 8/16/2010 "Feminists may insist that life for women has gotten better since the days when raucous female activists marched in the streets for equality and questioned traditional social mores about men, marriage and career." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/16/poll-shows-mixed-feelings-about-feminism/ By Gordon E Finley -- Letters to the Editor/Washington Times "Although it is widely purported that women are paid less than men for equal work, the reality is otherwise ("Poll shows mixed feelings about feminism," Nation, Tuesday)." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/19/gender-pay-gap-reflects-choices-not-bias/ By The Grio 8/17/2010 "Are young black men ready for the increasingly brutal, knowledge-based job market in the U.S.? The answer is a resounding "no," according to a new report, Yes We Can: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males 2010. Calling it a "national crisis," the report found that only 47 percent of black males graduated from high school in the 2007-2008 school year." Read the entire article: http://www.thegrio.com/specials/making-the-grade/grim-graduate-rates-for-black-males-highlight-racial-gap-in-schools.php By The Australian National Affairs 8/18/2010 "...The proportion of boys in special classes rises as diagnosis of their condition becomes more subjective, with boys accounting for 85 per cent of students in special schools with behavioural and emotional disorders. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/special-schools-a-fast-track-to-prison/story-fn59niix-1225906552218 By Dads Divorce.com 8/13/2010 "My husband pays his ex-wife for child support and other costs each month via check. She won't give him her banking information so he could set up a direct deposit. She hasn't cashed a single check in 10 months! If she doesn't want/need the money, can we reclaim it and put it into a savings account for the kids?" Read the entire article: http://www.dadsdivorce.com/articles/can-i-reclaim-child-support-payments-that-went-unused.html By Yahoo News 8/18/2010 "America's latest folk-hero flight attendant may be the one on a Southwest Airlines jet who took a 13-month-old baby from her mother after the woman slapped the crying child for kicking her." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_flight_attendant_baby By The Shropshire Star 8/13/2010 "Many primary schools across Shropshire do not have one male teacher – depriving growing boys of a positive role model." Read the entire article: http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/education/2010/08/13/many-shropshire-primary-schools-have-no-male-teachers/#ixzz0x1UzJqjn By Los Angeles Times (blog) - California 8/11/2010 "...In a years-long legal feud set to start trial next week, Bren's now-adult children are seeking retroactive child support in the amount of $400,000 a month each for the years between 1988 and 2002. According to their attorney, Bren was giving children Christie and David Bren a fraction of that sum -- about $10,000 a month -- for several years. ..." Read the entire article: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/08/billionaire-kids-donald-bren-child-support.html By Fox59 8/12/2010 "A Jeffersonville woman is accused of fatally poisoning her estranged husband with morphine and muscle relaxants in order to collect a $100,000 life insurance policy." Watch video: http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-woman-poisons-husband-081110,0,3706887.story By KTLA.com 8/10/2010 "Two brothers found shot to death in a Chino Hills ravine both died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds, according to the San Bernardino County coroner's office." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-chino-hills-boys-shot,0,920184.story By KTLA.com 7/15/2010 "A 65-year-old woman is charged with six felony counts including DUI after she allegedly hit her fiance, twice with her car." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-fiance-dui,0,4768073.story By KTLA.com 8/16/2010 "Oscar winning actor Michael Douglas has been diagnosed with a tumor in his throat." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-michael-douglas-tumor,0,5367466.story By KTLA.com 8/12/2010 "A man who agreed to donate part of his liver to help save his brother died just four days after the transplant procedure at The University of Colorado Hospital." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/kdvr-liver-transplant-death-txt,0,1362999.story By KTLA.com 8/16/2010 "The common-law wife of renowned French chef Jean Francois Poinard admits she killed him and stuffed his body in the freezer. She is now under investigation for manslaughter." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-missing-chef-freezer,0,7101247.story By KTLA.com 8/17/2010 "Authorities in South Carolina say a 29-year-old mother has confessed to suffocating her two young boys, strapping them into her car and driving the vehicle into a river." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-children-submerged-car,0,6629887.story By Sydney Morning Herald - Australia 8/15/2010 "FINDING out if your partner has cheated has never been easier or cheaper. DNA testing, once confined to science fiction then to forensic and research laboratories, can now cost as little as $295 and is so common it's even featured in an episode of an Australian TV soapie." Read the entire article: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/the-genes-are-out-of-the-bottle-and-on-the-web-20100814-1248i.html By Medline Plus 8/12/2010 "Even though a major study found that the drug finasteride could reduce the risk of prostate cancer by 25 percent, it is still not being widely prescribed for that purpose, Veterans Administration researchers report." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102124.html By Medline Plus 8/11/2010 "Young men who are obese may have a lower sperm count than their normal-weight counterparts, a new study suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102099.html By Medline Plus 8/15/2010 "...Compared to abstainers, teens who only have casual sex are at greater risk for lower grades and problems in school, and are more likely to be expelled or suspended, less likely to be attached to school, and less likely to go to college. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102214.html By TMZ.com 8/11/2010 "NBA veteran Earl Watson filed for divorce from his wife Jennifer Freeman -- claiming the "My Wife and Kids" actress attacked him in a late night rage ... and savagely bit him on the chest until he bled." Read the entire article: http://www.tmz.com/2010/08/11/nba-player-earl-watson-jennifer-freeman-my-wife-and-kids-indiana-pacers-bite-attack-ucla/ By Medline Plus 8/12/2010 "..."The message is that father-son relationships are incredibly powerful. When they're healthy, it's hugely protective for boys," said study lead author Melanie Mallers, an assistant professor at California State University at Fullerton. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102130.html By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "The first week that our oldest son was in first grade, he experienced an extreme case of back to school stress." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/backtoschool/a/btsstress.htm?nl=1 By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "With the first day of school drawing near, parents and children across the country are getting set for the annual back to school campaign. There is so much to do to be ready, from shopping for clothing and supplies to getting the family organized. This list is designed to make the process easier for dads to manage." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/backtoschool/a/bts_checklist.htm?nl=1 By Black Star News 8/12/2010 "A City agency has failed to disburse millions of dollars in child support payments that have already been collected and should have been either disbursed to parents who have won custody of children in family court proceedings or returned as refunds to non-custody parents for overpayments, The Black Star News has learned." Read the entire article: http://blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/6747/2010-08-12.html By Daily Mail - Charleston 8/13/2010 "Some low-income West Virginia families who are owed back child support will be notified later this month that they will receive one-time payments of $500 each." Read the entire article: http://www.dailymail.com/News/statenews/201008120890 By Fresno Bee 8/9/2010 "A 42-year-old Northern California woman has been arraigned on felony charges of unlawful sex with two teenage boys, but delayed entering a plea while her defense lawyer reviews the evidence against her. By Christian Science Monitor "'Good fatherhood' initiatives are at the center of President Obama's family and welfare policies. It is a different approach than the one taken by the Bush administration, which focused more on promoting marriage." Read the entire article: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0810/Fatherhood-not-marriage-is-focus-of-Obama-family-policies By USA Today 7/18/2010 "... The job cuts, prison officials say, mean a dramatic reduction in job training for inmates preparing for release, lost wages for prisoners to pay down child support and other court-ordered fines, and more tension in already overcrowded institutions. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2010-07-19-1Ainmatelayoffs19_ST_N.htm By DNA Worldwide - Paraguay "Fernando Lugo, the president of Paraguay, has has been ordered to undergo a paternity test to establish whether or not he fathered a second illegitimate child." Read the entire article: http://www.dna-worldwide.com/dna-news/news/2010/08/11/president-of-paraguay-to-face-paternity-test/ By Malaysia Star (blog) - Malaysia 8/7/2010 "The setting up of a Child Custody Agency with the power to compel errant parents to pay maintenance and alimony is being studied, said Women, Family and Community Development Deputy Minister Senator Heng Seai Kie." Read the entire article: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/8/7/nation/20100807144810&sec=nation By World Magazine 8/11/2010 "Fatherlessness affects all of us and is the root of all kinds of evil and brokenness. It is been well documented that 60 percent of rapists, 72 percent of adolescent murderers, and 70 percent of long-term prison inmates are men who grew up in homes without dads. " Read the entire article: http://online.worldmag.com/2010/08/11/the-priority-of-fatherlessness/ By Medline Plus 8/11/2010 "Males account for the majority of U.S. hospital emergency visits involving underage drinkers, says a federal government report." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_102074.html By WVNS-TV – West Virginia 8/11/2010 "According to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, the state has received money from the federal economic stimulus funds." Read the entire article: http://www.wvnstv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=84275 By Chicago Sun Times 8/12/2010 "What warrants a guy jumping from a third-story window? Fire? Terrorist attack? For a North Side man Tuesday, it was to avoid going to jail for allegedly not paying child support." Read the entire article: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2591286,CST-NWS-jump12.article By The Washington Post 8/12/2010 "...Domestic violence is not the province of one gender; abusers can be male or female, heterosexual or homosexual. Although abuse by males is widely recognized, abuse by females is generally not. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/11/AR2010081105728.html By E Online 8/12/2010 "...So the actress obviously had no problem dishing it back to him after the Fox News fixture lambasted her on his show for having the audacity to say in public that women are, more and more these days, taking the matter of family into their own hands and choosing to have children without being in a relationship. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b195093_jennifer_aniston_sticks_it_back_bill.html?cmpid=rss-000000- By Kake.com 8/8/2010 "A Wichita woman asks police to arrest her after a domestic violence call to a residence." Read the entire article: http://www.kake.com/news/headlines/100224199.html?ref=199 By WalesOnline – United Kingdom "...But Meredith, from Merthyr Tydfil, said he had not deducted any money from his wages because he was disputing the amount owed. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2010/08/07/firm-failed-to-take-85k-child-support-from-pay-91466-27014831/
By Columbus Dispatch - Ohio 8/8/2010 "...If the man didn't meet the 30-day deadline for signing the state's putative-father registry, offer support during the pregnancy or establish paternity before the adoption was filed, he might have little chance to halt the placement. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/08/08/adoption-rulings-may-boost-birth-fathers-rights.html?sid=101 By E-Online 8/10/2010 "Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson Kardashian!" Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/hwood_party_girl/b194607_kim_kardashian_seduces_justin_bieber_in.html? By Healthy Children.com "...Some of these children eventually dread going to school at all. In fact, research shows that children who are bullied are more likely to skip going to class; some even drop out of school altogether. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/obesity/pages/Teasing-and-Bullying.aspx? By The Guardian – United Kingdom 8/9/2010 "...Every case that ends up in court is a tragedy for the individuals involved, but most of all for the child. Twenty years ago, the Children Act set out a system that was intended to promote the fairest possible outcomes while putting the child's interests at the forefront of considerations, and most of all in care proceedings that are at the sharpest end of family law. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/09/editorial-family-law-courts-barnardos By San Francisco Chronicle - California 8/8/2010 "In 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Wisconsin law that denied marriage licenses to noncustodial parents who were behind in child-support payments By PR Newswire 8/9/2010 "The Fatherhood Educational Institute (FEI) President Emeritus and leading family law attorney Jeffery M. Leving supports the recent ruling by the German Constitutional Court that has promised to strengthen the custody rights of unmarried fathers." Read the entire article: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/german-court-victory-sets-precedent-for-international-fathers-rights-100254174.html By The Hindu – New Delhi "The Supreme Court has asked courts to be extremely careful in ordering a DNA examination to determine paternity, as sometimes such scientific tests may bastardise an innocent child even though its mother and her spouse were living together at the time of conception." Read the entire article: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article558197.ece By Medline Plus 8/7/2010 "As the new school year approaches, parents and children planning their "back-to-school" lists are urged to keep backpack safety in mind." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101968.html By US Department of Health and Human Services "You can make healthy choices every day" Read the entire article: http://www.ahrq.gov/healthymen/stayhealthy.htm By Medline Plus 8/8/2010 "Fractures are the fourth most common type of injury suffered by high school athletes in the United States and can be serious and costly, a new study has found." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101973.html By Medline Plus 8/6/2010 "Some of the most widely prescribed drugs in the United States may skew results of prostate cancer screening tests, possibly causing errors in diagnoses, a new study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101931.html By Yahoo.com 8/6/2010 "Our personalities stay pretty much the same throughout our lives, from our early childhood years to after we're over the hill, according to a new study." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100806/sc_livescience/personalitysetforlifeby1stgradestudysuggests By BBC News 8/7/2010 "Parents who smoke in cars in front of small children are "committing a form of child abuse", a leading GP has said." Read the entire article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10896335 By MercuryNews.com 8/6/2010 "A Livermore woman faces 67 criminal charges for allegedly having sex with two teen boys." Read the entire article: http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_15697569?nclick_check=1 By The Vancouver Sun "He may leave his socks lying around and avoid emptying the dishwasher, but a new study shows husbands do as much work as their wives." Read the entire article: http://www.vancouversun.com/Life/women+same+amount+work/3367254/story.html#ixzz0wDQye12O By Sheri & Bob Stritof, About.com Guide "If you ask married couples what has held them together throughout many years of married life, most will respond by mentioning qualities or skills such as being good listeners, respecting one another, having a good sense of humor, knowing how to have fun, being willing to adapt, accepting that you can't change your partner, and love." Read the entire article: http://marriage.about.com/od/keysforsuccess/a/peanutbutter.htm?nl=1 By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "...Most people who find themselves in an affair did not set out to find one. Dr. Shirley Glass, infidelity expert and author of the book, Not Just Friends writes, "It is faulty thinking to believe that if you are attracted to someone else there must be something wrong at home. ..." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/cs/dadsandmoms/a/affair_proof.htm?nl=1 By Osawatomie Graphic - Kansas 8/4/2010 "...She cited one example where a man was making child support payments to his ex wife and was always on time. The only problem is he paid in cash and there was no paper trail, which allowed the woman to claim he never made a single payment, costing him about $15,000. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.graphic-online.com/2010080410273/news/osawatomie/new-method-for-support-payments.html By ChicagoNow (blog) - Illinois 8/4/2010 "...Last week in Cook County, a judge ordered a man to pay thousands of dollars in past child support for a child that isn't his. The man even took a paternity test to prove he wasn't the father, but it was too late. Back in 1998, the child's mother went to court to get child support and the man never responded to the summons. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chicagos-real-law-blog/2010/08/crazy-illinois-law-alert.html By Helium "...The sad part is that it's not necessarily because the person that is asked to pay doesn't want to help take care of their children. It's contentious because the needs and the abilities of that parent are not taken into consideration. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.helium.com/items/1912136-child-support-guidelines By WLKY Louisville - Kentucky 8/4/2010 "Police said a man tried to set himself on fire at the Child Support Center in downtown Louisville." Read the entire article: http://www.wlky.com/news-archives/24510843/detail.html By Wall Street Journal 8/5/2010 "...A New York state appellate court on Tuesday became the first in the state to rule that a same-sex partner may be liable for child support. ..." Read the entire article: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/08/05/same-sex-partners-in-new-york-can-be-liable-for-child-support/ By People.com 8/2/2010 "..."Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child," Aniston, 41, said. "Times have changed and that is also what is amazing is that we do have so many options these days, as opposed to our parents' days when you can't have children because you have waited too long.".. Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20408849,00.html By Baltimore Sun - Maryland 8/2/2010 "...In the divorce she was to get $10, 000 a month alimony and $16, 000 in child support, including $4,000 in nanny services, $2700 for credit cards, $800 for entertainment and $600 for housekeeping. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/wreg-ex-wife-denies-involvement-in-wright-murder-story,0,6542559.story By WJZ - Virginia 7/31/2010 "A Virginia man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to fatally stabbing a D.C. man during a fight over the paternity of twins." Read the entire article: http://wjz.com/wireapnewsva/Va.man.gets.2.1835635.html By Omaha World-Herald - Nebraska 7/31/2010 "...The program is for boys in fourth through 12th grades, and there is a $5 annual membership fee. Any son and father or father figure (such as an uncle or grandfather) may participate. Organizers want the boys to choose who participates with them, but it can’t be a different person each time, Maxwell said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.omaha.com/article/20100731/NEWS01/707319845 By Dads Divorce.com 7/28/2010 "For a father, the most painful aspect of the end of a marriage (if it has been initiated by his wife) is the “loss of” the daily contact with the children." Read the entire article: http://www.dadsdivorce.com/articles-archive/3204- By Telegraph.co.uk 8/2/2010 "Women found men more appealing when they were either pictured wearing red or framed in red, compared with other colours, it found." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7922951/Women-prefer-a-man-in-red.html By Science Daily 7/20/2010 "The way a family interacts can have more of an impact on a child's predicted school success than reading, writing or arithmetic, according to a University of Notre Dame study published recently in the Journal of Child Development." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100720162317.htm By ScienceDaily 7/7/2010 "A study that examined 30 years of standardized test data from the very highest-scoring seventh graders has found that performance differences between boys and girls have narrowed considerably, but boys still outnumber girls by more than about 3-to-1 at extremely high levels of math ability and scientific reasoning." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100706113210.htm By ScienceDaily 7/27/2010 "Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers reveal in a new, large-scale study that "normal" blood pressure at age 17 can still predict hypertension at early adulthood and that teenage boys are three to four times more likely to develop high blood pressure in early adulthood than girls." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100727094826.htm By Medline Plus 8/2/2010 "Teens who spend far too much time on the Internet run the risk of developing depression, a new Australian study suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101741.html By Medline Plus 7/29/2010 "..."Even if you trust all your neighbors and all the teens are 'A' students, it is best to assume that groups of teens just hanging out can lead to problems, including violence," co-author Christopher Browning, an associate professor of sociology at Ohio State University, said in a school news release. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101629.html By Men Media 7/30/2010 "...Police sources said she attacked him with the knife after he accused her of having a lesbian affair. Samantha fled but her sister Toni refused to call an ambulance for an hour even though Mr Darvill lay dying on the floor of her home Blackley home where she had been holding a party. ..." Read the entire article: http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/crime/s/1312697_victims_family_furious_at_joke_justice_for_killer_sisters By Northwest Public Radio 8/2/2010 "Rarely do ads for legislative races get this personal. But Washington Republicans are pulling no punches. They’ve launched an ad campaign against a Washington state lawmaker accused of domestic violence." Read the entire article: http://nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=7616 By Medline Plus 7/30/2010 "Though bad behavior may be a typical phase of childhood, certain signs can indicate something more serious." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101673.html By Medline Plus 7/28/2010 "People with higher levels of education are better able to cope with dementia-related brain changes, which may explain why better-educated folks have a lower risk of developing dementia, researchers say." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101578.html By Medline Plus 8/1/2010 "Experts have long known that sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is more common in boys than girls, but a new study suggests that gender differences in levels of wakefulness are not to blame." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101725.html By Food and Drug Administration 7/27/2010 "At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Marshals today seized $346,954.43 worth of FastSize Extender devices and FastSize EQM Erectile Quality Monitor devices, as well as component parts used in the manufacture of the FastSize Extender." Read the entire article: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm220350.htm By Medline Plus 7/28/2010 "Teens with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are more likely to drop out of high school or delay completing high school than other kids, a new study has found." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101588.html By Bnd.com – Illinois 8/1/2010 "...The stimulus payment, intended for people with disabilities, was automatically applied to Williams' unpaid child support. That transaction alerted state officials, who had not been aware that Williams was getting a disability check. ..." By San Antonio Express - Texas 8/2/2010 "...Since Bexar County was known for incarcerating more “deadbeat dads” than any other place in Texas, Wilson's outlook could have been bleak, he acknowledged Friday. But what he didn't realize was that Bexar County also has one of the most effective job placement programs in the state for low- or no-income parents who want to work. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.mysanantonio.com/moms/program_helps_parents_pay_child_support_99735604.html By ABC Action News - Florida 7/30/2010 "...According to a pay check stub, Thorpe’s employer regularly garnished his check for a total of $578 to pay his child support. “My ex-wife kept on complaining 'Kevin, I am not getting the money'. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/money/consumer/taking_action_for_you/father%E2%80%99s-child-support-money-doesn%E2%80%99t-reach-his-child- By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "...According to a Javelin Strategy & Research report, in 2007 an estimated 1.117 million families had their children’s personal information exposed in a data breach of one kind or another. ..." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/childprotection/a/childidtheft.htm?nl=1 By Radio New Zealand – New Zealand 7/30/2010 "But Fathers of New Zealand says dropping late penalties and giving parents more contact with their children, will encourage people to pay." Read the entire article: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2010/07/30/04e12a76cd84 By Porterville Recorder - California 7/22/2010 "Rosana Burdusco is being held on suspicion of forgery and burglary, after deputies were contacted by a confidential woman who reported that someone had stolen her child support check, and then cashed it." Read the entire article: http://www.recorderonline.com/news/support-45989-check-suspected.html By WXVT - Mississippi 7/29/2010 "Hundreds of Mississippi Department of Human Services child support cases are under review as officials investigate whether process servers lied about delivering subpoenas for court proceedings." Read the entire article: http://www.wxvt.com/Global/story.asp?S=12894326 By WTHI 7/22/2010 "One Volunteer program, called Fatherhood, helps male offenders keep in touch with their kids at home." Read the entire article: http://www.wthitv.com/dpp/news/local/volunteers-do-time-at-prison By ABC Online 7/30/2010 "A Darwin woman has been jailed for claiming more than $50,000 in child support for five children removed from her care by the government." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/30/2969016.htm By Minnesota Public Radio - Minnesota 7/30/2010 "The recession is creating a crisis for the courts and for families dealing with child support. Parents who have faithfully kept up with their child support are falling behind and flooding the courts with requests for help, so Hennepin County officials are taking steps to keep the problem from getting worse." Read the entire article: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/07/30/reconsider-child-support/ By WBXH - Louisiana 7/28/2010 "A Baton Rouge man is fighting to prove he is not the father of two children he believes he has wrongfully been paying child support on, possibly for years." Read the entire article: http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=12889910 By Tbo.com - Florida 7/29/2010 "They tell Winter that they haven't made their payments because they're unemployed. Despite their efforts to land a job they remain part of the county's 11.8 percent unemployed." Read the entire article: http://www2.highlandstoday.com/content/2010/jul/29/la-jobless-parents-cant-afford-to-pay-child-suppor/ By Vallejo Times-Herald - California 7/29/2010 ""Review and Adjustment" on Sept. 29 will cover modifying a child support order." Read the entire article: http://www.timesheraldonline.com/news/ci_15629276 By MLive.com - Michigan 7/28/2010 "County residents who fall behind on their child support payments could have their cars immobilized and have to pay up to $250 in additional fees to get their vehicles back under a new Friend of the Court initiative." Read the entire article: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/07/falling_behind_on_child_suppor.html By NewsNet5.com - Ohio 7/23/2010 "A new community outreach program in Summit County will give mothers and fathers the opportunity to have genetic testing done at the hospital shortly following the birth of their child." Read the entire article: http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/akron_canton_news/paternity-testing-to-be-offered-at-summit-county-hospitals By The Washington Times 7/21/2010 "...Boys have lagged behind girls in reading achievement for more than 20 years, but the gender gap now exists in nearly every state and has widened to mammoth proportions — as much as 10 percentage points in some, according to the Center on Education Policy. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/21/will-fart-fiction-get-boys-to-read/ Morris County faces lawsuit from officer who refused to fire gun while pregnantFriday, 30 July 2010
By NJ.com 7/13/2010 "Morris County is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a sheriff’s officer who claims she was discriminated against when she was required to fire a gun while pregnant." Read the entire article: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/07/morris_county_sheriffs_office_seeks_d.html By KTLA.com 7/29/2010 "A French woman who admitted suffocating eight of her newborns and concealing their corpses in the garden and garage of her home has been charged with manslaughter, a prosecutor said Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-france-dead-newborns,0,7980797.story By Yahoo News 7/30/2010 "A mother whose three children were found starving after being shut away in a hotel bathroom for as long as nine months was sentenced to life in prison Friday after changing her plea to guilty in the middle of her trial." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100730/ap_on_re_us/us_starved_children
By Medline Plus 7/23/2010 "U.S. colleges aren't doing enough to limit student access to alcohol, a new study contends." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101431.html By Carolyn Hax -- Washington Post 7/29/2010 "...I'm in a terrible marriage and I don't know how to get out of it. I have two small children, which greatly complicates things. My wife has become extremely abusive, both physically and verbally. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/28/AR2010072805425.html By France 24 7/29/2010 "A 47-year-old woman was placed under official investigation for the suspected killing of eight new-born babies and concealing them in a village in northern France, a judicial source said on Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.france24.com/en/20100728-police-arrest-couple-after-8-dead-babies-found-house-france-justice By CNN.com 7/28/2010 "A teenage girl "averted a tragedy" by calling 911 from inside a wildly weaving car to report her mother, who ended up being charged with drunken driving, New York State Police said." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/28/new.york.teen.911.mom/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn By New York Times 7/12/2010 "...Dr. Khoruts decided his patient needed a transplant. But he didn’t give her a piece of someone else’s intestines, or a stomach, or any other organ. Instead, he gave her some of her husband’s bacteria. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/science/13micro.html?_r=1 By Geelong Advertiser 7/27/2010 "..."Your laws and penalties don't apply to me. I'm not accepting them, I'm sorry, I must go, thank you," Eilish De Avalon said, driving off with the officer's arm caught in her driver's side door. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2010/07/27/195111_news.html By New York Times 7/26/2010 "...Nearly one in four American couples sleep in separate bedrooms or beds, the National Sleep Foundation reported in a 2005 survey. Recent studies in England and Japan have found similar results. And the National Association of Home Builders says it expects 60 percent of custom homes to have dual master bedrooms by 2015. ..." Read the entire article: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38410209/ns/today-the_new_york_times/ By Lehigh Valley Live 7/25/2010 "A man called police to a home in the 2100 block of Springtown Hill Road in Lower Saucon Township to report that his mother put feces on his toothbrush, police said in a news release today." Read the entire article: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/bethlehem/index.ssf/2010/07/lower_saucon_mom_cleaned_bathr.html By Telegraph.co.uk 7/27/2010 "...Mr Chhalotre had complained the impotence accusation "rendered him unmarriageable and sullied his prestige". ..." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7912341/Woman-fined-for-defaming-husbands-manhood.html By Monitor - Texas 7/25/2010 "...These visits he gets with his daughter are the fruit of his determination to play an active role in her life, even though he and the girl’s mother are no longer together. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.themonitor.com/articles/parenting-41158-award-wins.html By TheDay.com - Connecticut 7/27/2010 "...But at least now you have your first foray into the "Dr. Dad" classes that ran last month at the William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.theday.com/article/20100727/NWS08/307279980/-1/NWS By San Antonio Express - Texas 7/27/2010 "Thirteen people from San Antonio, almost half of them former employees of a company that processes child-support payments for Texas and 15 other states, have been charged with diverting thousands of dollars of those payments to themselves." Read the entire article: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/feds_making_child_support_fraud_arrests_99256384.html By MedlinePlus 7/21/2010 "Women are most vulnerable to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) between ages 51 and 55, while men are more prone to the condition from ages 41 to 45, a new study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101321.html By RiverFrontTimes 7/29/2010 "A Fulton-based resource center for battered women has been ordered by the state to shut down all operations." Read the entire article: http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2010/07/domestic_violence_center_shut_down_for_being_a_total_fraud.php By CBS News 7/16/2010 "...The connection is particularly strong in women, says Dr. Ian Kerner, author and sex therapist. "The brain is the most powerful sex organ," he says. Men, he adds, have a much harder time making themselves climax without any touch whatsoever, but there are documented cases in women. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20010797-10391704.html By This is Jersey 7/26/2010 "...Victim Support say that they are seeing more and more men asking for help and that it is time to encourage other husbands and boyfriends to come forward." By American Psychological Association -- Blog "Your Mind Your Body" 6-16-2010 "No, according to the Men’s Health Network, the purpose is to heighten the awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys. What’s so different about the health of men? Unlike women, sadly many men take much better care of maintaining their vehicle than they do their physical body." Read the entire article: http://www.yourmindyourbody.org/men-and-physical-exams-why-they-avoid-them-how-to-motivate-them/ By Knoxville News Sentinel - Tennessee 7/25/2010 "...Facebook and other social networks, such as Twitter, Flickr, Photobucket and MySpace, are becoming the latest legal tool in divorce and child-support battles. ..." Read the entire article: http://m.knoxnews.com/news/2010/jul/25/in-the-age-of-facebook-divorce-battles-go/ By MedlinePlus 7/22/2010 "The malicious use of alcohol and medicines is an under-recognized form of child abuse, according to a new report." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101371.html By MedlinePlus 7/23/2010 "Teens with sunnier outlooks also tend to be healthier, a new study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101429.html By Wayne Parker -- About.com, Fatherhood Guide "Are you struggling like many dads with what to do about social networking?" Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/b/2010/07/17/social-networking-101.htm?nl=1 By Glenn Sacks, MA, Executive Director -- Fathers and Families 7/22/2010 "California Senator Rod Wright (D-Los Angeles) has long been a leader in working toward a balanced family law system, and is sponsoring three child support reform bills this year." Read the entire article: http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=8778 By Hanna Rosin -- The Atlantic July/August 2010 "...And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135 By Nicholas D. Kristof -- New York Times 7/21/2010 "...If school performance predicts career success, then women may do even better a few decades from now, for girls clearly excel in school as never before. The National Honor Society, for top high school students, says that 64 percent of its members are girls. The Center on Education Policy cites data showing that boys lag girls in reading in every American state. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/opinion/22kristof.html?ref=columnists By Medline Plus 7/16/2010 "...The U.S. researchers who reviewed 153 studies from the last 30 years also found that boys bully more than girls. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101164.html By Daily Mail – United Kingdom 7/19/2010 "...Ms Beverley had updated her Facebook status the previous evening to read: 'Now who's laughing? You have got done big time by the CS (sic) so now leave us alone for good. Your son hates you and so do I.'..." By WHIZ - Ohio 7/18/2010 "...Saunders believes her son's death stems from a paternity test he took about a year ago, which is when Hardin found out he was the father of a two-year-old girl. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.whiznews.com/content/news/local/2010/07/18/missing-zanesville-mans-mother-speaks-out By The Star-Ledger - NJ.com – New Jersey 7/19/2010 "Democratic state senators are mounting a challenge to a bill that would garnish income tax refunds from homeowners delinquent on their property taxes, questioning whether it adequately protects child support payments and saying it would punish the unemployed." Read the entire article: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/07/nj_senate_democrats_challenge.html By Beloit Daily News - Wisconsin "...He works with a pool of about 50 employers. He said the men in his program can get wages, a job history and skills during the six months of employment. Although many of the men in the Fatherhood Program qualify, others are encouraged to apply for the program as well. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.beloitdailynews.com/articles/2010/07/17/news/top_news/news1701.txt By Tucson Citizen - Arizona 7/20/2010 "Guys who wonder if they are being unwittingly sucked into marriage or child support payments when they don’t even have a child can now find out once and for all." Read the entire article: http://tucsoncitizen.com/dating/2010/07/20/who%E2%80%99s-your-daddy-dna-paternity-testing-goes-countywide-in-cochise-clinics/comment-page-1/ By HollandSentinel.com - Michigan 7/20/2010 "If you don’t drive to the courthouse to pay your child support, you might not be going anywhere else either." Read the entire article: http://www.hollandsentinel.com/news/x6415285/Giving-deadbeats-the-boot By DadsDivorce.com "...Suddenly she is threatening to take me back to court for full custody and to have child support initiated. Can you tell me what legal grounds she may have and what I may encounter?..." Read the entire article: http://www.dadsdivorce.com/articles/what-is-the-burden-of-proof-needed-for-a-modification.html By CNN.com 7/21/2010 "If masculinity could take the form of a 2-inch frosted cupcake, David Arrick would have the recipe." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/21/new.york.butch.bakery/index.html By CNN.com 6/22/2010 "...The research, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, found an average 160 annual cases in which pharmaceutical drugs were maliciously used on children...." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/07/22/drugged.children.parenting/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn By Richard Driscoll with Nancy Ann Davis -- Dr Driscoll Blog Spot "A recent 2008 Gallup poll in Great Britain finds that 33% of women "often or very often" feel resentful of men, compared to 14% of men who often feel resentful of women." Read the entire article: http://drsd2.blogspot.com/2010/07/why-so-much-harsher-toward-men.html By The Detroit News - Michigan 7/21/2010 "...The final vote can't come quickly enough for Virginia Chester, a 37-year-old single mom in Grant, Mich., north of Grand Rapids, who cashed her last unemployment check on July 3. "My only income is child support, which is enough to feed us," said Chester, who was laid off as a billing processor in June 2009. "The last few weeks, I haven't been able to pay any bills."..." By SILive.com 7/21/2010 "Rep. Michael McMahon has secured $90,000 for the office of District Attorney Daniel Donovan to expand its Violence Against Women program." Read the entire article: http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/07/mcmahon_secures_90g_to_assist.html By R. Mark Rogers, Rogers Economics, Inc. "Child support guideline awards are not written in stone. Whether you are a noncustodial or By Gordon E. Finley Miami Herald -- Letters to the Editor 7/20/2010 "...Given that current Florida family law fails these reality tests, it should be changed to: 1. Presume equal shared parenting for both parents, which is what research shows that the children of divorce want, and it also is the case that children turn out better under equal shared parenting; ..." By Medline Plus 7/14/2010 "...More than one in 10 children age 9 to 17 years old -- girls more often than boys -- experience some sort of mood disorder, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101048.html By Medline Plus 7/16/2010 "Youngsters and teens who lack social problem-solving skills are more likely to become bullies, victims or both, while those who also do poorly at school are even more likely to become bullies, according to a new study." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101164.html By National Cancer Institute 7/15/2010 "Results from an international phase III trial show that adding radiotherapy to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) reduced the risk of death from prostate cancer by 43 percent in men with locally advanced disease." Read the entire article: http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/results/rad-hormone-prostate0710 By Medline Plus 7/14/2010 " A review of nearly 150 recently published studies on children's health found that approximately half were at serious risk for bias and distorted results, researchers say." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101061.html By Medline Plus 7/12/2010 "A large study by U.S. and Australian researchers suggests that puberty can be associated with a substantial increase in violent and socially aggressive behavior." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_100946.html By Medline Plus 7/16/2010 "Men who use condoms every time they have sex are less likely to harbor the virus that causes genital warts than those who are less consistent about protection, a new study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101179.html By Houston Chronicle 7/17/2010 "Q. Why is it that I pay child support after all the taxes have been taken out of my check, yet my ex-wife does not have to pay taxes on the money she receives, roughly $13,000 per year?..." Read the entire article: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7113081.html By The Boston Globe 7/18/2010 "... Two years ago, Niro’s youngest son graduated from college, ending child support payments and leaving his former wife with alimony of $65 a week. “The next thing I know, I get summonsed to court for alimony adjustment,’’ he says. A probate court judge increased the alimony to $700 a week even though the couple had divorced nearly a quarter of a century ago — five times longer than they were married. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/family/articles/2010/07/18/years_and_marriages_later_former_spouses_still_owe_alimony/ By Times Union 7/17/2010 "With cheers, tears and applause from family and friends who packed a Rensselaer County courtroom Friday, first-degree murder charges were dropped against Bryan Berry and Terrence Battiste, accused of killing a Troy couple in 2002." By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "I have to admit; even though I have moved into grandfatherhood, there is still a lot of boy in my heart. The Dangerous Book for Boys reached into my inner boy and made me long for the days of my youth, and to be excited about my sons and grandsons having similar experiences in their young lives." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/activities/fr/dangerous_book.htm?nl=1 By Mount Vernon News 7/16/2010 "Child support owed to many Ohio children can sit in the accounts of the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services for months before it is distributed to families, if it has been collected through an offset of federal income tax refund." Read the entire article: http://www.mountvernonnews.com/local/10/07/16/some-child-support-payments-sit-for-months By People.com 7/15/2010 "..."[She] used our children as pawns," the rocker, 49, says in court papers released Thursday in her increasingly bitter split with Tammy, 35. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20402417,00.html?xid= By Orange County Register 7/14/2010 "A 2-year-old girl stuck in the middle of a custody battle between her adoptive mother and her birth father will be staying in California with her adoptive mother for the time being, the California appellate court ruled ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ocregister.com/news/mills-257705-doss-custody.html By Helium "If you have a child or one on the way but are not married, it is important to take one thing into consideration. The fact that you should get a paternity test done is extremely important." Read the entire article: http://www.helium.com/items/1892224-importance-of-getting-a-paternity-test-for-unmarried-couples-expecting-a-baby By WHNT - Alabama 7/14/2010 "The Lawrence County Sheriff's Department arrested Amanda Hazen on two counts of forgery after discovering in an investigation that she allegedly forged two signatures on court documents regarding a paternity test results." Read the entire article: http://www.whnt.com/news/whnt-moulton-paternity-fraud,0,2196303.story By Rentry Benefiting Families – Louisiana "Being a parent is never easy and being an incarcerated parent poses unique problems ..." Read the statistics: http://www.rbf.la/programs-fatherhoodinitiative.html By FoxNews.com 7/12/2010 "A Detroit-area woman who pleaded guilty to having sex with the biological son she gave up for adoption and later tracked down on the Internet has been sentenced nine years to 30 years in prison." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/12/mich-women-sentenced-woman-gets-years-sex-son-gave-adoption/ By Cord Jefferson - The Root 7/6/2010 "...Professor Frances Goldscheider teaches sociology at Brown, where she came up with the idea that, she says, has made her question some of her deepest, most long-standing beliefs: "While I thought I was a feminist all my life, when I started studying the family and fatherhood in general, I realized that I was really an egalitarian. I want a level playing field in the family for men and women. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.theroot.com/views/what-if-i-dont-want-be-daddy?page=0,1 By Roland C. Warren -- The Root 7/12/2010 "... Folks who support the notion of financial abortions say that we should make things equal and give a father the choice to walk away from his responsibility to a child, despite what the mother wants, just as a mother has the legal option to abort their child, despite what the father wants. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.theroot.com/views/your-take-are-all-abortions-equal By Charleston Gazette – West Virginia 7/10/2010 "...Still, it's a demographic fact that multitudes of U.S. kids -- a relentlessly growing number -- are being raised in one-parent homes. "Millions of children have little or no contact with their fathers," Cathy Young of Reason magazine wrote. Further, it's a sad fact that such children are more at risk of flunking school, turning delinquent, using dope, being jobless, and winding up jailed or pregnant. ..." Read the entire article: http://wvgazette.com/Opinion/201007090642 By The Marshall Democrat-News - Missouri 7/9/2010 "A criminal summons has been issued for a Marshall woman for failing to pay child support. Billie J. Weathers, 39, is charged with two counts of nonsupport, a class D felony." Read the entire article: http://www.marshallnews.com/story/1648459.html By Plain Dealer (blog) - Ohio 7/12/2010 "...Elroy Thomas knew there might be trouble when he went to pick up his 6-year-old daughter from his ex-wife's house on Father's Day. So he had a police officer accompany him. Thomas had a court-issued visitation order to spend the day reserved for dads with his first-grader. But his ex had denied his visitation rights before. ..." Read the entire article: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/07/child_visitation_rights_go_une.html By People.com 7/16/2010 "...This is a case of a woman scorned," says the source. "When Oksana first met Mel, he promised her the world. Obviously things didn't work out. She ultimately felt screwed over because he wanted out of the relationship."..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20402847,00.html?xid=rss- By CDC "...Overall, 708,769 men were told they had cancer and 290,064 men died from cancer in the U.S. in 2006. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cdc.gov/Features/dsMenTop10Cancers/ By Medline Plus 7/5/2010 "High school students at a private school in Rhode Island who started school a half-hour later in the morning were in better moods, more alert, less depressed and more likely to actually attend class than before the time change, a new study shows." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_100709.html By MedlinePlus 7/6/2010 "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman's risk of breast cancer also boosts a man's risk for the disease, a new study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_100745.html By Medline Plus 7/6/2010 "Teens who "cyberbully" others via the Internet or cell phones are more likely to suffer from both physical and psychiatric troubles, and their victims are at heightened risk, too, a Finnish study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_100742.html By Gordon E. Fiinley - Washington Times/Letters to the Editor 7/9/2010 "...As we begin to enter the intensity of the fall elections, I would urge all boys and men, along with all the women who love them, to ask every candidate on their ballot what they have done - or promise to do - for the health and well-being of males. Should no answer be forthcoming, that exactly is the number of votes those candidates should receive. ..."' Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/9/health-care-gender-gap/ By New York Times 7/5/2010 "...The championship event was created by two men, both professional jousters, who are on a mission to transform jousting from Renaissance-fair entertainment to arena sport. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/magazine/11Jousting-t.html?th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1278849697-XtpUaHIuYks9yvaNrcJYYw By New York Times 7/10/2010 "The boy, a dark-haired 6-year-old, is playing with a new companion. The two hit it off quickly — unusual for the 6-year-old, who has autism — and the boy is imitating his playmate’s every move, now nodding his head, now raising his arms. " Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/science/11robots.html?th&emc=th By New York Times 7/9/2010 "...“We found a negative effect on academic achievement,” he said. “I was surprised, but as we presented our findings at various seminars, people in the audience said they weren’t surprised, given their own experiences with their school-age children.” ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/business/11digi.html?th&emc=th By National Review 7/10/2010 "Myths about domestic violence not only libel the vast majority of men; they also put truly at-risk women at greater risk." Read the entire article: http://article.nationalreview.com/437888/the-world-cup-abuse-nightmare/christina-hoff-sommers By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "...So if you are pondering whether or not to become a father, or would just like some validation that you have made the right choice, this list of the top ten personal benefits of being a father is worth your consideration. ..." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/newdadsresources/a/dads_benefits.htm?nl=1 By Los Angeles Wave Newspapers - California 7/7/2010 "...Doss is embroiled in a child-custody struggle with the girl's father, Benjamin Mills Jr., who came forward with a paternity claim when his daughter was about a month old, halting the adoption. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.wavenewspapers.com/news/regional/foster-mom-Stacey-Doss-Good-Morning-America-97997814.html By Montgomery Advertiser - Alabama 7/3/2010 "After Andrey Scott lost his job about a week after his newborn son was born, he made his child a promise: he would never make him "want" for anything." Read the entire article: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20100703/NEWS01/7030352/New-dad-faces-challenges-of-fatherhood-unemployment By Fremont News Messenger - Ohio 7/5/2010 "Ten area men who participated in the WSOS 24/7 Dad Program were honored June 30 at a ceremony that heralded their completion of all program requirements." Read the entire article: http://www.thenews-messenger.com/article/20100705/NEWS01/7050307/Learning-to-be-better-fathers By SILive.com – New York 7/6/2010 "...Children whose parents continue to fight after the first or second year following a divorce will experience a number of devastating consequences, including physical changes (such as increased blood pressure and increased stress levels), anxiety and depression, acting-out behaviors and academic problems at school. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.silive.com/relationships/index.ssf/2010/07/shield_your_kids_from_toxicity_of_a_high-conflict_divorce.html He has a DNA test to prove it's not his son, but still has to pay child supportMonday, 12 July 2010
By WXYZ - Michigan 7/8/2010 "He’s on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars in back child support. But he says the boy is not his son—and has the DNA test to prove it." Read the entire article: http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/wayne_county/he-has-a-dna-test-to-prove-it's-not-his-son,-but-still-has-to-pay-child-support By Telegraph.co.uk 7/4/2010 "The heated emotions aroused by one person’s divorce can be transferred like a virus, causing others to divorce, researchers found."
By Yahoo News 7/8/2010 "Mel Gibson was named Thursday as a potential suspect in a domestic violence investigation involving his ex-girlfriend, Russian singer Oksana Grigorieva, earlier this year, sheriff's officials said." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100708/ap_on_en_mo/us_people_mel_gibson By People.com 7/8/2010 "...But while Etheridge, 49, requested joint custody of the couple's 3-year-old twins, Michaels, 35, is seeking full legal and physical custody, with visitation for Etheridge, documents filed in L.A. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20400627,00.html By Yahoo News 7/8/2010 "In an exclusive interview with Yahoo! News and the Huffington Post, he credited his father with teaching him how to live, and explained that all parents can make a "better human being":..." Read the entire article/watch video: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100708/bs_yblog_upshot/buffett-recounts-the-best-advice-hes-ever-received By Mail Online - UK 7/7/2010 "...The taxi driver had gone to watch his son, a year seven pupil, compete in sprints and egg-and-spoon races. But teachers refused to let him spectate because they did not believe he had undergone checks by the Criminal Records Bureau. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1292909/School-sports-day-ban-father-criminal-records-check.html
By The Associated Press 7/6/2010 "...Worthy has a new idea she hopes will fix the problem: Jail parents for up to three days for repeatedly missing scheduled parent-teacher conferences. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i0rq9mGi5LSJUk6Y1iX4chnj_WmgD9GPFHIG5
By Houston Chronicle 6/29/2010 "Texas school districts no longer can force teachers to give students higher grades than they earned on class assignments or on their report cards, a Travis County judge ruled Monday." Read the entire article: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7086112.html By Boston Globe 6/24/2010 "If the folks at the Boston College Center for Work & Family could pick two dads from pop culture as the models for the fatherhood study they released last week, they could easily be Ari Gold and Adam Braverman." Read the entire article: http://www.boston.com/community/moms/articles/2010/06/24/men_are_redefining_success_fatherhood/ By WebMD 7/11/2010 "A rocky romantic relationship can cause significant stress , but contrary to conventional wisdom, its impact may be harder on young men than on young women, new research indicates." Read the entire article: https://www.webmdhealth.com/ehealth/common/content/webmdtopic.aspx?webmdlink=/content/WebMDArticles/WebMD/WebMD_News_091e9c5e805bccdb.html By The Daytona Beach News Journal 7/1/2010 "The family of the late Tom Moore will send him on a final journey Sunday in one of his favorite holiday traditions, a colorful shower of fireworks over Lake Disston." Read the entire article: http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/local/west-volusia/2010/07/01/widow-honors-spouse-with-holiday-fireworks-sendoff.html By Medline Plus 7/1/2010 "Adding to the ongoing debate on the usefulness of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test for prostate cancer, new research from Sweden finds the screen cuts lives lost to the disease by almost half." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_100575.html By FDA "FDA has approved labeling changes for the phosphodiesterase Type 5 (PDE5) inhibitor class of erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs, Cialis, Levitra, and Viagra." Read the entire article: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/PostmarketDrugSafetyInformationforPatientsandProviders/ucm106525.htm By Healthy Children "Not surprisingly, some single and working parents have grown to dread school vacations, legal holidays (like Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Washington's Birthday), and "teacher in-service days." These are days when the child is out of school but parents usually have to be at work." Read the entire article: http://www.healthychildren.org/English/family-life/work-play/pages/Managing-School-Holidays-and-Vacations.aspx? By Medline Plus "All adults should visit their health care provider from time to time, even if they are healthy. The purpose of these visits is to:..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007465.htm By Medline Plus 7/6/2010 "Middle-aged and older men who take erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra are more likely to have sexually transmitted diseases, a new study of more than 1.4 million men finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_100710.html By The Australian 7/1/2010 "BOTCHED circumcisions in South Africa killed 40 boys and put over 100 in the hospital this month, a health official said." Read the entire article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/forty-boys-killed-in-botched-circumcisions-in-south-africa/story-fn3dxity-1225886438305 By The Washington Post 7/2/2010 "The ex-girlfriend of a D.C. Superior Court magistrate judge was sentenced Thursday to more than five years in prison for stalking the judge and breaking into her Northwest Washington home." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/01/AR2010070106377.html By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "...I took an opportunity recently to visit with some teenagers I know and asked them what they wish their fathers knew about them: their challenges, their emotions, their lives. ..." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/dadsandteens/a/dadsknowteens.htm?nl=1 By Yahoo News 6/30/2010 "Elian Gonzalez says he's not angry at his Miami relatives who fought to keep him in the United States during a nasty international custody battle a decade ago, and is thankful "a large part of the American public" supported him being reunited with his father in Cuba." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100701/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_elian10_years_later By BBC 6/18/2010 "...A mother, Jo, [not her real name] said her son's secondary school refused to interact with her despite a court order giving her joint residency of her son, even though he lives most of the year with his father. She said: "I need to know, from the school, how he's doing. "It makes it difficult for me to deal with my own child."..." Read the entire article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/wales/10347876.stm
By Worcester Telegram - Massachusetts 7/1/2010 "...A published 2004 study by Arizona State University professors Sanford Braver and David Stockburger concluded that Massachusetts’ guidelines for determining how much child support an obligor will pay were among the highest in the United States. Since then, the state’s guidelines have actually been raised — in January 2009, in the middle of the worst economy since the Great Depression. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.telegram.com/article/20100701/NEWS/7010723/1020 By Medline Plus 6/30/2010 "Adding to the ongoing debate on the usefulness of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test for prostate cancer, new research from Sweden finds the screen cuts lives lost to the disease by almost half." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_100575.html By Christina Hoff Sommers -- The American 7/1/2010 "Boys are falling behind girls in our nation’s schools. Fewer boys graduate from high school, and boys are less likely to attend college. One education expert has quipped that if current trends continue, the last male will graduate from college in 2068." Read the entire article: http://www.american.com/archive/2010/june-2010/are-there-more-girl-geniuses By CNN.com 6/30/2010 "...This is absolutely unacceptable," said Carnahan, a Democrat from Missouri. "No veteran who has served and risked their life for this great nation should have to worry about their personal safety when receiving much needed healthcare services from a Veterans Administration hospital."..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/30/va.hospital.hiv/index.html By CNN.com 6/30/2010 "...We're finally realizing not only that sexual assault exists and how prevalent it is, but there is such a thing as a female perpetrator," Robin Sax, a former prosecutor and author of "Predators and Molesters," told "Prime News."..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/30/michigan.teacher.sex/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn Read the entire article By The New York Times - Europe 6/30/2010 "France is embarking on a grand experiment — how to diversify the overwhelmingly white “grandes écoles,” the elite universities that have produced French leaders in every walk of life — and Rizane el-Yazidi is one of the pioneers." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/world/europe/01ecoles.html?partner=rss&emc=rss By Sydney Morning Herald - Australia 6/30/2010 "...And if they don't turn up for the fortnightly meeting their welfare payments will be suspended. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/welfare-changes-take-effect-from-july-20100630-zl00.html By ninemsn 6/21/2010 "...The latex condom is inserted by the woman like a tampon, and features jagged rows of teeth-like hooks that latch onto an attacker's penis upon penetration. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/health/1073546/anti-rape-female-condom-unveiled-for-world-cup By MLive.com 6/25/2010 "An 86-year-old Oceana County woman was arraigned Friday for domestic violence and ordered to stay away from her 92-year-old husband, whom she is accused of assaulting." Read the entire article: http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2010/06/oceana_county_woman_86_charged.html By Children & Young People Now – United Kingdom 6/29/2010 "...Field added that the role of breadwinner has been taken over by the taxpayer because unmarried fathers are often "young, unemployed, unemployable and unskilled". But Rob Williams, chief executive of think-tank Fatherhood Institute, said Field’s views dated to the 1950s and called on policy-makers to focus on schemes to support fathers’ engagement with family life. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cypnow.co.uk/news/ByDiscipline/Social-Care/1013144/Fatherhood-Institute-chief-slams-Frank-Field-unemployed-fathers-comment/ By Seymour Herald - Tennessee 6/30/2010 "...“When it comes to deciding who gets the kids, it’s natural for judges to want to place them with the parent who is nurturing and sensitive,” said Michael Taylor, motivational speaker, life coach, and author of A New Conversation With Men (www.coachmichaeltaylor.com). ..." Read the entire article: http://seymourherald.com/news/2010/jun/30/is-fatherhood-dying/ By Phyllis Schlafly -- Eagle Forum June 2010 "The month of June when we observe Father's Day is a good time to review some of the injustices committed against fathers by family courts. Family courts routinely deprive divorced fathers not only of their own children, but even many constitutional rights." Read the entire article: http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/2010/june10/psrjune10.html By Huffington Post 6/30/2010 "...He said the actor has paid Grigorieva "tens of thousands of dollars," is providing his daughter with health insurance and a nanny and has bought a lavish home and a car for his ex-girlfriend. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/30/mel-gibson-oksana-grigori_n_630428.html By KTLA.com 6/24/2010 "...Police say Foster's elaborate hoax ended violently Wednesday when she stabbed a couple at their home as their month-old baby slept in the living room. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-couple-stabbed-over-baby,0,4131493.story By KTLA.com 6/28/2010 "...Stephanie Ragusa plead guilty to repeated sexual encounters with a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-math-teacher-sex,0,7670220.story By PS News - Australia "An audit of the Child Support Agency has found improved communication with clients but limited progress on creating organisational change and client service." Read the entire article: http://www.psnews.com.au/Page_psn2239.html By Center For American Progress 6/25/2010 "...Low-income fathers need to be brought into family policy. They are able to financially contribute to their children’s well-being, and provide care and emotional supports that can improve children’s life outcomes. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/06/connecting_fathers.html By KUSA9 - Colorado 6/14/2010 "Colorado's Fatherhood Initiative has a $10 million grant to provide direct services to dads and their children." Read the entire article: http://m.9news.com/news.jsp?key=268127&rc=lo By The Desert Sun – California 6/25/2010 "Spurred by a newspaper's report that California's welfare debit cards can be used to withdraw cash in more than half the casinos in the state, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday issued an immediate ban on state-provided cash assistance at ATMs in gambling establishments." Read the entire article: http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100625/NEWS06/6250328/Gov-Schwarzenegger-halts-use-of-welfare-debit-cards-at-casinos By New York Times 6/27/2010 "...The boy had never sent the texts. The lost phone had been found by someone else and used to send the messages. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/style/28bully.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=2&adxnnlx=1277866803-m3koG0uqy/hBe9Eq5fKJkg By CNN.com 6/29/2010 "...Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, fired Joseph Casias in November 2009 after he failed an on-the-job injury-related drug test. Casias suffers from a rare form of cancer in his nasal cavity and brain, and he relied on his doctor's medical marijuana prescription to alleviate the daily pain. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/06/29/medical.marijuana.walmart.lawsuit/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By Newsweek.com "...“The numbers go down for boys and girls, but they go down much more dramatically for boys,” says Amelia Arria, director of the center on young adult health and development at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. “It represents a 25 percent decrease for boys, but only a 1 percent decrease for girls. Girls are staying kind of level, and boys are dropping.”..." Read the entire article: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/29/study-shows-teen-girls-are-drinking-more-for-different-reasons-than-boys.html By Wall Street Journal 6/29/2010 "Scientists may soon be able to answer the agonizing question facing men with prostate cancer: Does their cancer need immediate treatment or can it be left alone?" Read the entire article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703279704575334982806405218.html By Prostate Cancer Foundation "On Tuesday, June 29, 2010, the Wall Street Journal wrote a comprehensive piece on the discovery of the 24 different types of prostate cancer. The Prostate Cancer Foundation heavily funded the research behind the reported discoveries at the University of Michigan and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center." Read the entire article: http://www.pcf.org/site/c.leJRIROrEpH/b.6113915/k.EA7D/Understanding_the_24_Types_of_Prostate_Cancer.htm?msource=se10npwsj&auid=6558792 By Mail Tribune - Oregon 6/27/2010 "...Child support offices around the state were open Saturday in an effort to increase the number of births in which a father is legally recorded. The state must meet paternity-establishment requirements to get federal block grant money for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100627/NEWS/6270332 By Plain Dealer (blog) - Ohio 6/27/2010 "...Child support is the modern, moral equivalent of debtors' prisons, which were outlawed in the 19th century. Nonpayment of child support constitutes a felony. Falling behind in payments due to a job loss results in fines, jail time and a felony conviction -- which makes it all the more difficult to find work. It is just a downward spiral. ..." Read the entire article: http://blog.cleveland.com/letters/2010/06/deadbeat_dads_dads_oppressed_b.html By Albany Times Union – New York 6/25/2010 "New Yorkers need divorce reform, but no-fault divorce is not enough. It does nothing for spouses left in difficult or dire financial circumstances by the capricious laws now governing spousal support." By FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) "Consumers should not use an instant coffee being sold online as a dietary supplement for sexual enhancement, warns the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)." Read the entire article: http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm216399.htm By Medline Plus 6/28/2010 "School-based efforts at better nutrition, more exercise and improved education about healthy living can help kids who are most at risk for obesity keep the weight off, compared to children in schools without such programs, a new study suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_100458.html By Vox Day -- WorldNetDaily 6/28/2010 "There is a relentless war being waged against American men that literally spans the entire extent of their lives." Read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=171781 By Yahoo Sports 6/27/2010 "Landon Donovan is telling SI.com he will take responsibility if a woman’s claim that he made her pregnant proves true." Read the entire article: http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/news/report-woman-planning-paternity-claim-on-donovan--fbintl_ap-wcup-donovan-paternity.html By Yahoo News 6/26/2010 "Sarah Palin leveled criticism at California's attorney general and others raising questions about her visit to a cash-strapped university, telling supporters that students had better things to do than dive through Dumpsters to find out how much she earns speaking." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100626/ap_on_re_us/us_calif_palin_contract By Suffolk News-Herald - Virginia 6/19/2010 "The federal government spends nearly $100 billion in public money every year to support fatherless families, according to the National Fatherhood Initiative." Read the entire article: http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/news/2010/jun/19/recognizing-great-fathers/ By NYC.gov – New York/Press Release 6/17/2010 "Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced the launch of a citywide fatherhood initiative to strengthen New York City families by helping fathers be active in their children’s lives." Read the entire article: http://nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name= By Fayeobserver.com 6/24/2010 "...This current mistreatment of fathers isn't limited to sitcoms - commercials may be even worse. Watch a few commercials, and I guarantee that you will see at least one in which Dad or Grandpa can't figure out how to operate the computer/cell phone/remote control and has to ask 5-year-old Timmy for help. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2010/06/24/1008274?sac=Opin By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide to Fatherhood 6/23/2010 "The Boston College Center for Work and Family has released a new study looking at today's new fathers and how they differ from past generations of new dads." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/b/2010/06/23/new-study-from-boston-college-on-new-dads.htm?nl=1 By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide to Fatherhood 6/21/2010 "Tom Cruise is featured this month in Esquire Magazine and in his interview, he focuses on fatherhood." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/b/2010/06/21/tom-cruise-on-fatherhood.htm?nl=1 By People.com 6/29/2010 "...On Monday night, Terri Horman was served with a restraining order and divorce papers, the Oregonian reports. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20397855,00.html By People.com 6/28/2010 "...Gibson's camp says the actor's ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva is in violation of the custody arrangement the pair hammered out for baby daughter Lucia when they split-up—and therefore, she isn't getting a penny more than the sum they agreed to in mediation if she failed to live up to her end of the bargain. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b188026_mel_gibson_fewer_visits_with_daughter.html?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories#ixzz0sCEdPw2x By Los Angeles Times 6/28/2010 "The West Virginia lawmaker was the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history and cast more votes than any other member since taking office in 1959." Read the entire article: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-byrd-20100628,0,3523904.story By People.com 6/25/2010 "Really putting a stamp on their split, Mel Gibson filed for a restraining order against Oksana Grigorieva, his ex-girlfriend and mother of his 7- month-old daughter, Lucia, PEOPLE has learned." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20397104,00.html By Matt C. Abbott -- RenewAmerica "...Above all, the legal system should work to preserve — not sunder — the marital bond. With the acceptance of 'no-fault' divorce, our legal system has done just the opposite. Baskerville demonstrates convincingly that our courts are biased not only against fathers and husbands, but also against intact marriages...." Read the entire article: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/abbott/100617
By National Post - Canada 6/21/2010 "...Instead, he’s a man hopelessly ensnared in a crushing bureaucratic machine: He’s in jail because he couldn’t pay child support, but he couldn’t pay child support because he was unemployed … and he was unemployed because the court took his driver’s license for failure to pay child support … after he went bankrupt paying his court costs. ..." Read the entire article: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/06/21/matt-gurney-man-jailed-by-courts-after-courts-bankrupt-him/ By Times of India - India 6/20/2010 "...Today’s generation boasts of hands-on dads, the types who are just as involved in the care and upkeep of the child as the mother. ..." Read the entire article: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life/people/Fatherhood-redefined/articleshow/6070981.cms By Fox 31 KDVR.com - Colorado 6/21/2010 "...But in this case, Esquibel held fast to the child he brought into this world. "This is my responsibility, I need to do what I need to do," he says. And, it turns out, he had someone to help support him. Read the entire article: http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-teen-dad-txt,0,2283145.story By Momlogic.com 6/22/2010 "...The legions of men out there who fear that they're not the babydaddy can now walk into a drugstore and pick up their very own DNA paternity test. ..." By Washington Post 6/21/2010 "In what is becoming a Father's Day ritual for the Obama administration, the president on Monday will bring together children, famous dads and nonprofit groups that promote fatherhood to highlight the importance of fathers." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/21/AR2010062100006.html By Medline Plus 6/15/2010 "Sleep problems, irritability, concentration problems, jumpiness and feeling constantly "on guard" are among the hyperarousal symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) associated with anger and hostility in U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, researchers say." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99981.html By USA Today 5/10/2010 "...We're telling kids you'll be a third-class citizen if you don't go to college," said Marty Nemko, an education policy consultant and author. "And colleges are taking kids who in previous generations would not have gone to college."..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-05-11-remedial-college_N.htm By USA Today 6/23/2010 "...A new study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — which has invested more than $150 million in New York City schools — suggests that the small schools have succeeded in boosting graduation rates for the city's most academically challenged students. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-06-23-small-schools-class_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip By FoxNews.com 6/23/2010 "Seniors at a New Haven, Conn., high school will not be graduating “in the year of our Lord” this year – or any future years, according to the superintendent of schools.Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/23/connecticut-school-removes-lord-reference-high-school-diplomas/?test=latestnews By FoxNews.com 6/22/2010 "...Dostal’s 14-year-old son was one of a handful of eighth graders in the class. The students, she said, were given instruction on how to perform female exams and the instructor used a 3-D, anatomically correct male sex organ to explain how to use a condom. But Dostal said she was most upset over the instructor simulating sexual acts using stuffed animals designed to resemble STD’s. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/22/graphic-sex-ed-class/ By FoxNews.com 6/23/2010 "Four California high school students are fighting for their right to show their patriotism any day of the year, after they were forced to remove their American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/23/students-sue-removal-american-flag-t-shirts/ By MSNBC.com 6/23/2010 "President Barack Obama ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday, saying that his scathing published remarks about administration officials undermine civilian control of the military and erode the needed trust on the president's war team." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37866754/ns/us_news-military/ Obama named McChrystal's direct boss By E-Online 6/22/2010 "...The late actor's lawyer Randy Kester confirms to E! News that Coleman had attempted to file a restraining order against former wife Shannon Price just a few months before his passing." By Glenn Sacks and Ned Holstein -- Cleveland.com 6/19/2010 "...While genuine child support evaders certainly exist, many noncustodial parents fall behind in their support because the current system is mulishly impervious to the economic realities working people face, such as layoffs, wage cuts, unemployment and work-related injuries. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/06/fathers_day_deadbeat_dad_raids.html By Yahoo News 6/21/2010 "...More than a decade after states began approving marijuana for medical use, its role in custody disputes remains a little-known side effect. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100621/ap_on_re_us/us_medical_marijuana_child_custody By KTLA.com 6/14/2010 "Two brothers were accidentally run over by a big-rig truck and killed after falling off the back and into the truck's path, according to police." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-brother-big-rig-accident,0,7824496.story By KTLA.com 6/17/2010 "...The nails were found with the points facing upward, hidden inside the sand of the playground, giving officials the indication they were not accidentally dropped in the area. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-mission-viejo-school-nails,0,4854783.story By KTLA.com 6/19/2010 "Newly released grand jury transcripts show Melissa Huckaby drugged 8-year old Sandra Cantu and sexually assaulted her with a rolling pin before strangling her with an alcohol soaked noose." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-huckaby-documents,0,6910341.story By KTLA.com 6/21/2010 "A Petaluma woman was being questioned Monday after her toddler was found wandering barefoot through the streets." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-lost-toddler-petaluma,0,2268886.story By KTLA.com 6/21/2010 "A man working at a meat packing plant in Vernon lost his legs when he fell into a meat grinder, according to police." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-meat-grinder-leg-severed,0,479882.story By KTLA.com 6/21/2010 "A 44-year old woman has been arraigned in the murder of an aspiring fashion model and actress whose body was found inside her Santa Monica apartment more than two years ago." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-aspiring-model-murdered,0,7499161.story By USA Today 6/22/2010 "...That's when it seems this generation of young people is giving new meaning to the words "long-term relationship." Many are "a couple" for years, and some approach a decade of dating. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-06-22-10yearcourtship22_CV_N.htm By ScienceDaily.com 6/11/2010 "High school seniors with excessive daytime sleepiness have an elevated risk for depression, suggests a research abstract presented June 9, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas, at SLEEP 2010, the 24th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100609083221.htm By ScienceDaily.com 6/10/2010 "The differences in mothers' and fathers' interactions with their children, particularly in play situations, may influence toddlers' associations of specific behaviors with male and female genders." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100610112022.htm By Medline Plus 6/18/2010 "For patients with prostate cancer that has a low risk of progression, active surveillance, also known as "watchful waiting," may be a suitable treatment option, according to a large-scale study from Sweden." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_100151.html By Medline Plus 6/20/2010 "Among older men, having a high testosterone level is associated with a raised risk of heart disease or a heart attack, new research suggests" Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_100193.html By Medline Plus 6/14/2010 "Teen boys with normal blood pressure levels are three to four times more likely to develop high blood pressure in early adulthood than their female counterparts, a new study shows." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99940.html By Charleston Post Courier – South Carolina 6/20/2010 "...The 20-year-old program, which has received acclaim from national media sources, is basically a men's-only, hands-on workshop featuring dads and dads-to-be -- as well as infants who might be giggling, crying or pooping -- and acknowledges that the trainees are fathers of all kinds: married, unmarried, biological or not. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/jun/20/musc-program-offers-advice-to-future-fathers/ By Nicholas D. Kritof -- Op-Ed The New York Times 6/18/2010 "...Reporting on poverty and absentee fathers has taught me what a gift fatherhood is: I know I won the lottery of life by having loving, caring parents. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/opinion/20kristof.html By ABC News - Australia 6/20/2010 "The head of the National Advisory Council on Mental Health (NACMH) has quit, accusing the Federal Government of showing no commitment and claiming credit for the work of the Howard government." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/20/2931762.htm By -- Townhall.com 6/19/2010 "A good Father's Day gift would be to reform the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), make it gender-neutral, and assure men that family courts will accord them constitutional rights equivalent to those enjoyed by murderers and robbers." Read the entire article: http://townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2010/06/19/a_good_fathers_day_gift?page=full&comments=true By Yahoo News 6/18/2010 "...But there is evidence that abortion often involves a third victim, one who is typically dismissed when he is acknowledged at all: the child’s father. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100618/cm_csm/309201_1 By Barbara Kay -- National Post 6/14/2010 "...The husband isn’t too thrilled about this, and presses for changes to the divorce laws. As a result, tomorrow the state legislative committee will hear arguments for a change to the no-fault divorce laws that will close this little loophole, stating that folks who try to murder their partners won’t be eligible for financial rewards in divorce proceedings. ..." By New York Post 6/19/2010 "A woman who wrote President Barack Obama, asking for help resolving her husband’s immigration problem got a response she didn’t expect: Federal agents turned up at her New York City home and took her husband to jail." Read the entire article: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nyc_woman_request_to_obama_leads_KR6DGawVZPZf8GO0ArOlPI By Telegraph.co.uk 6/7/2010 "...Malcolm Hurlston, chairman of the CCCS, said: "Men have been hard hit by the recession and are emerging as the new underclass. Debt alone is no longer the problem. It is loss of income and other rising costs. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/borrowing/7808411/Debt-Men-are-emerging-as-the-new-underclass.html By People.com 6/21/2010 "Kyron Horman's stepmother, who is the subject of law enforcement attention in the missing 7-year-old boy's case, has taken two polygraph tests." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20395895,00.html By Deseret News 6/21/2010 "...The president outlined a series of plans to fund local projects that help train men for jobs, prevent domestic violence and take other steps to encourage healthy and loving families. He also announced a Justice Department program that would use the court system to help find jobs for men just leaving prison so they could meet their child support obligations and reconnect with their children as soon as possible. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700042059/Obama-Lets-help-Dads-connect-with-their-kids.html By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "...Every man needs to remember to eat right, exercise and get enough sleep. Failure to maintain one's physical health will cause big time problems like stroke, heart attacks and disease down the road. In order to keep our physical saw sharp, here are a few guidelines. ..." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/education/a/takingcare.htm
By Deseret News 6/14/2010 "...In a formal interview, journalist Martin Bashir asked Combs if he thought the gift provided a "sensible lesson." Combs' response: "It wasn't even about a lesson. It's what I wanted to do. I can do whatever I want to do with my children."..." Read the entire article: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700040362/P-Diddy-not-a-good-example-of-Daddy.html By Huffington Post 6/21/2010 "Worst mom? Or worstest mom? Sorry that makes no sense. I'm having a hard time getting my thoughts together after watching this video of the most inappropriate mom ever. You may want to put a pillow on the floor so your jaw doesn't break when it drops to the ground. .." To Watch Video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/18/the-most-inappropriate-mo_n_617667.html By Bruce Feiler -- Washington Post 6/20/2010 "...Yes, daddy-bashing is suddenly cool. The cover story of the latest Atlantic proclaims "The End of Men: How Women Are Taking Control -- of Everything," while inside the magazine Pamela Paul poses the emasculating question, "Are Fathers Necessary?"..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/18/AR2010061802698.html By Kathleen Parker -- Washington Post 6/20/2010 "...Granted, many children still have in-house fathers, but millions don't. Some fathers have become alienated through divorce. "Baby daddies" never were invited to the commitment party. Still others are anonymous in the truest sense -- mere DNA donors who made a deposit and picked up a check. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/18/AR2010061803763.html By MiamiHerald.com - Florida 6/15/2010 "...Just in time for Father's Day, a new report shows dads, much like Rega, are dramatically feeling the pull between work and family. Indeed, men reported their levels of work-life conflict have risen significantly over the past three decades, while the level of conflict reported by women has not changed much. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/15/1682639/balancing-act-the-new-dad-is-more.html
By People.com 6/18/2010 "As the search for Kyron Horman quietly ended this week, investigators are now looking at the 7-year-old's stepmom, who is believed to be the last person seen with the boy, according to a report." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20395256,00.html By Baltimore Sun - Maryland 6/16/2010 "...I am sharing this painful, personal story so that middle-class Americans might better understand why so many poor, young, African-American men drop out of high school, father children out of wedlock and then wind up in prison. The answer: Many of them were reared, like my first son, by a single mother on public assistance and missed the essential, nurturing presence of a full-time father. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-black-fathers-20100616,0,5283163.story By New York Daily News 6/17/2010 "...When Penn State sociologist and demographer Paul Amato researched changes in nonresident father-child contact over the past 30 years, he found substantial increases in the amount of contact. The percentage of fathers who reported no contact with their children went from 37% in 1976 to 29% in 2002. ..." By Huffington Post (blog) - Ohio 6/16/2010 "...But while the changing face of fatherhood has its seeds in the shifting and uncertain economic fate of men, it is equally born of a new, growing spirit of determination among young men to fully embrace their roles as fathers. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-harrington/the-changing-face-of-fath_b_614373.html By BBC News – United Kingdom 6/17/2010 "Every night when 98-year-old Lily Barron goes to bed, she looks at the large framed photographs that line her bedroom wall and says a prayer for her father, "the most important man in my life. I loved every inch of him." Read the entire article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8744135.stm By Armstrong Williams - Human Events 6/16/2010 "...On the surface, there are some things that only a father can provide his children. Although a mother is vital to a child's development, there are some activities that a dad just makes perfect. Shooting baskets or going ice skating becomes more than a bonding experience between father and child, it becomes a moment when boys learn how to carry themselves as men, how to strive for a goal, work hard and strengthen their male personality. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37522&page=1 By 9NEWS.com - Colorado 6/16/2010 "For Keith Lewis, Father's Day has always reminded him of the dad he used to be and the one he hopes to be. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.9news.com/seenon9news/article.aspx?storyid=141157&catid=509 Read the entire article: http://www.9news.com/seenon9news/article.aspx?storyid=141157&catid=509 By David M. Dinn -- Letters to the Editor - Indystar.com "... A special Father's Day greeting to all those fathers who, through no fault of their own, have yet been denied their value as fathers and the opportunity to participate in the wonderfulness of being a fully involved father. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20106170320 By IndyStar.com 6/18/2010 "Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels today called for a law to force public school districts to transfer unused school buildings to charter school startups looking for space." Read the entire article: http://www.indystar.com/article/20100618/NEWS04/100618018/Daniels-Give-old-schools-to-charters By Nikolas D. Kristof - Op Ed - New York Times 6/16/2010 "...Another group is the Black Star Project, www.blackstarproject.org, which seeks to get families in low-income communities more involved in the educational lives of kids. Or there’s World of Money, www.worldofmoney.org, which coaches kids in poor communities on financial literacy and business skills. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/opinion/17kristof.html By Billboard.com 6/8/2010 "R&B singer Chris Brown has postponed his tour to Britain after being denied a visa to enter the country ..." Read the entire article: http://www.billboard.com/news/chris-brown-denied-u-k-visa-postpones-tour-1004096108.story#/news/chris-brown-denied-u-k-visa-postpones-tour-1004096108.story By dadtothedoc.org "Tell dad you want him to be there for his family now and in the future. Send an e-card to remind dad (and all the men in your life) to go to the doctor to get the preventive medical tests he needs now so he'll be there for you later." To send an e-card go to: http://www.dadtothedoc.org/
By USA Today 6/17/2010 "...In a new study, European researchers found obese women had more trouble finding a sexual partner than their normal-weight counterparts, though the same wasn't true for obese men, and were four times as likely to have an unplanned pregnancy. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/weightloss/2010-06-16-obese-sex_N.htm?POE=click-refer By USA Today 6/16/2010 "..."Levi and I are turning a new page here as co-parents to this wonderful boy and putting aside the past because doing so is in Tripp's best interest."..." Read the entire article: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2010/06/bristol-palin-levi-and-i-are-turning-a-new-page-/1?loc=interstitialskip&POE=click-refer By People.com 6/16/2010 "University professor Amy Bishop – charged after allegedly opening fire on six of her colleagues and killing three, last February – is facing new charges that she also shot and killed her brother 24 years ago." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20394571,00.html By Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom 6/16/2010 "...The broad thrust of the series is that fathers now and then may face different circumstances, but their primary impulse remains the same. “Over the past century there have been all sorts of struggles for dads, but essentially what dads want to do is do the best for their children,” says Nick Maddocks, the producer. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7830633/BBC-Fatherhood-season-why-its-time-to-stop-bashing-dads.html By New York Times 6/15/2010 "The State Senate on Tuesday, clearing aside decades of opposition, put New York on a course to adopt no-fault divorce — the last state to do so. It approved legislation that would permit couples to separate by mutual consent, a major shift with sweeping implications for families and lawyers." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/nyregion/16divorce.html?src=me By Indiana University 6/15/2010 "Just in time for Father's Day this Sunday (June 20), the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has offered some interesting statistics, based on the most current data." Read the entire article: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/14716.html By Gordon E Finley PhD -- Mens News Daily 6/16/2010 "...All of this has changed, of course, as society and the economy have changed. Today Father’s Day and fatherhood itself are under fire on multiple fronts and with multiple losses, not only for children and fathers, but also for society. Consider three: male unemployment, divorce, and non-marital childbearing. ..." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/2010/06/16/on-fatherhood/ By KTLA.com 6/16/2010 "22-year old woman has been arrested on suspicion of drowning her 2-year-old son in a bathtub at their Riverside County home." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-norco-toddler-drowns,0,5388150.story By Fox News 6/16/2010 "...These horrifying scenes were all in a video shown yesterday to the Queens jury that will decide the fate of a woman who allegedly set her ex-boy friend on fire in a jealous rage and then accidentally torched herself. ..." Read the article and watch the video: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/16/shocking-video-shown-trial-ny-woman-allegedly-set-ex-boyfriend-jealous-rage/ By Washington Post 6/16/2010 "Three books evoke the charms, and trials, of modern fatherhood." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/15/AR2010061504569.html By Washington Times 6/15/2010 "It's well-known that there's a severe gender imbalance in undergraduate college populations: About 57 percent of undergrads these days are female and just 43 percent male, the culmination of a trend in which significantly fewer young men than young women either graduate from high school or enroll in college." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/15/big-man-shortage-on-campus/ By Globe and Mail – United Kingdom 6/10/2010 "...Armin Brott, one of the forefathers of fatherhood thinking, who has authored eight books on the subject, says he’s noticed a distinction between male and female fantasies about parenthood. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/family-and-relationships/daddy-dreaming-what-fatherhood-means-to-men/article1599860/ By Chicago Tribune - Illinois 6/13/2010 "...They credit Sheldon Smith, 21, the founder of The Dovetail Project, conceived to teach young men — who have no blueprint at all — how to strengthen the bond between father and child. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/happynews/ct-met-trice-father-0614-20100613,0,3303177.column By 9News/KUSA - Colorado 6/15/2010 "Colorado's Fatherhood Initiative has a $10 million grant to provide direct services to dads and their children." Read the entire article: http://www.9news.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=141005 By New York Times 6/10/2010 "...In a seven-page legal analysis, David J. Barron, the acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, concluded that federal prosecutors may use the law in cases of interstate stalking and domestic violence regardless of whether the victim or the defendant is a man or a woman. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/us/politics/11gender.html?scp=1&sq=vawa&st=cse By USA Today 6/16/2010 "Half of all U.S. children won't live with their father for part of their childhood. But just because "non-resident" dads don't live with their kids doesn't mean they're not involved with them." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-06-16-intouchdads16_CV_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip By ScienceDaily.com 6/10/2010 "...A study of almost 1400 families in secondary schools, reported in the International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies suggests that family involvement should be a priority in a child's education. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100610120939.htm By ScienceDaily.com 5/19/2010 "...In Missouri, one elementary school is seeing the benefits of incorporating physical activity in their classrooms with the adoption of the Active and Healthy Schools Program. The program, implemented by University of Missouri researchers, has helped to increase kids' activity levels, improve their attention span and reduce discipline problems. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100519143411.htm By KTLA.com 6/14/2010 "...Pomroy's wife collected about $70,000 from their estate after she was released from prison in 2004. She pleaded guilty to soliciting others to murder her husband in early 2003, according to San Bernardino County prosecutors. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-deadly-divorce-law,0,4806254.story By KTLA.com 6/9/2010 "A woman who was busted having sex at a New York park knew she was in hot water but the last thing on her mind was getting hit with adultery charges." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/wpix-woman-charged-with-adultery-after-park-sex,0,261408.story By Robert Franklin, Esq. -- Ifeminists.com 6/6/2010 "...It holds that a father with joint legal custody but with no physical custody (i.e. visitation rights) of his child has a right to be informed by state officials such as the police and child welfare workers when his child may be suffering abuse. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ifeminists.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.745 By Robert Franklin, Esq. -- Glenn Sacks blog 6/13/2010 "Fathers Day is fast approaching, so it must be time for anti-dad screeds to start appearing. And sure enough, as punctually as an english rural train, here they come." Read the entire article: http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=4850 By Cathy Young -- Boston Globe 6/9/2010 "...Valenti believes that any talk of a conservative version of feminism is a cynical right-wing ploy to fool women into supporting reactionary antiwoman policies. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/06/09/right_to_be_feminist/?s_campaign=8315 By USA Today 6/10/2010 "...Only 59 percent of Division I programs offer men's soccer, according to the College Sports Council's study. That's a far cry from the 93 percent that offer women's soccer <emdash /> and the CSC says the disparity is because of Title IX and the way schools try to comply with it. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/2010-06-10-641226200_x.htm By People.com 6/14/2010 "...Sandra's stunned family had waited more than a year to hear why the 29-year-old mom murdered her daughter’s playmate and dumped her body in an irrigation pond. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20393886,00.html By Ithaca Journal – New York 6/13/2010 "A new TV show aimed at finding deadbeat parents will begin filming its first two episodes in Bradford County, Pa., in early July." Read the entire article: http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20100613/NEWS01/6130329/1126/NEWS/TV+show+targeting+deadbeat+parents+to+film+in+northern+Pennsylvania By Fort Smith Times Record – Arkansas 6/13/2010 "...From a personal financial perspective, divorce ranks at or near the top of life events that can cause mass financial destruction. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.swtimes.com/business/article_3ee24de0-770d-11df-84bb-001cc4c03286.html By Chicago Sun-Times - Illinois 6/14/2010 "Illinois is attempting to force a Frankfort man to pay child support for a son who allegedly was kidnapped by his mother 10 years ago and taken to Poland." Read the entire article: http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/2390340,CST-NWS-gerardo14.article By Toronto Sun 6/14/2010 "...We know our fathers as leaders, friends, confidantes and role models who influence their children’s moral development. And researchers are now noting in what seems to be a flowering of fatherhood science, the various ways in which a father’s actions and attitudes can impact their child’s health and development. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.torontosun.com/life/healthandfitness/2010/06/11/14355161.html By Medline Plus 6/9/2010 "Children born to older fathers are at increased risk for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a new study has found." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99776.html By Medline Plus 6/11/2010 "A single semen test three months after a man's vasectomy may be enough for him to get the all-clear, a new study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99885.html By Medline Plus 6/13/2010 "British scientists have found three new genetic risk factors for testicular cancer, the most common form of the disease in young men, and say their findings should aid efforts for better treatments and earlier diagnosis." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99929.html By Maggie Gallagher, Letters to the Editor --Washington Times 6/13/2010 "...Overturning California's Proposition 8 would be an outrageous violation of the rights of the 7 million Californians who voted to protect marriage in their state constitution as well as the rights of millions of other Americans in other states with similar marriage amendments. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/12/AR2010061203606.html By Washington Post 6/13/2010 ""RAPE IS VIOLENT, destructive, and a crime -- no less so when the victim is incarcerated."..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/12/AR2010061203602.html By The Sun 6/9/2010 "A US bank worker who claimed she was fired for being "too sexy" had cosmetic surgery to make her look like a Playboy centrefold." By KTLA.com 6/8/2010 "...Shannon Price hired a production company to take a series of photos of her ex-husband in his hospital bed hooked up to a ventilation machine, TMZ reports. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-gary-coleman-hospitalized,0,3156610.story By CNN.com 6/9/2010 " Sleep-deprived high school students who doze off in class aren't just risking the wrath of their teachers. They're also three times more likely to be depressed than their alert classmates who get enough sleep, a new study has found." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/06/09/sleep.deprivation.depression/index.html?hpt=Sbin&hpt=T3 By ScienceDaily 6/2/2010 "Almost a quarter of men treated for cancer in their childhood suffer from a deficiency of the male sex hormone testosterone." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100603091933.htm By Star Community Newspapers - Texas 6/9/2010 "...Bennett said that Johnson is a good father and a good provider for her son and his five other children. She added that he spends a lot of time with her son. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.scntx.com/articles/2010/06/09/news_update/215a.txt By Huffington Post (blog) 6/9/2010 "...This redefinition of fatherhood is happening in millions of families around the country, where fathers are spending far more hours with their children every week than their dads spent with them. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maddy-dychtwald/gender-roles-are-men-stil_b_605974.html By HG.org 6/2/2010 "One common question is whether a parent has to pay child support if the children are receiving social security payments as a result of the parent's disability." Read the entire article: http://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=18966 By Find Law – Virginia/Massachusetts "I need to find the legal definition of "full time high school student" as it applies to child support termination under Virginia Law." Read the entire article: http://boards.answers.findlaw.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?msg=83656.1&nav=messages&webtag=fl-family_law By Guardian.co.uk 6/10/2010 "... But to suggest that men should remain in the dark during the pregnancy and be "encouraged to wait outside the delivery room as their child is born" would be disastrous for most mothers. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/10/fathers-pregnancy-childbirth-commitment By MSNBC.com 6/9/2010 "... According to a recently released Department of Agriculture report, it now costs as much as $475,680 for those in the highest income group to raise a child to age 18. The figure for middle income earners was $286,050. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37596510/ns/business-personal_finance/ By Law.com 6/8/2010 "...Supreme Court Justice Robert A. Ross in Nassau County ruled that the mother, Lauren R., willfully violated a court order by deliberately alienating the elementary school-age children from her ex-husband, Ted R. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202461189158&rss=newswire By New York Times 6/9/2010 "...From trendy central Stockholm to this village in the rugged forest south of the Arctic Circle, 85 percent of Swedish fathers take parental leave. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/world/europe/10iht-sweden.html?partner=rss&emc=rss By Salt Lake City Weekly - Utah 6/8/2010 "...Like a lot of parents in his situation, the 41-year-old retired Navy seaman is the ink blot of a Rorschach test: he could be viewed as a “dead beat” or “beat dead” dad, depending on one’s sympathies. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-11413-divorced-dad-hunger-strikes-to-protest-child-support-laws.html By DadsDivorce.com 6/7/2010 "... One problem though: you only get your kids every other weekend and it's your ex-wife who has signed up your kids for these extracurricular activitiesw that severely limit your visitaiton time. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.dadsdivorce.com/articles/what-to-do-if-your-ex-is-scheduling-activities-during-your-parenting-time.html? By Medline Plus 6/2/2010 "Conventional wisdom says older people make less risky -- and less sound -- decisions, but now a new study suggests otherwise." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99500.html By Medline Plus 6/7/2010 " Up to 14 percent of soldiers returning from Iraq suffer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression that is severe enough to disrupt their daily lives, new research shows." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99680.html By The New York Times 6/7/2010 "...Men and women might, on average, have equal mathematical ability, but there could still be disproportionately more men with very low or very high scores. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/science/08tier.html?th&emc=th By KTLA.com 6/7/2010 "Authorities have launched an investigation after the 20-year-old son of state Assembly candidate Don Wagner was found dead in a Newport Beach parking structure." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-election-son-found-dead,0,5485873.story By KTLA.com 6/7/2010 ""Two and a Half Men" star Charlie Sheen has agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge in his domestic violence case." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-sheen-jail,0,2666331.story By KTLA.com 6/4/2010 "Palm tree fronds may have saved the life of a 4-year-old boy who on Friday morning fell from a 17th-floor hotel balcony." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-boy-falls-hotel-balcony,0,6889754.story By KTLA.com 5/27/2010 "A 2-year-old girl is dead after she was left inside a car for close to 7 hours Wednesday." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-forgotten-tot-dies,0,2021584.story By CNews -- California 6/1/2010 "A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a school to reinstate a 13-year-old boy who was suspended for wearing rosary beads, pending a hearing into whether the suspension violated his civil rights." Read the entire article: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/06/01/14220436.html By Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 6/2/2010 "...For males, 29 percent of those aged 15–17 said they had ever had sex compared to 65 percent for those aged 18 and 19. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2010/r100602.htm By Medliine Plus 6/3/2010 "Low intelligence in young males has been linked to a much higher risk that they'll commit suicide, at least compared to their most intelligent counterparts, researchers say." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99560.html
By YLE News - Finland 6/6/2010 "Thousands of Finnish men are testing their paternity with foreign laboratories without the knowledge of their partners ..." Read the entire article: http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2010/06/more_men_taking_paternity_tests_without_partners_knowledge_1739579.html By News Journal -- Texas 6/5/2010 "QUESTION: Since the new health care law allows young adults to remain on their parents’ health insurance until age 26, will that affect requirements for child support payments for divorced parents?" Read the entire article: http://www.news-journal.com/features/answer_line/article_e46ca20e-1b17-5bc5-ad88-5a78e6f2c6c4.html By Wire – New Hampshire 6/6/2010 "...Divorced parents will no longer have to go to court to recalculate child support when one child in the family turns 18, provided Gov. Lynch signs House Bill 1420. Sponsored by Rep. David Bickford (R-New Durham), the new law will allow child support to be automatically recalculated for remaining children when an older child becomes an adult. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.wirenh.com/News/News_-_general/Front_Door_Politics%3A_End-of-session_done_deals_201006064160.html By Reading Eagle - Pennsylvania 6/6/2010 "My ex-husband and I could not revise our child-support arrangement ourselves, so we took it to court. At the hearing, my lawyer, a specialist in family law, was better prepared than his, a generalist who made numerous mistakes in preparation and presentation." Read the entire article: http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=225245 By Houston Chronicle - Texas 6/6/2010 "Q: My son pays child support even though he has never been ordered by a court to do so. If he is sued for back child support, what kind of proof of payment will he need to produce?..." Read the entire article: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7039783.html By Medline Plus 6/1/2010 "Internet-based companies market them, men continue to buy them and experts continue to warn of the dangers of counterfeit drugs for erectile dysfunction." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99402.html By Medline Plus 6/6/2010 "New research points toward novel ways to treat ovarian and prostate cancer, while producing a disappointment for those with a certain form of colon cancer." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99659.html By People.com 6/7/2010 "...The disappearance of the bespectacled second-grader has prompted a massive search by 60 trained searchers and additional volunteers. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20391927,00.html By Medline Plus 6/4/2010 "A new study finds that circumcised men appear less likely to sustain cuts, abrasions and other minor injuries to the penis during sex -- which may help explain why circumcision lowers the risk of HIV transmission from heterosexual sex." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99623.html By Web MD 6/7/2010 "A quick spray of a new drug may help men who suffer from premature ejaculation last nearly six times longer, new research suggests." Read the entire article: http://men.webmd.com/news/20100602/new-drug-spray-may-help-premature-ejaculation By Baxter Bulletin -- Arkansas 6/4/2010 "...The website now has a "deadbeat dads and moms" sub-section for people who are not paying court-ordered child support in Baxter County, according to a Baxter County Sheriff's office news release from Sheriff John Montgomery. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.baxterbulletin.com/article/20100604/NEWS01/6040344/1002/New-features-added-to-sheriff-s-website By People.com 6/6/2010 "..."Elin now wants full custody of the children because she would prefer they have limited time with Tiger," a source tells PEOPLE. "Tiger will be generous about a settlement, and in the end will not balk about paying in the neighborhood of $700 million. But he wants joint custody." ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20391591,00.html By People.com 6/6/2010 "...Sandra Bullock returned to the spotlight Saturday night, making a memorable surprise appearance at Spike TV's Guys Choice Awards. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20364464_20391618,00.html By People.com 6/4/2010 "It's over for Dog Whisperer host Cesar Millan and his wife, Ilusion." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20391564,00.html By Barbara Kay -- National Post 6/2/2010 "...Put another way, London’s 2007 police stats show that DV-related violence was 100% male on female and 0% female on male, when in fact, if the Lucio-Johnson case had been entered in the appropriate category, the ratio would be 50:50. “A bad statistic is harder to kill than a vampire,” according to a recent book on data manipulation, and no truer words were ever spoken when it comes to the DV industry. ..." Read the entire article: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/06/02/myths-of-domestic-violence/ By KTLA.com 5/31/2010 "A woman who lied about being pregnant and was desperate for a baby has been arrested for stabbing another woman and attempting to steal her week-old daughter, police say." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-attempt-murder-baby,0,2328591.story By KTLA.com 6/4/2010 "A 27-year-old Riverside County mother has been convicted of murder for beating her 21-month-old son to death." "...Prosecutors argued Cedillo did not like her son because the toddler favored his father. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-indio-mom-convicted,0,4125652.story By KTLA.com 6/4/2010 "David Carradine's widow has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a French company handling the actor's last film, claiming the company should not have left him alone the night before he died." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-carradine-lawsuit,0,3371390.story By Ross Douthat -- New York Times Opinion 5/30/2010 "...Their inner lives are the subject of a fascinating study from the Institute for American Values, based on a survey of younger adults, ages 18 to 45, who were conceived through sperm donation. The authors — Elizabeth Marquardt, Norval Glenn and Karen Clark — depict a population that’s at once grateful to the fertility industry and uneasy about the way they were conceived, supportive of assisted fertility but haunted by the feeling of being a bought-and-paid-for child. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/31/opinion/31douthat.html
By Hollywood.com 6/1/2010 "...He tells People.com, "It follows me through juggling everything and wanting to learn. There's so much out there for women but not so much for men, and I want to be a very hands-on dad. I think having a humorous but informative way to tell that story would be great for a show."..." Read the entire article: http://www.hollywood.com/news/Lopez_planning_reality_show_about_fatherhood/6876408 By Rutherglen Reformer 6/2/1010 "...Rather than letting everything get on top of him though, the 35-year-old is relishing the prospect as growing both as a father and as a member of Parliament at the same time. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.rutherglenreformer.co.uk/rutherglen-news/rutherglen-local-news/2010/06/02/new-mp-faces-up-to-life-as-a-politician-and-a-father-63227-26566837/ By The Sydney Morning Herald 6/4/2010 "In a case which highlights the difficulties of keeping a low profile when you have a Facebook account, a court has ordered that the social networking site be used to serve legal documents on an elusive father in a child support dispute." Read the entire article: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/court-uses-facebook-to-serve-paternity-test-order-20100603-x7dc.html By Salt Lake City Tribune 6/3/2010 "...Today, Bedolla spends quality time with his two kids and is passionate about involving more male role models in the lives of children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sltrib.com/midvalley/ci_15218692 By Delaware News 6/2/2010 "...The flip side is children who live without biological fathers or father figures are at least two to three times more likely to be poor; use drugs; experience educational, health, emotional; and behavioral problems; be victims of child abuse; engage in greater and earlier sexual activity; and engage in criminal behavior. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.snponline.com/articles/2010/06/02/multiple_papers/opinion/columnists/allgravesc_20100524_0251pm_3.txt By Hands Net 5/27/2010 "...This research brief describes characteristics of the men and their reentry experiences including program participation, housing, family relationships, substance use, employment, reoffending, and reincarceration. ..." Read the entire article: http://webclipper.handsnet.org/2010/05/life-after-pris.php By E-Online "...Sheryl Crow let her fans in on some exciting news today, announcing on her website that she has adopted her second child, a baby boy named Levi James." By People.com 6/4/2010 "Kate Gosselin has survived one Jon-less year." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20391197,00.html?xid By Los Angeles Times 5/30/2010 "Dad Camp" opens with a dash of bad faith. On the new VH1 series, six expecting couples participate in a month-long therapy program in which the men are psychologically and emotionally retrained in hopes of becoming better fathers." Read the entire article: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-ca-monitor-20100530,0,1507464.story By Tiffin Advertiser Tribune - Ohio 5/28/2010 "As J. Tracy Robinson stepped to the podium at Thursday's Fatherhood Summit, he asked all fathers in the room to raise their hands. The gesture indicated the importance he places on responsible fatherhood." Read the entire article: http://www.advertiser-tribune.com/page/content.detail/id/523543.html?nav=5005 By Helium - Nevada "No matter how frustrating it is going thru the process of enforcing child support, this frustration pales in comparison with the frustration that comes from dealing with the deadbeats themselves." Read the entire article: http://www.helium.com/items/1693875-nevadas-child-support-enfocement-failure By TriCities.com - Virginia 6/2/2010 "...The rates measure the number of unmarried fathers who voluntarily step forward and claim children born out of wedlock by signing their newborn son or daughter’s birth certificate before the child leaves the hospital. “We are very pleased about that,” said Nick Young, director of the Division of Child Support Enforcement. “Our goal is to get both parents on that birth certificate.”..." Read the entire article: http://www2.tricities.com/tri/news/local/article/hospitals_recognized_for_paternity_establishment_rates/47043/ By People.com 6/2/2010 "Gary Coleman's panicked wife initially balked at helping him after he suffered an apparent head injury that left him bloodied, according her 911 call." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20390543,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines By Science Daily 6/1/2010 "Children whose minds are stimulated in several early childhood settings -- home, preschool, and school -- have higher achievement in elementary school. What matters is not whether children's learning is supported at home, or stimulated in preschool or in elementary school, but that all three of these occur." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100514074913.htm By ScienceDaily.com 6/1/2010 "...Boys were three times more likely to be on ADHD medication than girls, with medication use highest in boys aged between 10 and 15. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100601072634.htm By ScienceDaily.com 5/3/2010 "Puberty that arrives earlier or later in adolescent boys relative to their peers can trigger chemicals that are related to antisocial behavior, according to researchers, whose findings have key implications for parents with aggressive boys." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100503111750.htm By Medline Plus 6/1/2010 "For half a century, women have had access to birth control pills. Men? Still waiting." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99432.html By Medline Plus 6/1/2010 "A urine test can help doctors better spot prostate cancer than either the current blood test or a rectal exam alone, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99472.html By Medline Plus 6/1/2010 "Doctors could do a better job of assessing the severity of prostate cancer by analyzing changes in prostate-specific antigen(PSA) blood tests over time, a new study suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99448.html By DadsDivorce.com 5/28/2010 "In this week's edition of DadsDivorce Live, host Matt Allen is joined by family law judge Michele Lowrance who has written a book called “The Good Karma Divorce” to help people who are going through divorce avoid litigation, turn negative emotions into positive actions and get on with the rest of your life." To Watch the Video: http://www.dadsdivorce.com/articles/dadsdivorce-live-the-good-karma-divorce-with-judge-michele-lowrance.html By DadsDivorce.com 5/28/2010 "Divorce attorneys often hear frustrated dads upset that they have to keep paying more and more child support while the ex-wife barely works and appears to be living off the child support payments." Read the entire article: http://www.dadsdivorce.com/articles/my-ex-is-living-off-child-support.html? By Oregon Live 6/1/2010 "...Yet just this month, the U.S. transportation secretary, under the auspices of the White House Council for Women (there is no White House Council for Men or any similar agency in the federal government while there are eight such departments for women) announced a new program to help women "to complete undergraduate and graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and math -- while pursuing careers in transportation."..." Read the entire article: http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/06/men_should_be_more_than_a_nati.html By Vox Day -- World Net Daily 5/31/2010 "For more than 100 years, college has been considered a sound and desirable investment in one's financial future. But unlike other forms of investment, those contemplating dropping more than $100,000 to obtain a degree from a private university, or $28,000 for one from a public university, seldom stop to consider whether what made sense for a previous generation still makes sense today." Read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=160401 By CBS News 5/28/2010 "A Quebec elementary school gym teacher says he is struggling to rebuild his life after having been falsely accused of sexual touching." By Telegraph UK 5/28/2010 "Students in Manchester are having their thumbprints digitally transformed into electronic codes, which can then be recognised by a computer program." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/7771112/Children-as-young-as-4-to-be-fingerprinted-to-borrow-school-books.html By People.com 6/1/2010 "Charlie Sheen will plead guilty to a misdemeanor offense and get 30 days jail time, says a source close to the negotiations in the star's ongoing domestic violence case." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20390144,00.html By People.com 6/1/2010 "Ted Koppel is speaking out about his 40-year-old son, Andrew, who died early Monday morning reportedly after a daylong drinking binge." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20390381,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines By Big Government.com "On April 27, 2010, I got a job with the United States Census Bureau in New Jersey. With a hidden camera, I caught four Census supervisors encouraging enumerators to falsify information on their time sheets." Read the entire article: http://biggovernment.com/jokeefe/2010/06/01/undercover-census-fraud-investigation-new-jersey/ By FoxNews.com 5/30/2010 "...But as we grew older, we began to realize that genital examination is not only natural, but it might even save our lives. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,593722,00.html By Medline Plus 5/28/2010 "A three-decade analysis of prior research reveals that American college students are not quite as empathetic as they used to be." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99341.html By Houston Chronicle - Texas 5/25/2010 "...Jonas, 48, blames his incarceration on a vindictive spouse who wants to hold him to support and medical payments of $11,000 to $18,000 a month despite a decline in his income. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7022077.html By Cheryl Wetzstein -- Washington Times 5/20/2010 "A new study released Wednesday by the Pew Charitable Trusts shows that the damage divorce does to poorer children's future economic mobility is even greater than the impact suffered from having only one parent." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/20/divorce-hinders-poorer-children/ By DadsDivorce.com 5/21/2010 "In this week's edition of DadsDivorce Live, host Matt Allen talks with Patrick Braden about internatonal child abductions. Braden’s daughter was taken three years ago by her birth mother to Japan and he has not seen her since." Watch the video: http://www.dadsdivorce.com/articles/dadsdivorce-live-international-child-abduction-advocate-patrick-braden.html? By Shreveport Times - Louisiana 5/21/2010 "A Shreveport woman faces charges for filing a false tax return in her ex-husband’s name and collecting the funds in child support back pay." Read the entire article: http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20100521/NEWS03/100521014/-No-heading- By Medline Plus 5/18/2010 "Although many people know that new moms are at increased risk of depression following the birth of a child, new research suggests that about 10 percent of new dads experience the "baby blues," too." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98910.html By MyFoxDC 5/13/2010 "A fourteen-year-old autistic boy is facing terrorist charges after a sketch he made in school." Read the entire article: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/autistic-boy-charged-with-making-terrorist-threats-over-stick-figure-sketch-051310 By Cheryl Wetzstein -- Washington Times 5/25/2010 "...Mr. Warren recently recounted his tale at a Capitol Hill briefing on the importance of involving men in the prenatal and postnatal care of their families. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/25/wetzstein-dropping-the-ball-on-fatherhood/ By Medline Plus 5/19/2010 "Postpartum depression" Watch video: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/videos/news/dad_051910.html
By The Pew Trusts.org 5/18/2010 "Family structure has an impact on a child’s economic mobility prospects, according to the Pew Economic Policy Group’s report "Family Structure and the Economic Mobility of Children." Read the entire article: http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=58966 Read the entire article: http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=58966 By Parenting Magazine "...This new species of father can be found reasserting his place in America's homes and play groups, territory that has traditionally been dominated by moms. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.parenting.com/article/Mom/Relationships/Meet-The-Modern-Dad By ABC 4 - Utah "...Kenyon Eastin says he's not a deadbeat Dad just misunderstood. The judge overseeing his case will not lower his child support payments from $800 dollars a month to $525 a month. Eastin claims lowering his payments are necessary for his survival, "It's not that I don't want to pay my child support, I cannot afford what the judge has set and he says I am voluntarily unemployed."..." Read the entire article: http://www.abc4.com/content/news/slc/story/Missed-Child-Support-Payments-Deadbeat-Dad-or-a/TdYoJDsZbU2rsGP7o6E3sg.cspx Study: Building Strong Families Evaluation Suggests Stronger Approach is NeededTuesday, 25 May 2010
By TMCnet 5/21/2010 "...The study measured the living arrangements, relationship status, relationship quality, extent of father involvement with his child, domestic violence and economic well-being of approximately five thousand couples who were randomly assigned to either a control group or a group that had access to a Building Strong Families program. ..." Read the entire article: http://it.tmcnet.com/news/2010/05/21/4803106.htm By New York Daily News 5/24/2010 "A 21-year-old Western Michigan University student is facing a $750,000 lawsuit after launching a complaint against a towing company on the social networking site Facebook." By New York Daily News 5/22/2010 "...She reportedly also wants full custody of their two kids even though it was first thought the couple were going to agree to joint custody. ..." By MedlinePlus 5/17/2010 "HIV prevalence among gay and bisexual men has hit alarming levels in Asia and most of them do not have access to services and care due to punitive laws which drive them underground, a U.N.-backed report said on Monday." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98886.html By William McCloskey -- New York Times (blog) "...But in the early days I felt like a freak — shuffling to the back of the room on parents’ night at his school, shying away from the gaggle of young mothers when I took my boy to the playground, feeling myself an object of curiosity and pity for the moms who were fully engaged and seemingly very skilled and collaborative in their role. ..." Read the entire article: http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/single-dads-are-different/ By Roanoke Times – Virginia 5/22/2010 "As a divorce mediator and teen advocate, I know and work with many kids who have had minor stumbles. I have seen the paths their lives have taken after those mistakes. Whether they head in a positive direction after their errors depends largely, if not exclusively, on the quality of their rehabilitation." Read the entire article: http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/commentary/wb/247718 By 24-7PressRelease.com (press release) – New York 5/23/2010 "While some couples cannot afford to divorce in the still-struggling economy, some wealthy spouses in New York might actually prefer to get divorced now." Read the entire article: http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/a-tale-of-two-outcomes-dollars-and-divorce-in-new-york-152008.php By Medline Plus 5/21/2010 "The primary cause of prostate cancer could be the fusion of two genes and the subsequent abnormal prostate cell growth that results when receptors for the hormone androgen get blocked, a new study reveals." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_99079.html By FoxNews.com 5/24/2010 " 10-year-old German boy reportedly stole more than $21,000 from his parents to pay off bullies at his school who were threatening to attack him." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/24/german-boy-reportedly-steals-parents-pay-bullies/ By FoxNews 5/23/2010 "Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson said she was "very sorry" for her lapse of judgment after she was recorded apparently offering to sell access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew in return for 500,000 pounds ($724,000)." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/23/duchess-york-sarah-ferguson-devastated-tabloid-newspaper-records-bribe-sting/ By FoxNews.com 5/22/2010 "A Nevada woman is accused of stealing a bottle of wine from a store while she was topless and intoxicated." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/22/nevada-woman-accused-stealing-bottle-wine-store-topless-intoxicated/ By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "Being involved in a family law proceeding like divorce, child custody, child support or others can be confusing and overwhelming for a father." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/legalhelpforfathers/a/family_law_terms.htm?nl=1 By CTV.ca - Canada 5/19/2010 "A Quebec couple's nasty separation is before the province's highest court to determine whether unmarried conjugal couples should benefit from the same rights and protections as married couples." Read the entire article: http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100519/mtl_lola_100517/20100519/?hub=MontrealHome By FoxNews.com 5/21/2010 "An assistant principal at a Florida middle school sent a topless photo of herself to a 14-year-old boy, police say." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/21/assistant-principal-florida-sends-nude-picture-teen-police-say/ By KTLA.com 5/20/2010 "A group of students from New Jersey were startled Wednesday morning, when their bus bypassed their route to school and instead went speeding down the New Jersey Turnpike." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/wpix-students-bus-mixup,0,7503666.story By MedlinePlus 5/19/2010 "The erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, and possibly other similar medications, may prompt long-term hearing loss among users, a new study suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98961.html By KTLA.com 5/20/2010 "...Prosecutors say Kainat Syeda, 23, of Buena Park stole the cash when she worked in the police department's front lobby traffic windw from January 2006 and April 2009. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-anaheim-cadet,0,5602841.story By KTLA.com 5/20/2010 "A Victorville mother is under arrest, accused of starving her five year old son to death. The boy suffered from cerebral palsy." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-mother-starves-boy,0,4451030.story By FoxNews.com 5/20/2010 "Clashes among members of the Texas Board of Education over the content of students' textbooks have come, in part, to focus on a once obscure intellectual concept -- "American exceptionalism" -- that has now seen the president of the United States weigh in." Read the entire article: http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/05/20/texas-textbooks-is-america-exceptional/ By FoxNews.com 5/13/2010 "...However, the trend is reversed when an older man opts for a younger woman. The more youthful his wife, the longer the husband is expected to live. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,592762,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/longevity By People.com 5/19/2010 "....I knew if I continued on that track, I probably wouldn’t have gotten married,” O’Donnell reveals in Redbook‘s June issue. ..." Read the entire article: http://celebritybabies.people.com/2010/05/19/chris-odonnell-i-chose-family-over-fame/ By Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration 5/7/2010 " A new study reveals that adolescents aged 12 to 17 living with mothers who are current smokers or who have had a major depressive episode in the past year are far more likely to smoke than adolescents not living under these circumstances." Read the entire article: http://www.samhsa.gov/newsroom/advisories/100506smoking0407.aspx By Metropolitan News-Enterprise - California 5/19/2010 "A man whose 18-year-old daughter was four months short of graduating from boarding school had to still pay child support to her stepfather, the Third District Court of Appeal ruled yesterday, despite a state law requiring an agreement in order to uphold “voluntary” support obligations." Read the entire article: http://www.metnews.com/articles/2010/scho051910.htm By Yahoo Finance 5/19/2010 "...Much has been written about the challenges awaiting at-home mothers who decide to return to work. Few of them, though, have a tougher time of it than the stay-at-home dad. ..." Read the entire article: http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109593/daunting-task-for-mr-mom-get-a-job?mod=career-worklife_balance By KYW1060.com - Philadelphia 5/19/2010 "..."We really want to reach out to our clients who aren’t deadbeat fathers or mothers but are just dead broke.”..." Read the entire article: http://www.kyw1060.com/Montco-Job-Fair-Held-for-Parents-Who-Owe-Child-Sup/7105395 By Straits Times - Singapore 5/19/2010 "Dr Haskins, one of the chief architects of a 1996 US welfare reform law that took away the cash entitlements of welfare beneficiaries and sent them out to work instead, believes that the best way for people to have a shot at a better life without breeding dependence is for them to go back to work. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_528490.html By Gordon E. Finley -- Washinton Times 5/18/2010 "...Today it is clear that "gender gaps" predominantly favor females and disfavor males. Specific examples would include strikingly higher rates of male unemployment, strikingly lower rates of male educational attainment, blatant gender bias in family and divorce law and, even when women and men initiate domestic violence at equal rates, the government's providing of services to women but not to men (as seen in the Violence Against Women Act). ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/18/the-pitfalls-of-pitting-ethnicities-genders/ By CBS News 5/20/2010 "...The most alarming finding was that 77 percent reported being "somewhat to extremely happy" with their sex life, but 63 percent of them would rather sleep, watch a movie or read than have sex. Read the entire article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/20/earlyshow/living/relationships/main6502408.shtml By KTLA.com 5/19/2010 "A woman is fighting for custody of her daughter one year after the child was found by a bus driver sitting in the middle of a busy street." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-texas-bus-baby,0,7819608.story By FatherhoodChannel.com 5/16/2010 "Last week, we had the pleasure of spending four intensive days with marriage educators and couples for a program sponsored by the California Healthy Marriage Coalition (CHMC), the nation’s largest federally-funded umbrella organization promoting strong marriages." Read the entire article: http://fatherhoodchannel.com/2010/05/16/pairs-essentials-helps-california-marriage-educators-bring-health-hope-and-healing-to-couples-and-families/ By Paul Elam -- Mens News Daily 5/18/2010 "...It’s time for men to be allowed to legally abort fatherhood during the same period of time a woman is allowed to do the same by visiting her local clinic. ..." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/2010/05/18/time-to-abort-fatherhood-at-will/ By Salt Lake City Weekly - Utah 5/18/2010 "Kenyon Eastin, 41, is on day four of a hunger strike from within the Tooele County Jail, protesting the treatment he has received in Utah divorce court." Read the entire article: http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/blog-3616-jailed-father-hunger-strikes-to-protest-child-support.html By Appleton Post Crescent - Wisconsin 5/19/2010 "Slackers are not only the fathers in divorce cases. When the courts have awarded the father placement of the kids of a relationship, they receive little help from the local child support system." Read the entire article: http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20100519/APC0601/5190338/Letters-State-can-hold-delinquent-moms-accountable-too By USA Today 5/19/2010 "...On a swath of federal land in suburban Maryland, the District of Columbia has transformed its juvenile lockup. What was once a filthy prison for boys is now a new, campus-like setting where the city's worst young offenders work their way through a heavily structured program of individualized education, group therapy, behavior modification and unusual programs ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-05-18-offenders_N.htm?csp=34news&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&POE=click-refer By KTLA.com 5/18/2010 "A Missouri mom will spend the next 58 years in jail after pleading guilty to videotaping her 16-year-old daughter having sex with the mom's 35-year-old boyfriend." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-mom-tapes-teen-sex,0,7240268.story By MSNBC 5/18/2010 "The U.S. Department of Education found that Virginia Tech broke federal campus security laws by waiting too long to notify students during the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, a report released Tuesday said." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37217425/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/ By Army Times 5/14/2010 "An Ohio congressman is hoping the fifth time is a charm in his efforts to give special child custody protection to service members." Read the entire article: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/05/military_childcustody_protection_051410w/ By Ifeminist.com 5/9/2010 "I am writing to share with you the publication of my new book, Social Work Practice with Men at Risk (Colombia University Press). A book written for social workers, the insights about men, masculinities, well-being and health are relevant to all men. The book advocates for a strengths-based approach to the needs and problem of men." Read the entire article: http://www.ifeminists.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.732 By Ifeminist.com 5/16/2010 "Let's say your son turns 18. He gets a job at the local carnival, running the ride where the kids lie face down and spin around till they shriek with delight (or puke). Before each ride he has to buckle the kids in so they don't fly out. But then -- tragedy strikes." Read the entire article: http://www.ifeminists.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.735 By KTLA.com 3/31/2010 "Boys' names have undergone a radical shift over the past few decades, with the old stalwart names like James and Robert making room for a whole army of new choices that break the traditional masculine mold." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/lifestyle/parenting/sns-parenting-naming-your-baby-boy,0,3848768.story By KTLA.com 5/16/2010 "A Los Angeles man who was wrongly convicted and sentenced to life in prison for a 1994 murder and attempted robbery in South Los Angeles is a free man today." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-wrongly-convicted,0,1246663.story By KTLA.com 5/18/2010 "South Gate High School was locked down for about an hour Tuesday morning after a 15-year-old student was shot on campus, police said." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-south-gate-school-shooting,0,7625708.story By US Dept. of Health and Human Services "...Bullying happens when someone hurts or scares another person on purpose. ..." Read the entire article: http://stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/HHS_PSA/pdfs/SBN_Tip_8.pdf By Medline Plus 5/17/2010 "Children who experience psychological disorders such as depression and substance abuse appear to be headed for a financially depressed adulthood, new research suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98855.html By Medline Plus 5/13/2010 " A 16-state survey found that suicide was the leading cause of violent death in 2007, followed by homicides, according to a new U.S. report." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98754.html By Elle 5/17/2010 "...Or as Bruell more starkly puts it, “I resumed sexual relations with her on the condition that were birth control to fail, she’d abort without waffling.”..." Read the entire article: http://www.elle.com/Life-Love/Society-Career-Power/The-Parent-Trap-Paternal-Rights-and-Abortion By Washington Examiner 5/18/2010 "A Virginia woman was taken into custody after police say she tried to pay off her boyfriend's child support using money stolen from a Maryland bank." By CNN.com 5/18/2010 "... Having spent six years in the Army, he had always prided himself on mental toughness. But with a newborn, he found himself daydreaming about running away and contemplating suicide. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/18/postpartum.dads/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By Shine from Yahoo 5/18/2010 "...Men who eat a lot of tomatoes, tomato sauce, or pizza smothered with the stuff may be giving themselves a hedge against prostate cancer. ..." Read the entire article: http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/super-foods-for-men-and-women-1409161/ By The Times Herald in PA -- 5/17/2010 "...Marty Eggleston, executive director of the new Fatherhood Initiative program, said he is proud of the recent success the new curriculum has yielded. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.timesherald.com/articles/2010/05/17/news/doc4bf0c0d88cdda920217277.txt By Washington Post 5/14/2010 "Low-quality care in the first few years of life can have a small but long-lasting impact on a child's learning and behavior, according to new results from the largest, most authoritative assessment of child rearing in the United States." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/05/14/ST2010051401954.html?sid=ST2010051401954 By Yahoo News 5/14/2010 "An unhappy mother hurled her toddler daughter into the chilly Hudson River and then jumped in herself in an apparent murder-suicide attempt intended to spite her husband, prosecutors said Friday." Read the entire article: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100514/world/us_river_rescue By Medline Plus 5/14/2010 "Differences in the physical makeup of the brain could help explain why children with dyslexia have trouble with written language despite being able to handle other intellectual tasks, new research suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98806.html By The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists "Depression: A Fact Sheet for Parents" Read the fact sheet: http://www.acog.org/departments/adolescentHealthCare/TeenCareToolKit/depression_4_parents.pdf
By MedlinePlus 5/14/2010 "Parental involvement in a child's elementary school experience leads to fewer problem behaviors and better social skills among offspring, new research suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98798.html By Japan Today 5/12/2010 "...My son insisted he was the victim of an unprovoked attack, but the police interrogated him as a suspected ‘chikan’ (groper). ..." Read the entire article: http://japantoday.com/category/features/view/mother-of-falsely-accused-groper-who-killed-himself-wants-justice By LA Times 5/14/2010 "Glendale police said a woman invented a kidnapping hoax to avoid telling her parents that she had been lying to them about college." Read the entire article: http://www.latimes.com/news/la-hoax14-m,0,2140237.story? By Miami Herald 5/13/2010 "Parents at Coconut Grove Elementary School are calling for the ouster of Principal Eva N. Ravelo this week after she told a parent in an e-mail to ``eat sh-- and die.''..."
By ABC News 5/14/2010 (Video) "The Texas teacher who was fired for allegedly slapping and kicking a 13-year-old student apologized for the incident Friday and the pain it caused." Read the entire article: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/houston-teacher-sherri-davis-apologized-videotaped-beating-student/story?id=10649665 By USAToday.com 5/14/2010 "...The legislation, SB 10-003, would enable public colleges that choose to do so to ratchet up their tuition to make up for the expected loss of state funds, enroll more foreign students to help bolster their tuition dollars, and give the colleges significantly more flexibility on a range of fronts. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-05-14-IHE-Colorado-budget-legislation-students14_ST_N.htm? By NBC Philadelphia - Pennsylvania (Video) "According to court documents, the 71-year-old wrote 293 checks to himself over the course of 13 years as the Director of Finance for the Valley Forge Convention and Visitors Bureau." Watch the video: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/Alleged_Embezzler_Used_Money_for_Child_Support_Philadelphia.html By GoodMensProject - Massachusetts 5/13/2010 "How we can help men become better fathers? A recent event held by The Fatherhood Program at The Children’s Trust Fund in Boston brought together several groups seeking answers to that question." Read the entire article: http://www.goodmenproject.org/blog/2010/05/a-community-of-good-fathers/ By Plain Dealer (blog) - Ohio 5/14/2010 "Will it never end? Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones wants President Barack Obama to create a federal commission on "fatherhood" ("Jones lobbies Obama for fatherhood agency," Tuesday). It would likely be modeled after the same Ohio program that he now chairs, only on a grander scale." Read the entire article: http://blog.cleveland.com/letters/2010/05/opposing_cuyahoga_county_commi.html By TurnTo23.com 5/6/2010 "..."I helped,” Michael Gutierrez, Nathan’s dad said. “I just helped. I think any father would do that for his son. No questions asked. You just do it.” ..." Read the entire article: http://www.turnto23.com/news/23480769/detail.html By ScienceDaily.com 4/15/2010 "...Results indicated that one of the strongest protective factors for reducing the risk of experimenting with smoking in early adolescence was how often fathers talked with their children, both boys and girls, about 'things that mattered'. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100414193820.htm By ScienceDaily.com 5/6/2010 "When it comes to talking to parents about most dating issues, teen girls tend to disclose more than boys, and both sexes generally prefer to talk to their mothers." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100506121757.htm By ScienceDaily 5/13/2010 "...The study sheds new light on antisocial behaviour in girls compared with boys and suggests that rather than violence or antisocial behaviour simply reflecting bad choices, the brains of people with antisocial behaviour may work differently from those who behave normally. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100510150223.htm By ScienceDaily.com 4/21/2010 "Parents pursuing adoption within the United States have strong preferences regarding the types of babies they will apply for, tending to choose non-African-American girls, and favoring babies who are close to being born as opposed to those who have already been born or who are early in gestation. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100420142039.htm By ScienceDaily.com 5/11/2010 "Zero tolerance policy in schools -- which can mandate automatic punishment for weapons, drugs, profanity and various forms of disruptive behavior -- is failing to make students feel safe, contends a new study by two Michigan State University researchers." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100510132157.htm By MyFox Washington DC 5/12/2010 "Frederick County Virginia Police have arrested a woman they say robbed a bank and tried to use the money to make her boyfriend’s child support payment." Read the entire article: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/virginia/woman-robs-bank-to-pay-boyfriends-child-support-051210 By StarNewsOnline.com 5/13/2010 "David Frederiksen wanted to create a place for fathers to connect after spending almost four years as a stay-at-home dad to his daughter, Olivia, who just turned 7 years old. He and others created a website for local fathers at www.capefeardad.com." Read the entire article: By Medline Plus 5/12/2010 " The various forms of prostate cancer treatment -- from surgery to radiation to hormones -- can all have long-term effects on men's quality of life when it comes to sexual function and urinary problems, a new study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98721.html By CNN 5/13/2010 "...The new law forbids elementary or secondary schools to teach classes that are "designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group" and advocate "the overthrow of the United States government" or "resentment toward a race or class of people."..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/12/arizona.ethnic.studies/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By CNN.com 5/11/2010 "...According to a new study, people who work more than 10 hours a day are about 60 percent more likely to develop heart disease or have a heart attack than people who clock just seven hours a day. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/11/overtime.heart.work/index.html?hpt=T2 By Bob Unruh - WorldNetDaily.com 5/11/2010 "Social-services agents in Sweden have swooped down on an elementary school to grab a 9-year-old boy and take him out of class so he would not meet an internationally known human-rights attorney working on the family's custody dispute with the state, according to the attorney and parents." Read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=152697 By ABC News Australia 5/12/2010 "A Dutch boy is the only survivor of a plane crash that killed more than 100 people in Libya." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/12/2897709.htm By Sun Gazette - Florida 5/2/2010 "...The six-week course is free, open to the public and stresses the importance of fatherhood. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/542704.html?nav=5009 By Allthestories.com 5/7/2010 "...To put it in a different way, the male’s role in the family is still limited by all those social beliefs and norms that characterise all modern societies. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.allthestories.com/fatherhood-still-quite-traditional/ By Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Hawaii 5/12/2010 "QUESTION: The Child Support Enforcement Agency used to issue checks to child-support recipients but now deposits the money directly into U.S. Bank. The trouble is, no U.S. Bank branches exist in Hawaii, so anyone trying to access the money through ATMs gets hit with fees, which seems messed up. Can you look into this?" Read the entire article: http://www.starbulletin.com/columnists/kokualine/20100512_Child_support_may_be_directed_to_any_bank.html By KSL-TV - Utah 5/11/2010 "...Fogg says Identigene has seen amazing success, with over 100,000 paternity DNA tests sold since they went nationwide in March 2008. He says it will be up to consumers to decide whether these new genetic tests are worthwhile. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=10733597 By PR Urgent - India 5/10/2010 "... Over the past five years easyDNA has developed into a leading DNA testing service provider on a global scale. easyDNA now operates through an international network of offices in over fourteen countries including India. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.prurgent.com/2010-05-10/pressrelease94058.htm By New York Times 5/10/2010 "Why do some men and women cheat on their partners while others resist the temptation?" Read the entire article: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/tracking-the-science-of-commitment/?src=me&ref=general By New York Times 5/9/2010 "...In 2007, according to the most recent statistics available, there were more than 81,000 separations and 50,000 divorces among Italy’s population of 59 million. Thirty years ago, divorces did not break the 12,000 mark. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/world/europe/10milan.html By RTT News - Nevada 5/10/2010 "...The doctor who is accused of administering a fatal dose of propofol to the late King of Pop, won the fight on Friday when a child support hearing master denied a prosecutor's push to suspend his Nevada medical license for failing to pay $16,000 in child support. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.rttnews.com/Content/EntertainmentNews.aspx?Section=2&Id=1299305&SM=1 By CBS 3 - Pennsylvania 5/11/2010 "A southwestern Pennsylvania woman denies any plot to hire a hit man to kill her ex-boyfriend so she could take custody of their child." Read the entire article: http://cbs3.com/wireapnewspa/Southwestern.Pa.woman.2.1686847.html By Glenn Sacks, MA for Fathers and Families -- GlennSacks.com blog 4/26/2010 "...Fathers & Families' legislative representative Michael Robinson has been working with the staffers of various state senators to get the bill amended to include custodial fathers as well as custodial mothers. ..." Read the entire article: http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=4762 By E-Online "...Almost exactly 11 years to the day Dana Plate overdosed,, her troubled son also took his own life. ... By Ned Holstein, M.D -- Opinion Telegram 4/29/2010 "...Jason is a formerly happy fifth grader who is now morose and whose school performance has plummeted. He has a secret he won’t tell his teacher and can’t tell his single mother: He badly misses his every-other-weekend dad and his paternal grandparents. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.telegram.com/article/20100429/NEWS/4290680/1054/OPINION By KTLA.com 5/8/2010 "Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt was ordered Friday to pay his estranged wife, Jamie, $225,000 a month in spousal support, plus $412,159 to pay the mortgages on the couple's properties." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-dodger-mccourt-divorce,0,998425.story By KTLA.com 5/10/2010 " A Fresno woman accused of repeatedly stabbing her 3-year-old son and throwing him down a flight of cement stairs has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-fresno-toddler-stabbed,0,7411737.story By KTLA.com 5/11/2010 "Calif. -- School district officials in Oxnard are investigating reports that two students engaged in a sex act during class." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-sex-in-class,0,845196.story By FoxNews.com 5/10/2010 "A California Sunday school teacher accused of kidnapping, raping and killing an 8-year-old playmate of her daughter, then stuffing the body in a suitcase, pleaded guilty Monday to murder." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/10/teacher-pleads-guilty-murdering-california-girl/ By Taranaki Daily News – New Zealand 5/10/2010 "A New Plymouth couple emerging from an expensive 18-month battle with the tax man over child support payments are wondering how many others are in the same boat." Read the entire article: http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/3674517/Couple-have-IRD-warning-for-others By PR Newswire (press release) UK – Chicago 5/10/2010 "The Fatherhood Educational Institute (FEI) President Emeritus and attorney Jeffery M. Leving supports a recent ruling by the Czech Constitutional Court promising to make it easier for fathers to gain custody of their children. The Czech court states cases should be decided according to a child's best interests. This is the law in the United States in most cases." Read the entire article: http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=286088 By Page 2 Live -- The Palm Beach Post 5/10/2010 "...Siohvaughn Wade failed to materialize for Monday’s divorce hearing in the couple’s hometown of Chicago. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.page2live.com/2010/05/10/wanted-by-cops-heat-star-dwyane-wades-wife/?cxntlid=cmg_cntnt_rssed by the sheriff: Miami Heater Dwyane Wade’s wife! By The News-Messenger 5/8/2010 "Fathers in northwest Ohio who are interested in connecting with their children can find assistance at WSOS." Read the entire article: http://www.thenews-messenger.com/article/20100508/NEWS01/5080315 By Chicago Sun-Times 5/10/2010 "They've called it the "Mancession" -- a recession that has affected men disproportionately because of its brutal impact on male-dominated sectors like construction and manufacturing." Read the entire article: http://www.suntimes.com/business/2254120,CST-NWS-mancession10.article By Medline Plus 5/7/2010 "Black children with type 1 diabetes score higher than whites with similar blood glucose levels on a critical test, potentially leading their physicians to give them the wrong treatment, a new study says." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98531.html By Medline Plus 5/7/2010 "...The study authors, Alison Chapple and Sue Ziebland of the University of Oxford, talked to 80 relatives of people who died in violent ways, including suicide, murder, car accident and drug overdose. The researchers interviewed the participants for up to six hours. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98534.html By Medline Plus 5/7/2010 "Men who are six feet tall or taller may have a higher risk of blood clots in their veins than do their shorter counterparts, while height does not seem to have an impact on women's risk, a new study suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98554.html By American Psychiatric Association "Stigma associated with mental illnesses continues, though more than a third of Americans surveyed on behalf of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) said that, in their view, stigma has declined, and openness about personal experiences by friends, family and public figures was influential. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.healthyminds.org/Home-Page-Feature/May-is-Mental-Health-Month.aspx By FDA "A new treatment has been approved for certain men with advanced prostate cancer." Read the entire article: http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm210620.htm By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "My life sometimes feels a lot like a merry go round. I enjoy many aspects of my life, including family, work, hobbies and personal spirituality, but often feel like life spins by at an ever increasing speed." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/workingfathers/a/gtdfordads.htm?nl=1 By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "Being a committed dad and trying to be a great employee sometimes run in conflict in a father's life. Probably the most common issue I hear from committed dads is the difficulty in balancing the work and home components of their life." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/cs/fatherhoodstories/a/familyfriendly.htm?nl=1 By People.com 5/7/2010 "..."I'm so dramatic ... and in the past, I've been really mean," the singer, 30, says about her 4-year-marriage to the motocross racer in Cosmopolitan's June issue. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20366994,00.html By Silver Pinyon Journal - Nevada 5/2/2010 "...Humboldt General Hospital was recently honored for establishing 100 percent of paternities for unwed mothers. ... Read the entire article: http://silverpinyon.com/features/local-profiles/466-hgh-employee-honored-for-going-the-extra-mile By Herald Sun - Australia 5/7/2010 "MOTHERS who do not have custody of their children and avoid paying child support to custodian fathers will be hounded and spied on at the same rate as men." Read the entire article: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/non-paying-mums-to-be-chased-for-child-support-like-deadbeat-dads/story-e6frf7l6-1225863412585 By Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 5/7/2010 "A Greensburg woman, who allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill her ex-boyfriend so she could obtain full custody of their son, needed to wait to make the deal until she received a child support payment from the victim." Read the entire article: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_679889.html By Hawaii 24/7 Press Release - Hawaii 5/6/2010 "Family Support Services of West Hawaii (FSSWH) has been awarded a $57,500 grant from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to support Na Makuakane Maikai O Hawaii — Great Fathers of Hawaii." Read the entire article: http://www.hawaii247.com/2010/05/06/fsswh-receives-oha-grant-for-fatherhood-initiative/ By USA Today 5/7/2010 "...Roland Warren, president of the non-profit National Fatherhood Initiative, calls absent dads the nation's biggest social crisis. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2010-05-06-wesmoore06_CV_N.htm By Medline Plus 5/5/2010 "Older adults whose spouse has Alzheimer's or another form dementia face an increased risk of dementia themselves, a new study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98426.html By Medline Plus 5/4/2010 "Being vaccinated against pneumonia doesn't reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke in men older than 45, a new study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98370.html By Daily Mail – United Kingdom 5/4/2010 "Boys and girls will be separated for sex education classes as part of a drive to cut the number of unmarried young mothers in an area notorious for teenage pregnancies. ..." By The New York Times 5/4/2010 "...But the court limited its rulings, ultimately leaving it up to the State Legislature to decide whether to amend state law to grant nonbiological parents full custody rights. ..." Read the entire article: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/court-expands-rights-of-gay-parents/ By Rome News Tribune - Georgia 5/3/2010 "Children from homes without fathers make up 63 percent of youth suicides. More than 70 percent of juveniles in state reform institutions come from fatherless homes and daughters with absentee fathers are 164 percent more like to give birth out of wedlock."
By Center for Disease Control and Prevention "Fact Sheet...." Read the Fact Sheet: http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/SchoolViolence_FactSheet-a.pdf By Genetics Home Reference "CATSPER1-related nonsyndromic male infertility is a condition that affects the function of sperm, leading to an inability to father children. ..." Read the entire article: http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=catsper1relatednonsyndromicmaleinfertility By Hamilton Spectator - Canada 5/3/2010 "...The donors are also vulnerable. They could find themselves being forced by a court to financially support the child they essentially gave up. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/761843 By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "There is nothing quite like a woman who is nearing the end of her pregnancy. She is a bundle of physical, mental and emotional issues." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/pregnancyandfathers/a/allaboutlabor.htm?nl=1 By New Zealand Herald - New Zealand 4/29/2010 "Fatherhood can be the key to transforming anti-social young men into responsible citizens, according to new research commissioned by Victoria University's Institute of Policy Studies." Read the entire article: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10641598 By Forestdale – New York "...The Fathering Initiative is a 12-week job training and parenting course that prepares noncustodial fathers to reclaim a role in their children’s lives. ..." Read the entire article: http://forestdaleinc.org/622/focus-on-forestdale-the-fathering-initiative/ By State Gazette - Tennessee 4/29/2010 "...Bivens spoke to students at Dyer County High School on Thursday as part of a campaign called "What's the Rush?", which aims to raise awareness of the legal, financial and social consequences of becoming a teen parent. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.stategazette.com/story/1630479.html By Medline Plus 5/3/2010 "A technique that urologists had hoped would make it possible to distinguish men with prostate cancer who need treatment from those who would only need watchful waiting didn't work well, researchers report." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98314.html By FoxNews.com 5/7/2010 "...As of late Thursday, Jones said the five boys' parents have no plans to sue the school or Morgan Hill Unified School District, which has characterized the incident as "extremely unfortunate" and is conducting an ongoing investigation. Several attorneys have contacted the families offering to represent them pro bono, Jones said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/07/tensions-high-california-high-school-following-flag-flap/ By Food and Drug Administration (Press Release) 4/29/2010 "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Provenge (sipuleucel-T), a new therapy for certain men with advanced prostate cancer that uses their own immune system to fight the disease." Read the entire article: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm210174.htm By Department of Education IES "Our nation’s schools should be safe havens for teaching and learning, free of crime and violence. Any instance of crime or violence at school not only affects the individuals involved, but also may disrupt the educational process and affect bystanders, the school itself, and the surrounding community (Henry 2000)." Read the entire article: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/crimeindicators/crimeindicators2009/ By FoxNews 4/30/2010 "AIDS, smoking and obesity are reversing progress made in helping people live longer around the world, with mortality rates worsening over the past 20 years in 37 countries, researchers reported on Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591806,00.html By ScienceDaily.com 4/17/2010 "Despite national guidelines aimed at improving sexual health services for teenagers, most sexually active boys -- even those who report high-risk sexual behaviors -- still get too little counseling about HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) during their visits to the doctor, according to a study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100414111035.htm By ScienceDaily.com 3/31/2010 ""Urologists at a leading Irish hospital have reported an alarming increase in the number of teenage boys and young men developing mumps orchitis, in a paper published in the April issue of the urology journal BJUI." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100330082722.htm
By ScienceDaily.com 4/28/2010 "New research uncovers some surprising information about how sex hormones control masculinization of the brain during development and drive gender related behaviors in adult males." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100428142246.htm By ScienceDaily.com 4/15/2010 "African-American men with chronic pain related to an accident, injury, illness, surgery or other causes were more likely to experience depression, affective distress and disability than white men with chronic pain, according to a new study by the University of Michigan Health System." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100415143902.htm By KTLA.com 4/26/2010 "The grandmother of a 6-year-old boy whose body was found near a North Texas lake last week has been arrested on a murder charge." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-wiley-angel,0,3516068.story By KTLA.com 4/29/2010 "Police believe a 12-year-old boy in Santa Monica died last week after engaging in a dangerous asphyxiation game referred to as the "choking game."..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-santa-monica-choking-game,0,7373813.story By KTLA.com 4/29/2010 "It was a 90-minute nightmare." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-wrong-death-id,0,863577.story By KTLA.com 4/29/2010 "...The boy's mother Andreia Huffman, 37, and a man in the home, Jason Dunikowski, 32, were arrested for domestic violence and endangering children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-boy-tied-to-table,0,2289360.story By KTLA.com 4/30/2010 "Porn star Jenna Jameson and boyfriend of four years, mixed martial arts fighter Tito Ortiz, are reportedly withdrawing allegations that led to Ortiz's arrest on felony domestic violence charges earlier this week." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-ortiz-jameson,0,3220621.story By Ifeminist.com 4/19/2010 "Re: domestic violence, in an effort to document the disparity between services for male victims and female victims, I have created a Google Map. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ifeminists.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.726 By Cathy Young -- Boston Globe 4/14/2010 "Now, Duke is back in the news with a campus policy that ostensibly seeks to prevent sexual assault — but, in fact, infantilizes women, redefines much consensual sex as potentially criminal, and does a grave disservice to both sexes." Read the entire article: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/04/14/dukes_sexist_sexual_misconduct_policy/ By Radley Balko -- Reason.com from May 2010 Issue "Freddie Peacock of Rochester, New York, was convicted of rape in 1976. This year he became the 250th person to be exonerated by DNA testing since the technique was first used in 1989." Read the entire article: http://reason.com/archives/2010/04/29/how-many-more-are-innocent By Wayne Parker -- About.com: Fatherhood 4/21/2010 "According to The Guardian, the number of fathers staying at home to raise children has increased in Great Britain by ten times in the last ten years. Certainly, the growing trend of stay-at-home dads is a positive for father-child relationships." Read the entire article http://fatherhood.about.com/b/2010/04/21/lots-more-british-dads-staying-home.htm?nl=1 By theTrumpet.com – United Kingdom 4/28/2010 "... There, 90 percent of the teachers are women; many schools are staffed completely by women. Governments acknowledge that boys lag in reading and writing—in New Zealand, for example, two times more 10-to-12-year-old boys than girls require remedial reading help—but efforts to narrow the gap haven’t worked. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=7161.5675.0.0 By Scoop.co.nz (press release) – New Zealand 4/29/2010 "Fatherhood can transform anti-social young men into responsible citizens, according to new research commissioned by Victoria’s Institute of Policy Studies." Read the entire article: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1004/S00096.htm By CBC.ca - Canada 4/28/2010 "A 58-year-old man from Rivers, Man. fell about seven metres to his death while working on a roof of a hangar building at a decommissioned air force base in the community." By This is Nottingham – United Kingdom "...David felt close to his only child from the moment she was born. "Emma would fall asleep on my chest. She would come into work with me on the Tube. We just bonded," he recalls, fondly. Today they share the same love of music and horses and even have similar handwriting. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/14-year-old-caught-courtroom-wrangle/article-2079992-detail/article.html By Contra Costa Times 4/28/2010 "...American dads have come a long way since the 1950s and '60s. In 1950, only 12 percent of U.S. mothers of children under age 6 worked outside the home. In 2005, about 63 percent of U.S. mothers of young children did (U.S. Department of Labor, 2007). ..." Read the entire article: http://www.contracostatimes.com/teens/ci_14961231 By Cincinnati.com 4/27/2010 "As high school seniors prepare for graduation each year, the Clermont County Child Support Enforcement (CSE) office receives a lot of calls asking whether child support and medical insurance orders end when a child turns 18 or graduates from high school." Read the entire article: http://rodeo.cincinnati.com/getlocal/gpstory.aspx?id=100225&sid=165295 By Hollywood reporter 4/26/2010 "EXCLUSIVE: A man who says he pitched a reality show about collecting unpaid child support has sued Fox and production outfit 3Ball Prods for $1.19 million for going forward with the project without him." Read the entire article: http://thresq.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/04/deadbeat-dads-lawsuit.html By Washington Post 4/28/2010 "...The National Workers Memorial will be dedicated Wednesday -- days after seven workers died in a blast at the Tesoro petroleum refinery in Anacortes, Wash.; after 29 miners were killed in an explosion in Montcoal, W.Va.; and after 11 crew members disappeared with an oil rig off the Louisiana coast. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/27/AR2010042705257.html?hpid=newswell By Medline Plus 4/26/2010 "Older men with relatively low testosterone levels may be at greater risk of frailty than those with higher levels of the hormone, new research suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98072.html By The Guardian 4/7/2010 "...The main reason families gave for men looking after the children was that the woman was the higher earner. The woman is the main breadwinner in 16% of families with dependent children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/apr/07/rise-stay-at-home-fathers-study By KTKA/49 News - Kansas 4/24/2010 "...The team hopes to get fathers involved with their children to make a better future for the kids. Dana Book of Fatherhood Action says, "Involved dads make a difference, and if we spend time with our kids they on average, do better in school, they grow up to be better, healthier adults. That's the ultimate goal."..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktka.com/news/2010/apr/24/fatherhood-action-team-encourages-other-dads/ Fatherhood Initiative participants tackle tough issues in discussion sessionThursday, 29 April 2010
By Brewers - USA 4/26/2010 "...Men also shared difficulties they experience in trying to "be a man," usually receiving plenty of advice from others present. ... Read the entire article: http://www.marshallnews.com/story/1629613.html By Palm Beach Post - Florida 4/26/2010 "...Cheryl Arthur, 39, is being held without bail on a murder charge in the death of her daughter Makeda, whose lifeless body she brought into a fire station Saturday, authorities said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/police-hollywood-mom-charged-with-killing-3-year-625416.html By Lexington Herald Leader - Kentucky "...Those contracts are exempt from review by the committee, even though some of them are more than $1 million a year, and county attorneys fear that the review might delay collection of child-support payments. ..." By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide to Fatherhood 4/11/2010 "... At OurFamilyWizard.com, families can set up joint calendars to keep track of visitation, create and modify parenting plans, keep a journal of activities, maintain expense records, share photos and videos, and set up email and text notifications for various events. ..." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/b/2010/04/11/new-web-service-helps-divorced-dads-keep-track.htm?nl=1 By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide to Fatherhood 4/7/2010 "Men's Health magazine and the National Father's Day Committee are once again sponsoring the All Star Dad Award program." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/b/2010/04/07/all-star-dad-award-program.htm?nl=1 By Examiner.com - Georgia 4/17/2010 "...Congressman David Scott delivered a compelling and inspiring keynote address calling everyone in attendance to personally take up the cause of fatherhood. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-34495-Atlanta-Fatherhood-Examiner~y2010m4d17-1st-Fatherhood-Conference-successfully-launched-in-Clayton-County By CNN 4/22/2010 "...Dan Dorn maintains in his legal papers that it is not in his children's best interest to see their mother now. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/22/california.triplets.visitation.lawsuits/?hpt=C2 By WLNS - Michigan 4/22/2010 "...Don Bentley: "'Cause I haven't been working. That's how I got back on my child support. Not many jobs out there."..." Read the entire article: http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=12359566 By The News Journal - Delaware 4/21/2010 "...Hernandez is one of a small group of fathers involved in a pilot project to help bring dads and their children closer together by giving the men a hand up -- whether from homelessness, substance abuse or prison. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100421/NEWS02/4210351/Raising-families-raising-hope By Norristown Times Herald - Pennsylvania 4/17/2010 "The family of Scott Riley, who was shot and killed last May, have launched a nonprofit to honor his memory by helping children who have lost or become estranged from their fathers." Read the entire article: http://www.timesherald.com/articles/2010/04/17/news/doc4bc9454437037301912700.txt By Albert Lea Tribune - Minnesota 4/17/2010 "How many tragedies have to happen to the innocent children before we, the public, stand up and demand change in our judicial system regarding the horrific injustices that are occurring in child custody cases?" Read the entire article: http://www.albertleatribune.com/news/2010/apr/17/kids-suffer-when-parents-divorce/ By KansasCity.com - Kansas 4/20/2010 "...“A lot of times, men will do for their children what they won’t do for themselves,” said George R. Williams, the marriage and family therapist who leads the program. ..." By Beloit Daily News - Wisconsin 4/21/2010 "Hundreds of men will be passing through Horace White Park this week in hopes of getting into the seventh class of the Fatherhood Program, sponsored by Community Action Inc."' Read the entire article: http://beloitdailynews.com/articles/2010/04/21/news/local_news/news2103.txt By The Trentonian – New Jersey 4/21/2010 "...“He was dissatisfied,” said Mercer County Prosecutor Joe Bocchini of Johnson regarding his appearance in family court. “He was not happy. He felt the judicial system let him down.”..." Read the entire article: http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2010/04/21/news/doc4bcfa687b9adf456604573.txt By Medline Plus 4/21/2010 "A new study links dry, cold weather to higher rates of prostate cancer." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97837.html By New York Times 2/5/2010 "...North Carolina, with a student body that is nearly 60 percent female, is just one of many large universities that at times feel eerily like women’s colleges. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/fashion/07campus.html By DadsDivorce.com 4/15/2010 "Author Doug McKee joins us in the latest edition of DadsDivorce Live to talk about his book "A Father's Journey to Custody." The book, written from a father's perspective, will guide you in the right direction during your divorce and/or custody battle while offering helpful tips and advice along the way." Watch the video: http://www.dadsdivorce.com/blog/dadsdivorce-live-a-fathers-journey-to-custody-with-doug-mckee.html? By DadsDivorce.com 4/19/2010 "Just like your DNA – your divorce case is not like anyone else’s so stop asking your friends what you should ask for, what they did, how much they had to pay or are receiving and more. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.dadsdivorce.com/blog/finances-and-divorce-why-your-case-is-unique.html?utm_source=DadsDivorce.com+Newsletter&utm_campaign=39a1f59a47-DadsDivorce_Newsletter_April_21_20104_19_2010&utm_medium=email By The Economist 4/8/2010 "...Removing so many men from the marriage market has profound consequences. As incarceration rates exploded between 1970 and 2007, the proportion of US-born black women aged 30-44 who were married plunged from 62% to 33%. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.economist.com/world/united-states/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15867956 By Daily Mail – United Kingdom 4/20/2010 "One in four families believe fathers are missing out on day-to-day involvement with their children because of their work and outdated attitudes to parental leave, say researchers." By Inside Vandy 4/18/2010 "... Last month Sen. Harry Reid uttered perhaps the stupidest remark by a feminist in history: “Women don’t commit domestic violence.”..." Read the entire article: http://www.insidevandy.com/drupal/node/14051 By YahooNews 4/18/2010 "...A Houston man was awarded $5 million last year after spending 17 years in prison on rape charges overturned because of a discredited criminal lab. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100418/ap_on_re_us/us_drug_lab_probe By KTLA.com 4/15/2010 "...Investigators say Nancy Jacinto admitted to dozing off after leaving the toddler in a bathtub with his 2 year old brother. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/local/ktla-toddler-drowning,0,334775.story By 2TheAdvocate - Louisiana 4/17/2010 "...A related bill, SB236, weakens equal protection and works against the best interests of the child, as the child will in most cases be summarily denied true parenting by at least one parent, usually the father. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.2theadvocate.com/opinion/91150304.html By Daily Breeze 4/19/2010 "A Los Angeles woman has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder for allegedly driving onto a Hawthorne sidewalk and hitting another woman, police said Monday." Read the entire article: http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_14916165?source=rss_viewed
By KOCO Oklahoma City 4/19/2010 "The number of parents paying child support out of their unemployment compensation has increased by more than half in a year, according to figures from Oklahoma Child Support Services." Read the entire article: http://www.koco.com/mostpopular/23195891/detail.html By Richmond Times Dispatch - Virginia 4/20/2010 "..."We tell the fathers, if there is any doubt in your mind that you are the father, we would rather you not acknowledge paternity," Young said. "We offer men DNA testing if there is any doubt. We will pay for it."..." Read the entire article: http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/business/health_med_fit/article/B-FATH20_20100419-214803/338519/ By Medline Plus 4/19/2010 "An updated version of the standard prostate cancer test can help improve predictions about which men might not require immediate treatment, researchers report." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97772.html By The Australian - Australia 4/20/2010 "MORE fathers are taking primary care of their children after divorce and separation, with new figures revealing a steady increase in the number of mothers paying child support to fathers." Read the entire article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/rise-in-mothers-paying-child-support/story-e6frg6nf-1225855704303 By MercatorNet - USA 4/19/2010 "It’s scientific: kids need not just two parents but a mother and father." Read the entire article: http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_indispensable_dad/ By ScienceDaily.com 3/23/2010 "Age and gender play a major role in how people respond to stress, according to a new study on 20-to-64-year-olds. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100323121755.htm By ScienceDaily.com 4/2/2010 "..."Only dopes use dope," goes the memorable warning about drugs. Now a Tel Aviv University researcher cautions that the same goes for cigarettes." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100401151746.htm
By ScienceDaily.com 4/14/2010 "Urologists are failing to pick up and treat Chlamydia infection in young men, say UK researchers in a letter published ahead of print in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100414193818.htm By ScienceDaily.com 4/3/2010 "A University of Iowa study has found that one-third of sexual relationships in the Chicago area lack exclusivity. One in 10 men and women reported that both they and their partner had slept with other people." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100401164627.htm By ScienceDaily.com 3/22/2010 "Infertile men have an increased risk of developing high grade prostate cancer, which is more likely to grow and spread quickly. That is the conclusion of a new study published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100322073530.htm By ScienceDaily.com 4/15/2010 "African-American men with chronic pain related to an accident, injury, illness, surgery or other causes were more likely to experience depression, affective distress and disability than white men with chronic pain, according to a new study by the University of Michigan Health System." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100415143902.htm By Wayne Parker -- About.com "There is maybe no more difficult challenge to a father than finding himself a divorced dad and no longer living with the kids. It is as devastating an experience as I know of. " Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/divorceddads/tp/divorced_dads.htm?nl=1 By Miami Herald 4/17/2010 "One of President Obama's consistent education themes has been the wish that every child cross paths with that one teacher who hits the light switch and changes one's life." By Glenn Sacks MA, Executive Director -- Fathers and Families 4/12/2010 "...Washington Post syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker, whose column is published in over 300 newspapers weekly, was recently awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=6740 By Robert Frankling, Esq. -- (blog) GlennSacks.com 4/13/2010 "...And as usual at publications with a particularly anti-male bias, that's what passes for "journalism." They simply quote another article that makes no secret of its anti-Male Studies bias, don't lift a finger to find out what Male Studies proponents have to say about the discipline and make no effort to write a balanced article on the subject. ..." Read the entire article: http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=4730 By New York Times 4/12/2010 "...“I am concerned that male-averse attitudes are widespread in the United States and that masculinity is becoming politically incorrect,” said Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of “The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men.”..." Read the entire article: http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/feminism-vs-male-studies/ By The Adventist Review 4/16/2010 "A visit to your local college or university campus is likely to reveal that a revolution has taken place. On many campuses, young women now outnumber young men, and a gender gap of momentous importance is staring us in the face." Read the entire article: http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=3273 By RightFielders Women in Sports - USA 4/16/2010 "With all of the marriages and subsequent divorces in Hollywood, celebrity child support is a hot topic these days." Read the entire article: http://sports.rightpundits.com/?p=4371 By WRAL.com – North Carolina "Five men who say they're victims of paternity fraud met with some state lawmakers on Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/7427907/ By Medline Plus 4/15/2010 "Parents who worry that their teenaged son won't sleep well if he indulges in a violent video game right before bedtime may be fretting needlessly." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97640.html By Medline Plus 4/15/2010 "Parents may want their girls to grow up to be astronauts and their boys to one day do their fair share of child care and housework duties, but a new study suggests certain stereotypical gender preferences take root even before most kids can crawl." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97658.html By Medline Plus 4/15/2010 "An Italian study of men being treated for erectile dysfunction finds an association between the use of cholesterol-lowering statins and abnormally low levels of the male hormone testosterone." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97657.html By YahooNews.com 4/15/2010 "The city will end the practice of paying teachers to play Scrabble, read or surf the Internet in reassignment centers nicknamed "rubber rooms" as they await disciplinary hearings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the teachers union announced Thursday." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100415/ap_on_re_us/us_rubber_rooms By Nursery World (subscription) – United Kingdom 4/14/2010 "...Fathers-to-be are given opportunities to talk to other men about what it is like to be a father and see how to care for a new baby. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/news/996370/Project-hit-fathers/ By The Australian - Australia 4/16/2010 "MEN are using a new law to win back hundreds of thousands of dollars paid in child support for children they later discovered were not theirs."' Read the entire article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/duped-dads-win-back-child-payments/story-e6frg6nf-1225854290980 By WLNS - Michigan 4/15/2010 "The Michigan appeals court says a man who mistakenly believed he was the father of his girlfriend's son cannot be pursued for child support." Read the entire article: http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=12316946 By St. Louis Post-Dispatch (blog) - Missouri 4/14/2010 "...“I basically received a call four years later saying “Hey, would you be willing to take a test,’ ” Noble said. ..." Read the entire article: http://interact.stltoday.com/blogzone/deb-petersons-breaking-schmooze/uncategorized/2010/04/prominent-defense-attorney-in-the-midst-of-paternity-suit/ By KSPR - Missouri 4/14/2010 "A new paternity statute gives a DNA test precendence over a birth certificate" Read the entire article: http://www.kspr.com/news/local/90888044.html By FamilyDoctor.org "Infertility is the inability to get pregnant after trying for at least 1 year without using birth control. About 15% of couples are infertile." Read the entire article: http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/men/reproductive/766.html By Medline Plus 4/14/2010 "Men with prostate cancer are at greater risk for developing blood clots, especially if they're undergoing hormone therapy, new research shows." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97587.html By Medline Plus 4/14/2010 "Researchers are reporting that they've linked a gene to a rare condition that makes people develop thin "peach fuzz" hair, potentially paving the way toward greater insight into male-pattern baldness." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97596.html By Medliine Plus 4/15/2010 "Preliminary research suggests that a new hormone treatment could be a weapon for doctors in the battle against a form of prostate cancer that's resistant to surgical removal of the testicles." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97601.html By People.com 4/16/2010 "...But Wasser says that if they are going to counseling, it has to do with their two sons. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20361783,00.html By People.com 4/17/2010 "...According to a family law specialist, the wealthy actor-director-producer will likely pay a large amount of child support to ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva for their 5-month-old daughter,..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20361836,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+people%2Fheadlines+%28PEOPLE.com%3A+Top+Headlines%29 By Chicago Tribune 4/13/2010 "...Carolyn Lowe took custody of two infant boys and kept them for years without any court approval. Her only authority: two form letters issued to her by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-dcfs-letters-2-20100409,0,5458893.story?track=rss By Today MSNBC 4/14/2010 "...Jon Gosselin, 33, filed for sole custody of their children last week, saying that Kate “abuses” her right to schedule visits for him with the kids and that she does not spend enough quality time with them. ..." By MSNBC.com 4/14/2010 "While uncircumcised men don't seem to be at higher risk of acquiring human papillomavirus (HPV), it takes them longer to clear the virus from their bodies, new research shows." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36513754/ns/health/ By KTLA.com "Boys' names have undergone a radical shift over the past few decades, with the old stalwart names like James and Robert making room for a whole army of new choices that break the traditional masculine mold." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/lifestyle/parenting/sns-parenting-naming-your-baby-boy,0,3848768.story By FoxNews.com 4/14/2010 "The young woman accusing Seagal of sex abuse once said she uses her sex appeal to get any girl she wanted and trick men." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/04/14/steven-seagal-accuser-boasted-manipulate-men/?test=latestnews By KTLA.com 4/14/2010 "...."The nude photographs were being sent by the victims voluntarily to their friends," according to Arden Wiltshire, spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-yucaipa-sexting,0,314120.story By KTLA.com 4/4/2010 "...Southwick is asking for primary custody of the children as well as spousal and child support. She is also asking for real estate, including the couple's Beverly Hills home. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-larry-king-divorce,0,3814040.story By The Times of India 4/12/2010 "In the wake of the raging debate on whether the Domestic Violence Act, enacted for the welfare of women, can be used against them or not, with different high courts expressing "conflicting views", a trial court has set the record straight by holding that female members of a family can be charged under the Domestic Violence Act in case of harassment of a woman." Read the entire article: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/india/Women-can-be-charged-under-Domestic-Violence-Act-Court/articleshow/5783727.cms The Sun News 4/9/2010 "A Cheraw woman was arrested after her boyfriend told police she bit him during an argument about moving to Myrtle Beach, according to a police report." By Minneapolis Star Tribune – Minneapolis 4/6/2010 "A new family court to establish paternity and help unmarried parents learn skills to cooperatively raise their children was approved Tuesday by the Hennepin County Board for a three-year test period." Read the entire article: http://www.startribune.com/local/west/90049772.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU By 2TheAdvocate - Louisiana 4/8/2010 "A bill that would increase penalties against parents who deliberately fail to pay child support on time won Senate approval Wednesday." Read the entire article: http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/90185527.html By Frost Illustrated - Indiana "...Figures and facts have been published signifying the importance of the role a father plays. To most dedicated fathers, this might seem like a senseless waste of time and money; why would anyone take the time to research something so obvious? It is the obvious that is most often overlooked. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.frostillustrated.com/full.php?sid=7334¤t_edition=2010-04-14 By The Detroit News (blog) - Michigan 4/13/2010 "...This all sounds noble enough, but what about the thousands of dads who understand this yet outside of marriage, they've been disenfranchised in their parental role to an every-other-weekend visitor or sometimes even less? With all due respect to this campaign and the organizations behind it, they are missing the proverbial elephant in the room. ..." By Woburn Advocate - Massachusetts 4/12/2010 "St. John’s Baptist Church Men’s Day will be held April 18, 11 a.m. The theme is “Time To Stand Up!” I Corinthians 15:57-58." Read the entire article: http://www.wickedlocal.com/woburn/newsnow/x1060311323/Church-hosts-Mens-Day-this-Sunday By WJZ 13 4/13/2010 "...Lawmakers approved a negotiated version of the legislation between the House of Delegates and Senate on Monday, the last day of the session. ..." Read the entire article: http://wjz.com/local/child.support.changes.2.1629434.html By FoxNews.com 4/11/2010 "Mrs. Oz's Relationship Advice" Watch the video: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4145691/mrs-ozs-relationship-advice By Pop Eater 4/12/2010 "...This begs the question, why is Jon the one paying Kate $20,000 a month in support payments? Dare we say it, should Kate be the one paying Jon? ..." Read the entire article: http://www.popeater.com/2010/04/12/jon-gosselin-kate-gosselin-custody/ By KTLA.COM 3/31/2010 "Famed math teacher, and subject of 1988 film 'Stand and Deliver,' Jaime Escalante, has died." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-jaime-escalante-cancer,0,3839418.story By KTLA.com 4/9/2010 "Police arrested the 20-year-old mother of a newborn baby boy who was beaten and drowned in a toilet." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-newborn-murder,0,7539140.story By KTLA.com 4/12/2010 "It was the catch of a lifetime and it likely saved the life of a 4 year old boy who fell nearly 30 feet after becoming entangled in an escalator." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-oc-mall-fall,0,7871313.story By KTLA.com 4/9/2010 "...Timothy White, the youngest victim and last survivor of a notorious California kidnapping saga whose rescue offered hope to parents of missing children, has died. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-timothy-white,0,7279262.story By CNN.com 4/12/2010 "...Former middle school math teacher Stephanie Ragusa was teary-eyed Monday as she pleaded guilty to having sex with two underage students. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/12/florida.teacher.student.sex/index.html By About.com: Fatherhood "The statistics are pretty alarming. Television has become the central focus in too many homes." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/od/activities/a/turnofftv.htm?nl=1 "The Maine Human Rights Commissions taking heat over a proposal to ban schools from enforcing gender divisions in sports teams, school organizations, bathrooms and locker rooms, saying forcing a student into a particular room or group because of their biological gender amounts to discrimination." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/08/maine-commission-moves-ban-gender-specific-school-bathrooms-teams/ By Medline Plus 4/9/2010 "..."At least 85 percent of the child sexual abuse is perpetrated by relatives, or by individuals who are known -- but not related -- to the child," study lead author Esther Deblinger, co-director of the Child Abuse Research Education and Services Institute at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey -- School of Osteopathic Medicine, said in a university new release. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97439.html By KidsHealth.org "...Many kids need help dealing with school stress, such as homework, test anxiety, bullying, or peer pressure. Others need help to discuss their feelings about family issues, particularly if there's a major transition, such as a divorce, move, or serious illness. ..." Read the entire article: http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/family/finding_therapist.html By Medline Plus 4/9/2010 "In the past 35 years, the percentage of overweight or obese children in one Louisiana town has more than tripled, new research shows." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97438.html By KTLA.com 4/9/2010 "A 91-year-old man whose relatives allegedly tried to smuggle his corpse onto a plane died of natural causes up to 12 hours before they were supposed to depart, according to British police." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-corpse-on-plane,0,2953892.story By KING5.com 4/8/2010 "...William L. Field - nice guy. William J. Field - a guy who doesn't pay his kids' child support. The state of Arizona, didn't know the difference and wiped out William L. Field's bank account. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.king5.com/news/consumer/Wrong-mans-bank-account-cleared-for-child-support-money-90288342.html By Katherine Mangu-Ward -- Reason Magazine May 2010 Issue "...Rhee immediately told the D.C. mayor, “You don’t want me for this job.” With a bluntness for which she would later become famous, she explained, “If I were to take over the school district, the kinds of things that I would have to do to transform the district”—closing schools, firing teachers—“would just cause you headaches, political headaches. ..." Read the entire article: http://reason.com/archives/2010/04/07/last-chance-for-school-reform By Denver Post 4/7/2010 "The City Council fired longtime Municipal Judge James Kimmel on Tuesday night after he issued an arrest warrant for a teenager who had an overdue $30 DVD from a local library." Read the entire article: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14834546 By ABC News 4/8/2010 "...But as symptoms got worse, he finally called the local health clinic and was turned away -- not for financial reasons, but because he was a man. ..." Read the entire article: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/north-carolina-man-denied-free-screening-suspected-male/story?id=10313188 By Yahoo News 4/6/2010 "...In Japan, kodokushi, a phenomenon first described in the 1980s, has become hauntingly common. In 2008 in Tokyo, more than 2,200 people over 65 died lonely deaths, according to statistics from the city's Bureau of Social Welfare and Public Health. The deaths most often involve men in their 50s and the nation's rapidly increasingly elderly population. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100406/wl_time/08599197695200 By KTLA.com 4/8/2010 "Two large dogs have chewed off the testicles of a 6-month-old boy strapped in a baby carrier and left alone in a Riverside County apartment." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-testicles-dogs,0,4323262.story By FoxNews.com 4/9/2010 "Teachers of controversial sexual education program could face charges under new law." Watch the video: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4142737/criminal-charges-for-teaching-sex-ed/?playlist_id=87249 By E-Online 4/7/2010 "...As his lawyer promised yesterday, the reality-TV dad has asked a Pennsylvania judge for primary custody of his eight kids with Kate Gosselin. By FoxNews.com 4/8/2010 "Las Vegas police say a 36-year-old woman faces felony neglect charges after her 3-year-old daughter and 1-year-old granddaughter fell from a third-floor balcony to the ground below." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/08/kids-fall-vegas-balcony-woman-arrested/ By KTLA.com 4/3/2010 "John Forsythe, best known for his roles in "Dynasty" and "Charlie's Angels," has died at his home north of Los Angeles at the age of 92." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-john-forsythe-obit,0,1183416.story By KTLA.com 4/6/2010 "A California father didn't hesitate to dive into the frigid East River after witnessing a terrifying accident -- his 2-year-old daughter managed to slip off a pier, falling 20 feet into the water." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-dad-saves-daughter,0,433742.story By YahooNews 4/6/2010 "...The Cuban immigrant community in Florida embraced the boy as a symbol of the struggle of ordinary Cubans to flee the oppression of Fidel Castro's communist regime, and rallied behind the boy's extended family in Miami, which sought custody of young Elian. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1481 By MSNBC.com 4/7/2010 "The mother of a 16-year-old boy said she shut him out of his Facebook account after reading he had driven home at 95 mph one night because he was mad at a girl. His response: a harassment complaint at the local courthouse." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36216614/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/from/ET By CDC -- Press Release 4/6/2010 "The teen birth rate in the United States fell 2 percent between 2007 and 2008, after rising the previous two years, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics." Read the entire article: http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2010/r100406.htm By The Telegraph – United Kingdom 4/7/2010 "...We lost the sex war but most of us are happy about it, and I don’t know any father who doesn’t appreciate and cherish every second he spends with his child. But the speed of social change is quite remarkable, with new reports suggesting that not only has the number of stay-at-home fathers increased by ten fold, so has the average amount of time that fathers spend with their children. ..." Read the entire article: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100033107/british-society-is-divided-between-the-super-dads-and-the-absent-ones/ By BBC News – United Kingdom 4/6/2010 "...The results of the survey of 1,000 parents suggest around 6% of fathers, or 600,000 men, are now their child's primary carer, up from 60,000 in 2000. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8605824.stm By Springfield News Sun - Ohio 4/3/2010 "...Rhoads, who took the classes with his father, is dad to 6-month-old Bradin and a father figure to a 6-year-old girl. He learned a lot in the courses, including how to balance being a stern parent and a nurturing one. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-news/fatherhood-class-builds-better-dads-635155.html?showComments=true By WebMD 4/6/2010 "Most baldness cures just don’t cut it, according to a new Consumer Reports magazine survey of more than 8,000 men and women who have personal experience with hair loss." Read the entire article: http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/news/20100406/survey-most-baldness-treatments-dont-work?ecd=wnl_day_040710#mainContentContainer_area By Bangor Daily News 4/1/2010 "A dispute over a dog Tuesday night led to the arrest of a Northport woman on charges of domestic violence terrorizing and violation of a protection order." Read the entire article: http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/140196.html By Glenn Sacks -- Fathers and Families 4/7/2010 "...Fathers & Families has worked closely with Assemblyman Paul Cook, the American Retirees Association, and others on AB 2416, and last week thousands of you responded to our Action Alert in support of the Bill. We are pleased to announce that today the bill passed the Assembly Judiciary Committee unanimously. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=6658 By UPI.com 4/5/2010 "An 81-year-old woman is suing her ex-husband in Los Angeles for the $50-per-month child support she says he was supposed to start paying in 1950." Read the entire article: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/04/05/Child-support-60-years-late-woman-sues/UPI-98721270511136/ By The Times and Democrat – South Carolina 4/4/2010 "...Many of the inmates who sued in federal court are being held for non-payment of child support. Child support inmates usually make up half or more of the total population, which averages about 400 inmates. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thetandd.com/articles/2010/04/04/news/doc4bb80b755238c943943852.txt By WebWire (press release) - USA 4/6/2010 "...Chromosomal Laboratories, Inc. has seen steady growth for the past six years in all areas of DNA analysis, from forensic DNA, to infidelity to paternity testing which has had the largest growth so far this year. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=114892 By David Usher -- NewsWithViews.com 4/4/2010 "...The two remaining goals of welfare reform -- reducing the number of women on welfare rolls and improving child support collections – became the primary goal. PRWOWA served but one obvious purpose: to convert welfare assistance into child-support entitlements. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.newswithviews.com/Usher/david191.htm By Jackson Clarion Ledger - Mississippi 4/4/2010 "For the first time, some paternity and child support cases are being heard at night in Hinds County Chancery Court." Read the entire article: http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20100404/NEWS/4040354/1001/Nighttime-court-aids-with-DHS-caseload By American Cancer Society 4/1/2010 "...Dutasteride (Avodart), a member of a class of drugs known as 5 alpha-reductase inhibitors, may reduce prostate cancer risk in some men by as much as 23%, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Drug_May_Lower_Prostate_Cancer_Risk_But_Raise_Others.asp By CDC "Child maltreatment is a significant public health problem in the United States. In 2007, approximately 772,000 children were confirmed by Child Protective Services as being abused or neglected." Read the entire article: http://www.cdc.gov/Features/HealthyChildren/ By Medline Plus 4/2/2010 "If you're unhappy in life, you're unlikely to find satisfaction at work, say researchers who reviewed the findings of 223 studies conducted between 1967 and 2008." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97164.html By Medline Plus 4/2/2010 "... Females were more likely than males to have body piercing, which was associated with a wide range of potentially harmful behaviors, such as alcohol use, smoking, drug use, high-risk sex, Russian roulette and problem gambling. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97163.html By Medline Plus 4/2/2010 "A new study reports a significant increase in the number of young males with a mumps-related testicle condition called mumps orchitis, which causes one or both testicles to swell and can lead to fertility problems." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97178.html By Medline Plus -- Winter 2010 Issue: Volume 5 Number 1 Page 7 "...College students share many of the risk factors and warning signs for suicide seen among the general population. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/issues/winter10/articles/winter10pg7.html By FDA US Food and Drug Administration 3/31/2010 "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is evaluating clinical trial data that may suggest that patients taking Stalevo, a Parkinson's disease medication, may be at an increased risk for developing prostate cancer." Read the entire article: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/PostmarketDrugSafetyInformationforPatientsandProviders/ucm206363.htm By Houston Chronicle - Texas 4/5/2010 "...In this case, however, the mom has a head of gray hair and has been collecting Social Security for more than a decade. The father was born in the heart of the Jazz Age, when a fellow named Coolidge resided in the White House. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6944043.html By Newsweek 3/29/2010 "...According to a 2009 report from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, divorce rates have been slowly dropping during this recession, from 17.3 divorces per 1,000 married women in 2005 to 16.9 in 2008. Part of the reason is the high cost of breaking up; many couples just can't afford it. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.newsweek.com/id/235619 By The Local 3/10/2010 "A young Swedish woman who falsely accused her father of rape will now face charges of her own." Read the entire article: http://www.thelocal.se/25654/20100321/ By KTLA.com 4/1/2010 "A 45-year-old mother is accused of leaving her 4-year-old daughter in a Range Rover while she shopped at Nordstrom in Mission Viejo, according to a sheriff's deputy." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-child-car-mom-shops,0,2318188.story By KTLA.com 3/31/2010 "Two female teachers from James Madison High School in Brooklyn are being charged with misconduct after allegedly being caught naked together in a classroom." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-lesbian-teachers,0,4379659.story By KTLA.com 4/1/2010 "...They say at first she told a couple of stories that did not add up before admitting she was the one who abused the little girl. "She actually got mad at the kid because the kid wouldn't stay in bed," Enid Police Sgt. Dustin Albright said. "She was following the kid back through the kitchen and pushed her with both hands and caused her to fall face-first into the kitchen tile."..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-teen-beats-baby,0,542831.story By ScienceDaily.com 3/29/2010 "New research from the University of Reading says that children, especially boys, who have insecure attachments to their mothers in the early years have more behaviour problems later in childhood." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100325093124.htm By ScienceDaily.com 4/1/2010 "A new study has found that fathers give toddlers more leeway and that allows them to actively explore their environments, according to a new study on parent-child attachment published inEarly Child Development and Care." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100331091145.htm By Canon City Daily Record - Colorado 3/31/2010 "...“It’s a general fatherhood skill-building program,” said Fatherhood Program Coordinator Gary Watkins. “It gives these guys different options, different insights into being a dad. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/Top-Story.asp?ID=13296 By Press & Sun-Bulletin – New York 4/1/2010 "...The organization aims to celebrate fatherhood by having regular events that provide “Dad time” for fathers and children; provide a forum for fathers to gain wisdom, advice, confidence and strength from other men with fatherhood experience; and create a place for men to receive recognition, encouragement. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20100401/NEWS01/100401020/Superdads++Network+to+hold+meeting By MedlinePlus 3/31/2010 "Low-income Latinos who have depression but stigmatize mental illness are less likely to take medications, keep scheduled appointments and control their illness, a U.S. study has found." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97078.html By MedlinePlus 3/31/2010 "A new study to determine whether a drug prescribed to fight the problems of an enlarged prostate gland can also reduce the risk of prostate cancer promises to prolong a debate that started with an earlier study of a similar drug." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97077.html By FoxNews.com 3/30/2010 "Community rocked by 11-year-old's death" Watch the video: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4130057/choking-game-claims-boys-life/?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r2:c0.018517:b32381304:z6 By KTLA.com 3/25/2010 "Police in Michigan say a 45-year-old woman with a cocaine habit allowed a 67-year-old man to have sex with her 10-year old granddaughter in exchange for the drug." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-cocaine-girl,0,377264.story By KTLA.com 3/31/2010 "...Attorney Anne Bremner says, ""Police officers expect to deal with danger on the job, but they should not fear this kind of exposure to communicable diseases when they simply try to order a hamburger" states Bremner. "This is particularly important for police officers, who have few food choices when working late night or early morning shifts. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-033010-deputysspitburger,0,6766441.story By KTLA.com 3/31/2010 "A 21-year-old student at Yale University plunged to his death in an apparent suicide jump off the Empire State Building during the evening rush hour." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-ny-empire-state-suicide,0,7985478.story By NWF Daily News 3/28/2010 "A father tried to give his 11-year-old daughter a time-out, but she ended up getting charged with a misdemeanor." Read the entire article: http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/old-27377-arrested-throwing.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter By Corine Gatti -- AHN 3/24/2010 "Prosecutors for the Miami-Dade State Attorney's office dropped a misdemeanor domestic battery charge against retired NFL defensive tackle Warren Sapp, it was reported. By Nicholas D. Kristof 3/27/2010 "...Yet these days, the opposite problem has sneaked up on us: In the United States and other Western countries alike, it is mostly boys who are faltering in school. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28kristof.html By The Independent Women's Forum 3/30/2010 "In Sunday's New York Times, Nicholas Kristof writes about Richard Whitmire’s new book “Why Boys Fail,” which, yet again, produces evidence that boys are falling behind girls in school." Read the entire article: http://www.iwf.org/inkwell/show/22818.html By Reason.com -- April 2010 "The responsibilities of a parent have never been simple. Three recent cases highlight just how convoluted those chains of responsibility can get, and how fickle the courts have been in weighing genetic parenthood against the deals would-be parents have struck with their partners." Read the entire article: http://reason.com/archives/2010/03/24/whos-your-daddy-or-your-other By 2TheAdvocate - Louisiana 3/31/2010 "...Quinn’s Senate Bill 475 would change the first-offense penalty of not paying child support from a maximum fine of $500 to a minimum fine of 5 percent of the amount owed, plus reasonable attorney fees. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/89573937.html By Medline Plus 3/30/2010 "..."Watchful waiting" for disease progression won't make men with slow-growing prostate cancer more anxious or distressed, especially if they're in relatively good health otherwise and not too anxious to begin with, new research shows. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97041.html By PR Web (press release) –North Carolina 3/29/2010 "Rosen Law Firm has launched a complete NC child support calculator application for the iPhone and iPod touch. This is the first and only iPhone app to offer calculations for all three North Carolina child support worksheets, covering primary, joint and split custody." Read the entire article: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/03/prweb3797464.htm By Dayton Daily News - Ohio 3/28/2010 "Who’s your daddy? The answer can have a major impact on a child’s life, including custody, inheritance, Social Security and veterans benefits, health insurance coverage and family medical history." Read the entire article: http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/paternity-testing-business-thrives-consumers-pay-big--625451.html By Times Online – United Kingdom 3/27/2010 "Modern dads are different. We read books about fatherhood, we talk to our friends about fatherhood, we seek emotional engagement and we make educational sock puppets. " Read the entire article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article7071005.ece By FayObserver.com – North Carolina 3/29/2010 "...Children from a fatherless home are five times more likely to commit suicide; 32 times more likely to run away; 20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders; 14 times more likely to commit rape; nine times more likely to drop out of school; 10 times more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol; and 20 times more likely to end up in prison. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.fayobserver.com/Articles/2010/03/29/986549 By fwdailynews.com - Indiana 3/28/2010 "...According to the National Fatherhood Initiative, one in three kids in America — or 25 million — live apart from their biological father. The NFI also found of nearly 14,000 incarcerated women in a study, more than half grew up without their father and 42 percent grew up in single-mother homes. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.fwdailynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7220:Anna-+-Mommy-+-Dominic-=-A-perfect-family&catid=174:features&Itemid=9 By Examiner.com - California 3/26/2010 "...The Fatherhood Initiative is a relatively new (1 year old) program operating under its parent organization Great Beginnings for Black Babies, Inc. (GBBB) a 20 year old non-profit organization. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-35307-LA-Parenting--Education-Examiner~y2010m3d26-Fathers-graduate-from-program By Fort Dodge Messenger 3/28/2010 "Self-esteem. Self-worth. Self-concept. These are the cornerstones of a father-support program in Fort Dodge called Lifetime Dads." Read the entire article: http://www.messengernews.net/page/content.detail/id/523481.html?nav=5010 By Our Weekly 3/18/2010 "Every Thursday night, fathers and sons take time to “let it all out” and escape from the everyday pressures of life. They talk about the job, spiritual life, love, and everything else a man deals with. Other serious issues are addressed as well, including depression, anger, and fatherhood." Read the entire article: http://ourweekly.com/antelope-valley/project-fatherhood By Medline Plus 3/29/2010 "Men who drink about a quart or more of cola every day could be causing harm to their sperm, results of a Danish study hint." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96992.html By Cheryl Wetzstein -- Washington Times 3/30/2010 "...One would think the Obama administration and Congress would take a long, sober look at Head Start; These are damning findings for a program that has been "tweaked" for 45 years at a cumulative cost of some $167 billion. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/30/wetzstein-is-head-start-a-sacred-cow/ By Medline Plus 3/26/2010 "...Poor organization in a classroom or disruptive classmates could cause attention problems instead, they suggested. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96914.html By South Bend Tribune.com - Indiana 3/27/2010 "...According to court records, Chambers told police he was behind in his child support from being unemployed before being hired as the store manager in 2007. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20100327/News01/100329501/-1/XML By McCook Daily Gazette 3/26/2010 "...Our State Disbursement Unit, which handles State Child Support, now emails billing statements to non-custodial parents. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.mccookgazette.com/story/1621504.html By Bristol Press - Connecticut 3/27/2010 "The Rev. Craig Hooker of Middletown’s Open Door Missionary Baptist Church is the kind of man who sees a problem and looks for a solution. This time, he’s tackled a big one: fatherhood." Read the entire article: http://www.bristolpress.com/articles/2010/03/27/opinion/doc4baeae58dc63c799033264.txt By Kansas City Star 3/28/2010 "Thousands of single or divorced parents could face new child support fees ranging from $10 to $350 under legislation that would add a few bucks to Missouri's meager bank accounts. By ABC News 3/27/2010 "...In an election policy, they have proposed 3,000 scholarships worth $5,000 a year for students who agree to teach in public schools. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/27/2857750.htm By WJBF-TV 3/26/2010 "South Carolina is nearing completion of a centralized computer system to help track deadbeat parents and enforce child support payments, 22 years after federal law required it." Read the entire article: http://www2.wjbf.com/jbf/ap_exchange/south_carolina_news/article/ScChildSupportSystemAboutReadyAfter22YearsSc/68360/ By The National Law Journal 3/26/2010 "A prominent advertising executive's alleged promises to support his longtime girlfriend if they broke up are unenforceable because the couple never married, a Manhattan judge has ruled." Read the entire article: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202446834354&Ad_Execs_Promises_to_Support_Longtime_Girlfriend_Ruled_Not_Binding By Hicksville Illustrated News – New York 3/26/2010 "The State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) recently announced that it has awarded more than $2.7 million for eight organizations to run programs that will help low-income, noncustodial fathers become more involved with their children’s lives, financially and emotionally." Read the entire article: http://www.antonnews.com/hicksvilleillustratednews/news/6968-state-awards-27-million-for-responsible-fatherhood-programsstate-awards-27-million-for-responsible-fatherhood-programs.html By Washington Post - 3/26/2010 "... The aim is to try to stabilize, if not reverse, the trend of non-commitment within the black community. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/26/AR2010032600679.html By Medline Plus 3/25/2010 "...Children living in homes where at least one parent is jobless potentially face a range of emotional issues -- from stress and depression to poor school performance and behavioral problems. What's more, the lower standard of living and loss of health insurance often lead to poor health for many of these children, experts said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96845.html By Medline Plus 3/26/2010 "...Alcohol is the most widely used substance of abuse among American youth and contributes to the three leading causes of death among 12- to 20-year-olds -- unintentional injury, murder and suicide. People who start drinking before age 15 are six times more likely to have alcohol problems than those who start drinking at age 21 or older, according to research. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96861.html By ABCNews.com 3/23/2010 "...My main message is to all those women out there who might have their eyes on some guy that is married to not come between anybody," Cynthia Shackelford told "Good Morning America" today. "It's not good to go in there. It hurts the children. My children are devastated. I'm devastated. ..." Read the entire article: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Business/wife-wins-million-husbands-alleged-mistress/story?id=10177637 Read the entire article: By Huffington Post 3/25/2010 "...Another spokesperson for unfair treatment to men is Dr. Gordon Finley a psychology professor from Florida. He feels that the Obama administration has bypassed boys and men. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-blumenfield-md/why-would-anyone-protest_b_512080.html By ABC News 3/25/2010 "...Principals across Australia have voiced their opposition to the website in a survey conducted by the Australian Education Union, which found more than 80 per cent did not think the site gave an accurate description of their school. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/25/2855409.htm By David M. Dinn -- Letter to the Editor -- Indianapolis Star 3/24/2010 "...Fortunately going forward, Senate Enrolled Act 178 provides a mechanism for fathers of children born out of wedlock to take a more active roll. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.indystar.com/article/20100324/OPINION01/3240321/1002/OPINION/Kids-benefit-from-bill-giving-dads-a-more-active-role Read the entire article: http://www.indystar.com/article/20100324/OPINION01/3240321/1002/OPINION/Kids-benefit-from-bill-giving-dads-a-more-active-role By Chicago Sun Times 3/24/2010 "...Agim Demiri of Naperville was in court for a child support case when he got upset and threw a raw egg at the presiding judge, according to a release from the DuPage County Sheriff's office. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/2121033,egg-hearing-judge-child-support-032410.article By The Tennessean 3/23/2010 "The Tennessee General Assembly is considering legislation (HB2916) whereby children would have joint parenting by their divorcing parents. Believe it or not, women's groups, lawyers and "child advocates" oppose this legislation. Creating a child equally takes a man and a woman. Parenting should also equally take a man and a woman. What's wrong with that logic?" Read the entire article: http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100323/OPINION01/3230375/1008 By nlrTimes 3/19/2010 "Images of domestic violence usually focus on a man beating his female partner, but the Jacksonville Police Department’s recent incident reports reveal that is not always the case." Read the entire article: http://www.nlrtimes.com/articles/2010/03/20/jacksonville_patriot/local_news/nws04.txthttp://www.nlrtimes.com/articles/2010/03/20/jacksonville_patriot/local_news/nws04.txt By CNN 1/21/2010 "...“We have talked so much about equal education for men and women in the past decades,” says Sun Yunxiao, author of the book and a professor at China's Teenager Research Center, “but we neglected the fact that boys and girls should be educated differently at school.”..." By People.com 3/25/2010 "...A paternity test has confirmed that Mathew Knowles, 58, is the father of Alexsandra Wright's new baby boy, Nixon TMZ reports. The baby's half-sisters Beyoncé and Solange are 29 and 24, respectively. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20354547,00.html By People.com 3/21/2010 "...Tabloids also drew a connection between a 2007 paternity suit filed by a Georgia woman, Kali Bowyer, who claimed Rock was the father of her then-13-year-old son. DNA tests later proved that was not the case. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20353392,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+people%2Fheadlines+%28PEOPLE.com%3A+Top+Headlines%29 By Examiner.com 3/22/2010 "...According to Judge Ruhlmann, the best interests of the child takes precedence over DNA testing. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-14537-Albany-CPS-and-Family-Court-Examiner~y2010m3d22-One-Monroe-County-Family-Court-paternity-case-ignores-GMT-or-DNA-testing-another-one-admits-it By Chicago Tribune 3/21/2010 "...Others relatively new to the market include tests for paternity, thyroid activity, cortisol (depression assessment), prostate screening, sexually transmitted infections, ..." Read the entire article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/sc-health-0324-diy-tests-20100321,0,3462958.story By Santa Cruz Sentinel 3/21/2010 "...PAPAS, a Watsonville program funded by the state that started in 2003 to improve father involvement with their children, is trying to help men understand that new world by creating a Saturday morning support group that brings men of all ages and background together to swap notes and experiences on parenting. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/rss/ci_14722320?source=rss By The Star-Ledger - NJ.com 3/21/2010 "...More and more, online social-networking sites such as Facebook are playing a role in the breakup of marriages — whether it’s people griping about spouses or contacting old flames, or matrimonial attorneys looking for evidence to be used in divorce proceedings. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/facebook_plays_havoc_in_marria.html By Times Bulletin 3/21/2010 "Here are the three levels of marital fighting: 1. Daily Drama - There is a disagreement and the couple doesn't talk to each other for awhile; 2. Forced Camping - Someone sleeps on a couch; 3. Attorney Contacted - Someone starts doing math the day after they sleep on the couch." Read the entire article: http://timesbulletin.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=158083 By IndyStar.com 3/24/2010 "Fortunately going forward, Senate Enrolled Act 178 provides a mechanism for fathers of children born out of wedlock to take a more active roll. SEA 178 does this by requiring a paternity affidavit to contain a provision that allows the mother and the man identified as the father to agree to share joint legal custody." Read the entire article: http://www.indystar.com/article/20100324/OPINION01/3240321/-1/OPINION09/Kids-benefit-from-bill-giving-dads-a-more-active-role By KTLA.com 3/18/2010 "A day care owner under investigation in the death of a 2-year-old girl who authorities say was struck with a hammer was reportedly the subject of five child abuse complaints." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-foster-child-hammer-death,0,942095.story By New York Times 3/7/2010 "Seeking to step up enforcement of civil rights laws, the federal Department of Education says it will be sending letters in coming weeks to thousands of school districts and colleges, outlining their responsibilities on issues of fairness and equal opportunity." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/education/08educ.html?scp=14&sq=sam%20dillon&st=cse By Washington Post - Opinions 3/21/2010 "...A protective order hearing is not initiated by an impartial police officer or prosecutor. Instead, any person can trigger a hearing by alleging abuse. Many people have a case for abuse. Many others may have an ax to grind, such as gaining an advantage in a divorce proceeding. The court must try to distinguish between the two. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/19/AR2010031904328.html By Baltimore Sun 3/22/2010 "Some child support payments in Maryland could soon go up - a change that state Human Resources Secretary Brenda Donald called "long overdue."..." Read the entire article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/legislature/bal-md.childsupport22mar22,0,2824239.story By All Africa 3/19/2010 "The good models of fatherhood existing in the Angolan society should be highlighted and valued so they can be followed by all, said in Luanda, the Secretary of State for Rural Development, Filomena Delgado." Read the entire article: http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/en_us/noticias/sociedade/2010/2/11/Society-told-praise-good-fatherhood-models-state-secretary,768e5ca6-94f9-4a20-8208-f435bbd82043.html By NEWS.com.au - Australia 3/22/2010 "DIVORCE has a major financial impact, and it doesn't matter who paid for what when you separate assets." Read the entire article: http://www.news.com.au/money/money-matters/readying-for-the-financial-hit-of-divorce/story-e6frfmd9-1225843542671
By York News-Times 3/19/2010 "Christian Heritage is now accepting nominations for the 2010 Nebraska Father of the Year Award, which will be presented at a “Celebration of Fatherhood” luncheon to be held at the Embassy Suites in Lincoln on June 17." Read the entire article: http://www.yorknewstimes.com/articles/2010/03/19/news/doc4ba2b83427c73450617687.txt By Springfield News-Sun 3/18/2010 "The Advance Fatherhood Ohio! summit is set for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 8 at the Courtyard by Marriott downtown." Read the entire article: http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-news/summit-to-focus-on-fatherhood-607459.html?cxtype=rss_local-news By Charleston Daily Mail - 3/19/2010 "West Virginia's child support enforcement agency plans to use a $5 million federal stimulus grant to make its operation more efficient by ditching the paperwork." Read the entire article: http://www.dailymail.com/News/statehouse/201003190502 By Kivitv ABC 6 3/15/2010 "Young males who have consensual sex with their 16- or 17-year-old girlfriends would be shielded from rape charges, under a bill passed 35-0 by the Senate." Read the entire article: http://www.kivitv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12143563 By Philly.com 3/18/2010 "Renada Williams told her alleged cohorts in crime that her lover had raped her and that she had come up with a horrific plan of revenge, which left one police veteran cold." Read the entire article: http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20100318_Cops__Woman_s_lie_about_rape_led_to_lover_s_beating__sodomy.html By Phyllis Schlafly - World Net Daily 3/10/2010 "Far more personal information on students than is necessary is being collected by public schools, according to the Fordham Law School Center on Law and Information Policy, which investigated education records in all 50 states. States are failing to safeguard students' privacy and protect them from data misuse." Read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=127471 By FoxNews.com 2/25/2010 "Home fertility tests aren't just for women anymore.A new device that looks a lot like those home ovulation and home pregnancy tests but checks sperm count will soon be available in Europe, and is undergoing Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review for marketing in the U.S." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587428,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By FoxNews.com 3/18/2010 "Do soldiers need marijuana for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?" Watch the video: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4114243/pot-to-heal-the-pain By Chicago Tribune 3/5/2010 "The entire senior class at Chicago's only public all-male, all-African-American high school has been accepted to four-year colleges. At last count, the 107 seniors had earned spots at 72 schools across the nation." Read the entire article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/happynews/chi-100305chicago-charter-school-graduates,0,2406746.story By FoxNews.com 3/19/2010 "The competence of diligent dads helping out at home is damaging the self-esteem of "super-moms" who feel caught between work and traditional child-rearing roles, according to a new study revealed by LiveScience." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589645,00.html By Molly Murphy -- DadsDivorce.com 3/15/2010 "Custody battles are hard on kids of all ages. It is especially hard for tweens and teenagers. They are old enough to understand what court is, and that Mom and Dad are fighting over them." Read the entire article: http://www.dadsdivorce.com/blog/the-new-teenage-struggle-should-i-choose-mom-or-dad.html?utm_source=DadsDivorce.com+Newsletter By MedlinePlus.com 3/16/2010 "The balance between using enough radiation to shield patients from prostate cancer's return while keeping side effects at bay may not be as tricky as once thought, new research shows." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96458.html By MedlinePlus.com 3/15/2010 "Combined treatment with the antidepressant Zoloft (sertraline) and the alcoholism drug naltrexone improves the likelihood that people with both major depression and alcohol dependence will be able to stop drinking, U.S. researchers report." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96395.html By MedlinePlus 3/15/2010 "Men suffering from both cardiovascular disease and erectile dysfunction are at greater risk for heart attack, stroke, heart failure and death, a new study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96410.html By Medline Plus 3/16/2010 "Researchers have succeeded in freezing away breast and prostate tumors in a small number of patients, opening a promising door to a new generation of cancer treatments." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96454.html By CNN.com 3/18/2010 "A wave of suicides at Cornell University in the past two semesters is a "public health crisis," the school's mental health initiatives director said." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/18/cornell.suicides/index.html By Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane -- Washington Post 3/16/2010 "After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/15/AR2010031503742.html
By ScienceDaily.com 3/18/2010 "...Now, research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Nutrition and Metabolism, has shown that, for men, high plasma selenium concentrations are associated with a lower occurrence of dysglycemia. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100317212646.htm By FoxNews.com 3/17/2010 "A testosterone-laced underarm roll-on that can improve men's flagging sex drive has been developed in Australia and snapped up by top 10 pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, The Australian reported on Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589565,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By FoxNews.com 3/17/2010 "Parents in the nation’s capital can add scarlet fever to the list of illnesses they have to worry about their kids coming down with. Officials have confirmed three cases of the disease at Terrell Elementary school in Washington, D.C., MyFoxDC.com reported." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589587,00.html By FoxNews.com 3/18/2010 "The Pennsylvania woman who called herself "JihadJane" in alleged efforts to help Islamic terrorists reportedly has confessed to the FBI about her involvement in a plot to kill a Swedish artist who had offended Muslims." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/03/18/report-jihad-jane-confesses-fbi/ By E-Online 3/17/2010 "...Haim's untimely death has highlighted the growing problem of prescription pill addiction in Hollywood. ..." By Regina Medina -- Philadelphia Daily News 3/17/2010 "His ex, Renada Williams, 28, told him she did, too, but Philadelphia police said she had on her mind a brutal plan of revenge against him." Read the entire article: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/20100317_He_had_thoughts_of_lovin___she_had_other_plans_for_him.html By KTLA.com 3/16/2010 "A suburban school bus driver is accused of driving dozens of students home from school with a high blood alcohol level." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-bus-driver-dui,0,3756387.story By CBS5 -- Healdsburg 3/12/2009 "... The woman claiming to be a victim of domestic violence was identified as 20-year-old Patricia Manning. Read the entire article: http://cbs5.com/crime/healdsburg.car.sale.2.1557010.html By Delmarva Daily Times - Maryland 3/16/2010 "...The parents were charged after the deputy witnessed physical injuries on both parents, according to police. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20100316/NEWS01/100316036/1002/WICOMICO-CRIME--Fight-over-child-support-leads-to-assault-charges By Vikki L. Conwell -- Atlanta Journal Constitution - Georgia 3/16/2010 "...Kaufmann is one of a growing number of pro se litigants, people who use the courts without representation from an attorney. With the proper paperwork, clients can litigate simple proceedings such as uncontested divorces between parties who have reached a settlement agreement and possess few assets. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ajc.com/business/family-law-centers-a-373776.html By Trevor Griffey -- Olympia Newswire (blog) – District of Columbia 3/15/2010 "One of the more significant points of difference between the state House and state Senate’s budget proposals relates to how to continue to fund welfare benefits, or funds for recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)." Read the entire article: http://www.olympianews.org/2010/03/17/tanf-pass-through-in-jeopardy/ By National Post - Canada 3/12/2010 "...When it comes to unanswered questions, Ms. Jordan said the "big two" are child support and custody or access -- issues that she said come up more often than she would like. ..." By Republican Herald - Pennsylvania 3/15/2010 "Clinical Outcomes Group Inc. has been awarded a $25,000 grant to strengthen the bond between father and child." Read the entire article: http://republicanherald.com/news/county-group-gets-grant-to-promote-fatherhood-1.681349 By MiamiHerald.com - Florida 3/13/2010 "...In the court documents, Moreno accused Raigoso of being aggressive toward him. ``She verbally abuses him in front of the children, calling him a decrepit old man and threatening him with violence in the event he does not vacate his own home,'' noted the document. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/13/1527330/police-dead-boys-father-killed.html By Siskiyou Daily News - California 3/15/2010 "...Gary Sams, Regional Director of the SMRDCSS, stated at the meeting that he was making the request to reduce the Child Support Assistant II positions due to a number of factors, including the effects of the slowed economy on child support collections." Read the entire article: http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/news/x1526465147/Layoffs-approved-for-child-support-services Child support is more complicated than The Sun realizes -- Readers ResponseWednesday, 17 March 2010
By Baltimore Sun - Readers Response -- 3/16/2010 "Your view for increasing the child support guidelines ("A matter of fairness," Feb. 12) shows your lack of understanding of the real world and how families live." Read the entire article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bal-supportletter0315,0,6807030.story By News Leader 3/12/2010 "...Creating regional offices for the Family Support Division, rather than operating offices in each of the state's 114 counties." Read the entire article: http://www.news-leader.com/article/20103120383 By CNN.com 3/12/2010 "Police say a mom of four tried to arrange for the murder of her husband of 21 years." Watch the video: http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2010/03/15/carroll.juvenile.murder.charge.cnn By CNN.com 3/15/2010 "A 12-year-old could be tried on charges of murdering his father's pregnant fiancee." Watch the video: http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2010/03/15/carroll.juvenile.murder.charge.cnn By E-Online 3/15/2010 "The Two and a Half Men star has entered three whole pleas—all of them not guilty." By Irish Independent – United Kingdom 3/15/2010 "Q I have just found out that my teenage son has gotten a girl pregnant. To say that I'm devastated doesn't even come close to describing how I feel." Read the entire article: http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/fatherhood-isnt-end-of-road-for-your-teenage-son-2099148.html By Kristi L. Nelson -- Knoxville News Sentinel 3/14/2010 "...A Fragile Families study showed a majority of unmarried fathers were very involved with their infants and planned to stay that way. About 80 percent provided financial support to their child’s mother during pregnancy and planned to support the child. ..." Read the entire article: http://m.knoxnews.com/news/2010/mar/14/study-majority-unwed-dads-involved-infants/ By Baltimore Sun - Maryland 3/14/2010 "Fortunately I've never been divorced, so I've avoided the pitfalls of Maryland's child support system. Unfortunately, I know other's who haven't." Read the entire article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bal-supportletter0314,0,6741493.story By FoxNews.com 3/15/2010 "A court convicted the governing party's youth leader of hate speech Monday after he said the woman who once accused South Africa's president of rape had had a "nice time" because she stayed the night and asked for taxi money." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589271,00.html By FoxNews.com 3/15/2010 "...Martin Horn, now a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said female workers who have sex with inmates are often treated less harshly by officials than male worker who do the same. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589222,00.html
By FoxNews.com 3/14/2010 "One naval officer, lead Petty Officer Juan Ramos, 29, lives this sacrifice. A flight deck supervisor aboard the USS Eisenhower, Ramos spends up to six months at a time away from his wife and six children." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589215,00.html By FoxNews.com 3/14/2010 "The 6-year-old son of a Colorado nursing student who ran off to Europe to join a terrorist murder cell was brainwashed into a hate-filled Islamic fundamentalist zombie, his family said Saturday, The New York Post reported." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589203,00.html By Jay Goltz -- New York Times 3/5/2010 "...I have learned the long, hard and frustrating way that as a manager you cannot make everyone happy. You can try, you can listen, you can solve some problems, you can try some more. Good management requires training, counseling and patience, but there comes a point when you are robbing the business of precious time and energy. ..." Read the entire article: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/the-secret-to-having-happy-employees/?src=me&ref=business By FoxNews.com 3/12/2010 "The ambulance crew that responded after golfer Tiger Woods crashed his SUV would not allow his wife to ride with him to the hospital because they thought it was a case of domestic violence, documents released Friday by the Florida Highway Patrol show." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589121,00.html By FoxNews.com 3/13/2010 "Last Easter, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, a 31-year-old mom with a $30,000-a-year job as a medical assistant, announced to her family that she had converted to Islam. A few months later, she began posting to Facebook forums whose headings included "STOP caLLing MUSLIMS TERRORISTS!"..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589147,00.html By MSNBC.com 3/12/2010 "...Keith Bulluck, a 10-year NFL veteran, posted on Twitter that he’s “not saying it can’t be done or shouldn’t be done. Football is clearly a mans sport & it’s 2 be seen how young men take to their coach being a woman.”..." Read the entire article: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/35839852/ns/sports-other_sports/ By KTLA.com 3/12/2010 "A Santa Ana man may be a possible bone marrow donor for a 10-year-old girl with leukemia, but now he's being told he's too overweight to donate." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-bone-marry-weight,0,567099.story By KTLA.com 3/12/2010 "Authorities are investigating the death of an unidentified man who jumped from the 11th floor of the Orange County Superior Court building." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-courthouse-leap,0,6006555.story By Christian Science Monitor 3/11/2010 "It’s the end of the road for nearly half the schools in Kansas City, Mo. – a district that has struggled for decades to integrate and boost achievement amid plummeting enrollments." Read the entire article: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2010/0311/Kansas-City-to-close-26-schools.-Unprecedented-move-in-US By ABC News 3/12/2010 "Couples in Australia having fertility treatment could soon be able to choose their babies' sex." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/13/2844925.htm By ScienceDaily.com 2/18/2010 "...But the increase in the proportion of young drivers involved in fatal crashes with positive blood alcohol tests at all times of the week was greater among young women than it was among young men. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100217224233.htm By E-Online 3/12/2010 "...Officers on the scene were told by a paramedic that Nordegren wanted to ride alongside Woods but was prevented from accompanying him as the incident involved "domestic violence."..." By Justice News Flash 3/5/2010 "Raleigh, NC-Leading North Carolina divorce lawyers, Gailor, Wallis & Hunt, report that the most heated debate that arises during the process of divorce is about child custody, child support and visitation." Read the entire article: http://www.justicenewsflash.com/2010/03/11/north-carolina-divorce-attorneys-report-what-about-the-custody-of-our-children_201003113642.html By American Prospect 3/8/2010 "Of the many biographical details that shaped Barack Obama as a political figure, perhaps none is more prominent than the absence of his father during his upbringing." Read the entire article: http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=daddy_issues By Washington Post 3/12/2010 "...Opponents argue that increases in child support payments are ill-advised because so many people face financial struggles in the recession. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031103922.html By Cheryl Wetzstein -- Washington Times 3/12/2010 "Is the Obama administration trying to divorce the federal government from the marriage business? Yes, the White House is ditching the only real federal effort to strengthen the institution of marriage, say some marriage-movement activists, who are already lamenting the loss of the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood grant program." Read the entire article: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/12/the-family-funds-breakup/ By Hans Bader -- Examiner.com 2/5/2010 "A bill was recently introduced in Maryland to increase child support obligations for households at most income levels. For example, it would raise child support by a massive 29% for a couple with one kid making $3400 a month. The bill, known as HB 500 or SB 252, will raise already excessive child support obligations further." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-7812-DC-SCOTUS-Examiner~y2010m2d5-Child-Support-Bill-Would-Increase-Already-Excessive-Obligations-Based-on-Erroneous-Rationale By FoxNews.com 3/12/2010 "..."The question is whether or not a very top-heavy organization might be siphoning off federal dollars that should be going to help kids," said Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/12/gop-senators-question-m-salary-boys-girls-club-ceo/ By AOL News 3/10/2010 "American men are four times more likely than women to take their own lives. It's a troubling phenomenon, rooted in such factors as genetics, upbringing and even career choice. But a growing body of research suggests that divorce is one of the major culprits in suicides among adult males." Read the entire article: http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/suicide-rate-greater-among-divorced-men-research-finds/19388300?sms_ss=email By NZ City 3/10/2010 "John Travolta will grieve for his late son for the rest of his life." Read the entire article: http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=111895&cat=985&fm=newsarticle%20-%20Entertainment,nur By ScienceDaily.com 3/10/2010 "Psychology researchers exploring relational aggression and victimisation in 11-13 year olds have found adolescent boys have a similar understanding and experience of 'mean' behaviours and 'bitchiness' as girls." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100302093342.htm By ScienceDaily.com 3/11/2010 "Parents of young boys may want to encourage moderation when it comes to their kids' video game habits. According to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, owning a video-game system may hamper academic development in some children." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100310162835.htm By E-Online "..."We're very happy," the couple said in a statement. "Courtney and I couldn't be more excited. I've waited my whole life to be a dad, this is a true blessing. ..." By MedlinePlus 3/8/2010 "New research suggests that the type of specialist a prostate cancer patient sees -- rather than the patient's own preference -- may determine the treatment he receives." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96156.html By MedlinePlus 3/8/2010 "Men with jobs that expose them to high levels of sunlight are less likely to develop kidney cancer than those with little or no sunlight exposure at work, says a new study." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96122.html By MedlinePlus 3/9/2010 "...The authors of the study, published in the March 10 issue of BMJ, also created a novel measure called "sexually active life expectancy." According to this new measure, men aged 55 could expect another 15 years of sex while women of the same age could expect 10.6 more active years. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96195.html Overall, however, more men reported a satisfying sex life than women, a chasm that widened as people aged. By Center for Disease Control and Prevention "Youth who are threatened with or experience physical violence, or who are injured by peers report more suicidal thoughts and behavior than non-victimized youth, according to a study released in the July 19th online edition of the Journal of Pediatrics. " Read the entire article: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/peer_victimization.html By eat right - American Dietetic Association "Video Library" To Watch the Video: http://www.eatright.org/Media/content.aspx?id=4294967485
By MedlinePlus 3/9/2010 "Over 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease, and blacks and Hispanics are at highest risk of developing the disease, a new report finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96179.html By Los Angeles Times 3/10/2010 "The American woman, 46, faces terrorism charges. An old boyfriend 'can't believe it,' and a former acquaintance calls the suspect naive." Read the entire article: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-jihad-jane11-2010mar11,0,3972459.story By MedlinePlus 3/9/2010 "Although studies in Africa have shown that circumcision can lower the spread of HIV among heterosexuals, it may not do much to prevent infections among gay and bisexual men in Western countries, a new study suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_96212.html By KTLA.com 3/10/2010 "Actor and former teen idol Corey Haim has died at the age of 38, the Los Angeles Police Department has confirmed to KTLA." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-corey-haim-obit,0,7616140.story By Yahoo.com 3/10/2010 "Governors and education leaders on Wednesday proposed sweeping new school standards that could lead to students across the country using the same math and English textbooks and taking the same tests, replacing a patchwork of state and local systems in an attempt to raise student achievement nationwide." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100311/ap_on_re_us/us_schools_standards By Yahoo.com 3/2/2010 "What millions of students read about science and history could hinge Tuesday on a Republican primary in Texas for several seats on the state board of education, a panel whose decisions affect the content of textbooks sold nationwide." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100302/ap_on_el_st_lo/us_texas_primary_education_5 By TampaBayOnline 3/10/2010 "...A 14-year-old Tampa girl has gone well beyond that, missing 85 of 113 school days this year, and about 850 since kindergarten. Because of it, her mother, Charlotte Fair, 45, was put behind bars without bail more than a week ago. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/after-daughter-misses-half-the-school-year-lonely-mom-jailed-in-tampa/1078330 By FoxNews.com 3/10/2010 "A 7-year-old boy who called 911 while armed robbers threatened his parents hugged and delivered a high five to the dispatcher who took his call." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588684,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r3:c0.000000:b0:z5 By FoxNews.com "Imagine getting a full salary and benefits for doing absolutely nothing. If you’re a teacher in the United States, you can – you just have to be accused of a crime. States all over the country dole out millions of taxpayer dollars every year to teachers who aren't even permitted to set foot in a classroom." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/us/2010/02/23/teachers?slide=4 By New Zimbabwe.com "A BULAWAYO magistrate has ordered a father to pay maintenance to his 20-year-old daughter in what is believed to be a landmark case." Read the entire article: http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-1994-Woman,+20,+wins+child+support+claim/news.aspx By Frost Illustrated - Indiana 3/10/2010 "Attorney General Eric Holder stressed the importance of black men taking responsibility in their homes during the Alliance of Concerned Men’s recent National Roundtable and Town Hall Meeting on Fatherhood and Solutions to Youth Violence." Read the entire article: http://www.frostillustrated.com/atf.php?sid=7165¤t_edition=2010-03-10 By WYFF Greenville – South Carolina 3/9/2010 "Greenville sheriff’s deputies are looking for a woman who they say forged child support checks and taking other checks that she wrote to herself." Read the entire article: http://www.wyff4.com/news/22785847/detail.html By MetroWest Daily News – Massachusetts 3/10/2010 "A Framingham man told police Tuesday he bought cigarettes with a stolen credit card number so he could sell them and give the money to his baby's mother." Read the entire article: http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x497924584/Framingham-man-charged-with-using-stolen-credit-card-number-for-child-support By The Daily Record 3/9/2010 "The Maryland Senate on Tuesday passed legislation to change — for the first time since 1989 — the guidelines courts use to set child support payments." Read the entire article: http://mddailyrecord.com/2010/03/09/md-child-support-guidelines-haven%E2%80%99t-been-changed-in-two-decades/ By KTLA.com 3/9/2010 " Burbank Unified School District teacher turned herself in Monday to face allegations she had sex with one of her students." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-burbank-teacher-sex,0,2936792.story By Highland Today 3/5/2010 "A 68-year-old woman who was arrested Saturday in connection with her husband's murder, "carefully planned" the death, and the incident is related to domestic violence, her arrest report states." Read the entire article: http://www2.highlandstoday.com/content/2010/mar/05/la-mans-murder-tied-to-domestic-violence-authoriti/ By USA Today 3/9/2010 "Education historian Diane Ravitch can pinpoint the day when she realized public schools in the USA were racing down a perilous road, one that promised long-sought reforms but would never deliver — and probably make things worse." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-03-10-ravitchbook10_st_N.htm?csp=34&utm By USA Today 3/9/2010 "A new Ohio State University custodial employee who received a bad job evaluation shot two co-workers in a campus maintenance building, killing one of them, and then fatally shot himself, officials said Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-09-ohio-state-shooting_N.htm?csp=34&utm_ By FoxNews.com 3/9/2010 "A teacher trying to park her SUV Tuesday backed through a large window and into a classroom at the suburban Detroit school where she taught, slighting injuring several preschool students, authorities said." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588571,00.html?test=latestnews By DadsDivorce.com 2/1/2010 "Question: My ex-wife remarried and I have two boys with her, 15 and 10 years old. Her new husband supports her. She has her own cleaning business and makes about $600 per week. But she only reports she makes $400 a month when it to comes child support time. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.dadsdivorce.com/blog/ask-a-divorce-lawyer-remarriages-and-how-they-affect-child-support.html By Telegraph.co.uk 2/26/2010 "Kevin Geraghty-Shewan, 48, was threatened with arrest by police officers and told the images may have to be deleted, despite protesting that he had every right to photograph his own son." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7326561/Father-told-to-stop-taking-pictures-of-his-own-son.html By True Crime Report – New York 3/8/2010 "Describing the divorce of Peter and Susan Williams as "bitter" would be an understatement. For the past year, they've been fighting over custody of their four children -- ages 11 to 19 -- as well as the assets of his lucrative fence company..." Read the entire article: http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/03/susan_williams_wealthy_long_is.php By People.com 3/8/2010 "..."I'd just like to say thank you to everybody," she said. "As you see I have amazing support from great men, my family, my brothers. God was very wise when he put me into a family with honorable men because they have served as examples for my children."..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20349621,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+people%2Fheadlines+%28PEOPLE.com%3A+Top+Headlines%29 By FoxNews.com 3/8/2010 "A Kentucky woman was charged with assault after she allegedly squirted breast milk into the face of a deputy, sparking online debate Sunday in the local media." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588369,00.html?test=latestnews By Sally Pipes -- Pacific Research Institute 3/5/2010 "For the first time ever, women outnumber men at all levels of higher education. More women than men apply, enroll, and graduate with bachelor’s and advanced degrees" Read the entire article: http://liberty.pacificresearch.org/publications/unraveling-the-achievement-gap-on-campus By Gothamist – New York "A Long Island woman lost her $500 down payment, after learning that the hitman she’d hired to kill her husband was actually an undercover cop." Read the entire article: http://gothamist.com/2010/03/06/li_mom_hired_bargain_bin_hit_man_to.php By Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D. -- Mens News Daily 2/25/2010 "As Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid unquestionably is one of the nation’s most powerful political figures. So, as Majority Leader, how could he be so wrong on Domestic Violence?" Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/2010/02/25/reidgate-where-did-harry-go-wrong/ By AJC 3/3/2010 "A 45-year-old woman, charged with ending a domestic dispute by killing her 26-year-old husband of five days, is a registered lobbyist for a group fighting domestic violence." Read the entire article: http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/woman-charged-with-killing-344266.html By American Cancer Society 3/3/2010 "Men should discuss the benefits and risks of prostate cancer screening with their doctors, according to revised prostate cancer screening guidelines from the American Cancer Society (ACS). Read the entire article: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Revised_Prostate_Cancer_Screening_Guidelines_What_Has--and_Hasnt--Changed.asp By Wall Street Journal -- 3/5/2010 "The Obama administration picked 15 states and the District of Columbia as finalists in a heated competition for extra federal education funds to shake up underperforming schools." Read the entire article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704187204575101553383922336.html By Medline Plus 3/3/2010 "Scientists are making headway in finding ways to treat and detect stubborn forms of prostate cancer." Read the entire article: https://mail.google.com/a/menshealthnetwork.net/#inbox/1272e9e2f620ee01
By ABC News 3/4/2010 "Victorian police are calling in every resource they can after a missing Indian toddler was found dead on the side of the road in Melbourne's north last night." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/04/2836991.htm By American Heart Association -- News Release 3/2/2010 "Teaching college students — an understudied population for preventing weight gain — about societal issues related to food and agriculture may help them choose healthier diets, according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s 2010 Conference on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism." Read the entire article: http://americanheart.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=974 By E-Online 2/28/2010 "Marie Osmond's son Michael blosil took his own life Friday night after leaping to his death from his Los Angeles apartment, E! News confirms. The 18-year-old reportedly suffered from severe depression in recent years, leaving behind a note that detailed his plans to commit suicide." Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b169268_marie_osmonds_son_commits_suicide.html?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories
By Paul Elam -- Editor-in-Chief for Men’s News Daily and the publisher of A Voice for Men "On February 22, Senator Harry Reid stood on the senate floor, telling fellow legislators and the American people that we needed to pass the new jobs bill because “Men, when they’re out of work, tend to become abusive.” Of course he added for the benefit of his female constituents that “Women aren’t abusive most of the time.”..." By USA Today 3/4/2010 "Rowdy protesters blocked major gates at two California universities and smashed the windows of a car Thursday amid campus protests across the nation against deep cuts in education funding." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-03-04-university-protests_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29
By Glen Sacks, Michael Robinson -- Capitol Weekly 2/25/2010 "In “Parental Alienation must be excluded” (Capitol Weekly, Feb. 8), Preston Thymes, the head of public relations for the domestic violence service provider Shelter Outreach Plus, criticizes efforts by Fathers & Families and others to promote recognition of Parental Alienation." Read the entire article: http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?_c=yn0preo6rdxdxf&xid=ynlb864byy5ll0&done=.ynnt8ueo2tpc0g
By Cheryl Wetzstein -- Washington Times 3/2/2010 "...The nation's psychiatrists are considering defining addictive acts such as overeating, gambling and compulsive sex as medical disorders in their professional manual. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/02/psychiatrists-mull-adding-sex-eating-as-disorders/ By John Stossel -- Fox Business 3/2/2010 "Kayvan Setareh must be a terrible man; he was tossed into a Los Angeles jail last week. Held on $1 million bail. Did Setareh kill or kidnap someone? No. He put up a large movie ad on his building without a permit." By KTLA.com 3/3/2010 "Six students at Stoneman Elementary School have been suspended after a fifth-grade girl allegedly brought a pot-laced dessert to school Monday and shared it with her friends." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-fruity-pepples-pot,0,6936811.story By KTLA.com 3/4/2010 "A former Redondo Union High School student has been arrested on suspicion of dumping the body of a newborn girl in a trash can." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-redondo-infant-trash,0,5982544.story By Stop Bullying Now "A lot of young people have a good idea of what bullying is because they see it every day! Bullying happens when someone hurts or scares another person on purpose and the person being bullied has a hard time defending himself or herself. Usually, bullying happens over and over." Read the entire article: http://stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/kids/what-is-bullying.aspx By Medline Plus 3/3/2010 "High levels of a hormone called insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) are associated with an increased risk of cancer death in older men, a new study has found." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_95949.html By FDA U.S. Food and Drug Administration -- Press Release 3/2/2010 "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first generic version of Flomax Capsules 0.4 mg (tamsulosin hydrochloride) to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a condition in which an enlarged prostate gland causes problems with urination." Read the entire article: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm202728.htm By MedlinePlus 3/3/2010 "Scientists are making headway in finding ways to treat and detect stubborn forms of prostate cancer." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_95964.html By New York Times 3/4/2010 "In the rush to save money in grim budgetary times, states nationwide have trimmed their prison populations by expanding parole programs and early releases." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/us/05parole.html?partner=rss&emc=rss By Medline Plus 3/2/2010 "More hours spent in front of TV, computer linked to less bonding with peers, parents, researchers say" Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_95903.html By Reno Gazette Journal - Nevada 3/3/2010 "Lyon County Human Services is hosting a course on 'The Importance of Fatherhood' starting on Thursday, March 4, at the Human Services office on Main Street." Read the entire article: http://www.rgj.com/article/20100303/FERNLEY03/3030310/1306/FERNLEY By Nick DiMarco --- MarylandReporter.com 3/3/2010 "An effort to raise child support payments for the first time in more than two decades met with intense debate in the Senate Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.marylandreporter.com/page5503459.aspx By Bill Graves -- The Oregonian 3/2/2010 "Oregon has joined 16 other states on a quest to dramatically improve the completion rate of college students, more than half of whom drop out before earning degrees." Read the entire article: http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2010/03/oregon_college_students_crash.html By Boston Herald 2/24/2010 "The hunt for a woman sought in Thursday’s kidnapping of 1-year-old Jaylin Boudria from a Swansea gas station has ended peacefully with her arrest at a domestic violence shelter in Pennsylvania." Read the entire article: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100224swansea_kidnap_suspect_nabbed_in_pennsylvania/srvc=home&position=also From You Tube "...He said: “Men don't have jobs. Women don't have jobs either, but women aren't abusive, most of the time. Men when they're out of work tend to become abusive."..." To Watch the Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTc8X9AJpmE By Leah Ward Sears -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2/10/2010 "...As such, marriage is the most pro-child institution we have. Additionally, married parents report being happier, more satisfied and having fewer emotional problems than divorced parents. For our children as well as ourselves, it’s time for our country to recommit to the institution of marriage. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ajc.com/opinion/love-yes-but-be-297251.html By CNN 2/17/2010 "...The drunkenness brought an end to his marriage of 21 years, he said. But it was the conversation with his son, now 18, that opened his eyes, he said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/17/tracy.morgan/index.html By FoxNews.com 2/26/2010 "..."I don't believe that at 11 years old a school should be promoting opposite sex matching," Everett said. "A tenth-grader matched with a sixth-grader? And the school is promoting it, and it's inappropriate."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587496,00.html By FoxNews.com 2/26/2010 "Getting students to exercise more might not just address obesity issues but also improve their grades with a U.S. study finding physically fit students tend to score higher in tests than their less fit peers." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587462,00.html By People.com 2/27/2010 "He may seem a little young to be called "Grandpa," but 47-year-old Jim Carrey is embracing his new role now that daughter Jane Carrey has given birth to a baby boy." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20346497,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+people%2Fheadlines+%28PEOPLE.com%3A+Top+Headlines%29 By Shelly K. Schwartz -- Special to CNBC.com 2/8/2010 "...“Positive financial behavior can enrich a marriage,” says Dew. “When couples set goals together and they both contribute towards that goal, including financial ones, it strengthens the marital bond.” Indeed, the negative effects of poor money management have been widely established as one of the leading causes of divorce. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnbc.com/id/35181405 By Kathryn Lopez -- Towhall.com 2/12/2010 "...She adds: "Even in a football stadium of screaming fans the toddler boy didn't look anxious. He knew he was safe. He was with dad."..." Read the entire article: http://townhall.com/columnists/KathrynLopez/2010/02/12/family_takes_a_team_effort By Don Peck -- Atlantic Magazine "The Great Recession may be over, but this era of high joblessness is probably just beginning. Before it ends, it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults. It will leave an indelible imprint on many blue-collar men. It could cripple marriage as an institution in many communities." Read the entire article: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/03/how-a-new-jobless-era-will-transform-america/7919/ By New York Times 2/21/2010 "...An online discussion of how economic changes may be affecting women's marriage prospects..." Read the online discussion: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/for-women-redefining-marriage-material/ By David Lapp -- Wall Street Journal 2/11/2010 "When my very smart and relatively young girlfriend (she was then 20) first told her father she was thinking of marrying me, he refused to even hear of it. "How much college debt does he have?" he demanded. "What's the rush? Why not wait until your career and finances are established? How do you know he's the one?"" Read the entire article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107204575039150739864666.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion By USA Today 2/27/2010 "When Utah state Sen. Chris Buttars unveiled a cost-cutting measure this month that would have made the high school senior year optional, perhaps no one in the state Capitol Building was more surprised than 18-year-old Jake Trimble, who already opted out of the second half of senior year just weeks earlier." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-02-25-senioryear25foronline_st_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&POE=click-refer By E-Online 2/25/2010 "...Now that their son is gone, the actor's parents hope that others who suffer from depression will be encouraged to seek help. "I have received hundreds of emails from people who said they are depressed and considering the same course of action or showed signs of the same behavior," Walter, who played Chekov on the original Star Trek, said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b168972_andrew_koenigs_father_my_son_took_his.html?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories
By Huffington Post 2/23/2010 "A woman who fabricated a gang rape accusation was sentenced Tuesday to up to three years behind bars herself, saying she was riven with remorse for sending an innocent man to prison." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/24/biurny-peguero-fake-rape_n_473890.html By BBC 2/25/2010 "...Parliament is also considering outlawing psychological violence in the home, because it is seen by many as a precursor to physical violence. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8537591.stm By Katie Weiss -- Crikey 2/26/2010 "When it comes to violence against women, “Australia Says No”. But what happens when women are the ones committing these crimes against other women?" Read the entire article: http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/26/violence-against-women-we-say-no-except-from-another-woman/ By ScienceDaily.com 1/29/2010 " If your grandfather has had a hip fracture, you too could be at risk. Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have been able to show, for the first time, a link between hip fractures in elderly men and impaired bone health in their grandsons." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100129111759.htm By ScienceDaily.com 1/31/2010 "...The prevailing theory is that the difference has evolutionary origins: Men learned over eons to be hyper-vigilant about sex because they can never be absolutely certain they are the father of a child, while women are much more concerned about having a partner who is committed to raising a family. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100126123210.htm By People.com 2/26/2010 "...In regard to the brother's shooting, Keating said at a Thursday press conference that serious mistakes were likely made in the initial investigation of Seth Bishop's death, and that witnesses gave conflicting stories describing the crime scene – making the DA wonder if perhaps the tragedy in Alabama could have been avoided has a more thorough probe occurred in 1986." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20347289,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+people%2Fheadlines+%28PEOPLE.com%3A+Top+Headlines%29 By Brantford Expositor - Canada 2/25/2010 "Leaving all of the emotional implications aside, one of the key issues when it comes to a divorce that involves children is the one that addresses child support." Read the entire article: http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2467267 By Times Online – United Kingdom 2/23/2010 "...In this room the prisoners get a precious opportunity to play with their children, read them books and have family photographs taken, which are then displayed in their cells. “It gives them something to focus on,” O’Connor says, “something to aim towards.”..." Read the entire article: http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article7036657.ece By Washington Informer – District of Columbia 2/25/2010 "The Alliance of Concerned Men, one of the city’s leading organizations focusing on problems facing young Black men recently held a roundtable discussion A National Roundtable and Town Hall Meeting on Fatherhood and Solutions to Youth Violence. Tyrone Parker, an activist with the D.C. Commission of Men and Boys hosted the meeting at the University of the District of Columbia and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder served as its keynote speaker." By Las Vegas Sun - Nevada 2/25/2010 "By a 21-0 vote, the Senate approved a bill to get more major employers to electronically transfer to the state the child support payments withheld from their workers." Read the entire article: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/feb/25/senate-oks-bill-electronic-child-support-filing/ By Providence Journal – Rhode Island 2/21/2010 "...Apparently, child-welfare systems have been part of the problem. Glantz says that while social-service workers are getting better about involving dads in their children’s lives, actually, “Fatherhood is a relatively new field. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.projo.com/education/juliasteiny/content/EDWATCH_21_02-21-10_LCHFEIR_v9.2937bd2.html By WLNS - Michigan 2/2/2010 "Jackson County judges say they've found a way to get people who own child support to pay up. Since it started two years ago, they say their "pay or stay program" has been successful. If people don't pay up, they'll stay put in jail for the weekend." Read the entire article: http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=12046436 By Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Indiana 2/26/2010 "Parents who owe child support will have to pay up before collecting jackpot winnings at Indiana’s casinos under a bill passed unanimously by the Indiana House on Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20100226/NEWS07/302269977/1002/LOCAL By Financial Times – United Kingdom 2/24/2010 "...The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission, which took over the CSA’s functions in 2008, is still suffering serious IT problems, with cases getting “stuck” in the system, producing an “exponential rise” in the numbers that have to be handled manually, the Commons work and pensions committee, said." Read the entire article: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1f27e8f8-1cd5-11df-8d8e-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1 Quincy area education, social services coalition focuses on fathers in 2010Friday, 26 February 2010
By Quincy Herald Whig - Illinois 2/20/2010 "The Area Planning Committee will highlight the importance of fathers in 2010 as a means to boost the family." Read the entire article: http://www.whig.com/story/news/apc-022110 By ReadMedia (press release) – New York 2/24/2010 "...The State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) today announced that it has awarded more than $2.7 million for eight organizations to run programs that will help low-income, noncustodial fathers become more involved with their children's lives, financially and emotionally. ..." Read the entire article: http://readme.readmedia.com/State-Awards-2-7-Million-for-Responsible-Fatherhood-Programs/1176349 By Find Law – Florida 2/23/2010 "...The revised statutes assume shared parenting from the beginning of a child placement or support case. This model empowers parents to create comprehensive parenting plans that address child-related issues outside of the courts. ..." Read the entire article: http://knowledgebase.findlaw.com/kb/2010/Feb/82977.html By Kingsport Times News - Tennessee 2/25/2010 "..."We see the effects of teen pregnancy a lot," said Guy Jones, deputy director of the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference. The DAs enforce child support in more than two-thirds of the state. By law, teen parents, whether they have a job or not, are required to pay child support. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9020907 By USA Today 2/24/2010 "A gunman was walking through a middle school parking lot and taking shots at students with a hunting rifle as terrified teenagers ran for their lives. He had just wounded two students and seemed ready to unleash more violence when math teacher David Benke sprung into action." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-23-colorado-middle-school-shooting_N.htm?POE=click-refer By Philip W. Cook "..."Things started out pretty good the first couple of years. Then, she slowly changed. She always had a temper, but then we got into some money problems, and it got worse. She would get mad, and it would escalate all out of proportion. She'd start hitting. ..." By KDKA - Pennsylvania 2/23/2010 "..."An individual is being responsible financially for a child that is not theirs and they feel that the responsibility should be carried on by the true biological father," Solobay said. ..." Read the entire article: http://kdka.com/kdkainvestigators/child.support.ruling.2.1515142.html By Wyoming Tribune - Wyoming "...Senate File 8 requires parents to provide medical support of children as well as child support. Having passed the Senate, it is pending in House Judiciary. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2010/02/22/news/20local_02-22-10.txt By FoxNews.com 2/25/2010 "A personal assistant has been convicted of second-degree murder in the slaying of her punk-rock manager boss in New York City." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587283,00.html By ntNews 2/24/2010 (Warning -- Disturbing Video) "...It is alleged that the footage from the Palmerston bus exchange shows a woman throwing her 10-month-old baby on the ground after her partner left on a bus without her. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/02/24/126761_ntnews.html Read the entire article: By independent.ie - Ireland/United Kingdom 2/22/2010 "...The Economic and Social Research Institute study also found there were more than 10,000 lone fathers - only one in eight lives with their children. ..." Read the entire article: By IrishExaminer.com – Ireland/United Kingdom 2/25/2010 "The report, entitled Family Figures: Family Dynamics and Family Types in Ireland, 1986-2006, shows that most women now wait until their 30s to have children, that marital breakdown has levelled off in recent years and that when marriages fall apart the child stays with the father in one-in-eight cases." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.ie/home/family-matters-112895.html By Muncie Star Press - Indiana 1/23/2010 "...Delaware County police arrested Mansfield's daughter, Amy Jo Barker, 41, at his Briar Road home Friday evening on a four-year-old civil warrant. The warrant was issued after Barker failed to appear for a court date concerning unpaid child support she owes to her ex-husband, Clifford McKee. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20100223/BUSTED/2230316 By Danville News - Pennsylvania 2/22/2010 "...Randall Albertson, who owns Price’s Recycling Co. of Milton, said he was supposed to report to jail today for contempt of court since the state couldn’t account for $240 in child support payments he collected, under court order, from an employees’ paychecks. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_053194847.html By KTSM News Channel 9- Texas 2/19/2010 "The Office of the Attorney General says one Socorro woman owes them hundreds of dollars, but she says they actually owe her money." Read the entire article: http://www.ktsm.com/news/troubleshooters/woman-told-to-pay-back-child-support By Reading Eagle - Pennsylvania 2/20/2010 "A Berks County Court judge said more and more parents are blaming the hard economic times for their failure to pay child support. Judge Timothy J. Rowley, who presides over support cases, said he is hearing parents making reference to the difficult job situation." Read the entire article: http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=197649 By ABC News 2/22/2010 "Sexual slavery involving boys as young as 10 is being condoned and in many cases protected by authorities in northern Afghanistan." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/22/2826024.htm By Culpeper Star Exponent - Virginia 2/22/2010 "...In 2005, Bayh introduced his Responsible Fatherhood Act, which “called for community outreach to raise awareness of the impact fatherlessness has on children and communities, as well as workshops to help men find jobs and receive training so they can live up to their responsibilities as fathers.”..." Read the entire article: http://www2.starexponent.com/cse/news/opinion/columnists/article/departing_indiana_senator_exceled_by_pushing_for_stronger_families/52676/ By Columbus Dispatch - Ohio 2/21/2010 "..."After taking out child support and insurance, I was left with next to nothing," he said. "I mean, I was lucky to have $80 or $90 every two weeks for my personal self -- and that's for everything."... Read the entire article: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/02/21/Child_Support_Blues_print_ve.ART_ART_02-21-10_A4_0SGLBHF.html?sid=101 By Cherokee Tribune - Georgia 2/21/2010 "Fewer people in Cherokee County are divorcing, according to court records, but those who have divorced are having more trouble getting child support payments." Read the entire article: http://www.cherokeetribune.com/view/full_story/6419944/article-Divorce-down--but-child-support-a-problem?instance=home_news_left
By Columbus Dispatch - Ohio 2/21/2010 "As the recession drags on, record numbers of Ohio parents can't afford their court-ordered child-support payments. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/02/21/copy/child_support.ART_ART_02-21-10_A1_0SGLBA8.html?adsec=politics&sid=101 By Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D. -- Miami Herald 2/21/2010 "Re Leonard Pitts Jr.'s Feb. 17 column, What it takes to be a man: I thank Pitts for his moving testimonial to his son, a father. If more reporters, columnists and newspapers printed positive portrayals of fathers, children, mothers, fathers and society would be better off, which social-science research confirms regularly." Read the entire article: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/02/21/1490445/fathers-matter.html By Leonard Pitts Jr. -- Miami Herald 2/17/2010 "...We used to have a saying: It takes a man to make a baby. I'm beginning to think that, at least for some of us, the opposite is true: It takes a baby to make a man. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/02/17/1483854/what-it-takes-to-be-a-man.html By ScienceDaily.com 1/29/2010 "Would you trust men to take a 'male pill'? That's the question posed to 380 people in North East England by a team from Teesside University which questioned people about the male contraceptive pill currently undergoing trials." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100128110227.htm By People.com 2/19/2010 "...A deckhand on the fishing vessel Cornelia Marie, Jake has been struggling with grief following the death of his father, Captain Phil Harris, earlier this month. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20345801,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+people%2Fheadlines+%28PEOPLE.com%3A+Top+Headlines%29 By FoxNews.com 2/19/2010 "The woman already facing charges related to the death of a Florida Lottery winner was charged Friday with first-degree murder." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587001,00.html By IndyStar.com 2/19/2010 "A female Pike High School assistant teacher was being held Thursday, accused of engaging in sex acts with a 17-year-old male student." Read the entire article: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201002190305/NEWS02/2190349 By LaTimesBlog 2/19/2010 "The golfer did not, as might be expected, apologize to his mistresses. But attorney Gloria Allread, who is representing mistress Joselyn James, says her client deserves her own apology. Allred and James staged a news conference this morning after the golfer's speech." Read the entire article: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2010/02/preach-it-do-tiger-woods-mistresses-deserve-an-apology.html By The Australian - Australia 2/19/2010 "WHEN family mediator Jonathan Toussaint asked a 13-year-old boy recently what message he wanted to give his separated mother and father, the boy replied: "I have two messages. When you speak to each other, use each other's names [not insults] and don't use me as a message carrier. It's not my problem.".." Read the entire article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/work-together-for-the-kids-separation/story-e6frg8y6-1225831963880 By Las Vegas Sun 2/8/2010 "A man who once earned between $500,000 and $4 million a year in the stock market should have a chance to get his child support payments reduced now that the economy has soured and his earnings have declined, a court has ruled." Read the entire article: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/feb/08/court-man-should-get-chance-lowered-child-support/ By Washington Post (blog) – District of Columbia 2/18/2010 "..."A father's role in the life of a child is irreplaceable," said Holder during the keynote address opening "A National Roundtable and Town Hall Meeting on Fatherhood" that was sponsored by the Alliance of Concerned Men. ..." Read the entire article: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dc/2010/02/holder_joins_in_effort_to_help.html By News Channel 7 – North Carolina 2/16/2010 "Levi Robertson says lately he has been spending a lot of time in courthouses across the Upstate. He said a child he fathered more than a decade ago recently was adopted by another family but the child's mother was still cashing his child support checks." Read the entire article: http://www.mensenews.org/administrator/index.php
By FayObserver.com – North Carolina 2/19/2010 "The director of the Cumberland County Social Services Department wants to privatize child-support enforcement." Read the entire article: http://www.fayobserver.com/Articles/2010/02/19/977371 By Bernard Aronson -- Washington Post 2/19/2010 "...About 2,800 American children have been abducted to other nations. More cases are reported every year as binational marriages become more common in an era of globalization. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/18/AR2010021803401.html
By David Brooks -- New York Times 2/15/2010 "...The biggest impact is on men. Over the past few decades, men have lagged behind women in acquiring education and skills. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at age 22, 185 women have graduated from college for every 100 men who have done so. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/opinion/16brooks.html By Suzanne Fields -- Washington Times 2/11/2010 "Men are marrying up. Increasing numbers of men are marrying women with more education and a bigger paycheck than they have." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/11/the-sexual-devolution/ By Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D. 2/17/2010 "...For most men, there are no pluses, as the social attitudes accompanying this social revolution have depreciated, demeaned and denigrated them. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/17/equal-opportunity-better-than-ardent-feminism/ By ABC News -- Australia 2/18/2010 "...The woman - who cannot be named - admitted to gassing her eight-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter at her Sandstone Point home in 2002. She claimed a defence of diminished responsibility due to an unsound mind. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/19/2825333.htm By Medline Plus 2/17/2010 "...People who are enthusiastic and content are less likely to develop heart disease than less happy people, researchers from Columbia University report. In this prospective study of the relationship between happiness and heart disease, researchers concluded that if everyone did more of the things that made them happy, they could significantly reduce their risk of heart attack and angina." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_95393.html By Medline Plus 2/15/2010 "Harvard researchers report what they say is a major advance toward the long-sought goal of a genetic test that can distinguish between aggressive prostate cancers that require urgent treatment and slow-growing tumors that can safely be left alone." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_95275.html By Medline Plus 2/16/2010 "Poorly fitting condoms not only boost the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, they also reduce sexual pleasure during intercourse, a new study has found." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_95294.html By ABC News -- 2/19/2010 "Two teenagers have been involved in a knife fight at a Brisbane high school, just days after a 12-year-old boy was killed by a fellow student." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/18/2824102.htm By Mid-Day - India 2/18/2010 "Growing number of Mumbaikars scurry for DNA tests for reasons ranging from suspicion and surrogacy to even property disputes" Read the entire article: http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/feb/180210-mumbaikars-paterinity-tests.htm By Indianapolis Star - Indiana 2/10/2010 "Marion County prosecutors have filed forgery charges against a former state worker in connection with stolen child-support refunds." Read the entire article: http://www.indystar.com/article/20100210/NEWS02/2100375/Forgery-charges-filed-against-ex-state-worker By WALB-TV - Georgia 2/17/2010 "...Sabbs said, "Teaching responsibilities of fatherhood to teen fathers, those guys 14, 15, 16 years old who are fathers technically, but they don't have the wisdom or responsibility to know how to care for a child."..." Read the entire article: http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=12000977 By Ruth Bettelheim -- New York Times 2/18/2010 "...What children need instead are no-fault custody proceedings — which could be accomplished with two changes to state family law. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/opinion/18bettelheim.html
By Morganton News Herald – North Carolina 2/18/2010 "With the national unemployment rate more than 10 percent, a nationwide trend of missed child support payments or requests for reduced payments hits close to home." Read the entire article: http://www2.morganton.com/content/2010/feb/18/child-support-woes/ By San Diego City Beat "...Remondino died in 1926, but his ideas lived on. Federal vital statistics show circumcision among newborn males grew from around 30 percent in 1932 to approximately 70 percent in 1971. In the 1970s, however, the medical community swung around, asserting there was no evidence of any medical benefits to circumcision. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sdcitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/circumspection/8895/
By FoxNews.com 2/18/2010 "North Carolina police responding to a domestic violence call have arrested the woman who falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of rape. WRAL-TV reported 33-year-old Crystal Gale Mangum was arrested late Wednesday on charges she assaulted her boyfriend." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586554,00.html By ABC Sports 2/16/2010 "...He was questioned by police last month and released without charge. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/16/2821321.htm By Yahoo News 2/17/2010 "..."We could tell something was off, that she was not like other teachers," said nursing student Caitlin Phillips, who was among those who complained to administrators at least three times a year ago that the biology professor was unsettling and ineffective in the classroom. Some students also signed a petition against Bishop. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100217/ap_on_re_us/us_ala_university_shooting By Utica Observer Dispatch – New York 2/15/2010 "Facing the loss of his law license, local attorney Leon Koziol on Monday compared his failure to pay child support for the last two years to the acts of civil disobedience carried out by Rosa Parks and other civil rights leaders in American history." Read the entire article: http://www.uticaod.com/news/x626058306/Koziol-responds-to-law-license-suspension By Billings Gazette - Montana 2/14/2010 "...Of that total, nearly $1 million was paid to Alternatives Inc. for room and board, $136,000 went to restitution for crimes, almost $600,000 was paid in income taxes, $154,000 was used to pay medical expenses and $80,000 was paid out in child support. Offenders also save as much as they can to prepare for their release. ..." Read the entire article: http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/article_4af673ae-190c-11df-8521-001cc4c03286.html By Rome News Tribune - Georgia 2/16/2010 "The opening of a new facility gives Floyd County courts a renewed ability to fairly but firmly deal with low-level offenders." Read the entire article: http://romenews-tribune.com/view/full_story/6348555/article-Work-release-center-for-low-level-offenders-dedicated?instance=news_page_secondary_local By Indianapolis Star - Indiana 2/15/2010 "A bill that would force casinos to screen jackpot winners for parents who owe child support faces a key hurdle in the Statehouse today." Read the entire article: http://www.indystar.com/article/20100215/LOCAL/2150332/Child-support-payout-proposal-irks-casinos By ABC News 2/15/2010 "...It is the second stabbing involving students at a Catholic boys' schools in Brisbane in the past 10 days. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/15/2819929.htm By Chuck Norris -- World Net Daily 2/15/2010 "...If the Obama administration has its way, the Child Nutrition Act will become one more tentacle of an over-reaching federal government and nanny state that now wants to control the kitchens of America. The government already controls what your children learn (and don't learn) in public schools – why not give them more control over what they eat?..." Read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=125097 has its way, the Child Nutrition Act will become one more tentacle of an over-reaching federal government and nanny state that now wants to control the kitchens of America. The government already controls what your children learn (and don't learn) in public schools – why not give them more control over what they eat? By Sierra Vista The Herald 2/13/2010 "State lawmakers are moving to make couples who have decided their marriage isn’t working wait four months longer to divorce." Read the entire article: http://www.svherald.com/content/news/2010/02/13/proposal-seeks-force-longer-wait-divorces By Asia News Network 2/15/2010 "Japan's reluctance to sign up to an international treaty that prevents one parent in a failed international marriage from taking a child of the couple across national borders without the prior consent of the other parent is causing friction between Tokyo and Washington." Read the entire article: http://www.asianewsnet.net/news.php?id=10096&sec=1 By KTLA.com 1/22/2010 "...Because Baddick, a senior manager for a pharmaceutical company, is divorced from Isabella's mother, he helped his daughter study using their laptop computers and the Internet. The virtual visits are a weekly date for the pair, in addition to the in-person weekly visits and twice monthly weekend stays. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/lifestyle/parenting/ct-met-0123-virtual-visitation-20100122,0,2447796.story By KTLA.com "...Physically, emotionally and financially, a baby can come as a shock to the established pattern of an older father's life. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/lifestyle/parenting/sfe-featolderdads,0,7844032.story By KTLA.com "Q: Dear Mr. Dad. I'm getting divorced. My spouse is acting horribly and I have to admit that I haven't been behaving much better. I'm angry and I find myself wanting to punish him. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/lifestyle/parenting/sns-parenting-dad-high-road,0,6677067.story By KTLA.com 2/12/2010 "...A fortune-teller and her daughter were brutally murdered by a client because a love spell didn't work, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday. Tanya Nelson, is accused of stabbing Ha "Jade" Smith and her 23-year-old daughter, Anita Vo.. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-fortune-teller-murder,0,2124028.story By KTLA.com 2/11/2010 "British police say they've charged a 33-year-old woman with stabbing a man through the eye with her stiletto heel." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-stiletto-stabbing,0,4790193.story By KTLA.com 2/15/2010 "Southwest Airlines is under fire after Hollywood director Kevin Smith was kicked off a recent flight for being overweight." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-kevin-smith,0,2926261.story By FoxNews.com 2/13/2010 "...They'll be among 383 couples celebrating nearly 20,000 years of marriage Feb. 28 at the Cathedral of St. Jude the Apostle in St. Petersburg. Of all the spouses renewing their vows, the Wellens are the longest wed. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585743,00.html By Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D -- The Reality Check 2/3/2010 "...Second, President Obama established the first cabinet level White House Council on Women and Girls. However, all sound social and economic science data argues for the need for a White House Council on Boys and Men. Specifically, boys and men are falling behind at all levels of education from elementary to graduate and professional schools. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.therealitycheck.org/?p=11092 By WBUR.org 2/9/2010 "..As Rich put it, "When you are hypervigilant or jumpy, or always on guard, you can go from 0 to 60 in a very short time. So a young person who is on the bus, somebody steps on his foot and suddenly somebody gets stabbed or shot."..." Read the entire article: http://www.wbur.org/npr/122791527 By USA Today 2/12/2010 "...Three others were wounded in the incident Friday — a rare instance of a woman being accused in a mass shooting. Amy Bishop, 42, a Harvard-educated neurobiologist who became an assistant professor at the school in 2003, has been charged with capital murder. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-12-alabama-university-shooting_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&POE=click-refer By Examiner.com -- Ohio 2/12/2010 "...To make matters even worse, police say that Avila-Villa committed the murder so that authorities would not discover that the father of the child is a 14-year old teennager. Avila-Villa feared that paternity would be discovered because she applied for welfare. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-30844-Cincinnati-Crime-Examiner~y2010m2d12-Woman-heads-to-court-charged-with-murdering-her-baby By Utica Observer Dispatch, New York 2/11/2010 "Koziol has previously railed against the payments, calling them a violation of civil rights that disproportionately affect men, who are less likely to be awarded custody of their children than are women." Read the entire article: http://www.uticaod.com/features/x196130039/Koziol-has-law-license-suspended By ScienceDaily.com 1/20/2010 "Reasons for requiring a child to repeat the first grade may go far beyond the basic "three R's," reveals a study by two Texas A&M University education psychologists." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100113191449.htm By ScienceDaily.com 2/12/2010 "...Sandra Stith, a professor of family studies and human services, said most research has looked at men as offenders and women as victims. "In the research on college students in particular, we're finding both men and women can be perpetrators," she said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100212112028.htm By ScienceDaily.com 2/11/2010 "Children and adolescents who refuse to attend school should not be given doctors' sick notes." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100211111543.htm By University of Michigan -- Michigan Today 2/2/2010 "Teen African-American boys cope with their depression by getting support from relatives, but feel apprehensive about seeking professional help, a new study says." Read the entire article: http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2010/02/story.php?id=7619&tr=y&auid=5930162 By Kathleen Parker -- The Washington Post 2/10/2010 "Much time and many volumes have been devoted to Freud's famous question -- What do women want? -- with little commensurate attention to the male counterpart." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/09/AR2010020902466.html By People.com 2/11/2010 "Former Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan remembered her father as a source of strength for her, love to his wife and joy to all of those he met." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20343520,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+people%2Fheadlines+%28PEOPLE.com%3A+Top+Headlines%29 By USA Today 2/9/10 "The principal and assistant principal of Inskip Elementary School here were shot Tuesday, and a suspect was taken into custody." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-10-tenn-principals-shot_N.htm?POE=click-refer By USA Today 2/10/2010 "Sad news this morning: Phil Harris, captain of the Cornelia Marie fishing boat featured on Deadliest Catch, has died in Alaska. He was 53." Read the entire article: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2010/02/deadliest-catch-captain-phil-harris-dies-at-age-53/1?csp=hf&POE=click-refer By Yahoo News 2/8/2010 "..."Brooke would like this case to be over and charges dismissed so they can get on with their lives."..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_en_tv/us_charlie_sheen_arrested By CBS News 2/8/2010 "Calgary's Catholic school board is considering setting up all-boys schools, while the public board – concerned about boys' performances in the classrooms – is researching the issue." By USA Today 2/9/2010 "The Army needs to double its staff of substance-abuse counselors to handle the soaring numbers of soldiers seeking alcohol treatment, said Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army's No. 2 officer." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2010-02-09-treatment-army-alcohol_N.htm?POE=click-refer By MedlinePlus 2/10/2010 "For the first time in more than a decade, the American Psychiatric Association has announced proposed changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), long considered the "Bible" of psychiatry." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_95121.html By MedlinePlus 2/9/2010 "Workers with depression stay home sick more often than healthy colleagues, even when their disease is treated, according to a Thomson Reuters report released on Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_95095.html By Forbes.com 2/11/2010 "Over the past decade the National Science Foundation has funneled $135 million into a "gender bias program" called Advance." Read the entire article: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0301/opinions-women-national-science-foundation-on-my-mind.html By TheSaladMagazine.com - Africa 2/11/2010 "...How many children on the African continent are without fathers in their lives?..." Read the entire article: http://thesaladmagblog.bloglines.co.za/2010/02/11/where-are-africas-fathers/ By Bermuda Sun - Bermuda 2/10/2010 "...A vast number of the country's laws are antiquated. Family Law is just one area of many in need of reform. It is not the courts' job to straighten out personal relationships but that's what it ends up being in the case of feuding parents. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.bermudasun.bm/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=135&ArticleID=44616 By UPI.com - Florida 2/10/2010 "A Florida man says the state is trying to force him to pay child support for a child who was born when he was 7 years old." Read the entire article: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/02/10/Man-too-young-for-child-support-claims/UPI-74931265829387/ By Cleveland.com - Ohio 2/10/2010 "...These grants promote strong, healthy relationships between fathers and their children. An RFP was released in August of 2009 to select 2010 grantees. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cleveland.com/call-and-post/index.ssf/2010/02/7million_for_faith-based_partn.html By Kingsville Record - Texas 2/10/2010 "...By deducting child support from employee paychecks, Texas employers play a key role in improving the economic security of children who rely on child support to cover many of their basic needs. ..." Read the entire article: http://kingsvillerecord.our-hometown.com/news/2010-02-10/Editorial/THANK_YOU_TEXAS_EMPLOYERS.html By E-Online 2/9/2010 "The quest to determine whether Beyoncé has a half-brother is picking up steam." Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b166472_beyonceacutes_dad_will_certainly_take.html?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories By Deseret News - Utah 2/9/2010 "...HB197, a bill that would criminalize intentional disruptions of scheduled noncustodial parent time with the kids, was approved in the Utah House on Tuesday, 62-10. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700008420/Utah-Legislature-House-OKs-bill-to-protect-child-visitation.html By Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis 2/10/2010 "Marion County prosecutors have filed forgery charges against a former state worker in connection with stolen child-support refunds." Read the entire article: http://www.indystar.com/article/20100210/NEWS02/2100375/Forgery-charges-filed-against-ex-state-worker By DailyAdvance.com 2/6/2010 "An example is Child Support Enforcement, the cost of which is being turned over by the state to local governments, starting July 1." Read the entire article: http://www.dailyadvance.com/yet-another-unfunded-mandate-14975 By MedlinePlus.com 2/1/2010 "Researchers have identified five gene variants that raise the risk for suicide attempts in people suffering from depression." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_94773.html By MedlinePlus 1/31/2010 "Fears about losing status at work and about confidentiality are among the main reasons that many American workers are more hesitant to seek treatment for mental health issues than for physical health problems, according to a national survey released this week by the American Psychiatric Association." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_94755.html By MedlinePlus 2/1/2010 "Fewer than one in four U.S. parents give their local secondary schools an "A" grade for how they deal with students who have behavioral, emotional or family problems, a new survey shows." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_94768.html By Carey Roberts -- RenewAmerica.com 2/1/2010 "Practically everyone in town knows Amy Dugas is a serial batterer. But the Maine criminal justice system keeps finding ways to keep her from facing the music." Read the entire article: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/roberts/100201 Florida Student Reportedly Kicked Out of Honor Society Over Facebook PageThursday, 04 February 2010
By FoxNews.com 2/4/2010 "One of the nation's oldest and highest scholastic honors organizations is looking into a Tampa-area high school student's claim that he was booted from the local chapter because of comments he posted on a Facebook page." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584786,00.html By Trudy Schuett -- CliffviewPilot.com 2/2/2010 "If there’s anything I’ve learned in 10 years of advocacy for unserved victims of partner abuse, it’s that men don’t tell. Yes, the U.S. Dept. of Justice says there about 840,000 male victims of domestic violence each year. But those are just the ones who've reported it." Read the entire article: http://cliffviewpilot.com/beyond/998-the-silent-victims-battered-husbands By USA Today 2/3/2010 "...Thirty-seven-year-old Dorice "DeeDee" Moore appeared for the first time in Hillsborough County court Wednesday on charges connecting her with the death of Abraham Shakespeare. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-03-lotto-winner-death_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&POE=click-refer By USA Today 2/3/2010 "The expulsion of a high school basketball player who posted angry messages on Facebook highlights a growing debate over students' privacy and free-speech rights online." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-02-facebook-threat_N.htm?POE=click-refer By MSNBC.com 2/3/2010 "More than 100 students were suspended last month at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven, Conn. They weren’t bullies. They weren’t cheating. They weren’t caught smoking in the bathrooms. They had cell phones." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35063840/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/ By FoxNews.com 2/3/2010 "The mother of a 6-year-old whose mouth was taped shut by a school secretary is suing the school system." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584679,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r3:c0.236636:b30221322:z0 By FoxNews.com 2/3/2010 "...In the United States, 10 to 13 percent of school-age kids experience some form of rejection by their peers. In addition to causing mental health problems, bullying and social isolation can increase the likelihood a child will get poor grades, drop out of school, or develop substance abuse problems, the researchers say. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584671,00.html By FoxNews.com 2/3/2010 "A student in New Zealand has auctioned her virginity to a stranger for almost $31,900 to help fund her university tuition fees." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584674,00.html By FoxNews.com 2/3/2010 " A 22-year-old woman stabbed her two young sons to death, then calmly held her wrists out to police officers who arrived at her home and said "I killed my babies," authorities said." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584677,00.html By FoxNews.com 2/3/2010 "A woman who tied up a cheating lover and glued his penis to his stomach said Tuesday that she didn't mean to hurt him and only overreacted because he was trying to contact her 12-year-old daughter." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584646,00.html By MedlinePlus.com 2/2/2010 "Obesity causes later onset of puberty in boys, new research indicates." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_94820.html By MedlinePlus 2/2/2010 "Being diagnosed with prostate cancer roughly doubles the risk of suicide or death from a heart attack, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday, adding to the harm linked with diagnosis of this often slow-growing cancer." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_94848.html By TheDay.com 1/30/2010 "Fathers can learn about taking care of their children's basic health and safety needs at the "Doctor Dad" workshop starting Tuesday and continuing on Feb. 9, 16 and 23." Read the entire article: http://www.theday.com/article/20100130/NWS01/301309932/-1/NWS By Open Market.com - USA 2/2/2010 "Virginia legislators recently killed bills to extend child support to adult college students." Read the entire article: http://www.openmarket.org/2010/02/02/virginia-legislators-kill-bills-to-mandate-child-support-for-adult-college-students/ By MSNBC.com 2/2/2010 "A massive new federal study documents an unprecedented and dramatic decrease in incidents of serious child abuse, especially sexual abuse. Experts hailed the findings as proof that crackdowns and public awareness campaigns had made headway." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35205114/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/ By Times and Transcript - Canada 1/30/2010 "...Not only do many of today's single dads insist on playing meaningful roles in their children's lives, they're not afraid to reach out for guidance in order to do that. ..." Read the entire article: http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/lifetimes/article/938295 By Mirror.co.uk – United Kingdom 2/2/2010 "Student dads who do not financially support their children could begin to pay child maintenance, the Government has signalled." Read the entire article: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/02/02/lessons-in-life-115875-22012416/ By TMCnet - USA 1/31/2010 "...Fathers for Good, Caulfield said, is a place where men can discuss the issues they face as dads, from discipline to maintaining a balance between work and family. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/01/31/4596856.htm By MedlinePlus 2/1/2010 "Men with prostate cancer and the physicians who treat them are being warned that the androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) commonly used against the malignancy might increase the risk of heart attack and cardiac death." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_94772.html By WEEI SportsRadio 1/14/2010 "Gerald "Tooky" Amirault joins Dennis and Callahan to tell his amazing story" Listen to the interview: http://audio.weei.com/m/28348841/gerald-amirault.htm By Miami Herald 2/1/2010 "..."We're looking at a lot of significant funding increases for women's programs in a year when the president has ordered a three-year, non-security, discretionary spending freeze,'' said Kate Bedingfield, a White House spokesman. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1456615.html By Bruce Watson -- Daily Finance 1/30/2010 "Amid the media frenzy over Tiger Woods and Bengals receiver Chris Henry, a key aspect of both stories slipped through the cracks: Like millions of other men, Woods and Henry were -- allegedly at least -- the victims of domestic violence perpetrated by their wives or girlfriends." Read the entire article: http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/a-hidden-crime-domestic-violence-against-men-is-a-growing-probl/19297449/ By Ask Amy -- Chicago Tribune 1/29/2010 "...Her jealously and distrust have turned to violent rage, and on several occasions she physically attacked me. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/columnists/ct-live-0129-amy-20100128,0,4282751.column
By ScienceDaily.com 1/31/2010 "Boys face high rates of a variety of mental health issues, in addition to lagging behind girls in academic performance and college attendance, according to two new papers by University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher Judith Kleinfeld." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100126091733.htm By WPDE – South Carolina 2/1/2010 "Monday The Walmart Foundation donated $25,000 to the Fatherhood & Families Engagement Program in Darlington County." Read the entire article: http://www.carolinalive.com/news/story.aspx?id=409839 By Department of Defense - USA 2/1/2010 "...Family support programs are a big winner in the budget with $8.1 billion. This includes funds for child support and youth programs, spouse employment, and commissaries. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=57818 By Robert Franklin, Esq. on Mens News Daily 1/28/2010 "Mothers should not have the option to put down "unknown father" on a birth certificate since children have the right to know who their father is, the parliamentary Social Affairs Committee has suggested. ..." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2010/01/28/malta-may-abolish-father-unknown-on-birth-certificates/ By Washington Times 1/6/2010 "...It "supports efforts to assist states and communities to promote and support responsible fatherhood and healthy marriage." ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/06/hicks-fatherhood-by-billboard/ By FoxNews.com 2/2/2010 "...The First Lady discussed four areas of focus: increasing the number of healthy schools, improving access to nutritional foods, promoting physical activity, and empowering consumers to make healthier choices. ..." Read the entire article: http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/02/02/first-lady-takes-on-childhood-obesity/ By MedlinePlus 12/15/2009 "Common chemicals found in plastic toys and elsewhere could contribute to the abnormal growth of breasts in boys, preliminary research suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_93031.html By ScienceDaily.com 2/2/2010 "The most powerful sexual organ, it's said, is the brain. Now here's the evidence. New research from Rockefeller University shows that an overly excitable brain hastens sexual activity in male mice and increases their nervous energy, a finding that not only points to the existence of a central brain mechanism that gives rise to all behaviors but also begins to untangle the driving force behind all motivational and emotional states." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100131190730.htm By ScienceDaily.com 2/1/2010 "The act and victimization of bullying continues to be a problem among today's youth. While many children are experiencing this form of violence, it is more prevalent in children that are different from the social norm. As medical professionals continue to further their understanding of bullying, research shows a high rate of sexual minority youth who experience this harmful activity." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100127182503.htm By ScienceDaily.com 1/26/2010 "Female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math pass on to female students the stereotype that boys, not girls, are good at math. Girls who endorse this belief then do worse at math, research at the University of Chicago shows." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100125172940.htm By Kansas City Star - Kansas 1/31/2010 "Missourians with overdue taxes may soon have more difficulty avoiding payment. Gov. Jay Nixon is a proposing a law that would let the state seize delinquent taxes directly from people's bank accounts." Read the entire article: http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/1718974.html By BoxingScene.com - USA 1/30/2010 "Former four-time heavyweight titlist Evander Holyfield recently filed documents in Cobb County Superior Court in Georgia to alter his existing child support agreement with his ex-wife Dr. Janice Itson." Read the entire article: http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=25009 By The Daily Advance – North Carolina 2/1/2010 "Though the 1st Judicial District yet to receive funding to hold family court, two nearby judicial districts that have implemented the program have seen positive results, including quicker resolutions to child custody cases." Read the entire article: http://www.dailyadvance.com/news/family-court-process-streamlined-14721 By Daily Mail – United Kingdom 1/31/2010 "...Not so long ago it would have been unthinkable, but one woman in five now earns more than her husband or boyfriend. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.fmwf.com/media-type/news/2010/01/rise-of-female-breadwinners-as-one-in-five-women-earn-more-than-their-partner/ By WYFF4.com – South Carolina 2/1/2010 "A man went to a home to give his ex-girlfriend child support that she was demanding ended up being hit with a baseball bat, he said." Read the entire article: http://www.wyff4.com/news/22400848/detail.html By Maryland Divorce (By Robert Flanagan) - Maryland 1/31/2010 "...Mr. Duckworth played a trump card to defend against a claim for arrearages brought by his former wife. He asserted a claim that had long been a matter of suspicion. He wasn't the biological father of his 14 year old daughter!..." Read the entire article: http://www.marylanddivorceattorneyblog.com/2010/01/maryland-divorce-lawyers-know-1.html By WSAZ-TV – West Virginia 1/28/2010 "...Each inmate is required to have a job, help out around the facility, pay court costs, child support and put money away for their release. They are randomly drug tested and checked on at work. They are allowed two two-hour passes a week to do things like go to the bank and get hair cuts. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/82843807.html By Atlanta Journal Constitution 1/27/2010 "...National statistics show that fewer than 41 percent of black males graduate from high school, and fewer than 4 percent attend college. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ajc.com/opinion/jobless-black-men-are-285227.html By Southeast Texas Record 1/27/2010 "Montgomery County District Judge Frederick Edwards improperly sentenced a father to 180 days in jail for failure to pay child support, Ninth District appeals judges decided on Jan. 14." Read the entire article: http://www.setexasrecord.com/news/224359-justices-order-release-of-jailed-dad By MedlinePlus 1/27/2010 "Most "Type A" personality traits, such as aggression and competitiveness, boost work stress, but there's one characteristic that actually reduces stress, according to Finnish researchers." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_94604.html By MedlinePlus 1/25/2010 "The type of treatment received by prostate cancer patients is influenced by the kind of health care facility where they receive care, a new U.S. study has found." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_94490.html By People.com 1/28/2010 "As a pain was overcoming his chest last month, Rush Limbaugh thought it was "the big one". .." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20340121,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+people%2Fheadlines+%28PEOPLE.com%3A+Top+Headlines%29 By ABC News -- Australia 1/28/2010 "The reluctance of some parents to report domestic violence in bitter custody battles could mean some children are returning to violent homes, Attorney-General Robert McClelland says." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/29/2804412.htm By USA TODAY 1/28/2010 "A letter carrier who has worked in this town for the past nine years has been charged with stealing cash, gift cards, debit and credit cards from the very mail she was paid to deliver, authorities said Wednesday." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-01-28-mail-carrier-theft_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&POE=click-refer By FoxNews.com 1/28/2010 "Prosecutors say a 41-year-old Nebraska woman had sex nightly with her teenage son when he was in seventh and eighth grade." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584112,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r1:c0.000000:b0:z5 By Yahoo News 1/28/2010 "College and university endowments suffered huge losses in the fiscal year that ended last June, a new report finds, but stronger investment returns in recent months point to a rebound." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100128/ap_on_re_us/us_college_endowments By MedlinePlus 1/25/2010 "The type of treatment received by prostate cancer patients is influenced by the kind of health care facility where they receive care, a new U.S. study has found." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_94490.html By Mansfield Chad – United Kingdom 1/26/2010 "ATTEMPTS by officials to force a bill of more than £40,000 on to the Wellow home belonging to a father fighting the Child Support Agency have been put on hold by a judge." Read the entire article: http://www.chad.co.uk/news/Wellow-dads-CSA-case-latest.6014004.jp By The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - New Jersey 1/26/2010 "We’ve profiled two women in this space whose EPPICards — state-sanctioned debit cards from which users can access child support and alimony payments — were victims of fraudulent charges." Read the entire article: http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2010/01/another_eppicard_user_misled_o.html
By News-Leader.com - Missouri 1/19/2010 "...In addition, men have been disproportionately hit by the downturn's impact on industries like manufacturing and construction. That's critical because nearly 83 percent of custodial parents are women, leaving men to pay most child support obligations. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.news-leader.com/article/20100119/LIFE04/1190304/Job+loss+hinders+child+support+payments By ABC New Australia 1/27/2010 "Education Minister Julia Gillard says the technical problems which plagued the Government's new school ratings website this morning prove that there is huge demand for the information it contains." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/28/2803136.htm By Telegraph-Journal 1/27/2010 "After beating him with a frying pan and stabbing him with a kitchen knife, a Rothesay woman avoided jailtime and returned home with her victim/boyfriend." Read the entire article: http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/search/article/933966 By Baltimore Sun -- Maryland 1/27/2010 "An Abingdon man was found shot after Harford County sheriff's deputies tried to serve a warrant for child support, according to the sheriff's office." Read the entire article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/harford/bal-warrant0127,0,730352.story By Sharon Jayson -- USA TODAY 1-26-2010 "The teen pregnancy rate in the USA rose 3% in 2006, the first increase in more than a decade, according to data out today." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-01-26-1Ateenpregnancy26_ST_N.htm By Sharon Jayson -- USA TODAY 1/26/2010 "Teenage boys and young men may talk a lot about sex, but often the only ones listening are their peers." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-01-26-boysandsex_ST_N.htm By ScienceDaily.com 1/24/2010 "Computer games have a broad appeal that transcends gender, culture, age and socio-economic status. Now, computer scientists in the US think that creating computer games, rather than just playing them could boost students' critical and creative thinking skills as well as broaden their participation in computing." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100121101124.htm By Phyllis Schlafly -- Eagle Forum 1/22/2010 "Let me share with you an interesting article from the Washington Post about the teacher of an all-black class in a high school in Alexandria, Virginia, who expressed his frustration at how poorly the students were performing. The class included both native-born African-Americans and kids who had immigrated from Africa." Read the entire article: http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2010/jan10/10-01-22.html By Huffington Post 1/19/2010 "Historically, marriage was the surest route to financial security for women. Nowadays it's men who are increasingly getting the biggest economic boost from tying the knot, according to a new analysis of census data." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/19/more-men-get-an-economic_n_427863.html By Cheryl Wetzstein -- The Washington Times 1/19/2010 "In my years of writing about family issues, I've often encountered a dissing of marriage." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/19/wetzstein-pro-marriage-campaign-grows/ By AJ MAZZOLINI -- The Missoulian 1/19/2010 "...The time to do something about graduation rates is now, said University of Montana President George Dennison. Out of all the students who start school, close to 25 percent drop out before getting a diploma, he said. If this trend continues, the future could be in trouble, he said. Fewer and fewer students make education a priority, he said, something that's led to a much lower number of high school and college graduates in the United States in recent years. ..." Read the entire article: By Politics.co.uk – United Kingdom 1/20/2010 "...Fathers will be given lessons in parenting as part of an effort to prevent family breakdown, following research which shows fathers involved early on in their children's life tend to stick with the family. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.politics.co.uk/news/children-and-family/balls-unveils-fatherhood-help-$1354396.htm By Tulsa World - Oklahoma 1/20/2010 "...The seminar is ordered by the county's district court for parents involved in lawsuits regarding custody, visitation or paternity of minor children. District judges in the other 68 counties may also require the seminar for their divorce cases. ..." Read more about this article: http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=15&articleid=20100120_15_E4_Tefmlo712318 By Suburban News – New Jersey 1/15/2010 "...The New Jersey Physicians Advisory Group, based in Union County, has been working with teens through school curricula and with adults by providing conferences, workshops and educational resources to school educators, health professionals and parents throughout the state. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nj.com/suburbannews/index.ssf/2010/01/union_county-based_physicians.html By WVEC.com (subscription) - Virginia 1/15/2010 "A National Fatherhood Initiative study shows the absence of dads hurts children, leading to teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse and gang involvement." Read the entire article: http://www.wvec.com/news/local/Suffolk-program-helps--81744392.html By mySouTex.com - Texas 1/20/2010 "...The Attorney General’s Office often receives inquiries from frustrated parents wanting to know how to handle custody or visitation disputes. This is particularly problematic for parents who do not have legal custody of their children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.mysoutex.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Access-+visitation+hotline+helps+Texas+parents%20&id=5567002&instance=lead_story_left_column By Reuters - USA 1/20/2010 "...In the new study, researchers at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut found that sons of teenage fathers were 80 percent more likely to have a child before age 20 compared with their peers born to older fathers. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60J54720100120 By 24-7PressRelease.com (press release) - USA 1/16/2010 "...While some have argued that this shift in custody decisions punishes successful women, many seem to think that it is evidence of a system that is finally evening out. Indeed, for years, women were given the benefit of the doubt in child custody cases. Now, the court is treating mothers and fathers more equally. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/dads-gaining-child-custody-more-often-132761.php By Washington Post 1/21/2010 "...The big news about this report has centered on the fact that there's been a shift in gender roles. A larger share of men in 2007, compared with their 1970 counterparts, were married to women whose educations and incomes exceeded their own. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/20/AR2010012004769.html?sub=AR By BBC News – United Kingdom 1/20/2010 "More fathers than ever before may attend the birth of their child, but the government is keen to involve them even more closely in pregnancy, labour and the aftermath as part of its Green Paper on the family." Read the entire article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8468729.stm By This is London – United Kingdom 1/20/2010 "...Studies have shown that the young rely more on their fathers for factual information and look to their mothers for day-to-day care and emotional support: children are twice as likely to receive A's in school when their fathers are involved in their education. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/health/article-23797302-its-not-just-politics---families-do-need-fathers.do By ABC News - Idaho 1/19/2010 "High unemployment caused by the recession has created unprecedented need statewide for food stamp aid and other public assistance programs, the chief of Idaho's Department of Health and Welfare said Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9604333 By DailyTelegraph 1/18/2010 "A BUSINESSMAN is suing British Airways over a policy that bans male passengers sitting next to children they don't know. The policy applies even if the child's parents are on the same flight." Read the entire article: http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2010/01/18/122301_travel.html By Children & Young People Now – United Kingdom 1/19/2010 "...From next month, the government will begin distributing 600,000 copies of The New Dad's Guide. The guide will address legal and health issues that fathers should bear in mind as well as relationship support and information on the importance of fatherhood. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cypnow.co.uk/news/ByDiscipline/Childcare-and-Early-Years/978135/Government-launches-guide-new-fathers/ By Richard Fry and D’Vera Cohn -- Pew Research Center – USA "The institution of marriage has undergone significant changes in recent decades as women have outpaced men in education and earnings growth." Read the entire article: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1466/economics-marriage-rise-of-wives?src=prc-latest&proj=peoplepress By Institute for Marriage and Public Policy – USA "Most of the public debate over marriage focuses on the role of marriage as a social, moral, or religious institution. But marriage is also an economic institution, a powerful creator of human and social capital. Increases in divorce and unwed childbearing have broad economic implications, including larger expenditures for the federal and state governments. This is the first-ever report that attempts to measure the taxpayer costs of family fragmentation for U.S. taxpayers in all fifty states. Among its findings: Even programs that result in very small decreases in divorce and unwed childbearing could yield big savings for taxpayers." Read the entire article: http://www.marriagedebate.com/pdf/ec_div.pdf By Washington Post 1/20/2010 "District and Virginia officials formally made their case for more than $450 million in federal education funds Tuesday, asserting in sometimes-glowing terms that their reform efforts to date make them deserving of money from President Obama's Race to the Top initiative to overhaul public schools." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/19/AR2010011901642.html?hpid=topnews By Washington Times 1/18/2010 "It's fun and challenging to dream up survival gear to issue to your son: the best-ever hunting knife, a surefire fishing lure. Forget it. None of these will do him any good in his biggest survival challenge - getting through school." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/18/boys-in-school-arent-out-of-the-woods/ By MSNBC.com 1/12/2010 "Caffeine has a stronger effect on boys than on girls, finds a new study that zeros in on the drug's health impacts on adolescents." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34831879/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/ By MSNBC.com 1/15/2010 "The number of working moms who are the sole breadwinners in their families rose last year to an all-time high, and the number of stay-at-home dads edged higher, in a shift of traditional gender roles caused partly by massive job losses." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34880372/ns/business-careers/ By CNN.com 1/14/2010 "The Hillsboro, Oregon, school district has banned a therapy dog used by 9-year-old Scooter Givens, who is autistic." Watch the video: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2010/01/13/ng.boy.dog.cnn?iref=allsearch By CNN.com 1/15/2010 "Jean Baptiste Vanise suffers the anguish no mother should have to bear. She received a text message from her 12-year-old son Tuesday afternoon asking, "Where are you?" Since then, nothing." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/14/haiti.anguished.mother/index.html?hpt=T2 By FoxNews.com 1/14/2010 "..."In the public mind, acts of teenage violence are most commonly associated with boys," the report observed, but "it is clear that the problem is pervasive among girls as well."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583007,00.html By FoxNews.com 1/15/2010 "The first criminal case involving "sexting" reached a U.S. appeals court on Friday — a case that asks whether racy cell-phone photos of three girls amount to child pornography or child's play." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583104,00.html By FoxNews.com 1/13/2010 "Police in Illinois say an officer assigned to a junior high school has been placed on administrative leave after he allegedly shocked three boys during an unauthorized Taser demonstration." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583025,00.html By FoxNews.com 1/13/2010 "Parents, teachers and activists began sounding off Wednesday on how history — topics from the fall of the Roman Empire to Texas cosmetics queen Mary Kay Ash — will be taught to millions of Texas children for the next decade." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582923,00.html By FoxNews.com 1/15/2010 "A 16-year-old student has been arrested for allegedly wounding the principal with a knife at a Catholic high school in Los Angeles County." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583153,00.html?test=latestnews By FoxNews.com 1/15/2010 "A New Jersey mother said her 8-year-old son faces extra scrutiny from TSA agents when he flies because his name appears on a "selectee" list, The New York Times reported." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583031,00.html?test=latestnews By Times Online 1/13/2010 "...Today the average marriage lasts an estimated eleven years. Marriages in the past were no lengthier, but were divided by death, not divorce. ..." Read the entire article: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6986146.ece By NY Daily News 1/12/2010 "A case that bitterly divided the parents and fiancée of a firefighter killed on 9/11 has finally ended with a Brooklyn judge's decision that she will get half his pension for the rest of her life." By WorldNetDaily.com 1/14/2010 "In a statement that reflects widespread trust by lawmakers in homeschoolers, the New Hampshire House of Representatives today resoundingly rejected a proposal that would have imposed draconian new regulations on the students and their parents." Read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=121880 By The Denver Post 1/14/2010 "Rozita Swinton, a Colorado Springs woman suspected of making fake phone calls that sparked the 2008 child-protection raid against a polygamist sect in Texas, pleaded guilty in an unrelated false-reporting case on Wednesday." By St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Missouri 1/14/2010 "...Decades of social science research now tell us that a father's sustained, committed involvement with his children and presence in the home matter more than we ever imagined. On nearly every measure available — from health and financial stability to rates of graduation, substance abuse and teen pregnancy — children raised by their married mothers and fathers fare better than those raised in other types of families. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/story/D0853BEA7C207945862576AA007ECDF1?OpenDocument By Mail Online 12/5/2009 "A wife who cried rape because she felt guilty about cheating on her husband in their home was spared jail yesterday." By Jamaica Gleaner - Jamaica 11/16/2009 "One particular tip from my Flair anniversary article - "legal tips for men" - attracted greater interest than others; namely, "If you had been maintaining a child and later discover that he or she is not your biological child, you may make an application for all sums spent on that child to be repaid to you."..." Read the entire article: http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20091116/flair/flair3.html By Emanuel Cavallaro Springfield News Sun - Ohio 4/26/2009 "Four years ago, when Jamie Bowshier came home from Iraq, he had everything he wanted in life: A wife, three kids, a job, a house. A promising future. When he returned to his house on Seymour Street, he found that neighbors had lined the street with American Flags and tied red, white and blue balloons to the stop signs. ...Bowshier, 34, is now divorced and has lost custody of his three children. His kitchen countertop is lined with a month’s worth of mail, most of it bad news: late notices, Veterans’ Affairs documents, bills he can’t afford to pay. But things were going bad even before that. After the divorce late last year, he withdrew money from his 401(k) to catch up on his bills. Soon after, his paychecks were garnished for child support payments. His child support obligation was later reduced by about $200 when his ex-wife started working. But by that time, he was so far behind it seemed impossible to catch up." Read the entire article: http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-news/losing-everything-96076.html By Fox News.com 3/12/2009 "An 82-year-old Santa Barbara man died after eating wild mushrooms he picked and sautéed with a steak. The man, Angelo Crippa, 82, died March 5 at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. Crippa had picked poisonous Amanita ocreata mushrooms, which are common in the Santa Barbara area, at the Douglas Family Preserve above Arroyo Burro Beach. His family says he sautéed the mushrooms and ate them with a steak. About six hours later, he became seriously ill and was hospitalized." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509016,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By Reuters -- FoxNews.com 3/13/2009 "Obese men who undergo gastric bypass surgery will not only lose weight; their sex lives are likely to improve, too, new research shows. "We wanted to know if obesity was biologically associated with an unsatisfying sex life, and if so, could it be reversible," Dr. Ahmad Hammoud of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who led the study, said in a press release accompanying the new report. "Our results show that the answer to both questions may be yes." While obesity in men has been linked to low testosterone levels, high levels of estrogen, impaired fertility, and worse sexual quality of life, Hammoud and his colleagues note in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, there is little information on what happens to these men's sex hormones and sexual function if they lose weight." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509123,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men
By Yahoo News 3/16/2009 "Don Imus, the controversial radio talk show host who was fired two years ago after uttering racially charged comments, announced on Monday he is suffering from prostate cancer. Imus, 68, who took a brief hiatus from radio after the uproar caused by his remarks, told listeners on his new show that he had been diagnosed with "stage II prostate cancer."..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090316/en_afp/usmediaradioimus;_ylt=ApH.OduR5yMYRLW.GLKEwzxxFb8C By Frank Graham (North Platte Bulletin) - 3/11/2009 "A former North Platte resident has paid child support for 29 years, even though a DNA test said the daughter is not his. ...The test, performed by Laboratory Corporation of America in Burlington N.C., said Spiehs is “excluded from paternity” and that he is “not the biological father of the child.” “Probability of paternity -- 0.00%,” the test concluded. But that test doesn’t matter, according to the law." Read the entire article: http://www.northplattebulletin.com/index.asp?show=news&action=readStory&pageID=3&storyID=16212 By Star News - Minnesota 1/14/2010 "...Zeise said the county does not support transferring child support administration from the county to the state. ..." Read the entire article: http://erstarnews.com/content/view/10876/211/ By ScienceDaily.com 1/14/2010 "Obese white men who have both diabetes and prostate cancer have significantly worse outcomes following radical prostatectomy than do men without diabetes who undergo the same procedure, according to research from Duke University Medical Center appearing in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100111121708.htm By MedlinePlus 1/13/2010 "Two seemingly unrelated problems might share a genetic component that may make some people more likely to suffer from both migraine and depression, Dutch researchers report." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_94060.html By ScienceDaily.com 1/2/2010 "A study in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that erectile dysfunction was more common in older men with restless leg syndrome (RLS) than in those without RLS, and the magnitude of this association increased with a higher frequency of RLS symptoms." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100101011830.htm By ScienceDaily.com 1/8/2010 "Black men are over-diagnosed with schizophrenia at least five times higher than any other group -- a trend that dates back to the 1960s, according to new University of Michigan research." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100106193432.htm# By Suffolk News-Herald - Virginia 1/1/2010 "Millennial Mentoring Youth Academy, also known as Y2K Academy, has received a $25,000 grant from the National Fatherhood Initiative to help young men learn to be better fathers." Read the entire article: http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/news/2010/jan/01/mentor-group-wins-grant/ By WebWire (press release) - Arizona 1/5/2010 "Arizona Mobile DNA Services utilizes only accredited reference laboratories and brings the power of DNA testing directly to its clients." Read the entire article: http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=110291 By ChicagoSecurity - Illinois 1/5/2010 "...With divorced and unmarried fathers currently having the undeserved reputation of “deadbeats”, how can little boys grow up proud to be male?..." Read the entire article: http://chicagosecurity.org/2010/01/05/is-he-the-loser-or-is-he-dad.html By Santa Cruz Sentinel – New Mexico 1/5/2010 "When Boulder Creek resident Kerry McCormick was going through a divorce about eight years ago, a judge strongly recommended that McCormick attend the Divorced Father's Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to maintaining shared parenting relationships. " Read the entire article: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_14123990 By Fox News.com 1/13/2010 "A 13-year-old arrested after a South Florida boy was doused with an accelerant and burned won't face criminal charges." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582935,00.html By ABC News -- Australia 1/13/2010 "A two-year-old New Zealand girl has been found alive under her father's body in a collapsed building in the Haitian capital." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/14/2791903.htm By Plain Dealer - Ohio 1/12/2010 "The Cuyahoga County Fatherhood Initiative received $300,000 from the federal government last month, on top of a $25,000 grant from National Fatherhood Initiative." Read the entire article: http://www.cleveland.com/cuyahoga-county/index.ssf/2010/01/cuyahoga_county_fatherhood_initiative_receives_300000_federal_grant.html By Land Line Magazine - Missouri 1/12/2010 "...Besides losing their jobs and having numerous paychecks bounce, some Arrow drivers claimed that while the company deducted child support payments from their checks, the money was not forwarded on to the state agency in charge of disbursing the funds to the children and families. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2010/Jan10/011110/011210-01.htm By Daily Citizen - Georgia 1/12/2010 "The Division of Child Support Services (DCSS) and the Fatherhood Program are collecting teddy bears and other stuffed animals for children as part of their “Bearable Hugs for Georgia’s Children” campaign." Read the entire article: http://www.northwestgeorgia.com/local/local_story_012113653.html By NewsChannel5.com - Tennessee 1/12/2010 "Gilmore was employed by Policy Studies, INC., who placed Gilmore at Child Support Services of Tennessee, where he is presumed to have gotten access to personal information." Read the entire article: http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=11812538 By MyFox Atlanta – Georgia (Video) 1/12/2010 "Federal investigators have virtually shut down a Georgia child support collections agency for keeping money that was supposed to go to children." Read the entire article/watch video: http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/i-team:-child-support-service-011210 By Medline Plus 1/12/2010 "The brains of men and women handle stress differently and that alters the way their bodies experience chronic diseases such as depression, cardiovascular disease and autoimmune disorders, U.S. researchers report." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_94004.html By CTV.ca - Canada 1/8/2010 "A Montreal father is challenging a federal child support law that suspended his passport for failure to pay child support." Read the entire article: http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100108/mtl_deadbeat_passport100108/20100108/?hub=MontrealHome By Australian Business with The Wall Street Journal – Australia 1/11/2010 "AUSTRALIA spends less on welfare than almost any other advanced country but manages to provide better protection against poverty, particularly for families." Read the entire article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/welfare-net-best-in-australia/story-e6frg9qo-1225817876786 By Reuters - California 1/12/2010 "...If federal money fails to materialize, the governor's plan would trigger deeper cuts that would dismantle entire programs, including the state's welfare-to-work system, CalWorks. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60B0CJ20100112 By Palo Alto Online - California 1/11/2010 "Encouraging fathers to be present in the lives of their children is the goal of a Jan. 29 conference planned by the Fatherhood Collaborative, an official advisory board to the County of San Mateo." Read the entire article: http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=15256 By ABC News 1/7/2010 "Australia's High Commissioner to India, Peter Varghese, says race might have played a role in some of the violent attacks against Indian students that have threatened ties between the two countries." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/07/2786997.htm By Katherine Kersten -- Star Tribune.com 12/2/2009 "...In a report compiled last summer, the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group at the U's College of Education and Human Development recommended that aspiring teachers there must repudiate the notion of "the American Dream" in order to obtain the recommendation for licensure required by the Minnesota Board of Teaching. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/70662162.html?page=1&c=y By Medline Plus 1/11/2010 "As a major organization of pediatricians considers revising its recommendations on circumcision of newborn boys, two new reviews of existing research offer conflicting conclusions about the bitterly debated procedure." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_93953.html By Coleen O'Conner -- The Denver Post 12/7/2009 "When Ann Moore read "Cowboy Ethics," a book about what Wall Street bankers can learn from the Old West, she instantly identified it as the perfect teaching tool for her at-risk class of seniors at Cherry Creek High School, where half the kids had learning disabilities and one-third spoke English as a second language." Read the entire article: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_13941996?source=email#ixzz0cSfBgwnL
By Phyllis Schlafly -- Eagle Forum 12/25/2009 "...Doesn't the First Amendment extend to fathers? Apparently not if they are divorced. This case sounds extreme, but it is a good illustration of how family courts, the lowest in the judicial hierarchy, have become the most dictatorial of all courts because of the tremendous number of families and amounts of private money they control and the lack of accountability for their decisions." Read the entire article: http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2009/dec09/09-12-25.html By Cheryl Wezstein -- Washington Times 1/12/2010 "...The program could increase "matriarchal dominance" in poor neighborhoods already awash with absent-father homes, said Gordon E. Finley, a psychology professor at Florida International University who writes on gender roles. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/12/obama-plan-funds-nurse-visits-to-new-moms/?page=2 By Medline Plus 1/7/2010 "A healthy weight and regular exercise may help protect men from one of the most common side effects of prostate cancer surgery, a new study suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_93857.html By Glenn Sacks -- Fathers and Families 1/4/2010 "Gonzalez’s lawyer, Denise Placencio, argued that West staged the entire incident because of a bitter child-custody dispute." Read the entire article: http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=5614 By Quad City Times -- Iowa 1/7/2010 "Concerned that Iowa laws could bring overly harsh penalties for teenagers who send explicit electronic images, commonly called “sexting,” the Iowa Attorney General’s office will ask lawmakers to give prosecutors another option." Read the entire article: http://www.qctimes.com/news/local/53e20d44-fbf6-11de-9716-001cc4c002e0.html By Cheryl Wetzstein -- Washington Times 1/12/2010 "...Any home-visit program should be tweaked to ensure that the outcomes for boys are as robust as those for the girls, especially in black families. A good starting point, says child advocacy lawyer Ronald K. Henry, is to "view both parents as targets of the program."..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/12/wetzstein-program-needs-to-include-dads/?page=2 By USA Weekend 1/10/2010 "A young man I didn't know contacted me about taking a paternity test. If I'm the father, I'd be interested in pursuing a relationship. What's the best way for me to accomplish that?" Read the entire article: http://www.usaweekend.com/10_issues/100110/100110relationtips-paternity.html By FoxNews.com 1/12/2010 "China’s one-child policy could leave more than 24 million men unable to find a bride by the end of the decade, according to a report." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582831,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r5:c0.137798:b29754224:z10 By Fox News.com 1/12/2010 "The parents of a 4-year-old boy disciplined for having long hair have rejected a compromise from a Texas school board that agreed to adjust its grooming policy." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582833,00.html By Fox News 1/11/2010 "Three Aboriginal teenage boys were circumcised during a manhood ritual without anesthetic and left mutilated." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582751,00.html By ScienceDaily.com 1/11/2010 "While genetics play a key role in children's initial reading skills, a new study of twins is the first to demonstrate that environment plays an important role in reading growth over time." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100111122647.htm By ScienceDaily.com 1/11/2010 "A new thought-operated computer system which can reduce the symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children will be rolled out across the UK this month." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100107083904.htm By ScienceDaily.com 1/7/2010 "There is no evidence to support psychological debriefing in schools after traumatic events such as violence, suicides and accidental death, which runs counter to current practice in some Canadian school jurisdictions, according to a commentary in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100105170936.htm
By Dr. Richard Driscoll
A recent analysis finds that happiness and the sense of well-being and satisfaction has declined among women, both in constant terms and also in comparison to men. The decline is found across various investigations, across various measures of subjective well-being and satisfaction with life, across various demographic groups, and within numerous industrialized countries.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Richard Driscoll graduated from the University of Colorado in 1974, and is in private practice in Knoxville Tennessee. He specializes in marriage and family therapy, conflict resolution, gender qualities, and spiritual experiences. Driscoll has recently published "Opposites as Equals" with Nancy Ann Davis. The authors identify innate differences between men and women, explore their origins, and suggest ways to resolve conflict and join together for our mutual benefit. Driscoll and Nancy Ann Davis are in practice together, are married, and have three grown children. Richard Driscoll offers free consultation on ways to rise above chivalry and focus instead on benefits to family and community. Dr. Driscoll is also a pioneer in anxiety reduction, and has published four anxiety reduction training including "Personal Shielding to Deflect Hostility" and "Tame Test Anxiety." His website: theOppositeSex.info and email: drD[SpamBuster]@theOppositeSex.info (remove [SpamBuster] to send e-mail)
By Dr. Richard Driscoll "Why do women want to talk about a problem, on and on, while men want fix it as quickly as possible and be done with it? "Sensitive Cave Men" offers a comic sketch and an answer to this commonplace question." To watch the video: http://drsd2.blogspot.com/2009/12/sensitive-cave-man.html
By Dr. Richard Driscoll In traditional marriages, while husbands and wives might bicker, argue, scold, turn aloof or sullen, and show all manner of arrogance and contempt, men and women somehow managed to resolve conflict, shove it aside or bury it, and to get on with a life together (or bail out). It might seem miraculous today that even a few solid relationships could have existed with no government intervention. In what we might call feminist marriages, which are becoming the norm, either spouse (meaning the woman) is now more than welcome to make accusations against her mate, charging violence, sexual assault, and now bad manners, and all without requiring a shred of objective evidence.
Traditionalists should approve, as the arrangement maintains the fundamentals of marriage. Feminists should be pleased (but might not be) to see their programs set into law and fully implemented among those who choose to partake.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Richard Driscoll graduated from the University of Colorado in 1974, and is in private practice in Knoxville Tennessee. He specializes in marriage and family therapy, conflict resolution, gender qualities, and spiritual experiences. Driscoll has recently published "Opposites as Equals" with Nancy Ann Davis. The authors identify innate differences between men and women, explore their origins, and suggest ways to resolve conflict and join together for our mutual benefit. Driscoll and Nancy Ann Davis are in practice together, are married, and have three grown children. Richard Driscoll offers free consultation on ways to rise above chivalry and focus instead on benefits to family and community. Dr. Driscoll is also a pioneer in anxiety reduction, and has published four anxiety reduction training including "Personal Shielding to Deflect Hostility" and "Tame Test Anxiety." His website: theOppositeSex.info and email: drD[SpamBuster]@theOppositeSex.info (remove [SpamBuster] to send e-mail)
By Ronald K Henry -- Originally appeared in: Family Law Quarterly, Volume 40, Number 1, Spring 2006 The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.** Click here to read the entire article.
By OregonLive.com - Oregon 1/9/2010 "...It should also be our highest priority for the children of divorced parents to have significant physical contact with both biological parents. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/01/involving_both_divorced_parent.html By Appeal-Democrat - California 1/10/2010 By Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom 1/10/2010 "Emma Chapelhow, 13, claimed that the £43,000 the CSA was demanding her father, David, pay to his former partner, her mother, would bankrupt him and significantly impact on her lifestyle, and threatened to sue to the agency over a breach of its duty of care to her." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6961718/Reprieve-for-hero-father-over-Child-Support-Agency-demand.html By YahooNews 7/2/2009 "Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate climbed to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent. Workers also saw weekly wages fall, suggesting Americans will have little appetite to spend and the economy's road to recovery will be bumpy." Read the entire article: By USAToday 7/2/2009 "Insurgents have captured an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Thursday. Spokeswoman Capt. Elizabeth Mathias said the soldier went missing Tuesday. "We are using all of our resources to find him and provide for his safe return," Mathias said." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-07-02-us-soldier-captured By Edmonton Journal - Canada 1/6/2010 "...A computer glitch caused multiple withdrawals, emptying three months of payments before employees noticed and stopped the transfers, Alberta Justice spokesman Jay O'Neill said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonton/Computer+glitch+wreaks+havoc+with+Alberta+child+support+payments/2408779/story.html By Muncie Star Press - Indiana 1/5/2010 "...Ross allegedly jabbed her boyfriend in the eye after an argument started when the results of a home paternity test showed her newborn son was not his. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20100105/BUSTED/100105036/1002/NEWS01 By WHAS 11.com (subscription) - Kentucky 1/5/2010 "...Family Rights Lawyer Louis Winner tells us another part of the problem. Many of his male clients don't want to ask for child support from women. Winner said, "it becomes a little more difficult for the father to say you know what, I need to go after and get child support because it's the right thing to do and it costs money to raise children."..." Read the entire article: http://www.whas11.com/news/local/Public-list-shows-rising-number-of-deadbeat-moms-80739297.html By MailOnline 1/6/2010 "Married couples in France could end up with criminal records for insulting each other during arguments. Under a new law, France is to become the first country in the world to ban ' psychological violence' within marriage." By The Northwest Florida Daily News - Florida 1/1/2010 "...During his interview, Schumacher confirmed he sold the marijuana to pay his child support. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/walton-24186-home-beach.html By KTLA.com 1/3/2010 "Police say a teenage girl accidentally ran over and killed her 17-year-old brother as the two played around in an Arizona shopping mall parking lot." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-sister-runs-over-brother,0,4361523.story By KTLA.com 1/6/2010 "Police in Kansas City, Mo., are looking for a woman who went on a rampage at a McDonald's because she didn't like her hamburger." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-hamburger-rampage,0,3235693.story By Fresno Bee - California 1/4/2010 "...Fresno County Healthy Marriage Coalition Inc. was awarded the grant from National Fatherhood Initiative through the National Responsible Fatherhood Capacity Building Initiative. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1769351.html By Burlington Times News – North Carolina 1/1/2010 "...Some men who try to have contact with their children can’t. Some men who pay to help support their children have legitimate concerns about how the money is spent. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thetimesnews.com/articles/left-30706-align-need.html By Traverse City Record Eagle - Michigan 1/2/2010 "...Michigan banks are now prohibited from freezing funds in accounts where only exempt funds are direct deposited and are easily identified as such. Public benefits can still be garnished where the debt involves alimony, child support, federal taxes or another federal agency, but beyond that are legally exempt. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.record-eagle.com/business/local_story_002220152.html By The Star-Ledger - NJ.com – New Jersey 1/3/2010 "...As we confront the state budget crisis, we must fix a system otherwise doomed to spiral out of control, with taxpayers spending billions to fund the cycle of re-arrest and re-imprisonment. ..." Read the entire article: http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2010/01/lets_break_the_cycle_of_re-arr.html By MyFox Atlanta - Georgia 12/31/2009 "Federal investigators have stepped in to stop a Georgia child support collection agency from doing business, but this has left many parents confused about what they are now supposed to do." Read the entire article: http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/feds-stop-child-support-collection-firm-123109 By WJBF-TV – South Carolina 1/3/10 "...The new law requires men who believe they may have fathered children to register with the state or they can lose the ability to have a say in whether a child is put up for adoption. The registry cannot be used to pursue child support. ..." Read the entire article: http://www2.wjbf.com/jbf/ap_exchange/south_carolina_news/article/ScHopesNewFatherRegistryCouldSpeedAdoptionsSc/48410/ By Cape May County Herald – New Jersey 12/23/2009 "To The Editor: This is concerning the "child support sweep" story in the Herald. I know the Herald only prints the information given them, but sometimes there are some circumstances that should be looked into before someone’s name is printed that could be potentially harmful to their reputation." Read the entire article: http://www.capemaycountyherald.com/article/57668-arrest+result+clerical+error By FoxNews.com 12/19/2009 "...On one hand, no other U.S. youth organization has served as many boys — an estimated 112 million over the years — and is so deeply ingrained in the Norman Rockwell version of American popular culture. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580644,00.html By FoxNews.com 1/4/2010 "Children are reaching the age of 3 without being able to say a word, according to a British survey that also found boys are almost twice as likely to struggle to learn to speak as girls." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581897,00.html By ScienceDaily.com 12/15/2009 "Students who watch as their peers endure the verbal or physical abuses of another student could become as psychologically distressed, if not more so, by the events than the victims themselves, new research suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091214121449.htm By Newswise.com 12/17/2009 "Teen-aged boys are more likely to use tanning booths, take diet pills and have their bodies waxed — even if they think those activities are unhealthy — if they are influenced by their peers, according to research by a Baylor University assistant professor of fashion merchandising." Read the entire article: http://www.newswise.com/articles/adolescent-boys-seeking-the-norm-may-take-risks-with-their-appearances?ret=/articles/list&category=life&page=1&search[status]=3&search[sort]=date+desc&search[section]=30&search[has_multimedia]= By ScienceDaily.com 1/5/2010 "Girls around the world are not worse at math than boys, even though boys are more confident in their math abilities, and girls from countries where gender equity is more prevalent are more likely to perform better on mathematics assessment tests, according to a new analysis of international research." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100105112303.htm
By ScienceDaily.com 1/5/2010 "As the US population becomes increasingly obese while smoking rates continue to decline, obesity has become an equal, if not greater, contributor to the burden of disease and shortening of healthy life in comparison to smoking." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100104192029.htm By Deceiver.com 12/24/2009 "...But didn’t Mary J. Blige just open a domestic-violence shelter in New York last month?..." Read the entire article: http://deceiver.com/2009/12/24/domestic-violence-crusader-mary-j-blige-slugs-husband/ By ReviewTimes.com - Ohio 12/23/2009 "First Step: Family Violence Intervention Center has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the National Fatherhood Initiative. The agency was awarded a capacity-building award in the amount of $25,000 for work with local fathers." Read the entire article: http://www.reviewtimes.com/Issues/2009/Dec/23/ar_news_122309_story3.asp?d=122309_story3,2009,Dec,23&c=n By PR Newswire (press release) - Chicago 12/29/2009 "The Fatherhood Educational Institute (FEI, http://fatherhood-edu.org) will benefit from a $25,000.00 donation from fathers' rights attorney Jeffery M. Leving, announced Claude Ohanesian, President of FEI." Read the entire article: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-fatherhood-educational-institute-announces-25000-donation-from-attorney-jeffery-m-leving-80285152.html By Shreveport Times - Louisiana 12/30/2009 "The state Department of Social Services plans to cut $14.1 million in state funds from its budget in reponse to a projected mid-year state budget shortfall." Read the entire article: http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20091230/NEWS01/912300330/1060 By Washington Times 12/30/2009 "Sarah Palin's oldest daughter appears to have lost her bid to keep a bitter legal dispute with her 1-year-old son's father confidential." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/30/palins-grandson-in-a-custody-battle/ By Carroll County Times - Maryland 12/28/2009 "The future of Dads Works, a program designed to help Carroll’s fathers become better parents, is still on shaky ground, but it won’t close its doors this year." Read the entire article: http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2009/12/28/news/local_news/2_dads_works.txt By WLKY.com - Kentucky 12/28/2009 "A family court judge in Kentucky has been publicly reprimanded over her handling of child support cases in three counties." Read the entire article: http://www.wlky.com/news/22074218/detail.html By Medline Plus 12/28/2009 "Nearly half of men who get vasectomies don't return for follow-up tests that make sure the procedure is working, new research suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_93467.html By Medline Plus 12/28/2009 "No man who is fat is truly healthy over the long term, a new study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_93476.html By Sydney Morning Herald - Australia 12/27/2009 "NEARLY 1000 parents have had travel bans slapped on them because they are behind with their child support payments." Read the entire article: http://www.smh.com.au/national/parents-grounded-for-pay-failure-20091226-lfmk.html By Vineland Daily Journal – New Jersey 12/24/2009 "A Millville woman wanted on a warrant for failure to pay child support was arrested Tuesday night by Vineland police." Read the entire article: http://www.thedailyjournal.com/article/20091224/NEWS01/912240324 By The Crime Report - New York 12/28/2009 "Family courts nationwide are grappling with a caseload crisis that delays decisions on critical issues for parents and children involving abuse and neglect, custody and visitation." Read the entire article: http://thecrimereport.org/2009/12/28/crisis-in-the-family-court/ By Medline Plus 12/24/2009 "Smoking is a risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a new analysis of 16 studies confirms." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_93421.html By Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 12/23/2009 "On December 15, 2009, in Atlanta, GA, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and Attorney General Eric Holder cohosted a Fatherhood Town Hall Meeting at Morehouse College." Read the entire article: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/enews/09juvjust/091223.html The NSDUH Report 12/17/2009 "...Adolescent boys and girls have historically exhibited different rates of violence, with girls reporting lower rates. From 1991 to 2000, however, arrests of girls increased more rapidly than arrests of boys, and girls accounted for 30 percent of all juvenile arrests in 2004. ..." Read the entire article: http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k9/171/171FemaleViolence.htm By NIH News 12/17/2009 "A gene associated with a rare form of progressive deafness in males has been identified by an international team of researchers funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders." Read the entire article: http://www.nih.gov/news/health/dec2009/nidcd-17.htm By New York Post 12/22/2009 "Mary J. Blige punched husband Kendu Isaacs in the face at her record release party at club M2 Tuesday night. The singer slugged Isaacs, drawing blood, after she thought he was flirting with a waitress." By WebMd 12/7/2009 "Drinking coffee regularly may help lower the risk of advanced prostate cancer , a study shows. The study, presented this week at a conference of the American Association for Cancer Research in Houston, shows men who drank the most coffee were nearly 60% less likely to develop advanced prostate cancer than non-coffee drinkers." Read the entire article: http://www.webmdhealth.com/ehealth/common/content/webmdtopic.aspx?webmdlink=/content/WebMDArticles/WebMD/WebMD_News_091e9c5e80481f65.html By Medline Plus 12/22/2009 "Calcium supplements won't help men cut cholesterol or trim fat, but they could help those who don't get enough calcium in their diet to keep their blood pressure under control, new research shows." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_93318.html By Mid Day.com 12/16/2009 "A Hyderabad-based women's NGO joins hands with its male counterparts against the Shave India Campaign" Read the entire article: http://www.mid-day.com//news/2009/dec/161209-shave-india-campaign-gillette-AIFWA-uma-challa.htm By Fox News 12/23/2009 "A family in Brazil will not appeal a custody ruling that will return a 9-year-old boy to New Jersey, Fox News has learned." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580974,00.html By KOAT.com – New Mexico 12/22/2009 "Douglas Miller said he jumped through hoops to make child support payments for his daughter." Read the entire article: http://www.koat.com/news/22032370/detail.html By Englewood Herald – Colorado 12/22/2009 "...Village Police have charged a Monticello woman with damaging a 2004 BMW 754i with a hammer and dresser drawer in a dispute with a man over child support. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.catskillsnews.com/News/2009/December09/22/York_arr-22Dec09.html By Bermuda Sun - Bermuda 12/18/2009 "A commonly cited problem faced by many parents (primarily fathers) who fail to fulfill this obligation is that they are often incarcerated, lose their job and consequently lose their ability to pay child support." Read the entire article: http://www.bermudasun.bm/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=135&ArticleID=43928 By Vineland Daily Journal – New Jersey 12/21/2009 "Addie Collins, 35, is being sought on a Cumberland County Superior Court Family Warrant for failure to pay $15,958.38 in child support payments." Read the entire article: http://www.thedailyjournal.com/article/20091221/NEWS01/912210309 By Herald Tribune 12/20/2009 "...When she claimed in 2004 to be pregnant with his baby, he believed her, he says, because they had sex one time well after their breakup. He feels stupid about believing her, he says. He and she were both about 30, old enough that neither should have been naive. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20091220/COLUMNIST/912201033/-1/NEWSSITEMAP By The Sydney Morning Herald 12/11/2009 "A man behind bars for nearly four years for a gang rape that did not happen has been cleared after his accuser admitted she lied to make her friends feel sorry for her." Read the entire article: http://www.smh.com.au/world/gang-rape-victim-lied-to-get-pity-20091211-knkd.html By Chicago Tribune - Illinois 12/18/2009 "An uncle of three, Nick Hunn of Des Plaines has had plenty of practice with babies. But he could always give his nieces back to their parents if they cried. That won't be an option now that his girlfriend is expecting his first child." Read the entire article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/west/chi-balance-daddy-bootcamp-18dec18,0,6834423.story By KDKA - Pennsylvania 12/17/2009 "...State legislatures and judges are grappling with questions that go to the heart of what defines being a father. ..." Read the entire article: http://kdka.com/local/paternity.case.battle.2.1377195.html By Deseret News - Utah 12/16/2009 "...The state Supreme Court released a decision Wednesday in favor of Daniel Austin, a father who was not married to the mother of his child. Austin is still working to prove that he is, in fact, the child's father, but the court's decision has made it possible for him to try to do so. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705352153/Ruling-offers-new-hope-to-unwed-dads-in-Utah.html By ScienceDaily.com 12/10/2009 "Using a new noninvasive imaging technique, scientists said they have discovered important, fundamental differences in heart motion by age and gender." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091208162652.htm# By ScienceDaily.com 12/18/2009 "It's a given that many children will ask their parents for cell phones this Christmas. Now, a recent study by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) sociologist Shelia Cotten, Ph.D., finds that the way the kids will use their new phones depends on their gender." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091217183059.htm By Susan Donaldson James -- ABC News 12/1/2009 "...For seven years, until Michigan child welfare workers intervened when he was 11, Milligan was too ashamed to reveal that his tormentor was his own mother. ..." Read the entire article: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/mother-son-incest-rise-report-sex-abuse-agencies/story?id=9209454 By Medical News Today 12/3/2009 "It has been thought that men with non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA), a lack of sperm in the semen not caused by an obstruction within the reproductive system, are poor candidates for IVF. Now, researchers writing in the open access journal Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology have shown that sperm from men with NOA and obstructive azoospermia (OA) are equally capable of producing embryos." Read the entire article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/172859.php By Medical News Today 12/8/2009 "While it is too early for physicians to start advising their male patients to take up the habit of regular coffee drinking, data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference revealed a strong inverse association between coffee consumption and the risk of lethal and advanced prostate cancers." Read the entire article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/173215.php By ScienceDaily 12/8/2009 "Despite being a significant risk group, young men are amongst those least likely to seek professional help when mentally distressed or suicidal. The 'Back of the Net' programme, a pilot initiative using football (called soccer in the U.S.) and cognitive behavioural based techniques was effective in decreasing symptoms of depression in young men." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091215172331.htm By ScienceDaily 12/16/2009 "...Almost 14,000 people filled in the Dance Style Questionnaire and the results show that although up to the age of 16, men lack confidence in their dance moves, after that their dance confidence rises steadily with men over the age of 65 having higher ratings than men between the ages of 55 and 60." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091215155653.htm By Seattlepi 12/17/2009 "Stepparents can't sue the state over claims of negligent child abuse investigation, the state Supreme Court has ruled." Read the entire article: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_scow_stepparent_lawsuits.html By FoxNews.com 12/11/2009 "A Louisiana woman is charged with getting back at her sleeping boyfriend after a fight by scalding him with a pot of boiling grits." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580012,00.html By Truth Out 12/12/2009 "Prescriptions for psychiatric drugs increased 50 percent with children in the US, and 73 percent among adults, from 1996 to 2006, according to a study in the May/June 2009 issue of the journal Health Affairs." Read the entire article: http://www.truthout.org/1213091 By Telegraph.co.uk 12/12/2009 "A 12-year-old pupil at a Liverpool school where fatty drinks and snacks are banned has been suspended for ''crisp dealing'', it is reported." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6796423/Schoolboy-12-suspended-for-crisp-dealing.html By New York Times 12/11/2009 "New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And the Medicaid children are more likely to receive the drugs for less severe conditions than their middle-class counterparts, the data shows." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/health/12medicaid.html?_r=1&em=&pagewanted=all By WorldNetDaily 12/11/2009 "An international human-rights organization today announced it will pursue a civil lawsuit on behalf of parents who want to control their children's education and withhold them from explicit sex-education and playacting classes required by the German government." Read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=118635 By YahooNews 12/15/2009 "...In the geeky environment, women were significantly less interested than men in computer science, while there was no gender difference for the non-stereotypical classroom. Female students in the stereotypical environment said they felt less similar to computer-science majors than did those in the classroom that wasn't geeked out. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091215/sc_livescience/geeksdrivegirlsoutofcomputerscience By Danville News - Pennsylvania 12/11/2009 "Getting parents to pay child support at a time when many Valley residents are losing employment is a tough job." Read the entire article: http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_345205845.html By The Canberra Times - Australia 12/16/2009 "Employment, health and child support services are to be brought together under one roof in a major shake-up to welfare services delivery announced yesterday." Read the entire article: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/welfare-services-set-for-shakeup/1707038.aspx By E-Online 12/15/2009 "...I know that if she is given notice she will destroy all of my belongings, she will rage against me and hit me, she will use my instrument in the apartment as a weapon against me as she has demonstrated her will and capability in the past."..." Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b158137_very_brady_death_threat.html?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories By ABC News -- Australia 12/16/2009 "Parents are paying for essential educational resources, including teaching positions, in many public primary and secondary schools, a survey by the Federation of Parents and Citizens groups across New South Wales has found." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/16/2772922.htm By FoxNews.com 12/16/2009 "A Massachusetts father is standing by claims that his 8-year-old son was sent home from school after the boy drew a stick figure of Jesus on a crucifix." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580282,00.html By Jacques Steinberg -- New York Times/Education 12/2/2009 "On Oct. 23, The Choice published a post by Cate Doty that noted, “For every 100 American women enrolled in college, there are only 77 men. And for every 100 women who graduate with a bachelor’s degree, only 73 men accomplish that.” Read the entire article: http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/postscript-gender/?scp=5&sq=boys%20and%20schools&st=cse By New York Times 12/15/2009 "More than half of the nation’s unemployed workers have borrowed money from friends or relatives since losing their jobs. An equal number have cut back on doctor visits or medical treatments because they are out of work. Almost half have suffered from depression or anxiety. About 4 in 10 parents have noticed behavioral changes in their children that they attribute to their difficulties in finding work." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/us/15poll.html?_r=2&th&emc=th By FoxNews 12/4/2009 "Jocks get new respect in a large Swedish study that suggests physically active teen boys may be smarter than their couch-potato counterparts." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,579305,00.html By ScienceDaily.com 12/14/2009 "The impact of text messaging on the decline of formal writing among teens has been debated in pedagogical circles ever since cell-phone ownership became an adolescent rite of passage in the mid-2000s. But according to a University of Illinois expert in media literacy, not only are critics who argue that texting is synonymous with literary degradation wrong, they also often overlook the bigger role that texting and its distant cousin, "tweeting," could play in education and research." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091210162224.htm By ScienceDaily.com 12/10/2009 "What factors have an influence in making us like sport in the physical education classes we receive in school? According to a new investigation, physical education teaching staff must develop the responsibility, encourage social interaction and avoid making comparisons between the pupils. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091210101401.htm By ScienceDaily.com 12/10/2009 "Keeping with the global "green" trend, educators worldwide are relying more on environmental education lessons to enhance students' science knowledge. Studies have revealed that bringing environmental education into the curriculum raises not just science scores -- environmental-based lessons can also improve student test scores in other subject areas. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091211093641.htm By ScienceDaily 12/11/2009 "In the first study to demonstrate a clear positive association between adolescent fitness and adult cognitive performance, Nancy Pedersen of the University of Southern California and colleagues in Sweden find that better cardiovascular health among teenage boys correlates to higher scores on a range of intelligence tests -- and more education and income later in life." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091207143351.htm By Bradford Telegraph Argus – United Kingdom 12/14/2009 "A father-of-six has won a long-running battle with the Child Support Agency (CSA) for a refund of more than £1,350 – with the help of the Telegraph & Argus.: Read the entire article: http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/4792087.Dad_wins___1_350_refund_from_CSA___and_an_apology/ By National Post 12/8/2009 "...But they're only men, so who cares. Not feminists. One of the great curiosities of the feminist movement is their indifference to male victimization by both male and female perpetrators. ..." By The Washington Post 12/8/2009 "For nearly five days, police said, Veronica D. Deramous kept the pregnant woman, bound with duct tape, inside her Suitland apartment, giving her food and drink to keep her alive. Deramous wanted the woman's unborn baby girl, police said, and was willing to get it by any means." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/07/AR2009120703630.html By Cheryl Wetzstein-- Washington Times 12/6/2009 "But when half the parenting population thinks a child's father is replaceable, we are in dire straits." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/06/wetzstein-neither-parent-fully-replaceable/?page=2 By ScienceDaily.com 11/12/2009 "A new study indicates dentists can play a potentially life-saving role in health care by identifying patients at risk of fatal heart attacks and referring them to physicians for further evaluation. ...Twelve patients in the study, all of them men, had HeartScores of 10 percent or higher. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091105121215.htm By ScienceDaily.com 11/18/2009 "A study by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College London has found that depression is as much of a risk factor for mortality as smoking." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091117094933.htm By ScienceDaily.com 12/9/2009 "University of Minnesota Project Eating Among Teens (EAT) researchers have found that young adults engaging in casual sexual encounters do not appear to be at increased risk for harmful psychological outcomes as compared to sexually active young adults in more committed relationships. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091208132730.htm By Miller-McCune.com – USA 12/9/9 "Fatherhood, as Miller-McCune magazine reported earlier this year, alters a man's neurochemistry, increasing his ability to cope with stress and generally making him a better mate." Read the entire article: http://miller-mccune.com/news/benefits-of-fatherhood-extend-to-the-community-1667 By Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Wisconsin 12/9/2009 "A proposal to distribute condoms to some high school students was approved by a MPS committee this week. The plan will have to pass the entire School Board for approval." Read the entire article: http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/78928697.html By Coshocton Tribune - Ohio 12/10/2009 "Coshocton County Job and Family Services released a notice that the Office of Child Support recently was made aware of phishing text messages that have been sent to some e-Quick Pay debit card holders." Read the entire article: http://www.coshoctontribune.com/article/20091210/NEWS01/912100315 By NewsOK.com - Oklahoma 12/10/2009 "About 44,000 people in Oklahoma soon will see their state-collected child support income drop by $25 each year." By The Frisky 11/25/2009 "Ever since Tiger Woods was in that car accident last week and rumors swirled that his wife Elin Nordegren had scratched his face during a fight (and may have gone after him with a golf club) there’s been buzz about female-on-male domestic violence." Read the entire article: http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-thoughts-from-guys-on-our-im-has-a-girlfriend-ever-hit-you/ By Medline Plus 11/25/2009 "Men wondering about the long-term side effects of chemotherapy for testicular cancer may now have a road map defining likely outcomes." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_92334.html By jonathanturley - Florida 12/1/2009 "...He waited a year to get a hearing before Family law Judge Julian Piggotte to reduce his $2200 monthly payments in light of his lower income. Instead, Piggotte increased the payments and left Nelson with just $200 a month to survive. She then recused herself because her husband works with Nelson’s ex-wife at the state attorney’s office. ..." Read the entire article: http://jonathanturley.org/2009/12/03/father-loses-job-seeks-reduction-in-child-support-so-florida-judge-increases-payments-by-300-and-then-recuses-herself-for-a-conflict/ The Christian Post 12/7/2009 "A county judge exonerated gospel music star BeBe Winans from the accusation of domestic abuse Friday, dismissing all charges with prejudice." Read the entire article: http://www.christianpost.com/article/20091207/bebe-winans-cleared-of-assault-charges/ By Columbia Dispatch -- Ohio 12/5/2009 "Like a country song, the tale of the motorized bar stool that a Licking County drinker rode into notoriety grows richer with each added verse." Read the entire article: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/12/05/barstool.ART_ART_12-05-09_B1_GLFT8ME.html?sid=101 By Catherine Jun -- The Detroit News 12/7/2009 "Scores of Michigan parents have fallen behind on their child support payments, and state regulations prevent some from ever catching up." Read the entire article: http://www.detnews.com/article/20091207/METRO/912070348/Michigan-rules-derail-child-support-payments By Medline Plus 12/8/2009 "People associate testosterone with aggressiveness, but the male sex hormone actually encourages a sense of fair play, a new study finds. Testosterone does not cause aggression, said lead researcher Michael Naef, of the department of economics at Royal Holloway, University of London. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_92767.html By Medline Plus 12/8/2009 "The human heart twists and turns as it beats, and a German study shows how the twisting and turning differs between men and women, and young and old." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_92770.html By Cambridge News UK "A brutal mother who subjected six of her own children to an horrific campaign of abuse has today been jailed for six years." Read the entire article: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/displayarticle.asp?id=469681
"The MENS society has been officially recognised by the University of Manchester Students’ Union, following a change of name as requested by the union." Read the entire article: http://www.student-direct.co.uk/2009/11/mens-society-becomes-official-union-society/ By Wall Street Journal 11/27/2009 "...The unemployment rate for men, 11.4%, based on seasonally adjusted data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, outpaces the rate for women, 8.8%. We now have the largest jobless gender gap since tracking became possible in 1948. ..." Read the entire article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574531453974382142.html?mod=googlenews_wsj By Dr. Tara J. Palmatier -- Mens News Daily 11/30/2009 "Ain’t love grand! Being involved with an emotionally and/or physically abusive woman can do quite a number on you." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/2009/11/30/betrayal-trauma-how-men-are-affected-by-abusive-women/ By New York Times 12/7/2009 "...A sad, familiar story. But this one had a twist: The patient who came to me for treatment was not the mother but her husband. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/health/08mind.html?_r=1&th&emc=th By Richard L. Davis In sum, the labeling of all acts of physical aggression as violent can have unintended social implications. K. Daniel O’Leary The study of family violence is a complex, multifaceted experience. By its very nature, family violence involves physicians, nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, family counselors, educators, social workers, attorney, judges, and law enforcement officials. All of these professionals have expertise in their own area of specialization. However, they may not understand or appreciate the difficulties experienced by others in their areas of interest.
Warning
Approximately 16 years ago Massachusetts Governor William Weld declared the existence of a state of emergency in the Commonwealth because of the unacceptable frequency and severity of domestic violence. Weld established an Advisory Commission on Domestic Violence to make recommendations to the Governor to address this state of emergency. In addition to federal funding Massachusetts provided additional funding to domestic violence agencies and law enforcement for domestic violence incidents.
If it is the goal of the Deval administration to better understand the patterns in domestic violence, the administration should begin listening to new voices and not the same ideological stakeholders who for 16 years have been receiving funding for intervention programs that have provided the above dismal results. There is little to no need for a $1.3 million study to understand that as long as the vast majority f the funding continues to provide reactive interventions based on 20th century hypotheses and theories, and not 21st century proactive educational initiatives, the numbers will continue to rise.
Because of inherent conflicts of interest (no program wants to be found ineffective), funds for program evaluation must be independent from the control of program sponsors so that the ability to evaluate interventions will not be constrained by legislative or other requirements placed on programs or by political considerations. Ideologically Held Beliefs
The question then arises: Is there something about these relationships in which women are killed that distinguish them from the vast majority of non-lethal but nevertheless abusive intimate relationships? If these lethal relationships are discernibly different, can we use these distinguishing characteristics as a means of identifying and screening out other high risk domestic violence relationships with a view to preventing their escalation to lethal outcomes? The simple answer to both these questions is no. And to recognize which victims are at a greater risk of abuse than others we need to do the opposite of contemporary policies. We need to end generalizing the problem and to begin by recognizing that domestic violence is more prevalent in certain socioeconomic areas, in some cultural behaviors and within specific individuals. If the goal is to better understand domestic violence the Governor might want to begin by asking Professor David Kennedy at Harvard University. Professor Kennedy is the author of Rethinking Law Enforcement Strategies to Prevent Domestic Violence.
However, the data seems to document quite clearly that the dramatic rise and fall of domestic violence related homicides in Massachusetts do not rise and fall with the funding provided by the state or federal government.
1992 – 44 1993 – 25 1994 – 31 1995 – 54 1996 – 26 1997 – 22 1998 – 16 1999 – 27 2000 – 19 2001 – 15 2002 – 20 2003 – 15 2004 – 28 2005 – 14 2006 – 24 2007 - 39 It is both disingenuous and dangerous for interveners to claim that more money will prevent deaths when the data seems to document that over the years the dramatic rise and fall of these horrific homicides do not in any manner, shape or form correlate in any with the funding of domestic violence organizations.
The leaders of these agencies should be aware that there continues to be a great many different theories and hypotheses about the cause of and risk factors for domestic violence. Each of these theories and hypotheses has its own group of proponents and advocates. And each proponent and intervener defines domestic violence from their individual perspective. Domestic violence is far too complex and multifaceted for anyone to claim that it is either predictable or preventable. The most comprehensive college text, Family Violence: Legal, Medical, and Social Perspectives today about the issue of violence in the family notes that: Researchers have interviewed, tested, observed, and evaluated thousands of people in an attempt to discover the factors that contribute to family violence. Unfortunately, to date no one authority has discovered the single correct answer. The full extent of the cause, context, circumstances and consequences of domestic violence are still being debated. Simply defining what “domestic violence” is or is not continues to cause a great deal of controversy.
Perception Becomes Reality
How does one accurately study or research a phenomenon if a definition cannot be agreed on because the definition of any act both sets limits and focuses research within certain boundaries? The lack of agreement in defining family violence has led to confusion and disarray in attempts to determine factors that cause or contribute to family violence. The Confusion and Disarray
NCADV believes violence against women and children results from force or threat to achieve and maintain control in intimate relationships as well as from societal abuse of power and domination via sexism, racism, homophobia, classism, anti-Semitism, able-bodyism, agism and other oppressions. NCADV recognizes abuse of power in society can foster battering by perpetuating conditions that condone violence against women and children. Hence, domestic violence, as defined by the NCADV and member organizations is only a problem for women and children. By its definition the NCADV believes that domestic violence is not a problem for men and in fact by implication, men are the problem. The NCADV is a private agency and has the right to believe and express those beliefs. In its mission statement the NCADV clearly states its purpose is to lobby public policy makers to construct the above beliefs into public policy legislation
The mission of the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) is to provide federal leadership to reduce violence against women (italics added), and to administer justice for and strengthen services to all victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. This is accomplished by developing and supporting the capacity of state, local tribal, and non-profit entities involved in responding to violence against women. I have searched at length and have yet to find any federal leadership similar to the OVW that attempts to reduce domestic violence against men. Apparently domestic violence against men is not viewed by the federal government, similar to the NCADV, as a problem for men. While the NCADV has the right to minimize, marginalize or ignore male victimization, the federal government should not.
Despite the fact that males are 4 times more likely to actually commit suicide, the resolution reports that teenage girls are more likely to report attempted suicides because of dating violence. The resolution ignores the fact that far more boys actually commit suicide than girls.
Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure or wound someone.
This presents a lot more confusion than clarity to the issue for the criminal justice system. In fact, much of the above behaviors seems analogous to the way many parents or caretakers, both male and female, raise children. The lesson taught to children is that those who have the physical or economic power in the family have the right to use those powers to control the behavior of those who do not. Perhaps this style of child rearing may have created some, “unintended social implications,” that we as adults have little to no desire to explore.
The report Controlling Violence Against Women documents that the Violence Against Women Act has spent millions on untested ideological gender-driven and specific interventions using non-systematic polices that lack empirical support of effectiveness.
The OVW definition can unnecessarily reduce a community’s criminal justice and civil resources while at the same time it trivializes the plight of victims who are beaten, battered and raped by claiming that almost every family has a domestic violence victim.
Data does document that some domestic violence does occur because of the misogynist or sexist behavior of some males. However, there is no data that documents that only males desire to have the power to control familial behavior or intimate partner relationships.
I continually strive to be unbiased [no one is completely bias free]. My beliefs are solely founded upon contemporary empirical research. This paper is best read online as much of the research is provide in hyperlink format. That being said, there is little doubt that at times some of my personally held beliefs do make their way into some of these columns. For that I apologize.
Domestic violence interveners and public policy seem to deem the MDVE as important and relevant research. At the same time, these same interveners dismiss the data in SARP studies when that data conflicts with the Duluth Model and mandatory arrest.
And all domestic violence interveners and public policy makers should read “Advancing the Federal Research Agenda on Violence Against Women”. This report was compiled by members of the NAS and presented to Congress. I suggest that if interveners in general and public policy makers in particular read these two reports, contemporary criminal justice policy might be changed.
There appears to be general agreement that when females are placed into domestic violence intervention programs those interventions need to be tailored to fit their needs. Why then, other than it is cost effective, is their logic in continuing to place male offenders into one-size-fits-all programs that are not tailored or individualized to fit their often dramatically different needs? Is ideology hindering more than helping?
While approximately twice as many females than males attempt suicide, the rate of completed suicides in this report was nearly 4 times greater for males than females. Studies also suggest most people who commit suicide are clinically depressed, have other mental health disorders or face life altering stressors.
A report, “Reviewing Domestic Violence Deaths”, sponsored by the NIJ and appears in the November 2003 issue of the NIJ Journal. This NIJ sponsored report notes that fatality reviews might lead to changes to the system that could prevent future domestic violence related deaths. In a report (Kimmel, 2002) covered below, the author repeatedly notes that there should be compassion for all victims of domestic violence.
Also (thinking caps please), most children are very much aware, as the data documents, that mothers can (this should ring a bell) intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, or injure them as often as fathers.
By BlackVoices 12/4/2009 "...There are other interesting questions in the Tiger Woods scandal, such as whether or not Tiger should have gotten married in the first place, or whether it should cost tens of millions of dollars to get out of a bad relationship. Single men don't have to pay to end their relationships, so watching Tiger cough up millions for doing his personal thing is likely to make some people hesitant to get married at all." Read the entire article: http://www.bvonmoney.com/2009/12/04/tiger-woods-scandal-120409/ By Houston Chronicle 12/7/2009 "As far as Hugh E. McGee III was concerned, the “tipping point” was yet one more innocuous Kinkaid School tradition that the politically correct crowd didn't get. It was nothing more than harmless fun, a simple case of boys being boys — or in this case, boys being girls — until the oversensitive liberals stepped in and ruined it for everybody." Read the entire article: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6756272.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+houstonchronicle%2Fmetro+%28chron.com+-+Houston+%26+Texas%29 By ScienceDaily.com 12/7/2009 "Men who have a history of delinquency in childhood are more likely to die or become disabled by the time they are 48, and not just from the obvious consequences of antisocial behaviour, new research indicates." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091207095933.htm By WFTV.com9 – Florida 11/9/2009 "Eyewitness News found a local teacher who's only bringing home around $50 per week. A family court child support decision left him struggling to live and Eyewitness News found out it is not an isolated case." Read the entire article: http://www.wftv.com/news/21564032/detail.html By Canada.com - Canada 12/3/2009 "...After getting divorced, his ex-wife then married the man who was the child's actual biological father -- yet Mike is still legally obligated to pay child support: “I pay child support to a biologically intact family,” Mike told me, his voice cracking with incredulity. “A father and mother, married, who live with their own child. And I pay support for that child. How ridiculous is that?”..." Read the entire article: http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/parenting/archive/2009/12/03/dna-paternity-test.aspx By ScienceDaily.com 11/18/2009 "People who experience a lot of negative emotions and do not express these experience more health problems, says Dutch researcher Aline Pelle. She discovered that heart failure patients with a negative outlook reported their complaints to a physician or nurse far less often. The personality of the partner can also exert a considerable influence on these patients." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091118120314.htm By ScienceDaily.com 12/4/2009 " Married people in the United States are living longer these days, but the widowed are experiencing a higher mortality rate, according to new research by a Michigan State University sociologist." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091202153810.htm By ScienceDaily.com 12/2/2009 "Ninety-six percent of low-income mothers who participated in a recent study on gender-based distrust indicated a strong general feeling of distrust of the opposite sex. However, this general distrust towards men did not prevent them from entering into a marriage, live-in, or romantic relationship." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091202114044.htm By KTLA.com 12/7/2009 "...In one skit, it was reported at a news conference that Woods confessed to "multiple transgressions" - and that as a result of his admission, Woods ends up back in the hospital, this time because he fell down steps and threw himself through a plate glass window. At a later news conference, Woods appears with his "wife" holding a golf club in her hands. He noted: "Wow, I've been really clumsy this week.".." Read the entire article and watch the skit: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-tiger-snl-skit,0,2047861.story By Tom Shales -- Washington Post 12/7/2009 "There's something rare and wonderful about "Men of a Certain Age," and yet it keeps seeming either vaguely or highly familiar. ..."Midlife" takes in a lot of territory: such related subjects as divorce, fear of aging, fear of dying, fear of abandonment and, of course, fear of fear. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/06/AR2009120602273.html By Cathy Young -- Reason 12/4/2009 "As the news of golf superstar Tiger Woods' alleged multiple affairs spills all over the media, a fascinating—and disturbing—subplot to the story has become a revealing litmus test of societal attitudes toward gender and domestic violence." Read the entire article: http://reason.com/archives/2009/12/04/tiger-woods-and-domestic-viole By Richard L. Davis In the introduction of the 2003 Massachusetts Domestic Violence Homicide Report (MDVHR), the authors note, “The human toll from domestic violence is grossly underestimated.” The authors also note:
It has become obvious that when the primary focus is on domestic violence homicides (the rarest form of violence) or injurious physical assaults, our ability to completely identify the broad scope and tragic impact of domestic violence victimization is severely limited. The majority of the nationally recognized domestic violence organizations and researchers concur the issue of domestic violence is far more complex and multifaceted than previously thought and the human toll of its victimization against men has been grossly underestimated.
The Context of Feminist Ideology The Full Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women notes on page iii, “The data show that violence is more widespread and injurious to women’s and men’s health [italics added] than previously thought.” The aforementioned authors also note on page 1, the majority of contemporary research about violence against women is in the context of feminist ideology.The core belief of feminist ideology is expressed by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV):
The NCADV acts as the national voice for domestic violence organizations. As you may note the NCADV does not specifically claim that, all of the above is “caused by men.” However, it does so implicitly by acknowledging only women and children as the victims of domestic violence and ignoring any mention of men as victims. Hence the implication to the reader is that men, who are after all not the victims, must be the “cause” of all the above. Where and when the NCADV finds it is impossible to ignore male victimization, the NCADV then minimize or marginalize male victimization. The NCADV makes it explicitly clear that the mission of the NCADV and its concerns are only for the safety of “all women and children.” The NCADV, it appears, also may act as the voice for the majority of our federal and local policy makers. The 110th Congress H.RES.590 is a resolution that purports to raise awareness of domestic violence in the United States and its devastating effects on families and communities. The assumption should be that the 110th Congress is concerned about raising awareness of all victims. Apparently the 110th Congress does not consider men as either family members or victims. If you read their resolution you will discover the 110th Congress minimizes, marginalizes and ignores males’ victimization and when it does mention men they are presented as the abusers. It is difficult to grasp the absolute and utter ignorance displayed by the 110th Congress. This deep seated inherent ideological bias, that females are the primary victims and males the primary offenders, may be the reason why the media, interveners, public policy makers and the general public have yet to become aware of the negative consequences of domestic violence against males. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is not supportive of the exploration of men’s domestic violence victimization. In fact, VAWA research funding and programs often demand that male victimization be ignored. It is argued by many researchers that VAWA has caused many feminists to replicate the very behavior they railed against in the last century. The VAWA has created biased stereotyping and VAWA has become the nexus of the exclusion of an entire group of people simply because of their gender. Feminist ideological research, by its very nature, creates an implicit bias which fosters subjective not objective research. In the report Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence the authors conclude on page iv:
However, examination of their report reveals they present no empirical evidence-based data that can support their conclusion. A thorough examination of the literature reveals that it is evident that ideological researchers often reach subjective rather than objective conclusions despite empirical data to the contrary. This lack of objectivity may be due to firmly held ideological feminist beliefs which create a sympathetic and empathic bonding between the researchers and their subjects.
The Complexities of Domestic Violence The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) notes:
Clearly all the nationally recognized domestic violence agencies understand that domestic violence can not be measured only through lethality or physical assaults. Psychological abuse can produce emotional victimization that is far more damaging and longer lasting than a physical assault. The OVW defines that emotional abuse as: Undermining an individual’s sense of self-worth and/or self-esteem. This may include, but is not limited to constant criticism, diminishing one’s abilities, name-calling, or damaging one’s relationship with his or her children [italics added].It is clear here the OVW understands “domestic violence” should not be limited to physical assaults. Furthermore the data document that far more people die from suicide than homicide. The majority of suicides involve male victims. Is it possible that domestic violence research, free of feminist ideology, will demonstrate that emotional abuse and suicides account for far more domestic violence-related deaths than homicides? The National Violence Death Reporting System The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is committed to preventing the violent deaths of children, women and men in the United States. The CDC notes that its prevention goal has been and continues to be hampered by fragmented and incomplete data collection. The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) is researching, without any apparent bias or agenda, the toll violent deaths takes on individuals, families, and communities in the United States. The NVDRS documents that violent deaths, including homicides and suicides, cost the United States more than $52 billion in medical care and lost productivity every year. An April 2008 report by the CDC “Surveillance for Violent Deaths -- National Violent Death Reporting System, 16 States, 2005” (SVD) provides revealing data collected by the NVDRS. The SVD documents that approximately 30% of suicides are precipitated by intimate partner problems. The NVDRS collects data about the violent deaths of all victims regardless of age, gender or sexual orientation. The NVDRS data is less fragmented and more complete than any previous data collection of violent deaths. This broad scope of data allows the NVDRS to explore the full scope and in depth, the tragic impact of domestic violence-related deaths. While approximately twice as many females as males attempt suicide, the rate of completed suicide in the SVD report is nearly 4 times greater for males than females. Studies report that many people who commit suicide suffer multiple risk factors, such as clinical depression, mental health disorders and a number of difficult and life altering stressors. Other studies also document that some of these same risk factors contribute to the multiple causes of many domestic violence homicides. Table 9, of the SVD reports intimate partner problems (IPProb) precipitated 2,031 of the male and 439 of the female suicides. An IPProb is defined as a problem with a current or former intimate partner that appears to have contributed to the suicide. Some of the IPProb’s are a divorce, breakup, argument [verbal abuse], jealousy, conflict [perhaps physical and verbal] or discord [perhaps psychological or emotional]. In 2005, 32,637 suicides were reported. The SVD reports 30% of the suicides reported were IPProb related. Hence, it is possible that approximately 7,832 male and 1,958 female suicides were precipitated by intimate partner problems. These intimate partner suicides far exceed the number of intimate partner homicides. When I presented the above data online some readers wondered how many of these intimate partner problem deaths did not demonstrate a direct or indirect association with domestic violence. That question needed to be explored.However, it is important to remember that the OVW acknowledges the violence in contemporary domestic violence can include “constant criticism, diminishing one’s abilities, name-calling, or damaging one’s relationships with his or her children.” There is general agreement that females and males are equally capable of exhibiting this form of violence.The NVDRS data appears to reveal that the “conflict” and “discord” found in the “forced leaving” of intimate relationships may be far more lethally dangerous for men than women. Domestic Violence-Related Deaths This again brings us to the MDVHR, which in turn directs us to the 2005 Utah Department of Health (UDH) study that reported there were 65 domestic violence-related deaths in 2005. The UDH notes there were 44 suicides and 21 homicides. Six of the suicides were males who killed themselves after committing a homicide. The homicide victims were 10 male and 11 females. The suicide victims were 42 male and 2 female. This data is documented by the UDH, Violence and Injury Prevention Program (VIPP). VIPP gets its information from the Utah Violence Death Reporting System (UTVDRS). In the following year, 2006, the Utah Domestic Violence Council (UDVC) did not report the majority of suicides. This is because UDVC only report domestic violence-related deaths that appear in public sources; such as newspapers and the electronic media. The UDVC does acknowledge and report the suicides which occur in the context and circumstances of domestic violence incidents are domestic violence-related deaths.These UDH (2005) report defines the issue of domestic violence as follows:
For this report, a suicide is considered domestic violence related if one of the circumstances surrounding the suicide involved violence or the threat of violence between intimate partners, family members, or roommates. Email correspondence with researchers at the Utah Department of Health, Violence and Injury Prevention Program (VIPP) reveal that the reason for the apparent dramatic differences in the number of domestic violence-related deaths as document by the UDH and the UDVC are twofold. One is the definitions they use and the second is their source of information. The data by VIPP comes from the Utah Violence Deaths Reporting System (UTVDRS) which includes medical examiner and police reports. The UTVDRS data is a lengthy process that can take up to 18 months to complete. The UDVC reports only public media information at the end of each year. The VIPP researchers did clarify that suicides defined as domestic-violence related fatalities are reported for incidents only when there is actual violence or the threat of violence surrounding the incident. These domestic violence-related deaths do not include incidents where there was only a verbal argument or a separation. On the front page of the 2006 Utah Domestic Violence Related Deaths it found, “These troubling statistics document, in summary form, the broad scope and tragic impact of domestic violence in Utah.” What should be apparent to the UDVC is that exploring domestic violence-related deaths only in summary form provides a very limited examination of the problem. The authors of the MDVHR are correct to note in its introduction, “The domestic violence homicides and suicides that are reported in the public print and electronic media represent just the tip of the iceberg regarding mortality and morbidity resulting from domestic violence.” They are right. The NVDRS may reveal more of that iceberg as more states join the effort. It is the goal of the NVDRS to develop a national system that actually can, in an unbiased and nonideological process, document the broad scope and tragic impact of domestic violence. For now the data is only reported from 17 states. And Utah is the only state, to my knowledge, that has published a more complete picture of the tragic impact domestic violence has on men, women and children. Let us hope that before long, the NVDRS will set truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth free from contemporary, fragmented and incomplete ideological research. Perception and Polarization Many of the national recognized domestic violence organizations and researchers who write about domestic violence from a feminist ideological perception argue that some men’s rights groups are guilty of extracting only data from studies that present their perception that men and women are equally guilty of domestic violence. A review of the literature documents this is true. However, the vast majority of the national recognized domestic violence organizations, for decades, have done the same. It is written ubiquitously that around the world, 1 in 3 women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime. A unbiased review of the literature documents that when researchers use the same methodology used in gathering that data, the data will reveal the same is approximately true for 1 in 3 men. It is now written ubiquitously that, 1 in 5 female high school students report being physically and/or sexually abused by a dating partner. An unbiased review of the literature documents that when researchers use the same methodology used in gathering dating violence data, the data will reveal the same is approximately true for male high school students. It is a fact, if one reviews the literature, that the nationally recognized domestic violence organizations, similar to the NCADV, have for decades now, been presenting only data that favors their perspective and their concerns. And when an organization similar to the NCADV does so, while it may not be an honest presentation, it is understandable why the NCADV does so. The NCADV is only concerned, as its website clearly documents, with women and children. It is far less understandable when our public policy makers do the same. I think that most people believe that our public policy makers should be equally concerned about males and females. House resolution 590 and the VAWA are just two of many examples of where our policy makers are placing their concerns about females before males. On March 11, 2009 President Obama announced the formation of a White House Council on Women and Girls. As the father of three daughters and two sons, I would like to commend President Obama for establishing a council that is intended to provide a coordinated federal response to the challenges that my daughters will confront in this 21st century. However, as the father of three daughters and two sons, I find it impossible to understand why President Obama believes it is not necessary to establish a council that is intended to provide a coordinated federal response to the challenges that my sons will confront in this 21st century. Does President Obama believe that my sons are living in the promised land and my daughters are not? The White House Council on Women and Girls is being established to ensure that agencies across the federal government, not just a few offices, take into account the particular needs and concerns of women and girls. I would like to suggest a few of the particular needs and concerns of men and boys. Our sons are growing up in a society and government that both focus on the familial victimization of females over males. Our sons are growing up in a society where far more males than females are dropping out of high school. Our sons are growing up in a society were almost 60% of students entering college are female. Our sons are growing up in a society where males serve longer prison sentences than females. Our sons are growing up in a society where women live longer than men. Our sons are growing up in a society where far more males are tanking their own live more than females. And sadly, this is only a partial list of some of our son’s particular needs and concerns. Those of us who voted for President Obama did so for a variety of reasons, however, the most prominent reason was we believed we were voting for change. Perhaps President Obama might consider a White House Council on Men and Boys that would meet regularly to serve as a forum for all involved federal agencies to focus on helping our sons as well as our daughters. Conclusion Perhaps neither contemporary dueling positions [men are more violent than women vs. men and women are equally responsible for domestic violence] in the academe or those working in the field will find solace in the NVDRS findings. Homicide Trends in the United States and other data clearly document that men commit more lethal violence than women. However, NVDRS data documents that the vast majority of lethality, both inside and outside the home, is directed at other men or themselves. Given the OVW definition of domestic violence, it becomes impossible to responsibly claim that females do not commit at least an equal amount of that type of violence. What has not been recognized until now, as the NVDRS data demonstrates, is that it appears the majority of domestic violence-related deaths are suffered by males not females. The question that now must be explored is how much of the female violence is responsible or at least a factor for the high rate of domestic violence-related deaths suffered by males. Researchers Evan Stark and Anne Flitcraft have suggested that some women are driven to suicide because of power and control issues. Women request and are issued restraining orders far more often than men and women initiate divorce or separation more often than men. Restraining orders and divorces are most often based on perceptions of those involved rather than empirical evidence-based data. It is most often men who lose the children, the home, and perhaps their sense of self-worth and/or self-esteem along with being ordered to pay alimony and child support. All of the above are issues that include emotional and psychological life altering stressors that may depress some men and drive some to suicide because they now have lost everything they have worked for. And if that divorce follows years of constant criticism, diminishing one’s abilities, name-calling, followed by the issuance of a restraining order that often damages a man’s relationship with his children, this behavior might fit the OVW definition of “abuse.” Most often society views the divorce process as “a person’s right to choose” and rarely is that process viewed as “abusive behavior.”These findings join the ever growing list of data that document domestic violence-related fatalities are a problem for adult heterosexual women. However, the NCDRS reveals that domestic violencerelated fatalities are not exclusively or primarily a problem for adult heterosexual women.Also fatality reviews and NVDRS data clearly document that the deaths inside and outside of home, regardless of age, gender or sexual orientation have far more complex and multifaceted causes than sexism and oppression. It was the MDVHR that led me to the Utah report and the CDC to the NVDRS. The MDVHR clearly documents, despite the inability or unwillingness of the authors to recognize it even when they report it, the many multifaceted complexities, contexts and unreasoned or irrational circumstances and happenstances of domestic violence homicides. The MDVHR authors conclude that social norms (although their report does not specify or acknowledge what these social norms are), are the primary cause for these horrific homicides. This subjective conclusion lacks any evidence-based data in their report and probably rests on the dated mid-20th century hypothesis that violence against women is exclusively or primarily caused by sexism and the oppression of women.The report from the National Research Council, Advancing the Federal Research Agenda on Violence Against Women concludes:
Perhaps the NVDRS data will set some researchers, domestic violence interveners and policy makers free from concluding they have already discovered the single correct answer to this enigma which continues to plague children, women and men. _____________________________________ Note from the author: Although this is only a 6 page paper, because of the hyperlinks, it actually contains hundreds of studies and reams of data used to reach the above conclusions. About the author: Richard L. Davis served in the United States Marine Corps from 1960 to 1964. He is a retired lieutenant from the Brockton, Massachusetts police department. He has a graduate degree in liberal arts from Harvard University and a second in criminal justice from Anna Maria College. He is a member of the International Honor Society of Historians and the American Society of Criminology. He is a college instructor for Quincy College at Plymouth, MA in Criminology, Criminal Justice and Domestic Violence. He is the vice president for Family Nonviolence, Inc. www.familynonviolence.com in Fairhaven, MA. He is an independent consultant for criminal justice domestic violence policies, procedures, and programs. He is the author of Domestic Violence: Facts and Fallacies by Praeger publishers and Domestic Violence Intervention, Prevention, Policies, and Solutions by CRC Press. He has written numerous articles for newspapers, journals, and magazines concerning the issue of domestic violence. His columns concerning domestic violence at www.policeone.com, and http://www.californiamenscenters.org/wordpress. He is a distance learner instructor in Introduction to Criminal Justice and Domestic Violence for the Online Police Academy and has a website at www.policewriter.com. He lives in Plymouth, Massachusetts with his wife the youngest of five children. He experienced domestic violence professionally for 21 years as a police officer and personally as a child and as an adult. In his retirement he continues to use his education, experience, and training to help the children, women, and men who have had to endure violence from those who profess to love them. He may be reached at rldavis@post.harvard.edu. All Rights Reserved 2009 Richard L. Davis
By CNN Health 12/2/2009 "Should a man have to choose between his golf drive and his sex drive?" Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/12/02/doping.golfer/index.html By Arizona Daily Star -- Opinion by Eugene Robinson 11/28/2009 "...For me, "test or no test" is a no-brainer: African-American men are at elevated risk for prostate cancer, so I have had my PSA level checked at my annual physical since I was in my early 40s. So far, so good. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/319172
By Robert Franklin, Esq. -- Mens News Daily 12/2/2009 "John Nelson went from six-figure-earning software exectutive to unemployed overnight. But his $2,200 child support payment didn't change that quickly. It took a year for him to get a hearing, and when he finally did, the judge increased his obligation." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/12/02/family-attorney-marsha-freeman-the-system-is-broken/ By Boston Globe - Massachusetts 12/2/2009 "...There is a problem, though. For a dad to be involved, it takes a mom to be inclusive. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.boston.com/community/moms/blogs/child_caring/2009/12/benefits_of_fat.html By ScienceDaily.com 12/2/2009 " Young men who believe that happiness declines with age are more likely to engage in risky health behaviors such as binge drinking. Their misguided negative view of the aging process may act as a disincentive to behave 'sensibly' and encourage them to make the most of the present in anticipation of 'miserable' old age." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091201111152.htm By ScienceDaily.com 11/30/2009 "Common mental disorders, such as depression and alcohol misuse, are the top psychological problems amongst UK troops post-deployment and not post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as is widely believed. A study published in the open access journal, BMC Psychiatry, also finds that reservists remain at special risk of operational stress injury." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091029211531.htm By FoxNews.com 11/24/2009 "Women can be cruel, and they often do cruel things to men. Despite their reputation as the fairer sex, when it comes to relationships, sometimes women can be downright nasty." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576585,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By The Washington Post 11/24/2009 "Elevated levels of two plastic-softening chemicals in pregnant women's urine are linked to less-masculine play behavior by their sons several years later, according to a study published last week in the International Journal of Andrology." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/20/AR2009112003698.html NYC Children Arrested for Allegedly Bringing Box Cutter, Knife to SchoolWednesday, 02 December 2009
By Fox News 11/27/2009 " Two 3rd grade boys and a 5th grader have been arrested on charges they brought a box cutter and a knife to a Bronx school." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,577031,00.html By Cambridge News "A SCHOOLGIRL who accused six teens of gang rape after a school prom has been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice." Read the entire article: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/displayarticle.asp?id=453428
By Seattle Times 11/22/2009 "Last December, a state child-support enforcement officer in Vancouver made a startling discovery: The state of Washington had taken nearly $21,000 over 10 years from a father for child support he did not owe." Read the entire article: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010327508_childsupport22m.html By KAMR - Texas 12/1/2009 "The Obama Administration is holding a series of forums this fall about fatherhood and the roll that dad can play within the school." Read the entire article: http://myhighplains.com/content/fulltext/?cid=96292 By Janesville Gazette - Wisconsin 12/1/2009 "...Family breakups are generally just as financially difficult for fathers as for mothers. Women’s advocates often claim that divorced or separated mothers are quickly reduced to poverty, while newly single fathers enjoy large increases in their standards of living. Once again, this is outright nonsense. ..." Read the entire article: http://gazettextra.com/news/2009/dec/01/deadbeat-dads-term-unfair-caring-fathers/ By Access Washington – Washington State 11/30/2009 "...Through the three-year project, the DSHS Division of Child Support will work with local governments to help the unwed parents file official parenting plans. The development and eventual filing of a parenting plan involves coordination between various community groups, including dispute resolution centers, court facilitators, court clerks and the DCS. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.dshs.wa.gov/mediareleases/2009/pr09185.shtml By FOX Charlotte – North Carolina 12/1/2009 "...More women going back to work. Earning more money. And suddenly able to pay more child support. But they might not want to. Hollen talked about a recent case, saying "The mom said that she was only working part time and couldn't get to work. Come to find out she had a car, she had her own place, she was working full time."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxcharlotte.com/dpp/news/deadbeat_moms_120209 By WTHR.com 11/24/2009 "It's a disturbing game with devastating consequences, and a new WTHR survey new WTHR survey suggests it is rampant in Indiana schools. "Ball tapping" is the act of intentionally hitting or kicking a male in the genitals." Read the entire article: http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=11568681 By ScienceDaily.com 11/26/2009 "Hyperactive boys don't get enough sleep, which can worsen their condition according to new research. Published in the November issue of Pediatrics, the study is the first to examine a large sample of children and to study the link between lack of sleep and hyperactivity" Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091130103731.htm By Guardian.co.uk 11/24/2009 "I realise I am walking willingly into the snares of the toxic sisterhood by admitting this, but as a woman (and elected students' union officer) I think the new crop of male-specific support groups that are springing up across universities is actually a pretty good sign." Read the entire article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/24/mens-groups-students-gender By The Frisky 11/29/2009 "Most colleges these days have a women’s group and lots of colleges have a Women’s Studies, or even better, a Gender & Sexuality Studies program. But recently, male students at Oxford University and Manchester University in the U.K. have started their very own “men’s groups” to work through their issues with the current state of dude-dom. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-young-men-at-oxford-university-start-their-own-masculinity-club/ By CBS 11 11/18/2009 "With about half of all marriages ending in divorce, many parents are left fighting for custody of their children." Read the entire article: http://cbs11tv.com/local/divorce.custody.hearing.2.1321402.html By Salon.com 11/20/2009 "A man is supposed to take care of his children. If he gets a woman pregnant, he's expected to step up and take responsibility. But what if that man discovers that the child he thought was his own -- the kid he read to, cuddled and tucked in at night -- is another man's?..." Read the entire article: http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/11/20/paternity/ By Robert Franklin, Esq. -- Mens News Daily 11/25/2009 "...As it stands now, the best we do is presume that a married man is the father of any child born to his wife during their marriage. As countless examples have shown, that presumption is often wrong. ..." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/25/paternity-fraud-the-flip-side/ By Health Education Research - USA "...Teenage pregnancy prevention programmes targeted at young women have received considerable attention from researchers and programme developers. However, to date, relatively limited information is available on preventing teenage fatherhood or improving outcomes for young fathers. ..." Read the entire article: http://her.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/6/999 By London Evening Standard – United Kingdom 11/24/2009 "...Mr Patel said: "We treat this with the same level of seriousness as selling medicine. When people come in we explain what the kit is about and explain that it has to be signed by the legal guardian of the child before testing. There is more control here than there is on the internet. All our pharmacists are trained in how to use the kit. "Nobody would use it if there were not already arguments within the family. This is very useful for peace of mind."..." Read the entire article: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23773999-families-at-risk-as-chemists-sell-paternity-test-kits.do By The Grio – New York 11/20/2009 "Should paternity tests become mandatory for all newborn babies? A state legislator in Tennessee thinks so." Read the entire article: http://www.thegrio.com/2009/11/-should-paternity-tests-become.php The Birmingham News - al.com - Alabama 11/24/2009 "...Ron Burt, project director for the program that serves people in the Bessemer Cutoff, said more than half of the participants in the fathering court program faced jail time for failure to pay child support. Burt said some are quick to label the men in the program "deadbeat dads," but that it is usually a lack of work or low-paying jobs that has caused them to fall behind." Read the entire article: http://blog.al.com/birmingham-news-stories/2009/11/bessemer_court_program_helps_m.html By Examiner.com - Michigan 11/25/2009 "...This law has stopped many fathers their rights and or visitation to their children. Some even can’t pay child support, her husband is responsible. But there is a flip-side to this as well….Some husbands don’t want to be responsible for children that are not theirs, but the law make them pay the child support. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-3284-Detroit-Top-News-Examiner~y2009m11d25-You-are-the-fatherBut-if-shes-married-under-Michigan-Law-youre-not By The Detroit News - Michigan 11/25/2009 "...Even though DNA tests, the child's mother and Quinn all agree he's her father, Michigan law says he's not. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.detnews.com/article/20091125/METRO/911250368/Some-fathers-say-Michigan-paternity-law-shuts-them-out By New York Times 11/22/2009 "...President Obama will announce a campaign Monday to enlist companies and nonprofit groups to spend money, time and volunteer effort to encourage students, especially in middle and high school, to pursue science, technology, engineering and math, officials say. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/science/23educ.html?bl By The Washington Post 11/21/2009 "...If we are to prevent the achievement gap and develop a cradle-to-career educational pipeline, early learning programs are going to have to be better integrated with the K-12 system," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday at a convention of the nation's largest early childhood organization, the National Association for the Education of Young Children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/20/AR2009112002391.html?hpid=sec-education By ScienceDaily.com 11/18/2009 "Scientists in China are reporting discovery of unusual liver proteins, found only in males, that may help explain the long-standing mystery of why the hepatitis B virus (HBV) sexually discriminates -- hitting men harder than women." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091118112425.htm By ScienceDaily.com 11/18/2009 "A new study in the Journal of American College Health finds that students placed by their universities in coed housing are 2.5 times more likely to binge drink each week than students placed in all-male or all-female housing." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091117094833.htm By ScienceDaily.com 11/19/2009 "Males have more pronounced personalities than females across a range of species -- from humans to house sparrows -- according to new research. Consistent personality traits, such as aggression and daring, are also more important to females when looking for a mate than they are to males. Research from the University of Exeter draws together a range of studies to reveal the role that sexual selection plays in this disparity between males and females." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091117191052.htm By Gather.com - USA 11/19/2009 "...“The Child Support System is a little known mess of incompetence and corruption…unless of course you have been caught up in it.” These are the opening words to a new website that promises to play a part in gathering a petition to Reform Child Support Law! ..." Read the entire article: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977909451 By Gather.com - USA 11/19/2009 "...Based on U.S. Census data, non-custodial mothers are 20% more likely to default on their child support obligations than non-custodial fathers. This is despite the fact that non-custodial mothers are less likely to be required to pay child support. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977909476 By 24-7PressRelease.com (press release) - USA "Florida law governing what was formerly known as primary and secondary child custody and the concept of visitation changed significantly on October 1, 2008. Chapter 61 of the Florida Statutes now highlights the importance of both parents in a child's life, introducing the concepts of parenting plans and time-sharing." Read the entire article: http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/how-will-floridas-new-child-custody-laws-affect-you-125259.php By New York Times 11/17/2009 "...The revelation from a DNA test was devastating and prompted him to leave his wife — but he had not renounced their child. He continued to feel that in all the ways that mattered, she was still his daughter, and he faithfully paid her child support. It was only when he learned that his ex-wife was about to marry the man who she said actually was the girl’s biological father that Mike flipped. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/magazine/22Paternity-t.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1
By ScienceDaily.com 11/16/2009 "A study of 145 preschool children reports, for the first time, that when the concentrations of two common phthalates in mothers' prenatal urine are elevated their sons are less likely to play with male-typical toys and games, such as trucks and play fighting." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091116085040.htm By Cathy Young -- Forbes 11/19/2009 "Feminism should be about equality--for males too." Read the entire article: http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/19/mens-rights-feminism-equality-violence-opinions-contributors-cathy-young.html By Radio New Zealand News 11/19/2009 "The principal Family Court Judge is calling for a radical re-think in the prevention of and intervention in domestic violence." Read the entire article: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2009/11/19/1245d40464d5 By Des Moines Register 11/15/2009 "Greg Geist of Carroll says the Iowa Department of Human Services wrongly placed him on the state's child abuse registry. And an administrative law judge with the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals agrees. In a ruling this summer, the judge reversed and "found to be incorrect" a social worker's finding that Geist sexually abused a 15-year-old boy." Read the entire article: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20091115/OPINION03/911150317/1110/A-year-shattered-by-sex-abuse-allegations By Politics Daily 11/13/2009 "Two viral videos of girl-on-girl and woman-on-woman violence grabbed the world by the throat this week and raised the question: Are American females becoming more violent?" Read the entire article: http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/11/13/are-women-becoming-more-violent/
By KCTV5 11/19/2009 "In states like Kansas, DNA evidence is not enough to prove who a child's father is under the law." To View Video: http://www.kctv5.com/video/21605184/index.html By DailyMail - UK 11/13/2009 "A woman who made eight separate false claims of rape or sexual assault has been spared jail. Gemma Gregory, 28, accused seven different men over a six-year period. Former boyfriends were subjected to police questioning and DNA testing to clear their names." Read the entire article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-493352/Woman-falsely-cried-rape-EIGHT-times-spared-jail.html By YahooNews 11/19/2009 "...The governing board of the University of California approved a $2,500 student fee increase Thursday after two days of tense campus protests across the state. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_us/us_california_university_fees By The Barrie Examiner - Canada 11/17/2009 "...I explained to the frontline worker that I receive $825 net from the Department of National Defence and $475 net from Veterans Affairs, however, I pay $900 in child support, which leaves me $400 a month to live off. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2178550 By Daily Mail – United Kingdom 11/18/2009 "Britain's first over-the-counter paternity test kit went on sale amid claims that it could tear families apart and lead to misery for rejected children." By New York Times - New York 11/17/2009 "...It is filled with tales of women who were the primary earners in a marriage, and who watched their husbands gain primary physical custody of their children when the marriage ended. ..." Read the entire article: http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/more-fathers-getting-custody-in-divorce/ By Working Mothers – USA "Are more women facing the impossible choice between keeping a career that pays the bills and living with their children? When it comes to heartbreaking custody wars, people inside and outside the courts say that the growing number of stay-at-home dads and breadwinner moms means more working mothers are fighting an unprecedented uphill battle." Read the entire article: http://www.workingmother.com/web?service=direct/1/ViewRotatingPortlet/RotatingPortalBlocks/dlinkArticle&sp=S2868&sp=120 By FoxNews.com 11/19/2009 "Blessed with a Friday off school, 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante dug two holes in the ground to be used as a grave, authorities said. For the next week, she attended classes, all the while plotting the right time for a murder, they said." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575590,00.html By KVBC - Nevada 11/16/2009 "Michael Jackson's former doctor remains under criminal investigation for the pop star's death. But as far as the doctor's late child support payments, his slate has been wiped clean." Read the entire article: http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=11516252 By In-Forum - Minnesota 11/18/2009 "The state of Minnesota is considering taking on the collection of court-ordered child support, which is now handled by counties." Read the entire article: http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/260026/group/life/ House Health Care Bill Provides Grants to Increase Teen Contraception UseThursday, 19 November 2009
By CNSNews.com - USA 11/17/2009 "A provision in the recently passed House health care reform bill (H>R> 3962) creates a grant program to reward groups that promote contraceptive use among teens." Read the entire article: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/57216 By Washington Post 11/18/2009 "...But he maintained his innocence, denouncing the criminal justice system he said he defended while in the Army. "Perhaps God's purpose for my death is to demonstrate just how fractured our judicial system has become," Elliott said. "In this great country, we should not arrest and convict innocent people of any crime, let alone capital murder, nor should we kill innocent people as the Commonwealth of Virginia has done today."..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/17/AR2009111702515.html By USA Today 11/17/2009 "...Still, another jump in suicide figures for 2009 would make it the fifth straight year that such deaths have set a record as troops continue to come under the stress of two overseas wars. It compares with 140 in 2008, 115 in 2007 and 102 in 2006. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-11-17-army-suicides-rise_N.htm?csp=34&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&POE=click-refer By CNN.com 11/17/2009 "A suburban Atlanta high school teacher has been accused of pursuing a "hit" on a 16-year-old student last month, and the case is under investigation by local authorities." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/17/teacher.hit.man/index.html?eref=rss_crime&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_crime+%28RSS%3A+Crime%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo By ScienceDaily.com 11/15/2009 "'What is very striking,' says Professor Croll, 'is that for this generation there is absolutely no gender stereotyping in hopes for the future. Furthermore, what children say at the age of 11 about school participation after the age of 16 is highly predictive of their actual behaviour.'..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091115123711.htm By ScienceDaily.com 11/4/2009 "According to research from the University of Gothenburg, a preschooler's gender determines how he or she is treated and responded to in play and learning activities, and when the children's possibilities become expanded, it is usually a result of the children's and not the teachers' initiative." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091103102355.htm By ScienceDaily.com 10/26/2009 "Having children improves married peoples' life satisfaction and the more they have, the happier they are. For unmarried individuals, raising children has little or no positive effect on their happiness. These findings by Dr. Luis Angeles from the University of Glasgow in the UK have just been published online in Springer's Journal of Happiness Studies." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091027101420.htm By FoxNews 11/16/2009 "...Shaniya's father, Bradley Lockhart, said he raised his daughter for several years but last month decided to let her stay with her mother. He had pleaded for her safe return. ...Davis struggled financially over the years, but she recently obtained a job and her own place, so Lockhart said he decided to give her a chance to raise their daughter. "I should've never let her go over there," he said Saturday night. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575304,00.html By Wall Street Journal 11/16/2009 "-- Researchers said men at age 40 in the U.S. have a one-in-eight chance of suffering sudden cardiac death over the rest of their lives, a stark indication of the toll cardiovascular disease exacts on society." Read the entire article: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB125833149978449651-lMyQjAxMDI5NTE4NjMxMzYxWj.html By KYW1060.com - Philadelphia "...Federal education secretary Arne Duncan calls fathers the most important teachers, remarking, “…when a father steps up, outcomes improve dramatically.” Duncan sees an expanded role for public schools to meet family needs, envisioning schools as “neighborhood anchors,” open 12-14 hours a day, seven days a week offering parental training. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.kyw1060.com/pages/5617946.php?
By Black Voice News -- California 11/11/2009 "...The course was designed to help fathers overcome the everyday challenges of balancing themselves, their family and the lives of their children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.blackvoicenews.com/content/view/43687/3/ By San Francisco Chronicle 11/10/2009 "A San Francisco woman has been arrested in what police described as the domestic-violence slaying of a 42-year-old man bludgeoned to death in a Sixth Street hotel, authorities said Monday." Read the entire article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/10/BAE21AHH11.DTL By USA Today.com 11/12/2009 "..."I was blown away," he said of first learning of the allegations. "It shocked me. It hurt. Because people that know me and that I'm close with know this is ridiculous."..." Read the entire article: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/thehuddle/post/2009/11/ben-roethlisberger-says-bond-with-teammates-has-helped-him-weather-sexual-assault-accusations/1 By K-State Collegian 11/9/2009 "...According to the Department of Labor statistics, over the past couple years, women’s wages rose 3.2 percent and men’s only rose 2 percent, both with inflation. In the median quarterly earning in the third quarter of 2009, minority women earned more than men; black women earned a 7.3-percent increase, Hispanic women earned a 5.5-percent increase and Asian women had a 1.8-percent increase. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.kstatecollegian.com/news/women-s-wages-increasing-more-than-men-s-1.2057862#5 By The News Star 11/9/2009 "...The victim told police his wife accused him of cheating on her and hit him in the face during an argument, the arrest affidavit said. Police said the victim had a three inch cut on his face. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20091109/UPDATES01/91109036 By SeattlePi 11/11/2009 "Police here have arrested a woman for allegedly raping her daughter's 14-year-old boyfriend." Read the entire article: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/412104_bellevue11.html By NorthernStar 11/10/2009 "The media may be the root of violence against men who participate in feminine activities, said Diana Swanson, acting director of Women’s Studies, in a lecture Monday night." Read the entire article: http://www.northernstar.info/article/9060/ By ScienceDaily.com 11/9/2009 "Men whose prostate specific antigen (PSA) rise within 18 months of radiotherapy are more likely to develop spread and die of their disease, according to an international study led by Fox Chase Cancer Center radiation oncologist Mark K. Buyyounouski, M.D., M.S. and presented today at the annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091104152255.htm By ScienceDaily.com 11/3/2009 "The gender difference between men and women is a lot smaller than we've been led to believe when it comes to heart attack symptoms, according to a new study presented to the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2009, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091025091140.htm By ScienceDaily.com 11/12/2009 "There is a tendency to think that only men treat women in a sexist way, but a new study by a University of Miami researcher and his daughter shows that both men and women participate in maintaining a gender hierarchy in our society. The study was recently published by the journal of Sex Roles." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091112151434.htm By MSNBC.com 11/12/2009 "...Across the country, droves of people like Lackey are unable to find teaching jobs, in large part because the economy is forcing school systems to slash positions. The teacher shortage that many feared just a few years ago has turned into a teacher glut. ... Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33892103/ns/business-careers/ By Medline Plus 11/11/2009 "When it comes to teaching healthy behaviors, boys' high school team sports might be doing more harm than thought. New research suggests that for teenage boys, participation in team sports may encourage unruly behavior such as fighting and binge drinking." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_91741.html By Gordon E. Finley Ph.D. (Letter to the Editor) New York Times 11/9/2009 "...Fathers indeed are different from mothers, and in no way deficient just because they are different. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/health/10lett-ALLINTHEFAMI_LETTERS.html?ref=science By Laurie Tarkan -- New York Times 11/2/2009 "...As much as mothers want their partners to be involved with their children, experts say they often unintentionally discourage men from doing so. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health/03dads.html?ex=1272949200&en=8822595cdac6b783&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=HL-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M122t-ROS-1109-HDR&WT.mc_ev=click By Hilton Head Island Packet – South Carolina 11/7/2009 "Separate accusations against former Beaufort County Clerk of Court Elizabeth Smith and a former Union County Clerk of Court for misuing state child support funds haven't shaken the state's confidence in its 46 clerks of court." Read the entire article: http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/1027330.html By The Star-Ledger - NJ.com – New Jersey 11/8/2009 "By early morning yesterday, it was clear the four-day "Fugitive Safe Surrender" in Newark was on track to be one of the biggest in the country." Read the entire article: http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-15/1257642908201950.xml&coll=1 By WESH.com - Florida 11/7/2009 "...Rodriguez was divorced twice and owed child support to two former wives that he couldn't pay. One friend said Rodriguez became more and more bitter about being unable to find another engineering job, about having to move back in with his mother and about making around $20,000 a year working at Subway. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.wesh.com/news/21549316/detail.html By Sam Dillon -- New York Times 10/8/2009 "On any given day, about one in every 10 young male high school dropouts is in jail or juvenile detention, compared with one in 35 young male high school graduates, according to a new study of the effects of dropping out of school in an America where demand for low-skill workers is plunging." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/education/09dropout.html?fta=y By New York Times 11/11/2009 "Congress took a reasonable step in 1994 when it required states receiving federal education money to expel students who brought guns onto school property, but states and localities overreacted, as they so often do. They enacted “zero tolerance” policies under which children are sometimes arrested for profanity, talking back, shoving matches and other behavior that would once have been resolved with detention or meetings with the students’ parents." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/opinion/11wed2.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
By People.com 11/10/2009 "In his custody fight for son Tripp, Levi Johnston says he's up against a powerful foe: Sarah Palin." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20318930,00.html By Washington Post (Letter to the Editor) 11/10/2009 "...Maryland is one of only 12 states that do not have a statutory preference for joint custody, and many Marylanders are trying to bring the state into line with a favorable joint custody statute in the District and a preference for shared parenting in southwestern Virginia courts. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/09/AR2009110903167.html By 4029TV.com - Arkansas 11/5/2009 "They have failed to pay child support for years. Now, the Washington County Sheriff's Office has put the faces of “deadbeat moms and dads” on its Web site, and it's getting a lot of attention." Read the entire article: http://www.4029tv.com/news/21535509/detail.html By Lufkin Daily News - Texas 11/8/2009 "Dear Jeff: My son has been divorced for three years now and has three children in his custody. The mother is supposed to pay child support but has been in hiding all this time." Read the entire article: http://www.lufkindailynews.com/hp/content/business/stories/2009/11/08/ask_the_lawyer.html By Fox4kc.com - Missouri 11/6/2009 "...With no money, doing odd jobs, and a sobriety issue, Gainey fell behind in his child support, and wound up facing criminal charges. Despite that, prosecutors deemed him a good candidate for a diversion program that could give Gainey a fresh start and keep him out of prison: fathering court. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.fox4kc.com/news/wdaf-story-daddy-do-over-110609,0,5997057.story By Middletown Journal - Ohio 11/10/2009 "A dad who has refused to pay child support will spend the next five Father’s Days in jail." Read the entire article: http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/crime/dad-sentenced-to-spend-fathers-days-in-jail-for-not-paying-support-393288.html By ScienceDaily.com 11/9/2009 "...Boys diagnosed with cancer who have reached puberty currently have an opportunity to preserve their fertility: before undergoing cancer treatment, they may have their semen frozen and preserved in sperm banks. Younger boys, however, do not produce sperm, although their testicular tissue contains young cells that will eventually become sperm. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091109121328.htm By People.com 11/9/2009 "...Johnston is seeking joint custody at the end of the month because the Palin family is allegedly making it difficult for him to see his son, he told The Insider. "It's not working. I'm done," he said. "It's going to have to go to court. They just finally pushed me over the edge."..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20318502,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines By Yahoo News 11/8/2009 "The city of romance got a lesson in love's hard knocks Sunday, as thousands flocked to the French capital's first divorce fair. In France, nearly one out of two marriages ends in divorce, according to the country's National Institute of Demographic Studies. More than 130,000 divorces were registered in 2007, as compared to just 50,000 three decades ago." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091108/ap_on_re_eu/eu_france_divorce_fair By CNN.com 11/7/2009 "...Chanting "Kill the bill" and "Hell, no" throughout the nearly 90-minute rally, the few hundred attendees kept up their opposition despite having a much lower turnout than a similar rally held on Thursday. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/07/health.care.rally/index.html By USA Today 11/8/2009 "The engineer accused of fatally shooting one employee and wounding five others at the firm where he once worked is "very mentally ill" and crumbled under the stress of his divorce, bankruptcy and unemployment, his attorney said Saturday." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-11-06-orlando-shots-office_N.htm?POE=click-refer By USA Today 11/8/2009 "Amputations. Combat stress. Divorce. Suicide. For troubled servicemembers, military therapists are at their sides. But with the U.S. fighting two wars, an acute shortage of trained personnel has left these therapists emotionally drained and overworked, with limited time to prepare for their own war deployments." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2009-11-08-army-therapists-strained_N.htm?POE=click-refer By ScienceDaily.com 11/6/2009 "School-based physical education plays a key role in curbing obesity and improving fitness among adolescents from low-income communities, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and UC Berkeley." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091105132456.htm By FoxNews 11/9/2009 "State Police investigators said in a written report that a woman who killed seven people plus herself in a crash on the Taconic State Parkway was a regular marijuana user. The report says Diane Schuler's husband told police his wife "smoked marijuana once in a while to relieve the stress of work and the kids."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,572912,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r3:c0.138009:b28755309:z10 By FoxNews.com 11/7/2009 "A Minnesota teen who fled the state to avoid chemotherapy has finished his cancer treatment. Daniel Hauser of Sleepy Eye underwent his final radiation session Friday, and his family says the 13-year-old is cancer-free." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,572917,00.html By Trudy Schuett -- Domestic Violence Examiner 11/7/2009 "Yesterday, I noticed in my Google alerts the latest of a long line of hateful screeds directed at anyone who dares challenge the validity and/or usefulness of the Violence Against Women Act. In it, I found the usual litany of attack phrases about bullying and stupidity, not to mention the veiled accusations of criminal activity." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-12866-Domestic-Violence-Examiner~y2009m11d7-What-is-the-Violence-Against-Women-Act-about By NBC Connecticut 11/2/2009 "...Brant, who lists assets of about $490 million, was supposed to start paying his wife of 16 years $270,000 a month in alimony and support for their three kids on Oct. 23. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/Despite-Divorce-Former-Model-Lives-Good-Life-In-CT-68534322.html By Washington Post 11/5/2009 "The National Organization for Women called on the Oakland Raiders to suspend coach Tom Cable while the team investigates allegations he has a history of violent behavior toward women." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110503558.html
By Kathryn Joyce -- Double X 11/5/2009 "...RADAR’s rhetoric may seem overblown, but lately the group and its many partners have been racking up very real accomplishments. In 2008, the organization claimed to have blocked passage of four federal domestic-violence bills, among them an expansion of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to international scope and a grant to support lawyers in pro bono domestic-violence work. Members of this coalition have gotten themselves onto drafting committees for VAWA’s 2011 reauthorization. Local groups in West Virginia and California have also had important successes, criminalizing false claims of domestic violence in custody cases, and winning rulings that women-only shelters are discriminatory. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.doublex.com/print/9316
By HeraldTribune.com 11/6/2009 "...Bell, first elected in 2000, later told an investigative panel it appeared to him the woman was the primary aggressor, and that the deputy exhibited gender bias by arresting the ex-husband, disciplinary records show. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20091106/ARTICLE/911069999/2416?Title=F
By Richard Driscoll, Ph.D.
Recent survey reveals that women resent men about twice as often as the other way around.
So, which is it? Are we more often misogynists or more often contemptuous toward men? Admittedly, one or the other or both shows itself often enough to pollute a fair share of modern conversation. But which is more commonplace? And how can we provide a reasonable comparison?
A recent 2008 Gallup poll in Great Britain finds that 33% of women "often or very often" feel resentful of men, compared to 14% of men who often feel resentful of women. [i] So fully a third of women carry with them an ongoing resentment toward their opposites, as compared to about a sixth of men.
In an effort to specify our terms, "often or very often resentful" of the other sex is probably about as close as we can get to the basic meaning of misogyny and misandry. While we commonly argue that women have more reason to be resentful, the comparison here is not about our reasons but about our ongoing attitudes. Twice as many women as men acknowledge often resenting their opposites, suggesting that ill will blows from "W" to "M" more strongly than from "M" to "W".
So why is "misogyny" such a familiar word while "misandry" is so odd and unfamiliar? Some of the explanation is in the paradox of accusation. Women are more inclined to accuse men of malfeasance, while most men are uncomfortable arguing against women and keep their counsel. As in politics anywhere, the harshest and most repetitious accusations usually paint the strongest portrait, leaving the misandrous impression that men frequently resent women while women are innocent commentators to that sad state of affairs.
Another explanation lay in the unusualness of the condition, as we comment on what we find noteworthy and take the rest granted. In an earlier era, the psychiatric term "nymphomania" was applied to the woman who had an inordinate interest in sex, as she was the odd woman out. The complementary term "satyriasis" was seldom used for men, as it was so widely assumed that most men had an inordinate interest in sex that no such psychiatric nomenclature was required.
Back to "misandry." In that fully a third of women are highly resentful of men, and perhaps another third are somewhat resentful, do we really need a special word for it? Or is it so familiar that we take it for granted?
In an earlier era, men referred to women who bash men with the familiar slang words such as "scold," "shrew," and a few even harsher words. Today, now that such strong words are so severely censored, we are left with "misandry," which seems an unfamiliar, highly sanitized, and somewhat technical sounding excuse for a hearty epithet. Is the "misandrous" woman not merely a cleaned-up version of the rock-solid, salt-of-the-Earth shrew of old, that inspired Shakespeare to bring a fiery independent to the stage and pleased a younger Elizabeth Taylor to portray her?
Of course, men can be misandrous too. But we save that for a later time.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Richard Driscoll graduated from the University of Colorado in 1974, and is in private practice in Knoxville Tennessee. He specializes in marriage and family therapy, conflict resolution, gender qualities, and spiritual experiences. Driscoll has recently published "Opposites as Equals" with Nancy Ann Davis. The authors identify innate differences between men and women, explore their origins, and suggest ways to resolve conflict and join together for our mutual benefit. Driscoll and Nancy Ann Davis are in practice together, are married, and have three grown children. Richard Driscoll offers free consultation on ways to rise above chivalry and focus instead on benefits to family and community. Dr. Driscoll is also a pioneer in anxiety reduction, and has published four anxiety reduction training including "Personal Shielding to Deflect Hostility" and "Tame Test Anxiety." His website: theOppositeSex.info and email: drD[SpamBuster]@theOppositeSex.info (remove [SpamBuster] to send e-mail)
[i] The battle of the sexes continues according to new Gallup poll." 2008. See http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=57662
By Examiner.com - USA 11/4/2009 "...Since being laid off, Dave had sent out hundreds of resumes and not one single interview. It wasn't Dave’s fault yet the child support bureau suspended his license and he was being hauled into court. Dave was now a criminal and said he would start robbing people to avoid going to jail. After that the child support bureaucracy started taking child support from Dave’s unemployment and he and his family lost their home. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-16500-Lake-County-Independent-Examiner~y2009m11d4-Economic-crisis-turning-dads-into-criminals By Times Online - UK 11/5/2009 "Surveillance powers to counter terrorism will be used to track absent parents who fail to pay child support, the Government said yesterday. " Read the entire article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6903610.ece By USA Today 11/5/2009 "...An executive with Best Buy claims a United Airlines gate agent refused to allow him to take a first-class seat because he was wearing a track suit, reports Fox 5 News of Washington. ..." Read the entire article: http://content.usatoday.com/travel/flights/item.aspx?type=blog&ak=620001025.blog&poe=HFMostPopular By KTLA.com 11/3/2009 "A 3 year old boy was hospitalized in critical condition Sunday after shooting himself in the face with a handgun, according to police." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-rialto-boy-shoots-himself,0,2300017.story By MedlinePlus 11/4/2009 "Prostate cancer patients whose prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels rise within 18 months after radiotherapy have an increased risk of death, say U.S. researchers. Their study included more than 2,100 patients with clinically localized prostate cancer who experienced biochemical failure (lowest PSA level plus 2 nanograms per milliliter) after treatment. The median interval between treatment and biochemical failure was 35.2 months, but 19 percent of patients developed biochemical failure at 18 months or less." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_91456.html By FoxNews.com 11/3/2009 "A new study suggests that men may be able to lower their risk of getting the most aggressive form of prostate cancer by keeping their cholesterol in a healthy range." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,571425,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By Fox News.com 11/4/2009 "As a disease full of mystery, cancer is often associated with misinterpretations and myth. Although it’s common for any disease to be misinterpreted, diseases that target a sensitive area seem to be most affected by myth. Such is the case for testicular cancer, a rare but highly treatable cancer in men. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,571517,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By CNN Justice 11/4/2009 "An Iowa jury found Thursday that a mother with a history of depression knew right from wrong when she slashed her sons' throats, killing one and leaving the other permanently scarred." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/05/iowa.michelle.kehoe.verdict/index.html?eref=rss_crime By Tampa Bay Online 11/4/2009 "...The deputy is 64; the inmate 40 years his junior. Deputy Kenneth Moon had another disadvantage: He was the sole deputy in a jail pod that houses 62 inmates. The only nearby people who could help him were there because they have been charged with attempted murder, home invasion, drug dealing. ..." Read the entire article: http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/04/inmates-credited-rescuing-hillsborough-deputy-duri/ And yet they did. By YahooNews 11/5/2009 "...Authorities said the baby's mother, Chrystina Lynn Mercer, gave the infant to baby sitter Susan Elizabeth Baker early Saturday, then reported her missing about 10 hours later. About 100 law enforcement agents and others spent days scouring around the baby's home in a remote, makeshift community of dirt roads, tin-roof shacks and old mobile homes. Searchers also dug through trash cans and bins. All along, the baby was under the bed. ...Officials do not believe Shannon's father, who is Baker's stepbrother, was involved in the disappearance. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_re_us/us_missing_florida_baby
By US News and World Report 10/29/2009 "...Bernet is leading an effort to add "parental alienation" to the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the American Psychiatric Association's "bible" of diagnoses, scheduled for 2012. ..." Read the entire article: http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/childrens-health/2009/10/29/parental-alienation-a-mental-diagnosis.html By Drew Zahn -- WorldNetDaily 11/3/2009 "A college professor in Georgia is whirling in confusion right now, reprimanded and apparently threatened with termination without any specific charges, hearings or evidence of wrongdoing -- only the school administration's allegation that he "offended" someone." Read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114935
By The Washington Post 11/4/2009 "CBS sportscaster Jim Nantz must pay $916,000 yearly in alimony and child support to his ex-wife and give up their Connecticut home under terms of a newly issued divorce decree." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/03/AR2009110303395.html By My Eyewitness News Memphis - Tennessee 11/3/2009 "A private child support agency that collects money from Memphis parents has landed itself in Federal Court. Child Support Services of Atlanta was sued by the U.S. Postal Service. The USPS says the company is using the mail in a scheme to illegally collect money." Read the entire article: http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/local/story/Child-Support-Company-Sued-By-U-S-Postal-Service/559MR0E_Bk60gathWF6RnA.cspx By Donna St. George -- Washington Post 11/4/2009 "Maryland officials are proposing what would be the first increase in 20 years in the recommended amount for child support payments." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/03/AR2009110303428_pf.html By Connecticut Law Tribune 11/2/2009 "...But the defendant, Fernando A., whose full name is not released in court records, said the two were divorcing and his wife fabricated the attack story to gain leverage in family court proceedings. Fernando A., however, never got a chance after his arraignment to object to the order of protection issued against him that prevented him from seeing his children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ctlawtribune.com/getarticle.aspx?ID=35377 By KTLA.com 11/2/2009 "The teenagers accused of surrounding Michael Brewer and setting him on fire will have to be released from custody after Nov. 12 unless prosecutors charge them as adults, officials said today." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-boy-burned,0,2928498.story By KTLA.com 10/30/2009 "A nude woman was spotted repeatedly slamming her baby boy's head into the sidewalk, police said." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-baby-bashed,0,6680156.story By KTLA.com 10/28/2009 "A Florida man accused of killing his son-in-law in New Jersey is arguing that he was unable to commit the crime because he was too fat." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-fat-defense,0,7794284.story By ScienceDaily.com 10/26/2009 "Ten percent of young adolescent boys -- or one in 10 -- exhibit a symptom of conduct disorder as well as a symptom of risky or problem gambling, according to new research findings from the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA)." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091023163354.htm By ScienceDaily.com 11/2/2009 "...Facial width-to-height ratio (WHR) is determined by measuring the distance between the right and left cheeks and the distance from the upper lip to the mid-brow. During childhood, boys and girls have similar facial structures, but during puberty, males develop a greater WHR than females. Previous research has suggested that males with a larger WHR act more aggressively than those with a smaller WHR. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091031002319.htm By USA Today 10/31/2009 "A record high of about 11.5 million Americans age 18 to 24, or nearly 40%, attended college in October 2008, according to a study of Census data released Thursday by the Pew Research Center. Virtually all the increase of 300,000 students over the previous year came at two-year schools, while attendance at four-year schools remained flat." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-10-30-college-enrollment_N.htm?POE=click-refer By Marisa Trevino/Commentary -- USA Today 10/23/2009 "...To be fair, these reports have not fallen on deaf ears. Latinas have created organizations to change those outcomes, and their efforts are beginning to pay off. But, as with other education-centric debates, the follow-up question is: What about the boys?..." Read the entire article: http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/10/column-while-latinas-gain-latino-boys-languish.html?loc=interstitialskip By CNN.com 11/2/2009 "...Powell: You tell them that without that effort, all of our achievements over the last 50 or 60 years are being put at risk. The statistics are frightening. Fifty percent of our African-American youngsters are not graduating from high school. And of that 50 percent, a higher percentage of boys are not graduating than girls. And when they get out of high school, if we can get them into the college, you will find six girls in college for every three or four boys who are in college. And those six girls will graduate at a higher rate than the three or four boys. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/11/02/black.men.colin.powell/index.html By ScienceDaily.com 10/20/2009 "Exposure to lead in early childhood significantly contributes to lower performances on end-of-grade (EOG) reading tests among minority and low-income children, according to researchers at Duke University and North Carolina Central University." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091019172630.htm By ScienceDaily.com 10/30/2009 "Most of the adolescents think that bullying in the school context "has always happened and will continue happening," and present "a negative, pessimistic and resigned attitude" towards this social problem, which makes difficult the intervention and leaves few hopes for its eradication." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091028112751.htm By KTLA.com 10/29/2009 "A man attempting to demonstrate the dangers of gunpowder to his son blew off one of his fingers in a blast that also injured the boy, authorities said." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-gunpowder-blast,0,3979538.story By Roland Warren -- Washington Times – District of Columbia 11/1/2009 "I recently had an opportunity to screen the new Miramax movie, "The Boys Are Back," which takes an honest look at the impact a father's presence and absence has on his children." Read the entire article: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/01/warren-movie-examines-need-father/ By Monroe News Star - Louisiana 10/31/2009 "Richard King, 36, of 1316 Keystone Road, Monroe, was accused of forging time sheets at a temporary employment agency. Monroe police charged King with felony theft, arrested him and booked him at Ouachita Correctional Center, where he remained on a $5,000 Saturday." Read the entire article: http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20091031/UPDATES01/91031010 By Catholic Online - Ohio 11/1/2009 "...Ray Lautenschlager, President of Parents and Children for Equality, says she is correct. He has been following the Macfarlane case for years. "Parents who lose custody are being ordered to pay to support their children twice: first in their home where when they spend time with the children, and then in the other parent's home."..." Read the entire article: http://www.catholic.org/prwire/headline.php?ID=8027 By Charleston Gazette – West Virginia 11/1/2009 "A Putnam County woman has sued the state Department of Health and Human Resources for more than $15,000 in unpaid child support she allegedly lost because DHHR did not file her claim in a timely manner." Read the entire article: http://wvgazette.com/News/Putnam/200911010427 By FoxNews.com 10/28/2009 "A new study on job authority and health suggests that the top is not only lonely, but can also take a toll on physical and mental well-being. Using data from 1,800 U.S. workers, researchers found that the negative aspects of having a power position at work seemed to cancel out the positive aspects when it came to people's physical and psychological health." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569968,00.html By Telegraph.co.uk 10/28/2009 "Only council-vetted "play rangers" are now allowed to monitor youngsters in two adventure areas in Watford while parents must watch from outside a perimeter fence." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/6453268/Council-bans-parents-from-play-areas.html By The Japan Times - Japan 10/30/2009 "...The arrest is the first of its kind since the Nationality Law was revised in January to allow children born out of wedlock to foreign women to obtain Japanese nationality if the Japanese father recognizes them as his." Read the entire article: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20091030a1.html By Auckland stuff.co.nz – New Zealand "Teenage boys are learning a thing or two about fatherhood at Rosmini College. The year 12 students are taking part in a Plunket tots and toddlers course as part of their NCEA studies. Director of religious education Steve Mills says it is just as important for boys to learn about parenting as it is for girls. They need to know it is a team effort to raise a child." Read the entire article: http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/north-shore-times/3011320/Boys-get-a-close-look-at-fatherhood/ By The Auburn Plainsman - Alabama 10/30/2009 "Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled parents whose parental rights have been terminated are still required to pay child support, setting a legal precedent within the state. The Supreme Court overturned a state appeals court decision that stated a parent who lost rights to a child was no longer required to pay child support." Read the entire article: http://www.theplainsman.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Our+View-+Ruling+on+Child+Support+Creates+Questions-+Worry%20&id=4200351&instance=home_news_lead_story By Urbanite Baltimore - Maryland "Joe Jones knows what it’s like to have a father—and to lose him. Jones spent the first nine years of his life living with his mother and father, who tag-teamed on childrearing while training to become a nurse and a teacher, respectively. “We lived in the projects in East Baltimore, [but] I didn’t even realize that we were kind of poor,” Jones says. “I was in this cone, you know, being protected and raised and nurtured by them.”..." Read the entire article: http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/sub.cfm?issueID=78§ionID=4&articleID=1357 By David Lazenby News Editor -- Daily Mountain Eagle 10/23/2009 "If there is one thing I believe in wholeheartedly it’s the ideal that “All men are created equal” — or at least should be treated as such in principal." Read the entire article: http://www.mountaineagle.com/index.cfm?event=news.view&id=800FA7ED-19B9-E2F5-468814295A1C3538 By KTLA.com 10/29/2009 "... Evans responded to his client's dismissal by writing on Thursday, "The termination of Mr. Kronk relates to a difference of opinion between Mr. Kronk and Orange County regarding a workplace injury sustained by Mr. Kronk in the course of his job duties at an Orange County Utilities warehouse. This dispute arose because Mr. Kronk's management directed him to resume work duties after his injury, and Mr. Kronk and his health care providers did not consider it to be safe or medically appropriate to resume those duties at this time. "..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-caylee-worker-fired,0,4640734.story By Mayo Clinic Staff "Belly fat is unhealthy. Find out what causes belly fat, the health risks it poses for men and what you can do to lose the extra pounds." Read the entire article: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/belly-fat/MC00054 By Emanuella Grinberg -- CNN.com 10/29/2009 "A mother's plot to blame a stranger for killing her sons went awry when one of the boys survived and told police how Michelle Kehoe cut his throat, then moved on to his younger brother, an Iowa prosecutor said Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/29/iowa.michelle.kehoe.trial/index.html By FoxNews.com 10/21/2009 "...Considering that prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, AM has decided to take a long, hard look at anti-prostate cancer foods. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,568788,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By Naples Daily News 10/28/2009 "...“She is a deadbeat mom and owes me close to $15,000 in child support,” Ballard said of the alleged victim, adding that he has custody of their 6-year-old daughter. Ballard said Amy Nicole Engel, 36, also known as Amy Brownlow, is the mother of his child and made up the kidnapping story. Court records show he obtained a domestic violence restraining order against her and she was sentenced to probation after violating it, and spent time in jail here. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/oct/28/federal-kidnapping-charges-dropped-against-estates/ By OPB News, Oregon 10/28/2009 "The state of Oregon is planning to streamline the way parents make child support payments. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.opb.org/article/6113-oregon-using-federal-grant-simplify-child-suppor-payments/ By Lloyd B Smith -- Jamaica Observer 10/27/2009 "I was startled by a recent revelation on a popular talk show by a social worker that one out of three children in a man-and-woman union in this country, be it common-law or otherwise, is likely to be a "jacket". In other words, one child was not fathered by the man with whose surname the child was registered or perhaps even christened in!" Read the entire article: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20091026T190000-0500_162599_OBS_PATERNITY_ISSUES_.asp By Troy Messenger - Alabama 10/27/2009 "...This year, 36 men have participated in the fatherhood program and some of them continue in the program after the required time." Read the entire article: http://www.troymessenger.com/news/2009/oct/28/local-agencies-receive-state-grants/ By DNA 10/27/2009 "Three years since the Protection of women from Domestic Violence (DV) Act was enforced, the Indian Family Foundation (IFF), comprising husbands allegedly victimised by the misuse of the law, demanded a law to protect them from abusive wives." Read the entire article: http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_there-is-a-welfare-ministry-for-women-why-not-one-for-men_1303548 By York Daily Record - Pennsylvania 10/27/2009 "Just after 1 p.m., a former boyfriend was visiting the mother of his child at an apartment in the first block of West Broad Street when an argument took place over child support concerning their 9-month-old daughter, according to York Area Regional Police Sgt. Rod Varner. During the argument, the girlfriend got a large kitchen knife and cut her ex-boyfriend in the arm and abdomen, he said. He was taken to York Hospital by ambulance, he said." Read the entire article: http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_13644287 By The Associated Press - USA 10/23/2009 "The doctor being investigated in Michael Jackson's death told a court he can't afford to pay $13,000 in child support and other debts because he was forced to close his medical practice after physical threats against him and his staff, according to court documents obtained Friday." Read the entire article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gvcLH28ub3AyGjplQ256FNiOT6CQD9BGVERG0 By Tyler Morning Telegraph - Texas 10/24/2009 "A Smith County Probation Department employee pocketed thousands of dollars from Spanish-speaking men who depended on her to process their child support payments. Glenda Everett-Olvera instead stole their money and the mothers and children who needed the child support were left to do without, an assistant district attorney said." Read the entire article: http://www.tylerpaper.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091024/NEWS08/910240336 By Gulf Coast Newspapers - Alabama 10/24/2009 "Being a father is tough work. You are responsible for part of the development of a human being, and there’s no instruction manual for being a dad. So, it’s no wonder that some fathers need a few pointers. That’s what the “County Fatherhood Initiative” program is for." Read the entire article: http://www.baldwincountynow.com/articles/2009/10/24/local_news/doc4ae06828dfb07893485258.txt By Silver City Sun News – New Mexico 10/26/2009 "...The surveys determined that the majority of people needed simple legal advice in four main areas: landlord-tenant rights, family law (including divorces, custody, paternity and child support), consumer protection (identity theft), and estate planning (wills, and powers of attorney). So the attorneys got together and planned a day of free legal advice in the form of several short seminars on issues such as family law, consumer protection, landlord-tenant rights and estate planning." Read the entire article: http://www.scsun-news.com/ci_13648348 By Quad City Times - Iowa 10/24/2009 "Proposed state budget cuts will mean the loss of more than $15 million in child support payments in Iowa, according to state estimates." Read the entire article: http://www.qctimes.com/news/state-and-regional/article_0bbb00ea-c053-11de-9cbc-001cc4c03286.html By Alan Bock Sr. editorial writer -- The Orange County Register 10/23/2009 "...Then people offering services described what's available. The county has a child-support office that can help parolees get child-support payments adjusted or devise a realistic payment schedule, and can help them get drivers' licenses or a state ID card. Santa Ana College has a free program to get a GED." Read the entire article: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/prison-parolees-parole-2621461-many-most
By Simon Perry -- People.com 10/25/2009 "British singer Leona Lewis has reacted with dismay to some of the media chatter about the fact that she is still dating the same boyfriend she had before she found fame." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20315285,00.html By CNN.com 10/29/2009 "Distraught residents searched for days for Olten without luck, when the Cole County Sheriff's Department received a tip that led them to the alleged killer. It didn't lead them to a stranger, a child predator or a convicted sex offender -- avenues police had originally considered because of Olten's age. Instead, it led them to a 15-year-old girl who, according to Peggy Florence, a family spokeswoman, had played with Olten." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/29/missouri.olten.murder/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By USA Today 10/25/2009 "Juvenile authorities said Saturday that a 15-year-old has been charged with first-degree murder for the death of a 9-year-old central Missouri girl found in the woods two days after she went missing." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-10-24-Missouri_N.htm?csp=34 By FoxNews.com 10/26/2009 "A 5-year-old Romanian boy has made the Guinness Book of Records after performing an incredible physical stunt." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569585,00.html?test=latestnews By FoxNews.com 10/26/2009 "America's sweetheart, the actress Sandra Bullock, is being dragged into an unpleasant legal battle to prove that she is a better parent than her husband’s former wife, the star of more than 100 pornographic movies, the Times of London reported." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2009/10/26/sandra-bullock-fighting-husbands-porn-star-ex-custody/?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r5:c0.073312:b28525367:z10 By ScienceDaily.com 10/8/2009 "Childhood cancer survivors typically suffer from the long-term effects of cancer treatment on physical health, and results of a new study suggest that social implications also exist, which may affect their chance of an "I do" at the altar." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091008073308.htm# By KTLA News 10/26/2009 "A wrong-way driver who may have been drunk smashed into a pickup truck on the 91 Freeway, killing two women and seriously injuring two children and herself." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-wrong-way-fatal,0,5570744.story By Dailyrecord.com 10/25/2009 "From driving to shopping to eating out, the punishing economy is changing the way we live. Now, it seems, it's changing the way we divorce." Read the entire article: http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20091025/COMMUNITIES/91022070/1005/NEWS01 By Teri Stoddard -- Family Rights Examiner 10/26/2009 "How can a well-respected nuclear physicist become a destitute man on the run, then ultimately a hunger-striking inmate? If you asked Dr. Amir Sanjari, he'd say all you have to do is go through a divorce in Indiana." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-15873-Family-Rights-Examiner~y2009m10d26-Jailed-father-refuses-solid-food-122-days-and-counting By Providence Journal – Rhode Island 10/26/2009 "Greg Isaac, center, says he is doing his very best to pay his child support but is having trouble because of the bad economy and lack of jobs (he’s applied for over 50)." Read the entire article: http://www.projo.com/news/content/CHILD_SUPPORT_10-26-09_IOG52JP_v26.37ce26a.html
By YahooNews.com 10/25/2009 "British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, the BBC reported on Sunday." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091025/people_nm/us_britain_lloydwebber_cancer_1 By Stuart Taylor -- National Journal Magazine 10/24/2009 "Women now claim more than 57 percent of all bachelor's degrees, 61 percent of all master's degrees, and half of all professional and doctoral degrees, according to Education Department data cited by University of Michigan economist Mark Perry and others. They also earn more Ph.D.s than men in the humanities, education, health sciences, and social sciences, in-cluding two-thirds of new psychology doctorates." Read the entire article: http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/openingargument.php By ScienceDaily.com 10/21/2009 "Women are better than men at distinguishing between emotions, especially fear and disgust, according to a new study published in the online version of the journal Neuropsychologia. As part of the investigation, Olivier Collignon and a team from the Université de Montréal Centre de recherche en neuropsychologie et cognition (CERNEC) demonstrated that women are better than men at processing auditory, visual and audiovisual emotions." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091021125133.htm# By YahooFinance.com 10/21/2009 "The wages of the typical woman who had a job during the worst recession in decades rose faster than those of the typical man, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show." Read the entire article: http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/107985/womens-wages-outpaced-mens-during-recession?mod=career-salary_negotiation By Roanoke Times - Virginia 10/22/2009 "Total Action Against Poverty's fatherhood program is an initiative to keep fathers in the lives of their children." Read the entire article: http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/223410 By YahooNews 10/21/2009 "Peter Criss, founding member of rock band KISS, knows that many of his male fans are macho, so he is making the rounds to tell them even tough rocker guys like him can suffer from a disease usually associated with women -- breast cancer." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091022/people_nm/us_petercriss_3 By Trudy Schuett -- Domestic Violence Examiner 10/22/2009 "In a story that appeared this morning, the Shreveport Times reported on a citywide sweep to clear about 75 warrants, which netted 19 arrests. What is notable about this story is that the first person to be mentioned was a woman." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-12866-Domestic-Violence-Examiner~y2009m10d22-Shreveport-Times-recognizes-domestic-violence-is-not-a-gender-issue By Dugald McConnell -- CNN 10/21/2009 "A 22-year-old woman whose claims that she was abused in a trailer in rural West Virginia in 2007 helped send six people to prison now says she made up the story, her lawyer said Wednesday. "She is recanting her entire story," attorney Byron Potts told reporters in Columbus, Ohio, about his client, Megan Williams, who moved there after the incident. "She says it did not happen. She fabricated it."..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/21/assault.recanted/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
By YahooNews 10/21/2009 "The Obama administration is calling for an overhaul of college programs that prepare teachers, saying they are cash cows that do a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the classroom." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091022/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_teachers By Crosscut -- Seattle 10/19/2009 "...Didn’t matter. The prosecutor (who was about 14) demanded that the judge impose a two-year no-contact order, based on the police report — which included at least half a dozen weird, factual errors, including that the altercation started because J “refused to kiss [me]” and that we were recent transplants from the East Coast. ..." Read the entire article: http://crosscut.com/blog/crosscut/19135/# By The Sun -- UK 10/19/2009 "Zach Cameron, 15 - a twice-weekly bible student - lobbed the tiny pot of sauce at a girl diner for making "nasty" comments when he took the daughter of his pastor for a burger. His 14-year-old "victim" complained to cops that it got in her hair - and days later Zach was summoned to a police station where he was also fingerprinted." Read the entire article: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2688100/Cops-DNA-boy-for-throwing-tiny-ketchup-pot-at-McDonalds.html#ixzz0Ud3F9EJX By Asia News Network 10/19/2009 "The government will need at least two more years before it will sign an international treaty designed to settle child custodial disputes arising from failed international marriages, according to government sources. In the wake of an increasing number of such cases, the government intends to speed efforts to sign the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction." Read the entire article: http://www.asianewsnet.net/news.php?id=8289&sec=1 By The Australian - Australia 10/19/2009 "THE Rudd government is planning to roll back the controversial shared parenting law passed in the final term of the Howard government, enraging men's groups, which say the laws have finally given them access to their children after separation." Read the entire article: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26228074-5013404,00.html By Daily Gleaner - Canada 10/19/2009 "Occasionally, a client comes into the office who has suffered through a marital breakdown, and it's sad to see, particularly when there are children involved. Invariably, once the regrets are extended, the question we ask is, "How amicable is the separation?"..." Read the entire article: http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/gleaner/article/828504 By WUSA9.com 10/14/2009 "...Thomas Gerrow, President of San Miguel, says the couple came here because they were interested to see a program that focuses on Latino children. "Latino males are the lowest graduation rate in the country. And our success so far have been superb in order to overcome those issues," Gerrow said." Read the entire article: http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=92386&provider=top By WYMT - Kentucky 10/15/2009 "A flagrant child support bust leads police to something they say they won't soon forget. Police were out early Thursday morning going after more than fifty parents they say are behind on child support payments. The bust led police to a home where police say they found a woman and three children living in some of the worst conditions they say they have ever seen." Read the entire article: http://www.wkyt.com/news/headlines/64443667.html By DesMoinesRegister.com, Iowa 10/16/2009 "A western Iowa boy given his mother’s last name at birth because the father was unknown should keep the mother's surname, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled today. The ruling upheld an Iowa Court of Appeals ruling to reverse a Buena Vista County judge’s earlier decision to change the boy’s last name as requested by his father, Joshua Braunschweig." Read the entire article: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20091016/NEWS/91016009/-1/SPORTS09 By SYS-CON Media - Montvale, New Jersey 10/19/2009 "...Pennsylvania is the first state in the nation to meet and exceed the five federal performance standards for establishment of paternity, establishment of court orders for child support, collection of current support, cases paying on arrears and administrative cost effectiveness. In addition, more than 85 percent of children receiving support currently have health insurance or other means of medical support. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sys-con.com/node/1149505
By Mark Johnson of the Journal Sentinel 10/18/2009 "...In fact, Dad was leaving because Mom was sick. In March, he was laid off from his job as a raw materials coordinator for a plastics company called PolyOne, where he'd worked for 20 years. His severance package had provided several months' salary, but by August the paychecks were winding down. Soon the cost of his family health coverage was going to triple, then a few months after that, nearly triple again. They needed coverage so Mom could fight her cancer. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/64677772.html By Patrick Welsh --Washington Post 10/18/2009 "...In a moment of exasperation last spring, I asked that question to a virtually all-black class of 12th-graders who had done horribly on a test I had just given. A kid who seldom came to class -- and was constantly distracting other students when he did -- shot back: "It's because they have fathers who kick their butts and make them study."..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101503477.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 By CNN.com 10/17/2009 "An all-male college in Atlanta, Georgia, has banned the wearing of women's clothes, makeup, high heels and purses as part of a new crackdown on what the institution calls inappropriate attire." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/17/college.dress.code/ By Trudy W. Schuett -- Domestic Violence Examiner 10/15/2009 "As the 15th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act arrived last month, supporters from the president and vice-president, to people in charge of small, local programs lauded the Violence Against Women Act as something special – as if it was a real solution that was vitally necessary." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-12866-Domestic-Violence-Examiner~y2009m10d15-15-years-of-the-Violence-Against-Women-Act-its-tragic-consequences
By FoxNews.com 10/2/2009 "Your knowledge of yeast infections is probably entirely based on not-so-sexy commercials on TV featuring a group of women wearing pastel cardigans talking in hushed tones about problems with the private parts of their female anatomy. As a guy, you think it’s something that doesn’t affect you. So, you don’t have to worry about it, right?" Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,559161,00.html By FoxNews.com 10/15/2009 "Australian research finds that men who regularly smoke pot are more likely to suffer sexual problems than men who don't, the Australian Associated Press reported Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,566746,00.html By FoxNews.com 10/19/2009 "The parents of an Eagle Scout who was suspended from his upstate New York high school for a month over a 2-inch pocketknife he kept locked in his car have retained a lawyer to appeal their school district's zero-tolerance policies and demand that their son's record be cleared." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,568572,00.html By USAToday.com 10/19/9 "At a time when President Batrack Obama is pushing for more time in the classroom, his home state has created the nation's shortest school year under a new union contract that closes schools on most Fridays for the remainder of the academic calendar." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-10-19-hawaii-schools_N.htm By People.com 10/19/2009 "Forget clubbing or fronting Good Charlotte – the most fun thing in Joel Madden's life right now is being a dad. "I love kids, I love working with kids, I love being around kids," he said at the Noble Awards in Beverly Hills on Sunday." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20313629,00.html By People.com "As their parents continue to make tabloid headlines – Jon faces contempt charges for taking money out of a joint account, while Kate has just lost the reality show franchise that made her famous – the eight children of Jon and Kate Gosselin are starting to feel the effects of all the stress." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20313706,00.html By CBS4.com 10/13/2009 "A 6-year-old Cub Scout recently suspended from school after bringing a camping utensil to the lunchroom made it clear he was not happy with the Delaware school district's decision. "I think it's very wrong. It's not fair at all," Zachary Christie of Newark, Del. told CBS' "The Early Show."..." Read the entire article: http://cbs4.com/national/delaware.boy.suspension.2.1244724.html By YahooNews 10/15/2009 "A 6-year-old Colorado boy feared to have floated off in a helium balloon was found safe at his home Thursday, hiding in a cardboard box in the garage attic." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_re_us/us_boy_in_balloon;_ylt=AoBGeUqEpWu.b8y8IurhboJH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTJrYTdmYm8wBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMDE1L3VzX2JveV9pbl9iYWxsb29uBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMQRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3JpZXMEc2xrA2JveXNhaWR0b2hhdg-- By FoxNews.com 10/14/2009 "...Pressure is mounting on a Troy, N.Y., school board to overrule Matthew Whalen's suspension from Lansingburgh High School, which was issued because of a zero-tolerance policy that is facing increasing opposition from parents and education advocates. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,566182,00.html By E-Online 10/14/2009 "According to science, Keanu Reeves still has no children to speak of. At least, so says the DNA test the actor submitted to in order to prove that he did not father at least one of Karen Sala's four adult children. But apparently, Sala isn't willing to accept scientific certainty without a fight." Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b148987_dna_proves_keanus_not_dad_mom_begs.html By MSNBC.com 8/13/2009 "It was the last way John Bernard would have wanted his voice to gain prominence in the national debate over the war in Afghanistan." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33296515/ns/us_news-military/from/ET By KTLA.com 10/9/2009 "A central California mother accused of abandoning three of her newborns and leaving one to die in the back of a pickup could face more than 22 years in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder and child abuse charges." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-abandoned-babies,0,1963986.story By The Star – United Kingdom 10/8/2009 "A SOUTH Yorkshire dad has been left bewildered by demands of £10,000 from the Child Support Agency - despite paying maintenance at a level agreed by a court." Read the entire article: http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Dad39s-arrears-claim-fight.5711654.jp By The Coloradoan - Colorado 10/8/2009 "A former Denver Broncos player who has been repeatedly cited for failing to pay child support has been ordered to appear in court once again to explain why he's behind on his payments." Read the entire article: http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20091008/NEWS01/910080332/Johnson-ordered-to-court-on-child-support-complaint By Attorney General of Texas Greg Abbott -- San Saba News & Star - Texas 10/8/2009 "...Establishing paternity is one of the most important jobs the Attorney General’s Child Support Division performs, because it guarantees a legal relationship between a father and his child. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sansabanews.com/news/article/21260 By West Virginia Record – West Virginia 10/8/2009 "Former spouses often squabble over child support, but only once have they squabbled at the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals." Read the entire article: http://www.wvrecord.com/news/221529-former-spouses-argue-over-child-support-at-supreme-court By People.com 10/13/2009 "Jon and Kate Gosselin arrived separately Tuesday to meet with their attorneys and a court-appointed arbitrator to hammer out financial issues in their contentious divorce." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20311872,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines By People.com 10/9/2009 "Kate Gosselin has filed paperwork asking for child support and temporary spousal support in the wake of Jon Gosselin taking nearly $230,000 fromn their bank account, says Mark Momjian, one of her divorce attorneys." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20311469,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines By ScienceDaily.com 10/7/2009 "A new study from the University of New Hampshire finds that U.S. children are routinely exposed to even more violence and abuse than has been previously recognized, with nearly half experiencing a physical assault in the study year." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091007081351.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/30/2009 "Researchers studying a large sample of adolescent American boys have found an association between metabolic syndrome, which is a complication of obesity, and elevated liver enzymes that mark potentially serious liver disease." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090929151922.htm By ScienceDaily.com 10/10/2009 "Persistent infection with high-risk types of human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted virus, is known to be a cause of cervical cancer. Current guidelines prioritize HPV vaccination of pre-adolescent girls, which has been shown to be cost-effective in previous studies, but the value of vaccinating boys in the United States has been unclear." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091008192735.htm By ScienceDaily.com 10/12/2009 "Teenage boys in Sweden take less responsibility than girls for preventing the spread of chlamydia and other sexually transmitted infections, according to a new study from the Sahlgrenska Academy." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091012135504.htm By KTLA.com 10/6/2009 "Police say a couple with several drunk-driving arrests between them let a 13-year-old boy drive them home to avoid another DUI." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-dui-kid,0,5716473.story By KTLA.com 10/12/2009 " An 11-year-old girl has died after the car she was riding in overturned, and the driver has been charged with driving while intoxicated and vehicular manslaughter." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-dui-mom,0,7485962.story By KTLA.com 10/7/2009 "A 19-year-old woman who went to a hospital emergency room saying she'd had a miscarriage has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and child neglect after a newborn baby was found in a cabinet in her bedroom, authorities said." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-lancaster-fake-miscarriage,0,5533132.story By FoxNews 10/12/2009 "Six-year-old Zachary Christie was so excited to become a Cub Scout that he brought his camping utensil to school. The tool serves as a spoon, a fork and a knife, and Zachary wanted to use it at lunch. What Zachary didn't know was that the gizmo violated his school's zero-tolerance policy on weapons." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,564605,00.html?test=latestnews By Robert Franklin, Esq. -- Mens News Daily 10/6/2009 "The Reverend Julius Scruggs was recently elected president of the National Baptist Convention, a largely African-American organizations that claims 7.5 million members. So it was interesting to read Rev. Scruggs' thoughts on the importance of fathers and families to the wellbeing of his parishoners and members of the National Baptist Convention." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/10/06/president-of-national-baptist-convention-misses-mark-on-connecting-children-and-fathers/ By West Virginia Record - West Virginia 10/8/2009 "A Kanawha County woman is alleging the procrastination of her attorney, a former family lawmaster, left her on the hook for over $55,000 in child support overpayments." Read the entire article: http://www.wvrecord.com/news/221530-former-kanawha-family-lawmaster-accused-of-mishandling-family-law-case By HandsNet 9/15/2009 "Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, researchers used a novel and complex study design to better understand the association between fathers' absence and children's sexuality." Read the entire article: http://webclipper.handsnet.org/2009/09/genes-may-expla.php By E-Online 10/12/2009 "He's already admitted it, but now a chemistry set proves it. Paternity tests confirm Jude Law is the father of Samantha Burke's baby daughter, Sophia." Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b148458_paternity_tests_prove_judes_dude.html By WVGazette.com 10/8/2009 "A Kanawha County Circuit judge has voided West Virginia's regulations for domestic violence programs, saying they discriminate by denying abused men access to publicly funded shelters and women abusers access to treatment." Read the entire article: http://wvgazette.com/ap/ApTopStories/200910080468 By Rep. Michael R. Turner -- Washington Times 10/8/2009 "America's men and women in uniform place themselves in harm's way every day without regard for their own safety. They fight for their country and for their families. Given their measure of dedication to our defense, it's unacceptable that these same soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, guard members and reservists would be forced to forfeit their right of child-custody protections just because they are deployed for months or years far from home." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/08/ensuring-child-custody-protection/ By FoxNews 10/6/2009 "President Obama is pushing for more hours in school, but some of his staunchest supporters are moving in the other direction -- seeking to adopt four-day school weeks as a way to avoid pay cuts and firings in the face of crumbling state budgets." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/06/obama-adocates-longer-school-year-teachers-unions-push-shorter-weeks/ By ScienceDaily.com 10/5/2009 " Patients who participate in a structured telephone program to manage their depression appear to experience significant benefits and only a moderate increase in health care costs when compared with those who receive usual care, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091005181627.htm By ScienceDaily.com 10/1/2009 "Fewer than half of men and women in Ontario who may be suffering from depression see a doctor to treat their potentially debilitating condition, according to a new women's health study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). What's more, many hospitalized for severe depression fail to see a doctor for follow-up care within 30 days of being discharged, and many head to hospital emergency departments for care." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090930084606.htm By ScienceDaily.com 10/6/2009 "...In 2002, 371,000 boys and 289,000 girls worldwide died of injury, with more than 180,000 – mostly pedestrians – killed by traffic. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091005123041.htm By ScienceDaily.com 10/5/2009 "The latest research from the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management explores the wide disparities in advanced high school course-taking (such as Advanced Placement courses) among race, poverty, and gender groups in Florida." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091005181723.htm By ScienceDaily.com 10/2/2009 "Racial segregation in the schools is fueling the learning disparity between young black and white children, while out-of-school factors are more important to the growth of social class gaps, according to a study by Emory University sociologist Dennis Condron." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091002124741.htm By CNN.com 10/8/2009 "Stephan Mace of the Army's 61st Cavalry Regiment knew the Taliban would be waiting for him when he returned to eastern Afghanistan in September. During a two-week leave in early September, the 21-year-old specialist sat on his father's couch in Winchester, Virginia, and discussed his concerns over Forward Operating Base Keating in Kamdesh District, a region known as a Taliban stronghold." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/07/afghanistan.soldiers/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By CNN 10/7/2009 "The National Organization for Women has sharply criticized comedian David Letterman, accusing him of promoting a hostile, uncomfortable work environment." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/07/letterman.now/index.html?eref=rss_topstories By San Jose Mercury News - California 10/5/2009 "A second mistrial was declared Monday in the case of a former airline baggage handler accused of murdering his 4-year-old daughter by throwing her off a cliff into the Pacific Ocean. ...Prosecutors said Brown killed his daughter because he didn't want to pay about $1,000 in monthly child support. Harris argued the girl slipped and fell 120 feet from Inspiration Point into the Pacific Ocean. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_13492197?nclick_check=1# By Carroll County Times - Maryland 10/3/2009 " In the quest to strengthen marriages in Carroll County, the Marriage Resource Center has turned its attention to fatherhood." Read the entire article: http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2009/10/03/news/local_news/6_resource_center_fatherhood.txt By Abilene Reporter-News - Texas 10/5/2009 " Christian leaders seem to be asking themselves for answers on the steady erosion of institutional marriage. Steve Queen, director of First Baptist Church’s Ministry of Counseling and Enrichment, said he wished the state of Texas allowed for “legal separations,” allowing those in struggling marriages to sometimes separate, get child support through a court order and attempt to work things out in the interim." Read the entire article: http://www.reporternews.com/news/2009/oct/05/the-other-side-of-marriage/ By MyNorthwest.com – Washington State 10/6/2009 "Some needy families in Washington are getting larger welfare checks thanks to a change in federal law. The change allows states to send child support payments directly to welfare families instead of keeping some of the money for administration." Read the entire article: http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=221362 By Connecticut Post - Connecticut 10/7/2009 " A man state marshals attempted to take into custody Tuesday night for allegedly failing to pay back child support opened fire, injuring one of the marshals, police said." Read the entire article: http://www.connpost.com/ci_13500846?source=most_viewed# By Governors Office of Consumer Affairs 8/31/2009 "The Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA) is cautioning parents about engaging private companies to collect outstanding child support." Read the entire article: http://consumer.georgia.gov/00/press/detail/0,2668,5426814_94800056_148120518,00.html By FoxNews 10/6/2009 "By the third day of negotiating with his son’s kidnappers, Rasul Amoore had sold his car, withdrawn his bank savings and borrowed money from his siblings and friends to raise funds for the 6-year-old’s release." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,561443,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r1:c0.121263:b28158896:z10 By FoxNews.com 10/7/2009 "The FBI investigated whether Anna Nicole Smith plotted to kill her tycoon husband's son as they battled for his father's fortune, but the former Playboy Playmate who died in 2007 was never prosecuted, newly released files show." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,561541,00.html By MSNBC.com 10/7/2009 "...On Wednesday, Jon told ET Online that Kate is trying to change their joint-custody arrangement so that he is only at their Pennsylvania home from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, as well as altering their agreement for the weekend — a move Jon claims is tantamount to barring him from the birthday festivities altogether. "She's trying to prevent me from seeing my kids on Mady and Cara's birthday," he says. "That's like giving her full custody by obeying her. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33213563/ns/entertainment-celebrities/ By Trudy Schuett -- Examiner.com 10/7/2009 "A West Virginia court has found that the fundamental beliefs of the West Virginia Coaliton Against Domestic Violence (which the court refers to as a "private trade association") are "gender-biased," and this violates the terms of the state's Domestic Violence Act. The court also says: "Every person, regardless of gender, enjoys a statutory right to participation in and receipt of domestic violence services offered by facilities licensed and funded in whole or in part by the state of West Virginia.".." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-12866-Domestic-Violence-Examiner~y2009m10d7-WV-court-says-states-Coalition-Against-Domestic-Violence-is-biased-in-violation-of-law By Elizabeth Landau -- CNN 10/7/2009 "...A study of more than 5,000 people in the United States aged 20 to 69 found that males were three times as likely to have noise-related hearing loss as women. The research was recently presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery in San Diego, California. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/07/hearing.loss.noise/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn
By Akron Beacon Journal - Ohio 10/5/2009 "Jeremy Bowling hasn't made a single child-support payment in 19 months. He does, however, have a decent excuse. He's dead. Has been for 19 months." Read the entire article: http://www.ohio.com/news/dyer/63561382.html# By CNN 10/6/2009 "The flag-draped coffins of five U.S. soldiers killed during a weekend onslaught against a U.S. military outpost in Afghanistan arrived Tuesday at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, the military said. The bodies include Sgt. Joshua J. Kirk of South Portland, Maine; Spc. Michael P. Scusa of Villas, New Jersey; Spc. Stephen L. Mace of Lovettsville, Virginia; Spc. Christopher T. Griffin of Kincheloe, Michigan; and Pfc. Kevin C. Thomson of Reno, Nevada, according to the Air Force mortuary affairs office." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/06/us.afghanistan.troops/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By Mark Tutton -- For CNN 10/7/2009 "...Last week a 51-year old father of two jumped to his death from a bridge. He was reported to have left a letter blaming his death on the "atmosphere" at work, according to media reports. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/06/work.death/index.html?iref=werecommend
By Amanda MacMillan -- CNN Health 10/5/2009 "...Boys were at a higher risk of Internet addiction than girls, and those who used the Internet for more than 20 hours a week, every day, or for online gaming, were at higher risk as well. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/05/depression.adhd.internet.addiction/index.html By John Cloud -- TIME 10/6/2009 "Alcohol has a peculiar relationship to happiness. We drink to celebrate, but because alcohol works as a depressant, it ends up deadening feelings. Not surprisingly, there's an observable correlation between alcoholism and depression, and even though it's not always clear which leads to which, everyone knows you can't drink like a Sterling Cooper employee for too long before becoming a perpetual sad sack." Read the entire article: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1928187,00.html?iref=werecommend?artId=1928187?contType=article?chn=sciHealth By CNN.com 10/5/2009 "...Boys were four times as likely as girls to have ASD, and non-Hispanic black and multiracial children were less likely than non-Hispanic white children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/05/autism.study/index.html By Faith Karimi -- CNN 10/5/2009 "William Kamkwamba dreamed of powering his village with the only resource that was freely available to him. His native Malawi had gone through one of its worst droughts seven years ago, killing thousands. His family and others were surviving on one meal a day. The red soil in his Masitala hometown was parched, leaving his father, a farmer, without any income." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/05/malawi.wind.boy/index.html
By Bill Mears -- CNN Supreme Court Producer "The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a female death row inmate who said fetal alcohol syndrome should have been considered by the state court that reviewed her sentence." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/05/scotus.female.death.row/index.html?eref=rss_crime By NBC Philadelphia 10/7/2009 "...A family photo that shows a little girl beside her father and his fellow soldiers in uniform as they prepare to go to war has resonated well beyond the tight knit Bennethum clan. Four-year-old Paige Bennethum really, really didn't want her daddy to go to Iraq. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/Little-Soldier-Girl-Didnt-Want-to-Let-Go-63629627.html?yhp=1 By Examiner.com - USA 10/3/2009 "In the Matter of Thomas B. v Lydia D. the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, ruled on Thursday, October 1, that parents in New York State cannot contract away their obligation to take care of their children until age twenty-one. The issue before the court was whether or not a child's full-time employment by itself constituted emancipation and therefore released the parents from child support obligations." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-14537-Albany-CPS-and-Family-Court-Examiner~y2009m10d3-Court-says-parents-in-New-York-cannot-contract-away-obligation-to-support-children-until-age-21 By Quad City Times - Iowa 10/5/2009 "Advocates are pushing for improvements to Iowa's child support policies, saying it can take too long to adjust the amount parents are ordered to pay. That delay is most apparent when a parent paying child support loses a job or faces another significant change in their financial circumstances, they say." Read the entire article: http://www.qctimes.com/news/local/article_ae367734-b160-11de-a2b4-001cc4c03286.html By Atlanta Journal Constitution - Georgia 10/5/2009 "A Georgia woman is personally liable to seeking child support payments from former pro basketball player Jason Caffey after he had filed for bankruptcy protection." Read the entire article: http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-woman-must-repay-154645.html By CNN.com 10/4/2009 "The funeral of a Chicago teenager whose beating death was caught on video was attended Saturday by scores of family members, officials and community leaders, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/03/illinois.teen.beating.funeral/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By YahooNews 10/4/2009 "A week ago, Maria Gurrolla was celebrating the birth of her fourth child. A blue yard sign announced: "IT'S A BOY!" She visited a local welfare office that helps low-income mothers. Then her 4-day-old son was abducted by an attacker who posed as an immigration worker, then stabbed her." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091004/ap_on_re_us/us_tenn_newborn_snatched By The News-Press, Ft. Myers Florida 10/2/2009 "A Lee County courts program is violating the civil rights of people ordered to pay child support, sometimes resulting in their wrongful arrest, an attorney claims in a petition filed with a state appellate court." Read the entire article: http://www.news-press.com/article/20091002/SS08/91001080/1075 By Wavy.com 9/30/2009 "WAVY.com's investigation into a local contractor revealed a criminal history of bounced checks and bad business dealings. Now our ongoing investigation of Dan Robinson and RIDG Inc. revealed allegations of unpaid child support from one employee's paycheck, and that father says if he doesn't come up with money soon, he has to go to jail." Read the entire article: http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/local_wavy_virginiabeach_RIDG_Inc_child_support_accusations_20090930 By DesMoinesRegister.com - Iowa 9/30/2009 "...A recent study by the National Principals Association said that 71 percent of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. I would guess that our local numbers are similar. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090930/OPINION04/909300342/-1/NEWS04 By Press-Register - al.com - Alabama 9/30/2009 "The Alabama Supreme Court set a new legal standard in the state Wednesday by ruling that child support payments are not automatically extinguished when parental rights are terminated." Read the entire article: http://blog.al.com/live/2009/09/updated_alabama_high_court_set.html By Carrie Johnson -- Washington Post 9/11/2009 "Reports of sexual misconduct by prison staff members with federal inmates doubled over the past eight years, and government watchdogs called Thursday for more training and sensitivity to combat the growing problem." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/10/AR2009091004135.html
By FoxNews.com 10/2/2009 "A man facing a life sentence for having a quarter-sized gang sign tattooed on his 7-year-old son's hip let out a long sigh Friday when a judge said the act was not aggravated mayhem, a charge normally reserved for crippling attacks." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,559241,00.html By FoxNews.com 10/3/2009 "Shortly before former NFL quarterback Steve McNair's mistress killed him and then herself, he recorded a public service announcement that urges young people thinking about suicide to call a hotline and "live to see better days."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,559321,00.html By FoxNews 10/3/2009 "Authorities say a mother and her adult son were arrested for allegedly hauling $1 million in cocaine after Arkansas State Police pulled over their pickup for weaving on Interstate 40." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,559582,00.html By FoxNews.com 10/3/2009 "A New York mother is fighting back against her school district after administrators and officials told her she and her son didn't have the right to bike to school together — and that his safety, even beyond school walls, was out of her hands." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,559460,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r4:c0.000000:b0:z5 By FoxNews.com 10/3/2009 "Authorities say a South Florida woman got behind the wheel of her minivan and passed out drunk, leaving her two young children to wander nearly two miles away from their home barefoot." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,559640,00.html By People.com 9/30/2009 "...Behind his abstinence is his fear that Montag might go off her birth control without telling him, he says. "She's not the kind of person who would lie – she would just walk away and not answer the question," he says. "So yes, I'm very concerned. Our sex life has dramatically changed recently." ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20309161,00.html By KTLA.com 9/29/2009 "It appears the nasty divorce battle between Kate and Jon Gosselin has taken its toll on the couple's popular reality television show. In a stunning announcement made Tuesday, officials at TLC said Jon has been officially booted from the show and the series will continue on without the father of eight. The show will now be called "Kate Plus 8," the network said." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-gosselin-split,0,3733457.story
By USA Today 10/1/2009 "A mother of two is under arrest for allegedly running a pot shop from her house. Officers serving a search warrant at the home of 23-year-old Gina Marie Mule Tuesday say they found a 32-bags of marijuana concealed in a baby's crib at the home." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-pot-mother,0,4103569.story By USA Today 10/1/2009 "Outside 15 schools in eight states, government regulators have found elevated levels of a substance that — in a more potent form — was also used as a chemical weapon during World War I." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2009-09-30-toxic-chemicals-school-air_N.htm?POE=click-refer By USA Today 10/1/2009 "Michael Jackson's arms were covered with punctures, his face and neck were scarred and he had tattooed eyebrows and lips, but he wasn't the sickly skeleton of a man portrayed by tabloids, according to his autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2009-10-01-jackson-autopsy_N.htm?POE=click-refer By Yahoo Sports 9/30/2009 "I wasn't even aware that schools do this -- you learn something new every blog post, I suppose -- but apparently, Missouri's athletics department planned on getting rid of some old department cell phones." Read the entire article: http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Missouri-s-cell-phone-disposal-process-needs-som?urn=ncaab,193119 By Fox News 9/29/2009 "Who are the world’s best and worst lovers? A new poll of 15,000 women found German men to be the worst because of their "smelly odor" with English lovers coming in a close second because they "let women do all the work."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,557022,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By FoxNews 9/30/2009 "Kevin Jennings was teaching high school in 1988 when a gay student confessed an involvement with an older man. Rather than reporting it, he told the boy, "I hope you knew to use a condom."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/30/obamas-safe-schools-czar-admits-bad-handling-teen-sex-case/?test=latestnews By ScienceDaily.com 9/23/2009 "Even though the incidence of atrial fibrillation is higher in men than women, a review of past studies and medical literature completed by cardiac experts at Rush University Medical Center shows that women are more likely than men to experience symptomatic attacks, a higher frequency of recurrences, and significantly higher heart rates during atrial fibrillation, which increases the risk of stroke." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090922123929.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/29/2009 " In older age groups, repeated suicide attempts constitute an increased risk for completed suicide in depressed women, while severe attempts constitute an increased risk for depressed men. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry studied suicide attempts in 100 patients who committed suicide and in an age- and sex-matched control group, investigating the effects of age on suicidal behaviour, as a risk factor for accomplished suicide." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090928191808.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/27/2009 "When adolescents graduate to young adulthood, their preventive care tends to fall by the wayside. A recent study has found that young adults are much less likely to use ambulatory or preventive care, even though their mortality rate is more than twice that of adolescents." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090925101959.htm By ScienceDaily.com 10/1/2009 "A study in the Oct.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that elderly women sleep better than elderly men even though women consistently report that their sleep is shorter and poorer." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091001081207.htm By ScienceDaily.com 10/1/2009 "Children who eat sweets and chocolate every day are more likely to be violent as adults, according to new research." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091001081221.htm By Yahoo News 9/30/3009 "We've long been told that women are more selective when it comes to the men they choose to date." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090930/sc_livescience/studyquestionswhetherwomenaremoreselectiveatdating By Boston Herald - Massachusetts 9/30/2009 "The state Appeals Court has refused to get involved in a mother’s efforts to force a Newton sperm bank to reveal the identity of her twin daughters’ father so she can sue him for child support." Read the entire article: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20090930appeals_court_denies_case_to_id_sperm_donor/srvc=home&position=recent By Concord Monitor – New Hampshire 9/29/2009 "...Similar changes will be needed to bring about the kind of change championed by Education Secretary Arne Duncan at a "Conversation on Fatherhood" forum in Manchester last week. Duncan and others involved with the initiative kicked off by President Obama in June are doing a good job of stressing the need for fathers to be involved in their kids' education. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090929/OPINION/909290306 By Pete Billing -- Mens News Daily 9/27/2009 "It’s not easy being a father nowadays, as you can tell from the question in the heading. Canadian researchers and authors Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young have written about the persistant anti-male bias in the media, in their two books Spreading Misandry and Legalizing Misandry (you can read a short summary of their work on Wikipedia)." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/2009/09/27/is-there-anything-good-about-fathers/ By Redding.com 9/28/2009 "...First 5 - relatively flush in a year of budget cuts thanks to a guaranteed stream of cigarette taxes - will pay the salary of a county probation officer who will specifically focus on young fathers. Those 18- to 25-year-old men in turn will be sent, as a term of their probation, to parenting classes that will teach them how to do better by their children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.redding.com/news/2009/sep/28/first-5-county-join-forces-for-fatherhood/ By YahooNews 9/20/2009 "John Travolta testified Wednesday that a Bahamas paramedic threatened to sell stories to the news media suggesting the movie star was at fault in the death of his 16-year-old son." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090930/ap_on_en_mo/cb_bahamas_travolta_s_son By CNN.com 9/29/2009 "Kate plus eight minus Jon equals TLC. The breakup of Jon and Kate Gosselin's marriage this year changed the composition of the reality show's November relaunch, the network announced Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/29/jon.gosselin.dropped/index.html By People.com 9/29/2009 "Actor Eddie Furlong has recently threatened suicide and was placed under psychiatric lockdown, his estranged wife alleges in a restraining order she obtained against him in Los Angeles." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20309124,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines By CNN.com 9/30/2009 "The case of a Tennessee man jailed in Japan for trying to snatch back his children from his estranged wife is not as clear-cut as it's been made out to be, authorities here said Wednesday." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/30/japan.savoie.children/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By Chicago Tribune 9/29/2009 "Two years ago, something horrible happened to Tangela Key's two sons. Her then 13-year-old son -- who she ordered to baby sit his three siblings -- beat her 8-year-old son to death because he had eaten a dessert he wasn't supposed to and picked at a scab until it bled." Read the entire article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/orl-bk-mother-killer-092909,0,3517081.story By ScienceDaily.com 9/24/2009 "A new study finds that 75% of the cases of paediatric bipolar disorder are diagnosed late – up to 18 months – due to the symptoms manifesting themselves in a different manner depending on whether the patient is a child or adult. Moreover, 25% of sufferers have a delay in their medical diagnoses of up to three years and four months, according to a study by the Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology at the University Hospital of Navarra, in collaboration with the Paediatric Psychopharmacology Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard University (Boston, United States)." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090922100043.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/29/2009 "Researchers studying a large sample of adolescent American boys have found an association between metabolic syndrome, which is a complication of obesity, and elevated liver enzymes that mark potentially serious liver disease." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090929151922.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/24/2009 "The current generation of college students and teachers need to be as culturally fluent with people from different cultures as they are with their own, a soft skill that has become an essential part of life in the 21st century, a University of Illinois expert on teacher education says." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090924123312.htm By FoxNews 9/29/2009 "A 17-year-old Taiwanese boy has been arrested for chopping off his father's hands, allegedly to avenge years of physical abuse, a police official said Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,556921,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r4:c0.136672:b28012006:z0 By Washington Times 9/29/2009 "...And the Jennings case brings a lot more: A "safe schools czar" who failed to report a statutory rape? An education leader who encouraged a 15-year-old student to be comfortable with sexual abuse? A federal official who ignored a law requiring him to report even the possibility of a crime?..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/29/sex-scandal-double-standard/ By The Washington Times 9/28/2009 "A teacher was told by a 15-year-old high school sophomore that he was having homosexual sex with an "older man." At the very least, statutory rape occurred. Fox News reported that the teacher violated a state law requiring that he report the abuse. That former teacher, Kevin Jennings, is President Obama's "safe school czar." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/28/at-the-presidents-pleasure/?feat=home_top5_read By Yahoo News 9/29/2009 "A fourth teenager is due in court after being charged in the fatal beating of a 16-year-old Chicago honors student, who's described by family as a "great kid" who loved school." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090929/ap_on_re_us/us_chicago_beating_death By The Chattanoogan Opinion - Tennessee 9/28/2009 "I just learned one of my young male neighbors, presently unemployed, was recently jailed and is now serving 11/29 for non-payment of child-support. I guess I'm one of the few ones who scratch my head and could never understand the benefits to the child or children and society as a whole for locking someone up for failure to pay child-support, especially if they're not in a position to pay due to job loss." Read the entire article: http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_159775.asp By Farsley Today – United Kingdom 9/25/2009 "After a battle with the Child Support Agency, Armley's Tony Nelson couldn't believe his eyes when he received a letter telling him he was entitled to a refund." Read the entire article: http://www.farsleytoday.co.uk/4270/Armley-man-gets-Child-Support.5680518.jp By YahooNews 9/25/2009 "Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America's customer service -- really, really unhappy. Chiscolm in August sued the largest U.S. bank and its board, demanding that "1,784 billion, trillion dollars" be deposited into his account the next day." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090925/od_nm/us_chiscolm By Yahoo News 9/28/2009 "A woman was arrested after her 14-year-son told authorities he escaped from a home where he'd been kept for 4 1/2 years, spending most of his time locked in a bedroom closet, police said Monday." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090928/ap_on_re_us/us_child_imprisoned By Yahoo News 9/25/2009 "Actor Brad Pitt was honored on Thursday for his humanitarian work in helping rebuild hurricane-ravaged New Orleans at former U.S. President Bill Clinton's philanthropic summit, the Clinton Global Initiative." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090925/people_nm/us_pitt_2 By Yahoo News 9/27/2009 "Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way. Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090927/ap_on_re_us/us_more_school By Thom Patterson -- CNN 9/25/2009 "...She points to the Baghdad confrontation as a major contributor to her struggles with drug abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. She says she's one step away from living on the street. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/09/25/homeless.veterans/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
By CNN.com 9/27/2009 "Clifton Maloney -- the 71-year-old husband of U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York -- died apparently from natural causes in Tibet during a mountain-climbing trip, a spokesman for the congresswoman told CNN Saturday." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/26/new.york.maloney.husband/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By USA Today 9/28/2009 "Donald Walker, the 15-year mayor of this town located 120 miles south of Atlanta, died Monday afternoon from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-28-mayor-suicide_N.htm?csp=34&POE=click-refer By YahooNews 9/27/2009 "A home-improvement worker and school janitor who apparently was struggling to survive the recession killed his sleeping wife and two children before turning the 12-gauge shotgun on himself, Maryland State Police said Saturday." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090927/ap_on_re_us/us_maryland_bodies_found By CNN.com 9/25/2009 "Criminal charges will not be filed against the 18-year-old college freshman who falsely accused five men of raping her in a dormitory bathroom at Hofstra University, an official said Friday." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/25/new.york.falsely.accused/index.html?eref=rss_crime By Yahoo News 9/7/2009 "..."More experienced people are getting hired, and they're downgrading their skills to get the job," Wells said. "I feel like I'm competing with older workers, not college graduates. It wears on your confidence."..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_stress_map_awkward_ages
By Fox News 9/17/2009 "An Arizona couple accused of sexual abuse after taking bath-time photos of their children and then trying to have them developed at Walmart is suing the state and the retail giant." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,551760,00.html By John Bhechinger and Ianthe Jeanne Dugan -- Wall Street Journal Online 9/24/2009 "New York City students who win a lottery to enroll in charter schools outperform those who don't win spots and go on to attend traditional schools, according to new research to be released Tuesday. The study, led by Stanford University economics Prof. Caroline Hoxby, is likely to fire up the movement to push states and school districts to expand charter schools -- one of the centerpieces of President Barack Obama's education strategy." Read the entire article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125358513141729871.html#mod=todays_us_page_one
By WHYN 9/24/2009 "...The former "One Day at a Time" star, who has battled drug addiction for years, wrote in her new memoir, "High on Arrival," that she and her father, the late Mamas and the Papas musician John Phillips, had sex on many occasions from the time she was 19 to 29. ...However, the actress's step-mother, Michelle Phillips, told The Hollywood Reporter she doesn't believe the allegations. "She told me, then she called me back and said, 'You know I'm joking,'" Michelle said. "I said it wasn't funny. Mackenzie said, 'I guess we have different senses of humor.'"Michelle also criticized Winfrey for inviting Mackenzie on her show to discuss her book. I think it's unconscionable that Oprah would let her do her show. I have every reason to believe it's untrue. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.whyn.com/script/headline_newsmanager_alt.php?id=781599&feed_id=44
By Robert Franklin, Esq. -- Mens News Daily 9/24/2009 "...There's a good bit to chew on in the case of In the matter of Baby Boy M., A Minor. As its name suggests, this is an adoption case. Like the last adoption case out of Utah that I wrote about a few weeks ago, the facts in this case tell a lot about the depths to which some mothers will descend to keep a father from his child. Adoption agencies facilitate the mother's behavior. ..." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/09/24/texas-single-dad-stops-adoption-may-get-custody-of-his-son/
By People 9/25/2009 "Now engaged to Canadian real estate agent Kyla Weber, Vaughn, 39, said he wants to start a family and settle down." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/25/vince.vaughn.kids/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
By AMY SULLIVAN / WASHINGTON -- Time 9/25/2009 "...Birth rates in the U.S. fell 2% in 2008, the biggest drop in nearly four decades, and that trend is expected to continue. A new study out Sept. 23 from the Guttmacher Institute suggests that the timing is not a coincidence; the recession may be to blame, as women factor economic anxieties into their decision about having children. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090925/us_time/08599192594400 By FoxNews.com 9/25/2009 "Indonesia's heaviest-ever newborn drew curious crowds Friday to a hospital where the boy named Akbar -- or the Great in Arabic -- came into the world at a record 19.2 pounds" Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,554809,00.html By Yahoo News 9/24/2009 "Spanking can get kids to behave in a hurry, but new research suggests it can do more harm than good to their noggins. The study, involving hundreds of U.S. children, showed the more a child was spanked the lower his or her IQ compared with others." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090925/sc_livescience/childrenwhogetspankedhaveloweriqs
By USA Today 9/24/2009 "So what does the world's oldest man eat? The answer is not much, at least not too much. Walter Breuning, who turned 113 on Monday, eats just two meals a day and has done so for the past 35 years." Read the entire article:
By Fox News 9/15/2009 "An Army unit is reviewing how it delivers information to families after a call to a western New York couple led them to believe that their son had been killed in combat. Ray Jasper of Niagara Falls said he, his wife, Robin, and their extended family spent four hours Sunday mourning their son, Sgt. Jesse Jasper, before learning from his girlfriend that he was alive." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,550621,00.html
By E-Online 9/24/2009 "The Gossip Girl mom has been granted a temporary restraining order against the father of her two children, Daniel Giersch, after, among other things, accusing him of intimidating and threatening her nanny, being entirely unflexible with his scheduled custody visits and stressing her out so much she's having a hard time breastfeeding." Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b146019_kelly_rutherford_restrains_ex_baiting.html?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories By Abbie Boudreau and Scott Bronstein - CNN Special Investigations Unit 9/24/2009 "The sick men are Marines, or sons of Marines. All 20 of them were based at or lived at Camp Lejeune, the U.S. Marine Corps' training base in North Carolina, between the 1960s and the 1980s. They all have had breast cancer -- a disease that strikes fewer than 2,000 men in the United States a year, compared with about 200,000 women." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/24/marines.breast.cancer/index.html
By FoxNews.com 9/23/2009 "Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh is reporting its first-ever dual organ transplant since the facility started transplanting organs in 1987." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,554170,00.html By FoxNews 9/23/2009 "The St. Louis County medical examiner has ruled that a 13-year-old football player who collapsed during practice in August died as a result of hypertensive cardiovascular disease — high blood pressure." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,554340,00.html By ScienceDaily.com 9/14/2009 " The introduction of prostate-antigen screening, or PSA, has resulted in over 1 million additional men over the last 23 years being diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer—most of whom were likely overdiagnosed, researchers reported in a new study published online August 31 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090831212444.htm By ScienceDaily 9/3/2009 "Patients who ask their doctor about information they have read on the Internet, or webs that better inform them of their diagnosis, are no longer a rarity. A study undertaken by Spanish researchers reveals the advantages and disadvantages of online medical enquiries. Some 31% of doctors believe that the Internet complicates their relationship with patients and undermines their credibility." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090901082711.htm By ScienceDaily 8/27/2009 "According to the "hardwired for news" theory, people devote more attention to information that is deviant or threatening. To test the theory, University of Missouri researchers examined the physiological effects of reading threatening health news online. The researchers found that news about local health threats increased attention and memory in readers more than news about distant, or non-local, health threats." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090827131828.htm By ScienceDaily 9/4/2009 "Mental health in young people worsens in line with trends in the labour market. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health studied data from 1985 to 2002 and found that, across ten European countries, as the proportion of young people not in work increased, so did the proportion of 15-year-olds who reported mental health symptoms such as feeling low, difficulty sleeping or headaches." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090907214551.htm By YahooNews 9/24/2009 "A census worker found hanged from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest met his end in a corner of Appalachia with an abundance of meth labs and marijuana fields — and a reputation for mistrusting government that dates back to the days of moonshiners and "revenuers."..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_re_us/us_census_worker_hanged By YahooNews 9/24/2009 "...Divorce is as common in the Florida Keys as fresh grouper and cold beer. Census statistics released this week show that Monroe County — which includes the cluster of 1,700 islands floating off South Florida — has the second-highest proportion of divorced residents. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_go_ot/us_divorce_american_style By GroundReport – USA 9/23/2009 "Having children is supposed to be one of the most special moments in the life of a man, but few realize the impact of children on how a father's existence will be altered forever. To some men, the prospect of children is a long anticipated event that has finally come to fruition. To others, the thought of being saddled with the responsibility of fatherhood is not an attractive proposition, one that is to be avoided at all cost." Read the entire article: http://www.groundreport.com/Business/Parenthood-Issues-How-Fatherhood-Changes-A-Man/2908095 By GroundReport - USA 9/21/2009 "... In the case of parental responsibilities however, these roles while changing have not kept up with the times in terms of gender bias toward men's rights in the areas of child custody, more specifically as applied to a Mother paying her fair share of child support. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.groundreport.com/Business/Where-Is-The-Outrage-For-Deadbeat-Mothers/2908017 By Orlando Sentinel - Florida 9/21/2009 "...Question: I pay child support for two girls, ages 9 and 7, but my ex-wife refuses to allow me to claim any one of them as my dependent. Is there any way to prevent this from happening? ..." Read the entire article: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/orl-livask-lawyer-child-support-092092109sep21,0,4051759.column By Greg Hardesty --The Orange County Register 9/17/2009 "A Costa Mesa mother who started a Web site to track parents who fail to pay child support has been sued for slander by the man who inspired her venture: The father of her 8-year-old son." Read the entire article: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/young-rebeil-child-2570681-support-lawsuit Praxis International encourages domestic violence, when properly appliedThursday, 24 September 2009
By Trudy Schuett -- Domestic Violence Examiner 9/24/2009 "...I wouldn't have known anything about this org but for an e-mail I got from Marc Angelucci, of NCFM. The e-mail was about the outrage felt by participants at the recent Washington State Domestic Violence Coalition (WSDVC) annual conference, where Amanda McCormick, (left) an employee of Praxis said with a grin, "I think I know a lot of men who deserve to be beaten," during her keynote address. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-12866-Domestic-Violence-Examiner~y2009m9d24-Praxis-International-encourages-domestic-violence-when-properly-applied By Richard Driscoll, Ph.D. InsistenceWhile we might expect men to be more forceful than women in marital arguments, the research shows just the opposite, surprising our expectations. Women tend to be more insistent, according to various researchers including John Gottman1 at the University of Washington. Women argue more forcefully in almost twice as many marriages as men. In the most lopsided arguments where only one argues and the other remains silent, by a ratio of 6 to 1, it is the woman who continues to argue and the man who remains silent. So in these most severe arguments, we see an almost complete separation between men and women. Overwhelmed and confusedMen are typically more stressed and confused in arguments with women and remain bitter for longer afterward, while women are more comfortable amid verbal jousts, recover from them more quickly, in our ready for another round. Generally, it is fair to say that men are more intimidated in confrontations with women than the other way around. Men are not blindfolded and gagged in arguments with women — it just seems that way. OriginsInsistence has been a viable tactic for women, to test the strength of a commitment, while a reluctance to offend has been a more viable for men, who must rely on women to transport their genes into the next generation. SuggestionsMarriages are better when men and women participate about equally. Amid our typical arguments, we offer a few obvious suggestions for men and for women:  To better resolve conflict, you must learn to be more comfortable with it. Recognize that it is normal for women to be more easily upset and irritated than men, but that women also get over it faster. Do not interpret it as a great catastrophe when your mate is bothered about something. Stay involved, and try to talk it out.  You might realize that men are more vulnerable in conflict than they appear and slower to recover from it. Be careful to accurately gauge how much stress your accusations inflict, and make allowances. ImplicationsIf men were ordinarily more forceful in marital squabbles, then an increase in female power would promote equality. But since women are ordinarily more forceful, as observations indicate, the same solution pushes us farther apart. Men withdraw in the face of female accusation, leaving marriages emotionally barren and inhospitable. The challenge is to strike a proper balance, so that men and women can participate together and gain the best from each other. 1J. Gottman and R. Levenson, "The Social Psychophysiology of Marriage." In P. Noller and M. Fitzpatric (eds.), Perspectives on Marital Interaction (Clevedon, Avon, England: Multilingual Matters, 1988), 182–202.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Richard Driscoll graduated from the University of Colorado in 1974, and is in private practice in Knoxville Tennessee. He specializes in marriage and family therapy, conflict resolution, gender qualities, and spiritual experiences. Driscoll has recently published "Opposites as Equals" with Nancy Ann Davis. The authors identify innate differences between men and women, explore their origins, and suggest ways to resolve conflict and join together for our mutual benefit. Driscoll and Nancy Ann Davis are in practice together, are married, and have three grown children. Richard Driscoll offers free consultation on ways to rise above chivalry and focus instead on benefits to family and community. Dr. Driscoll is also a pioneer in anxiety reduction, and has published four anxiety reduction training including "Personal Shielding to Deflect Hostility" and "Tame Test Anxiety." His website: theOppositeSex.info and email: drD[SpamBuster]@theOppositeSex.info (remove [SpamBuster] to send e-mail)
Danbury, CT - March 27, 2009 (PRLEAP.COM) What happens when a child stops seeing you as Mom or Dad? The recently published book, A Family’s Heartbreak: A Parent’s Introduction to Parental Alienation by Michael Jeffries and Dr. Joel Davies, explains how normal, healthy parent-child relationships can go from hugs to heartbreak during high conflict divorce and separation. "Parental alienation is when one parent damages, and in some cases destroys, a child’s normal relationship with the child’s other parent," explains Michael Jeffries, the book’s author. "Our book will help parents dealing with this very destructive family dynamic and educate legal and mental health professionals searching for ways to prevent these situations." Another goal of the book, according to Jeffries, is to raise the visibility of an issue that is affecting millions of parents, children and extended family members every year. "Parental alienation isn’t recognized in the courts as often as it should be," he explains. "We must get judges to recognize alienation and not just dismiss the problem as two angry, bitter litigants who, given enough time, we’ll get over their anger and go home." Amazon.com. Michael Jeffries can be reached at mike@afamilysheartbreak.com. By It Online – Georgia -- Press Release 9/23/2009 "In 2003, The American Association of Blood Banks found that in almost 30 percent of the paternity tests conducted the man being tested is not the biological father. ...Sharon Squires, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University-Dominguez Hills, and Carnell Smith PfV have joined forces to develop a new on-line survey, the first of its kind, which will examine the emotional, financial, legal, and social impact of paternity fraud on men. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.itnewsonline.com/showprnstory.php?storyid=65824 By Wang Hongyi China Daily - China 9/23/2009 "A leading Beijing paternity testing center says up to 30 percent of tested men were not the biological fathers of their children." Read the entire article: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/metro/2009-09/23/content_8723991.htm By Christine Kellar Annapolis Capital - Maryland 9/22/2009 "Assistant Principal Sara Pickens looked out across the packed cafeteria at Nantucket Elementary School in Crofton. "I've worked in education for the past 15 years, and I've never seen so many men in a school building," she said. Roughly 130 fathers of Nantucket students, accompanied by their children, turned out on the evening of Sept. 16 for the pizza party kick-off of "WATCH D.O.G.S." (Dads of Great Students) volunteer program at the school." Read the entire article: http://www.hometownannapolis.com/news/ccr/2009/09/22-36/Around-Crofton-Nantucket-Elementary-in-Crofton-invites-dads-to-volunteer.html By SeacoastOnline.com – New Hampshire 9/21/2009 "Education Secretary Arne Duncan is visiting New Hampshire to conduct a forum promoting responsible fatherhood." Read the entire article: http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20090921-NEWS-909219983 By Steve Vockrodt Bizjournals.com - Kansas 9/22/2009 "The Missouri Court of Appeals sided with a former employee of the Kansas City Club who said he was fired because he received a court order to pay child support." Read the entire article: http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2009/09/21/daily12.html By Steve Lash Daily Record (subscription) - Maryland 9/21/2009 "A man who waited nearly 13 years to contest paternity of his ex-wife’s child must continue to pay child support, even though he’d had a vasectomy years before she conceived and the DNA test ultimately proved he was not the child’s biological father. Maryland’s top court said a Garrett County judge erred in ordering the paternity test without considering if Darren G. Kamp’s challenge was in the best interest of the child, Julie, in light of the strong bond she and Kamp had formed." Read the entire article: http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=13439&type=UTTM By Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Indiana 9/21/2009 "The Indiana Supreme Court last week issued sweeping changes to the state’s child-support guidelines that will take effect Jan. 1. The changes could mean some parents who don’t have primary custody of their children will actually receive child-support payments from custodial parents." Read the entire article: http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20090921/LOCAL/309219992/1002 By ScienceDaily.com 9/10/2009 "Whether they’re found in a museum or a textbook, historical narratives about traumatic events such as war and genocide are better left to older students, who have typically developed a more refined historical consciousness, says a University of Illinois professor who studies and teaches historical instruction." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090908125142.htm By Dr. Manny Alvarez -- Fox News Health 9/10/2009 "The key to balancing school and social life seems to be the Holy Grail of parenthood. Parents often cite a conflict between each. Put your child in too many activities, and see a decline in academic performance. Focus solely on academics, and you sacrifice a well-rounded child." Read the entire article: http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/09/10/balancing-school-and-social-life/ By ScienceDaily.com 9/2/2009 "Researchers have found new evidence showing that parents play a key role in whether or not their adolescent children who experiment with tobacco progress to become daily smokers before they graduate from high school." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090901091735.htm By ScienceDaily. com 9/17/2009 "Web-based screening and personalized interventions for alcohol use may reduce drinking in undergraduate students, according to a report in the September 14 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090914172526.htm By FoxNews.com 9/21/2009 "Jury selection has begun in the trial of two people accused of trying to extort $25 million from John Travolta following his son's death in the Bahamas." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,553181,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r3:c0.000000:b0:z5 By ScienceDaily.com 9/10/2009 "About 10% of all couples hoping for a baby have fertility problems. Environmentalists say pollution is to blame and psychiatrists point to our stressful lifestyles, but evolutionary biologist Dr. Oren Hasson of Tel Aviv University's Department of Zoology offers a different take. The reproductive organs of men and women are currently involved in an evolutionary arms race, he reports in a new study. And the fight isn't over yet." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090908125137.htm By Atlanta Journal Constitution - Georgia 9/19/2009 "One man was killed and another critically injured Friday following a shooting in Haralson County on Friday, about an hour west of Atlanta. The incident apparently began when a woman and her husband stopped by the Buchanan home of her ex-husband to pick up a child support payment, said Deputy Jim Beck." Read the entire article: http://www.ajc.com/news/one-killed-one-critical-141797.html By The Times of Trenton - NJ.com -- New Jersey 9/19/2009 "A local attorney has uncovered a glitch in the software the state uses to calculate child support awards, prompting an investigation into how widespread the problem is, officials have confirmed." Read the entire article: http://www.nj.com/news/times/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-18/1253339125156690.xml&coll=5 By John Bear -- Valencia County News Bulletin - New Mexico 9/19/2009 "A Bosque Farms Police Officer has been arrested on a warrant for past-due child support, making him the second officer from the department arrested in as many weeks." Read the entire article: http://www.news-bulletin.com/nb/index.php/news/607-BF-officer-surrenders-in-child-support-case.html By Columbus Dispatch - Ohio 9/20/2009 "...My ex-wife recently told me that I was behind in support. When I said that our son was no longer a minor, she said that I should review our divorce papers, which, somehow, extended my responsibility by almost a year because he has not graduated from high school. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2009/09/20/matrimony.html?sid=101 By Corpus Christi Caller Times - Texas 9/19/2009 "...More than 100 men of all ages gathered at the school recently to organize this year’s Watch DOGS, or Dads of Great Students, program. Club Estates, Mireles and Windsor Park elementary schools also have started similar programs aimed at increasing father involvement in schools in the Corpus Christi Independent School District. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.caller.com/news/2009/sep/19/turning-dads-into-heroes/
By Reuters -- Press Release 9/17/2009 "...The Fatherhood Initiative of the YMCA of Greater Des Moines is a program designed to help strengthen parental skills and involvement of men who have been living apart from their children and/or involved in court child support cases. The Fatherhood Initiative is based on the premise that the lives of children, families and the community as a whole improve when fathers and mothers share responsibility for their children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS148021+17-Sep-2009+PRN20090917 By WKYC-TV - Ohio 9/16/2009 "Cuyahoga County is receiving recognition for involving fathers in its Universal Pre-Kindergarten program. The "Involving Fathers In Partnership" project encourages fathers and male role models to become involved in their child's preschool experience." Read the entire article: http://www.wkyc.com/news/education/education_article.aspx?storyid=121645&catid=35 By Jack Kammer MSW, MBA This is a book written for, not just about, boys and young men ages 13 to 23. The effort to abolish sexism has done girls and young women a world of good. But the most sexist idea of all is the belief that only one sex is harmed by sexism. It's time to put an end to sexism and gender-based discrimination against boys and young men as well. We adults haven't shown much interest or ability to help young males like we've helped girls and young women, so it looks like they need to take action -- to stage a rebellion -- on their own. This little book can help get them started. It's a quick and easy read of 70 pages, with 33 pages of optional notes and references. You and the young men you care about might like it a lot. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0578030667 http://www.blueskyrebellion.com Jack Kammer, MSW, MBA is the director of the Center for Men and Boys in Social Policy (CMBSP), a public interest consultancy in Baltimore, Maryland USA. CMBSP provides fresh, gender-specific insights about men and boys for policy makers, service providers and community leaders. By Dennis Cauchon -- USA TODAY 9/18/2009 "The incomes of the young and middle-aged — especially men — have fallen off a cliff since 2000, leaving many age groups poorer than they were even in the 1970s, a USA TODAY analysis of new Census data found." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2009-09-17-young-people_N.htm?csp=34 By CNN.com 9/16/2009 "Charges have been dropped against four men accused of raping an 18-year-old student at Hofstra University after the woman recanted her allegations, prosecutors said." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/16/hofstra.rape/index.html?iref=werecommend By Times Online 9/14/2009 "The divorce laws are unfair to men and multimillion-pound awards are degrading to women, an expert in family law believes. Baroness Deech is calling for an end to the idea that women deserve half of their husbands’ wealth on divorce." Read the entire article: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6832973.ece By KTLA 9/14/2009 "A 35-year old mother is accused of using the internet to track down the boy she gave up for adoption and then raping him." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-mom-rape,0,3106598.story By KTLA.com 9/17/2009 "...Although detectives are still trying to determine what happened, Mulvaney's former wife, Julie A. Mulvaney, filed for divorced in February 2008, and the couple soon began battling over child custody, the sale of their home and James Mulvaney's fitness as a parent, according to court records. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-to-family-dead,0,4617520.story By FoxNews.com 9/11/2009 "For most guys in the gym, figuring out how to get ripped is a priority. Some just want to be "big," but they make up a very small group of the population. Most men want more; they want to not only be big, but also be lean enough that all their muscle definition is visible." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549024,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By FoxNews.com 9/10/2009 "Federal health advisers say Merck's vaccine Gardasil, which already is used to prevent cervical cancer in women, should also be approved to stop genital warts in men." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,548822,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By Fox News.com 9/17/2009 "Men who have had a vasectomy might opt for a reversal. While the procedure is most often successful, there are no absolute guarantees." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,551640,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By CNN.health 9/11/2009 "Men with prostate cancer who were previously infected with the sexually transmitted germ Trichomonas vaginalis are more likely to have an aggressive form of the cancer, compared with men who never had the STD, a new study says." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/11/prostate.cancer.std/index.html By CNN.com 9/17/2009 "Two Florida school administrators were due to appear in federal court Thursday to face contempt charges for saying a prayer at a school luncheon." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/17/florida.school.prayer/index.html By CNN.com 9/17/2009 "A jury Thursday acquitted a former Louisville, Kentucky, high school football coach of all charges connected to the heat-related death of a player last year." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/17/kentucky.coach.trial/index.html By Sarah Chacko -- Advocate Capitol News Bureau 9/16/2009 "The first meeting of a committee focused on family issues in Louisiana, such as fatherhood, drew only one of its five members Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/59415882.html By Los Angeles Times - California 9/15/2009 "A prosecutor in the second trial of Cameron John Brown says he threw the 4-year-old off a Palos Verdes Peninsula cliff in 2000. His attorney says he loved her and that she slipped and fell." Read the entire article: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-brown16-2009sep16,0,4746093.story By Mount Vernon News - Ohio 9/16/2009 "A Mount Vernon man will not be forced to continue to pay child support for his 18-year-old daughter while she is in college following a hearing Monday." Read the entire article: http://www.mountvernonnews.com/local/09/09/16/child-support-ends-at-18-for-family By Florida Times-Union - Florida 9/14/2009 "The need is there; men are being challenged to mentor a child in schools. With this knowledge of need, it is not as hard as it sounds to be a mentor and volunteer. It takes a healthy passion and honest concern for kids to be successful in school and life." Read the entire article: http://www.jacksonville.com/opinion/letters_from_readers/2009-09-14/story/guest_column_men_need_to_step_forward_as_mentors_fathe By Oliver Thomas -- USA Today "Til death do we part" wasn't such a big deal when the life expectancy was 30. When it's 80, marriage becomes a tall order. So you can imagine how surprised I was recently to learn that marriage is becoming more resilient, not less. America's divorce rate is down to 36% — the lowest since 1970." Read the entire article: http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/09/column-is-secularism-saving-marriage-.html?more?csp=fbfanpage%20 By OC Register 9/14/2009 "A UC Irvine graduate student is accused of shooting his ex-wife to death outside on-campus housing Sunday night during a custody exchange of the couple’s 4-year-old son, police announced this morning." Read the entire article: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/woman-irvine-shooting-2563821-suspect-cns By Oneonta Daily Star – New York 9/15/2009 "A former Delaware County Social Services worker was sent to jail Monday to start a three-month sentence for stealing more than $53,000 from a fund containing child-support payments." Read the entire article: http://www.thedailystar.com/local/local_story_258072714.html By Glenn Sacks, MA for Fathers & Families --- MensNewsDaily.com 9/14/2009 "Private child support collection companies are one of the more noxious plagues afflicting divorced parents. In 2008, Fathers & Families led a successful campaign against FOX, which planned to air Bad Dads, a show which would glorifies the role of private child support collectors. Fox dropped the show in the wake of our protests, which made 300 newspapers." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/09/14/private-child-support-collection-firm-accused-of-scamming-innocent-fathers/ By ScienceDaily.com 9/14/2009 "Previous research has shown that low self-esteem and emotional problems are found in people who are overweight or obese – but not which influences which. Research published today in the open access journal BMC Medicine, sheds light on this issue showing that children with emotional difficulties are at higher risk for obesity in adult life." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090910211901.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/10/2009 "The introduction of K-12 engineering education has the potential to improve student learning and achievement in science and mathematics, increase awareness about what engineers do and of engineering as a potential career, and boost students' technological literacy, according to a new report from the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council. The report examines the status and nature of efforts to teach engineering in U.S. schools." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090908125129.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/11/2009 "U.S. colleges with the biggest student drinking problems have so far failed to turn the tide, according to a new study." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090910114138.htm By Gabriella Boston -- Washington Times 9/6/2009 "Boys are up to three times more likely to be treated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as girls; and the prescription of antipsychotic drugs to children — mostly boys — has gone up by 600 percent in the last few years, says psychologist Anthony Rao." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/06/boyhood-not-a-disease/ By The Independent 9/13/2009 "A new report confirms that fathers from all ethnic backgrounds are seeking closer, more hands-on bonds with their children. Susie Mesure and Jonathan Owen report on the new multi-tasking dads" Read the entire article: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/marigold-man-ndash-how-todays-dads-share-parenting-as-never-before-1786612.html By Minnesota Lawyer - Minnesota 9/3/2009 "...Enter the Family Law Appellate Mediation Pilot Project, instituted by the Court of Appeals a year ago. The case was immediately diverted into the program, and a trained mediator was assigned to the case. The case shortly thereafter settled, with the parties mutually agreeing to a substantially reduced back-support payment." Read the entire article: http://www.minnlawyer.com/article.cfm/2009/09/07/Appellate-family-law-mediation-converting-the-skeptics By KFYR-TV – North Dakota 9/9/2009 "..."Anytime you`re dealing with an order that`s too expensive it`s going to cause a problem," says Mike Schwindt, the child support enforcement director. "So this is a better way of making sure that there`s a more equal sharing of the resources that way. We think it`s a step in the right direction."..." Read the entire article: http://www.kfyrtv.com/News_Stories.asp?news=33799 By Minneapolis Star Tribune -- Minneapolis 9/4/2009 "Mari Weiss is waiting for thousands of dollars in child support, money she needs to keep her home in Lakeland out of foreclosure. But the deadbeat isn't her ex-husband -- it's the state of Minnesota." Read the entire article: http://www.startribune.com/local/57428247.html?elr=KArksc8P:Pc:UHDaaDyiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU7DYaGEP7vDEh7P:DiUs
By Pete Billing M.D. -- Mens News Daily 9/4/2009 "...Women have always known for sure that the children they raise are their own; maternity never needs to be doubted, even in the most primitive of societies. Paternity, on the other hand, has always been something that men have doubted, consciously or unconsciously. In the absence of reliable scientific testing, how is a man to know for sure whether he is really the father of a certain child. ..." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/2009/09/04/dna-test-all-newborns/ By ScienceDaily.com 9/9/2009 " Parenthood is pushing mothers and fathers in opposite directions on political issues associated with social welfare, from health care to education, according to new research from North Carolina State University." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090908124628.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/5/2009 "Men and women whose thighs are less than 60cm in circumference have a higher risk of premature death and heart disease, according to research published on the British Medical Journal website. The study also concluded that individuals whose thighs are wider than 60cm have no added protective effect." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090904071657.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/2/2009 "A third of the previously identified single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, associated with prostate cancer in men of European or African ancestry were also associated with prostate cancer in a Japanese population, according to a new study published online September 2 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090902161114.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/2/2009 "Sexual impairment is common among men with chronic hepatitis C undergoing antiviral therapy, according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090901082531.htm By E-Online 9/10/9 "...Every year in America, hundreds of thousands of men divorce. Sure, Gosselin's more famous than most. Certainly, he's more infamous than most. But at the end of the Vegas pool party day, he's just a guy. Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b143326_jon_gosselin_misunderstood.html?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories By ABC News Australia 9/10/2009 "The father of a teenager who died after a schoolyard brawl on the New South Wales north coast says he is becoming frustrated by the police investigation." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/10/2681929.htm By CNN.com 9/8/9 "...Jon told interviewer Chris Cuomo, "I was abused. I went through therapy." His message to Kate via the cameras? "Help me out. Go to therapy. Give me closure."..." Read the entire article: By Hila Raz -- Ha'aretz - Israel 9/9/9 "A businessman who signed three support agreements with his ex-wife convinced a court to throw out his divorce settlement because the woman had exploited his narcissistic personality." Read the entire article: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1113088.html By Trinidad & Tobago Guardian 9/8/2009 "America has become a nation where fatherhood is fast becoming unnecessary and irrelevant in many homes and communities today. Single motherhood and divorced women are not only more celebrated in the media than married women, but fathers and husbands are disregarded even when they are present in the hospital when their child is being born or for the child’s healthcare. " Read the entire article: http://guardian.co.tt/commentary/letters/2009/09/08/plea-dads-get-involved By Ally Fogg -- The Guardian UK 9/6/2009 "The debate on domestic violence (DV) statistics took a fascinating turn last week. Recent years have seen numerous surveys which suggest that incidents involving male victims and female perpetrators are more common than had previously been assumed. Men's charities have long argued that the official crime figures significantly under-represent the problem, because so few men report abuse to the authorities, and those that do are likely to be disbelieved, often to the extent of being arrested themselves when police arrive." Read the entire article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/06/domestic-violence-police-male-victims By FoxNews.com 9/3/2009 "A lawsuit in California that was filed last month by angry parents who object to a gay-friendly curriculum they say is being foisted on kindergartners could well become a test case for schools around the country." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,546280,00.html?test=latestnews By Associated Press - 9/3/2009 "...Earlier this year, Vermont enacted a new law that allows minors charged with a first offense of "sexting" to be declared delinquent in juvenile court and sent to a diversion program, not prosecuted as adults or put on the state's sex offender registry. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i15vJ_HAfwyMn5DFOLAgAIjckuIQD9AG4BVO0
By This is London 9/8/2009 "When Gary Crutchley started taking pictures of his children playing on an inflatable slide he thought they would be happy reminders of a family day out. But the innocent snaps of seven-year-old Cory, and Miles, five, led to him being called a ‘pervert’. The woman running the slide at Wolverhampton Show asked him what he was doing and other families waiting in the queue demanded that he stop. One even accused him of photographing youngsters to put the pictures on the internet. Mr Crutchley, 39, who had taken pictures only of his own children, was so enraged that he found two policemen who confirmed he had done nothing wrong." Read the entire article: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23516542-details/Father-of-three+branded+a+'pervert'+-+for+photographing+his+own+children+in+public+park/article.do
By Ken Lee -- People 9/9/2009 "...Hefner decided to file for divorce, he says, after Conrad sued him in recent weeks for $5 million stemming from the sale of a home they owned together. He strongly denied that he owes Conrad any money, and that he's faithfully paid her $250,000 a year as promised in a prenuptial agreement. He adds: "I would've been happy to divorce her when we separated, but she wanted to remain married for our boys."..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20303278,00.html By The Age - Australia 9/6/2009 "THE cluster of fathers gathered around a barbecue at midday draws a few odd looks in a playground full of mothers and small children. But these stay-at-home dads are used to that." Read the entire article: http://www.theage.com.au/national/dads-still-a-rare-sight-at-playgroup-20090905-fc54.html By Hilton Head Island Packet – South Carolina 9/5/2009 "...Several sources, including clerks in other counties, said the kind of money that was transferred is intended to help clerks' offices handle child support cases and should not be used for other purposes. A state official said his office discouraged Elizabeth Smith more than a year ago from diverting the child support money to the Drug Court when she called to ask whether it would be appropriate. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/957322.html By San Jose Mercury News 9/8/2009 "An Orange County father has been convicted of murdering his 4-year-old son by drowning him in a bathtub. The Superior Court panel returned its decision Tuesday and will consider on Wednesday whether Gideon Omondi was insane at the time of the 2006 killing. His defense attorney says Omondi was distraught about a custody fight and didn't know what he did was wrong." Read the entire article: http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_13294753 By Courthouse News Service - Georgia 9/9/2009 "Child Support Services of Atlanta used the U.S. mail to wantonly mislead parents into believing it is a state agency and persuade them to send it child support payments, which its owner Stuart Clay Cole stole for himself, the Post Office claims. The federal complaint claims Cole's company has offices in Georgia and 12 other states, and used threats and intimidation to get money from noncustodial parents." Read the entire article: http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/09/09/Post_Office_Accuses_Georgia_Firm_Of_Interstate_Child_Support_Scam.htm By WMTW.com 9/8/2009 "The number of women being arrested for domestic assault is on the rise in Maine. The Department of Public Safety said 1,067 women were charged with assaulting men in 2008. That's a 38 percent increase from the 770 women charged five years ago." Read the entire article: http://www.wmtw.com/news/20793445/detail.html By PR Web (press release) - USA 9/5/2009 "Any Lab Test Now® North Dallas locations are taking steps to create awareness concerning the large amount of paternity testing scams occurring in the online marketplace by promoting their $199 basic paternity test. Owner Greg Johnson admits, “We are noticing an increasing number of customers ordering a paternity test from us who have previously been scammed purchasing an online DNA test kit.”..." Read the entire article: http://www.prweb.com/releases/paternity-testing/dallas/prweb2833084.htm By Marietta Times - Georgia 9/5/2009 "In an economy that continues to generate unemployment in record numbers and create financial stress, people looking for reviews or adjustments of their required child support payments are growing in number." Read the entire article: http://www.mariettatimes.com/page/content.detail/id/515549.html?nav=5002 By KOLO - Nevada 9/6/2009 "A state task force is looking at ways to improve the collection of delinquent child support Read the entire article: http://www.kolotv.com/news/headlines/57610547.html By Cherry Hill Courier Post -- New Jersey 9/8/2009 "I had a conversation with a friend whose son was arrested recently on nonpayment of child support. He had been unemployed for more than a year but was making minimal payments when he could." Read the entire article: http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20090908/OPINION/909080308/1047 By Brandi Fowler and Breanne L. Heldman -- E Online 9/7/2009 "..."I was verbally abused," the 32-year-old accuses. "I was beaten down. She separated me from my family. She used to hold the kids over my head and say, 'Don't spend time with your mom, spend time with your kids.' Why can't I spend time with my mom and kids together?"..." Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/index.jsp?author=brandi+fowler+and+breanne+l.+heldman Then there was the name calling and put-downs... By Yahoo News 9/7/2009 "A New York man is donating his 320th pint of blood this week, making him one of two people in the U.S. who has given 40 gallons." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090907/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd40_gallons_of_blood By David Kocieniewski -- New York Times 8/31/2009 "During the 10 months she was deployed in Iraq, Leydi Mendoza, a 22-year-old specialist in the New Jersey National Guard, did everything she could think of to ease her longing for the year-old daughter she had left back home." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/nyregion/01guard.html?_r=1 By ScienceDaily.com 9/6/2009 "Zoning restrictions on fast-food restaurants near schools and playgrounds, community policing to improve safety around public recreational sites, requirements that publicly run after-school programs limit video game and TV time, and taxes on high-calorie, low-nutrient foods and drinks are some of the strategies local government officials can use to tackle the childhood obesity epidemic in their communities, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090901111540.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/4/2009 "Five million students will return to Canadian schools this month. If nothing changes at least a million will fail to graduate high school." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090904165256.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/3/2009 " High school football and wrestling athletes experienced the highest rate of severe injuries, according to the first study to examine severe injuries – injuries that caused high school athletes to miss more than 21 days of sport participation among a nationally representative sample of high school athletes. Severe injuries accounted for 15 percent of all high school sport-related injuries." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090902195251.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/2/2009 "High-school put-downs are such a staple of teen culture that many educators don't take them seriously. However, a University of Illinois study suggests that classroom disruptions and psychologically hostile school environments can contribute to a climate in which good students have difficulty learning and students who are behind have trouble catching up." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090901105142.htm By ScienceDaily.com 9/1/2009 "A new study that looks at data on three generations of Oregon families shows that "positive parenting" – including factors such as warmth, monitoring children's activities, involvement, and consistency of discipline – not only has positive impacts on adolescents, but on the way they parent their own children." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090901082526.htm By Jean Shin CNN.com 9/8/9 "Asa Hill was 7 years old when he died. Although the boy was pulled out of a burning car alive in a horrific accident on the Niagara Thruway on Thursday, his injuries proved critical, and he passed away the following night." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/08/ny.funeral.wedding/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By CNN.com 9/8/2009 "One of the most unexpected controversies of the Obama administration came to a head Tuesday as the president delivered a hotly debated back-to-school speech to students across the country." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/08/obama.school.speech/index.html?iref=werecommend
By People.com 9/5/2009 "While Kim Kardashian plans sister Kourtney's baby shower, the Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami star's boyfriend, Scott Disick, had his own daddy-to-be celebration of sorts this week in Miami during an evening of dining and clubbing Kourtney jokingly dubs a "man-shower." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20302827,00.html By USA Today 9/5/2009 "A boy allegedly abducted in a custody dispute nearly two years ago has turned up alive, hiding with his mother in a small, specially built secret room at his grandmother's Illinois home, investigators said." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-05-illinois-missing_N.htm?csp=34 By Miami County Republic - Kansas 9/2/2009 "...Watch D.O.G.S. was created by Jim Moore, a concerned father, in response to a shooting that occurred in 1998 at a Jonesboro, Ark., high school. The program has now extended to more than 800 schools in over 30 states. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.republic-online.com/200909024614/news/spring-hill/shes-to-start-watch-d.o.g.s.html By The Washington Times 9/3/2009 "Maricopa County sheriff's detectives want to talk with embattled Montgomery College President Brian K. Johnson about an outstanding warrant that would land him in jail if he returned to Arizona. " Read the entire article: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/03/ariz-warrant-cites-md-college-president/?feat=home_top5_shared& By Yahoo News 9/4/2009 "...He and other exonerees in Texas, which leads the nation in freeing the wrongly convicted, soon will become instant millionaires under a new state law that took effect this week. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090904/ap_on_re_us/us_exoneree_millionaires By Judy Keen and Greg Toppo -- USA Today 9/3/2009 "Some schools won't show President Obama's online speech to the nation's students Tuesday because of the objections of administrators and parents. Independence, Mo., School District Superintendent Jim Hinson says he's gotten "more calls than we've ever had on an issue," some from parents who will keep their children home Tuesday. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-09-04-school-protests_N.htm?POE=click-refer
By USA Today 9/4/2009 "...Reeves said the family intends to get emotional help for the girl, who was tackled and disarmed by 18-year-old classmate Kaleb Eulls. But he said the girl does not belong in jail. "She doesn't need to be in jail for the rest of her life," he said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-04-yazoo-mississippi_N.htm?csp=34&POE=click-refer By Times Online – United Kingdom 8/27/2009 "A devoted father who discovered that two of his three children had been fathered by another man is suing his ex-wife for compensation." Read the entire article: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6811203.ece By Kosciusko Star Herald - Mississippi 8/26/2009 "....The testing is being provided by the Mississippi Department of Human Services, Division of Child Support Enforcement. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.starherald.net/communityinformation/local_story_238104706.html By WRDW-TV – Georgia/South Carolina 8/27/2009 "The Aiken County Sheriff's Office is looking for ten "Dead-Beat Moms." Each of them owes more than $25,000 in child support and is wanted by the Family Court." Read the entire article: http://www.wrdw.com/crimeteam12/headlines/55248602.html By People.com "..."I took a lot of abuse from her. I was put down," Jon Gosselin tells ABC's Chris Cuomo in an interview set to air next week. "She'll call me, almost like a lame fish. Like I wasn't going anywhere."... Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20301934,00.html By ScienceDaily.com 8/28/2009 "...The study also found that girls tend to date older from age 14 on, as do high school dropouts and teens who use alcohol. Boys at age 14 date their own age until they reach age 18, when they start dating younger women, Bauermeister said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090826191852.htm By ScienceDaily.com 8/28/2009 "A study of 4254 Canadian schoolchildren has shown a direct association between BMI and satisfaction with their body shape. The research, published in the open access journal BMC Public Health, shows a linear response for girls, who were happiest when thinnest, and a U-shaped response for boys, who were unhappy when they were too skinny or too fat." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090826191843.htm By FoxNews.com 8/31/2009 " A 10-year-old New Mexico boy is facing a murder charge in the shooting death of his father." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,544445,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r3:c0.284663:b27433750:z0 By The Sun 8/18/2009 "...The schoolgirl stunned cops by owning up to a serial killing spree that started when she was a 15-year-old. She told detectives she wanted to confess before she turned 18 and could be tried as an adult. The girl - too young even to be named - said she began targeting men in her home city of Sao Paulo, Brazil "for money, revenge and to bring justice". ..." Read the entire article: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2592734/Girl-aged-17-knifes-30-men-to-death.html
By FoxNews.com 8/31/2009 "A New Jersey social studies teacher has been charged with accepting cash from students looking to improve their grades." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,545021,00.html?test=latestnews By TVNZ – New Zealand 8/31/2009 "Fathers' groups are backing proposed changes to the child-support scheme which they say would make fathers happier to pay child support costs." Read the entire article: http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/fathers-back-proposed-child-support-changes-2956414 By ScienceDaily 8/8/2009 "Fewer black women with postgraduate degrees are getting married and having children, according to research to be presented at the 104th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810025251.htm By FoxNews.com 8/28/2009 "A grand jury has indicted a Phoenix woman accused of stabbing a disabled man 50 times before dismembering and burning his body." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,544144,00.html By ABC News Australia 8/31/2009 "...Jai Morcom, 15, died from head injuries suffered during a fight at Mullumbimby High School on Friday morning, and more than half of the school's students walked out in protest yesterday. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/31/2672470.htm By CNN.com 8/25/2009 "I've had a bumpy ride as a single gal and have dated many guys who weren't worth my time. But that doesn't mean a girl can't be a dud, too! Case in point? That tragic and recently cancelled VH1 show "Megan Wants a Millionaire," about a girl who was looking for a rich man to pay the bills" Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/08/25/tf.13.signs.dating.loser/index.html By MSNBC.com 8/27/2009 "Dozens of impoverished farmers struggling with debt and poor rainfall have killed themselves in southern India in recent weeks, leaving behind families plunged even further into poverty, activists and politicians said." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32585162/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/ Cheating Husband Admits Infidelity in Sign on Display Outside Virginia MallThursday, 27 August 2009
By Fox News.com 8/27/2009 "A cheating husband is trying to make amends by publicly admitting his indiscretions — in a sign he's toting outside a busy Virginia shopping center." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,543604,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r3:c0.000000:b0:z5 By ABC News -- Australia 8/27/2009 "The Federal Government is under growing pressure to change its shared parenting legislation, with a former judge criticising the laws for not working in the interests of the child." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/28/2669245.htm By E-Online 8/27/2009 "...Klein, who admitted to anonymously donating sperm once, will not be taking a DNA test to prove he's the father of those kids, attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan told US Weekly Thursday. .." Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b141515_no_daddy-proving_dna_coming_from.html By Aiken Standard (subscription) – South Carolina 8/26/2009 "The Aiken County Sheriff's Office hasn't reserved the term "deadbeat" for just dads - the agency's most recent wanted suspects are mothers who are at least $25,000 behind in child support payments." Read the entire article: http://www.aikenstandard.com/Local/0827DeadbeatMoms By Fayette Front Page.com - Georgia 8/26/2009 "The Georgia Department of Human Services (DHS) Office of Child Support Services (OCSS) has nearly doubled the number of child support agents in response to an increased demand for services. OCSS recently added 21 new agents to the state’s Fatherhood Program as the number of non-custodial parents receiving unemployment benefits has quadrupled since 2008. The agents will help non-custodial parents who face various economic barriers find jobs so they can pay child support." Read the entire article: http://georgiafrontpage.blogspot.com/2009/08/number-of-ocss-agents-nearly-doubles-as.html By FoxNews.com 8/21/2009 "Financial fears and the recession are contributing to the rise in the number of men suffering from anorexia." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,541340,00.html By Fox News 8/18/2009 "Although being tall does not appear to influence the overall risk of prostate cancer, it may have a role in certain manifestations of the disease, US and German researchers have found." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,540285,00.html By FoxNews.com 8/26/2009 "A 17-year-old boy who burst into a California high school strapped with explosives was out for revenge and intended to commit a "cold-blooded execution," police said." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,542967,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g12:r2:c0.093796:b27384852:z0 By ScienceDaily 8/25/2009 "Obese men are at increased risk for erectile dysfunction (ED), likely caused by atherosclerosis-related hypertension and cardiovascular disease, as well as hormonal changes associated with obesity, as described in a timely article published in Obesity and Weight Management." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090824182531.htm By ScienceDaily 8/26/2009 "Women may have a slightly higher risk of death than men in the 30 days following an acute coronary syndrome (ACS; such as heart attack or unstable angina), but this difference appears attributable to factors such as severity and type of ACS, clinical differences and angiographic severity according to a study in the August 26 issue of JAMA." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090825163724.htm By ScienceDaily 8/23/2009 "Despite mounting public health concerns about obesity and persistent social pressures dictating that slim is beautiful, young women in their '20s consistently exercise less than young men." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090821135022.htm By ScienceDaily 8/26/2009 "Women hedge, issue disclaimers and ask questions when they communicate, language features that can suggest uncertainty, lack of confidence and low status. But men do the same, according to new research from the University of California, Davis." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090825090749.htm By Kentucky.com 8/26/2009 "Officials in western Kentucky have seized settlement money won by jail inmates to pay child support payments." Read the entire article: http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/909394.html By Huffington Post 8/27/2009 "...When asked what Laffoon does for a living, the actress said, "He goes out to the mailbox and he opens up the little mailbox door and goes, 'Oh! I got a check from Anne! Oh! I got a check from Anne! Yay!'"..." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/27/anne-heche-calls-ex-a-laz_n_270186.html By Ali A. Rizvi -- The Huffington Post 8/3/2009 "This year, 1.2 million male babies in the United States will have between 35 and 50% of healthy, functioning penile skin -- containing over 20,000 nerve endings and the five mot sensitive areas of the penis -- removed in a procedure that all of the major medical associations in the world, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Canadian Paediatric Society, have deemed medically unnecessary." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-a-rizvi/male-circumcision-and-the_b_249728.html By The Arizona Republic 8/24/2009 "Calls to poison-control centers about teens abusing attention-deficit drugs soared 76 percent over eight years, sobering evidence about the dangerous consequences of prescription misuse, a study shows. The calls were from worried parents, emergency-room doctors and others seeking advice on how to deal with the problem, which can be deadly." Read the entire article: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/08/24/20090824adhd0824.html By Jessamy Brownb -- Star Telegram 8/22/2009 "A high school student is suspended for four days when school officials find a wooden bat in his vehicle. An honors student forgets to remove a kitchen knife from his car and is sent to an alternative-placement center for students with disciplinary problems. Under strict "zero tolerance" discipline policies in some school districts, students can get severe punishment for weapons violations, assaults and drug offenses no matter what the circumstances were. In a fight, for example, it doesn’t matter who threw the first punch or whether it is the student’s first trip to the principal’s office." Read the entire article: http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1552845.html By New Jersey Star Ledger 8/25/2009 "Child welfare workers too often overlooked family problems caused by mental illness, domestic violence, and drug and alcohol addiction before children died from abuse and neglect in 2007, according to a report issued yesterday by the New Jersey Child Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board." Read the entire article: http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-14/1251165315286280.xml&coll=1 By The Wall Street Journal Online 8/25/2009 "Circumcision, which has helped prevent AIDS among heterosexual men in Africa, doesn't help protect gay men from the disease, according to the largest U.S. study to look at the question." Read the entire article: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB125123165123458109-lMyQjAxMDI5NTIxNTIyMzUxWj.html By Evan Buxbaum - CNN 8/25/2009 "A new federal report says employees at four New York state juvenile residential centers have been responsible for abuse resulting in concussions, broken bones and even one death." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/25/new.york.youth.center.abuse/index.html?eref=time_health By Josie Hinton -- Ham and High "...Some of Britain's leading children's authors have said they will boycott schools from the start of the new school term because of a policy requiring them to undergo criminal background checks to prove they aren't sex offenders. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/content/camden/hamhigh/news/story.aspx?brand=NorthLondon24&category=Newshamhigh&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newshamhigh&itemid=WeED20%20Aug%202009%2010%3A17%3A41%3A413 " -- Los Angeles Times 8/25/2009 "The Obama administration scored a victory of sorts in federal court Monday when a judge threw out an Orange County gay couple's lawsuit claiming that the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional." Read the entire article: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gay-marriage25-2009aug25,0,3951772.story By KTLA News 8/11/2009 "...In the most recent fax, McDermott's supposed rep wrote, "Pat has asked that I portray to you his innocence. Pat has committed no crime. Pat simply wishes to be left alone. Let him live his life in peace and harmony. He is safe and has started anew again in a new place both physically and mentally. Stop this search immediately."..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-newton-john-boyfriend,0,625888.story By FoxNews.org 8/26/2009 "Linda Bollea Sues Hulk Hogan for Her Harley, Wants Him in Prison" Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,542943,00.html By FoxNews.com 8/25/2009 "A teen armed with a sword and chainsaw who had several pipe bombs strapped to his body was arrested Monday after two explosions rocked Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, Calif., KTVU reported." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,542481,00.html By ScienceDaily.com 8/21/2009 "Today's youngsters are buried under homework, which gobbles up free time that could be spent with family or friends. Parents, puzzled whether to help their children dig out from a pile of books or allow them to carry on alone, are frustrated by the take-home workload. And they're angry at the stress the immense amounts of homework can put on their whole family." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090820124048.htm By ScienceDaily.com 8/18/2009 "It is widely understood that, ideally, schools and parents should work together to ensure that children can succeed as students and citizens. But what is the right balance? And how much do teachers want parents involved in the classroom? A new study from North Carolina State University identifies ways that schools and communities can work with parents to give children the greatest chance of success." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090818083222.htm By ScienceDaily.com 8/21/2009 "Family quarrels and a lack of free time can promote headaches in children. This is what Jennifer Gassmann and her coauthors concluded in their study on risk factors, which appears in the current issue of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt International." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090817142737.htm By Marketplace - USA 8/21/2009 "Despite hints that the economy is recovering, job losses continue. But what happens when fathers who pay child support are out of work? Monica Brady-Myerov reports." Read the entire article: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/08/21/mm-child-support/ By Indianapolis Star – Indiana 8/23/2009 "...Sen. Evan Bayh's Responsible Fatherhood Act was recently reintroduced in the U.S. Congress. Legislation like this is a step in the direction that will aid the well-being of children. Bayh's findings in the act include: "There is an irrefutable body of evidence demonstrating that father absence is a major contributor to such troubling societal trends as increased teen pregnancy, teen violence, educational under-performance, and drug and alcohol abuse. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.indystar.com/article/20090823/OPINION01/908230341/1002/OPINION/For+kids++sake++don+t+discourage+dad+s+involvement By Elkhart Truth - Indiana 8/23/2009 "...The former Marine, police officer and attorney -- the man who was trained to uphold and defend the law -- robbed the first of 38 banks. DESPERATE He was desperate to pay child support, he said. He wasn't going to be late. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.etruth.com/Know/News/Story.aspx?ID=491264
By World Net Daily 8/24/2009 "In this day and age of neurobiology (understanding of brain chemistry and neuro-anatomy), it is shocking to have an organization such as the Heritage Foundation release a report called "Adult Time for Adult Crimes – Life Without Parole for Juvenile Killers and Violent Teens." It is not "compassionate conservatism;" it shows a lack of knowledge in regard to basic brain development." Read the entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107735
By FIRE 8/21/2009 "The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has withdrawn its unconstitutional demand that a former student take down a website criticizing the university. UCLA had demanded that Tom Wilde shut down his private, non-commercial website, ucla-weeding101.info, by last Monday. Wilde turned to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help, and yesterday, only a few hours after FIRE publicized Wilde's case, UCLA informed FIRE that its demands against Wilde were being withdrawn." Read the entire article: http://www.thefire.org/article/10993.html By CNN.com 8/24/2009 "...They point to their father as exhibit A. At 86, he still comes to the office that his sons named after him, the Victor Roberts Building, a large complex complete with restaurants and retail stores. He worked 39 years in the Postal Service before retiring in the 1980s. He now keeps a keen eye on his now grown boys. He refuses a paycheck. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/08/24/black.donald.trumps/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn
By Yahoo News 8/22/2009 "Robin Williams stars in a movie called "World's Greatest Dad," but as a real life father of three grown kids the Oscar winner said he had to overcome dark times and was still a work-in-progress." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090822/en_nm/us_williams_1 By KTLA News 8/14/2009 "A mother and her teenage roommate have been arrested after authorities say they found her 5-year-old son 'weak and emaciated' inside a closet." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-apple-valley-toture,0,638480.story By KTLA News 8/17/2009 "A 25-year-old woman on probation in Los Angeles for a similar crime laced her breast milk with morphine and fed it to her 2-month-old daughter in an effort to attract the attention of the child's father, authorities say." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-poison-breastmilk,0,3226535.story By KTLA News 8/18/2009 "Authorities have apprehended the person suspected of setting fire to a wedding tent and killing 43 people. Local newspapers reported the groom's ex-wife was the arsonist." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-wedding-tent,0,6729684.story By KTLA News 8/19/2009 "A Tunisian woman's claim of being pregnant with 12 babies is a farce, a health official said Wednesday." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-12-babies,0,1263470.story By KTLA News 8/18/2009 "A Houston-area mother convicted of mutilating her infant by cutting off his genitals two years ago was sentenced Monday to 99 years in prison. But minutes after the jury's sentence was read, Katherine Nadal, 28, yelled out that she did not hurt her son, prompting the boy's father to storm out of the courtroom." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/houston-mom-mutilates-son,0,881132.story By ScienceDaily 7/31/2009 "Men with early stages of prostate cancer who delay radical treatment in favor of an approach of "expectant management" do not have high levels of anxiety and distress. That is the conclusion of a new study published in the September 1, 2009 issue of Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study's results suggest that living with untreated cancer is not upsetting for many patients with early prostate cancer." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727080552.htm By Yahoo News.com 8/21/2009 "A wheat farm, large plastic letters and his dad's small plane? Jason Kahle thought it had a ring to it. He took his 23-year-old girlfriend, Aleasha Decker, up in the air Aug. 9 under the guise of photographing some relatives' houses in Kalida, about 60 miles southwest of Toledo in northwestern Ohio." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090821/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_wheat_field_proposal By FIRE 8/20/2009 "The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has unconstitutionally ordered a former student to take down a website criticizing UCLA or else face criminal and civil action." Read the entire article: http://www.thefire.org/article/10989.html By Chicago Tribune 8/19/2009 "...There were the usual jokes from friends about his low pay and cushy workday. There were the awkward moments with women who sometimes belittled his profession. There was the occasional whisper or suspicious glance from parents who questioned why a young man would choose to spend so much time with children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-male-teachers-19-aug19,0,3771337.story By CNN.com 8/21/2009 "A Vietnam veteran and Bronze Star recipient who volunteered to return to the Army and serve in Afghanistan became the oldest U.S. service member to die in combat there, the U.S. military announced Friday." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/21/afghanistan.oldest.death/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By CNN.com 8/20/2009 "For 20 years Steven Barnes has relived one day over and over in his mind; the scenes sometimes unfold like a filmy, disjointed dream, and sometimes with a stark and painful furor. It was the day he was arrested, at age 23, for a crime he did not commit." Read the entire article: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/20/man-convicted-of-rape-murder-based-on-junk-science/ By Yahoo Sports 8/20/2009 "...Her dramatic improvement, muscular build and deep voice sparked speculation about her gender. Her father, grandmother and cousin dismissed speculation she is not a woman. ..." Read the entire article: http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=ap-worlds-gendertest&prov=ap&type=lgns By Medical News Today 8/17/2009 "Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) have identified a novel genetic mechanism that may govern an individual's risk of developing prostate cancer." Read the entire article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/160867.php By ScienceDaily.com 8/6/2009 "Low levels of estradiol or high levels of sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) are associated with an increased risk of osteoporotic fracture in older men, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. The study also finds that men with low levels of testosterone combined with high levels of SHBG are also at higher risk for bone fracture." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090803222708.htm By ScienceDaily.com 8/9/2009 "While higher education has helped women narrow their long-running wage gap with men, there is one college-related factor that has becoming increasingly important in perpetuating that gap, according to new research." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810024829.htm By ScienceDaily.com 7/31/2009 "Striking differences in the risk factors for developing heart failure (HF) and patient prognosis exist between men and women. Men and women may also respond differently to treatment, raising concerns about whether current practices provide the best care and reinforcing the urgency for sex-specific clinical trials for HF, according to a review article published in the August 4, 2009, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727191254.htm By ScienceDaily.com 8/11/2009 "Middle-aged men who strongly idealize masculinity are almost 50 percent less likely than other men to seek preventative healthcare services, according to a study—the first population-based analysis of men's masculinity beliefs and preventative healthcare compliance—to be presented at the 104th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810174209.htm#
By ScienceDaily.com 8/17/2009 "A new look at a large database of prostate cancer patients shows that obesity plays no favorites when it comes to increasing the risk of recurrence after surgery: Being way overweight is equally bad for blacks and whites, say researchers at Duke University Medical Center." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090813142357.htm#
By ScienceDaily.com 8/18/2009 "Men diagnosed with prostate cancer have a number of treatments to choose from, but it's a daunting task to figure out the right mix of therapies for an individual patient. Trends among medical professionals have tipped the scales in favor of some treatments for younger men diagnosed with prostate cancer, but a new study by scientists at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and North Shore-LIJ Health System have found that age doesn't make a difference in the long-term therapeutic outcome." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090803185716.htm By The Huffington Post 8/19/2009 "President Obama threw a bone Monday to the LGBT activists he first pissed off in June by filing a brief arguing that the Defense of Marriage Act is both constitutional and a defense against incest and pedophilia. The concession took the form of a new brief in Smelt v. United States that now says his administration is committed to a DOMA repeal but -- don't get too excited -- also argues that DOMA itself is constitutional and Smelt should be dismissed." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kase-wickman/obama-talking-out-of-both_b_261414.html By ABC News 8/16/2009 "It's been more than four months since Michael McCarty has seen his 8-year-old son, Liam. Today the young boy sits in an Italian orphanage, the product of an international custody dispute gone terribly wrong." Read the entire article: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/story?id=8339008&page=1 By Darah Hansen and Rebecca TeBrake -- Vancouver Sun 8/19/2009 "Until this week, Kimberly Ruth Noyes had a reputation among those who lived near her Grand Forks home as a good neighbour." Read the entire article: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Neighbour+arrested+connection+autistic+death+Grand+Forks/1901707/story.html By Vancouver Sun 8/17/2009 "The interests of children must take priority over a father's right to an equal parenting role after divorce, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said here Monday." Read the entire article: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Kids+interests+priority+divorce+justice+minister+says/1901556/story.html By FoxNews 8/19/2009 "The mother of an 8-year-old boy found dead in an Idaho canal and her live-in boyfriend have been indicted on first-degree murder charges by an Ada County grand jury." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,540443,00.html By CNN.com 8/18/2009 "...The papers, filed in Marin County, California, on August 12, state that "both parties have already agreed to [shared] custody" over their minor son, Hopper Jack, 16, and that "the estranged couple have already agreed to division of all property."..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/18/wright.penn.divorce/index.html By FoxNews.com 7/31/2009 "A court battle over whether a sperm donor should pay a higher rate of child support has ended with a ruling that the man is liable because he has taken an active role in raising the children." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,395642,00.html By Fox News 8/19/2009 "Scientists in Israel say it's easy to "engineer a crime scene" with fabricated DNA evidence, throwing in doubt the strength of the prime standard in criminal cases that has been used to secure thousands of convictions." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,540641,00.html By FoxNews.com 8/18/2009 "In an effort to address the mental health problems of some combat troops, the U.S. Army wants all of its 1.1 million soldiers to start taking emotional resiliency classes." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/18/army-seeks-mentally-toughen-combat-troops-resiliency-classes/ By CNN.com 8/19/2009 "Arrests for women driving under the influence jumped by nearly 30 percent during the decade ending in 2007, according to a study released Wednesday by the U.S. Transportation Department." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/19/women.drunken.driving/index.html By ScienceDaily.com 8/12/2009 "When it comes to how they raise their children, mothers today tend to follow the same practices their own mothers did, according to a new study that looked at parenting practices across two generations. Fathers, on the other hand, don't seem to use their moms as parenting role models, at least for some practices." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810024827.htm By Jeff Newman and Carol Harvat -- So Md News - Maryland 8/19/2009 "..."Friday is child-support day. It's an awful coincidence," Evans said, adding that it was unknown whether the caller had a scheduled court date. "It seems like there's a pattern here."..." Read the entire article: http://www.somdnews.com/stories/08192009/rectop143913_32193.shtml By Appeal-Democrat – California 8/17/2009 "I have noticed the banners in Marysville informing us all of “Child Support Awareness Month.” What I’d like to see is more awareness of the damage child support and the state’s involvement in it does to families." Read the entire article: http://www.appeal-democrat.com/articles/letter-85615-banners-marysville.html By MSNBC.com 8/18/2009 "A Los Angeles woman who decapitated her 4-year-old with a kitchen knife showed signs of mental illness nine months before the attack, yet Los Angeles County child welfare officials decided she wasn't a serious threat to the boy." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32463347/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/ By FoxNews.com 8/3/2009 "Injuries to American children during physical education classes increased by 150 percent from 1997-2007, a new study finds, a possible drawback to a movement encouraging more vigorous exercise in schools." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,536231,00.html By FoxNews.com 8/6/2009 "A Malaysian teacher forced a student to smoke 42 cigarettes in two hours as punishment after finding the boy had a cigarette and lighter, a news report said Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537623,00.html By FoxNews.com 8/18/2009 "A juvenile court judge ruled Tuesday that a 10-year-old boy charged in the alleged gang-rape of an 8-year-old Liberian girl be released from juvenile detention and placed in a therapeutic foster-care home." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,540403,00.html By FoxNews.com 8/14/2009 "Police say a western Pennsylvania woman and her boyfriend forced the woman's sons — a 6-year-old and a 9-year-old — to fight each other as the couple watched." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,539366,00.html By ScienceDaily.com 7/30/2009 "Around one in five young people in the U.S. have a current mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder. About half of all adults with mental disorders recalled that their disorders began by their mid-teens and three-quarters by their mid-20s. Early onset of mental health problems have been associated with poor outcomes such as failure to complete high school, increased risk for psychiatric and substance problems, and teen pregnancy." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090729144028.htm By ScienceDaily.com 8/15/2009 "Childhood obesity has quadrupled in the last 40 years, which may mean today's children become the first generation to have a shorter lifespan than their parents, a leading obesity expert told the American Psychological Association." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810025239.htm By ScienceDaily.com 8/12/2009 "Schools have the ability to drastically reduce cheating among their students – all they need to do is follow the relatively simple and inexpensive solutions suggested by research." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810025249.htm By CNN 8/18/2009 "The son of a Florida couple known for adopting special-needs children was in his parents' room when they were slain in a home invasion last month, according to documents released by prosecutors." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/18/florida.family.slain/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By My Fox Boston - Massachusetts - Special Report 8/12/2009 "At the Norfolk County Jail, he was inmate 35634. Foxboro business owner Jim Foley spent two weeks behind bars. His crime was failure to pay his ex-wife $8,500 in spousal support." Read the entire article: http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/special_reports/paying_alimony_forever_081209 By Aidan Mcgurran -- Mirror.co.uk – United Kingdom 8/13/2009 "Kits to find out who is the father of a child are to be sold in chemists for the first time. But there are fears the DIY tests could lead to children receiving devastating news without counselling." Read the entire article: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/08/13/d-i-y-dna-115875-21593176/ By Fred Silberberg -- Huffington Post 8/10/2009 "A while back I was in court with my female client defending a request by her husband that she be ordered to pay him spousal support. My client was irate over the fact that her husband would even think to make such a request, notwithstanding the fact that her net worth and earnings significantly outgrossed his. As we argued the case to the judge, my client kept telling me that this was ridiculous, a man should not be seeking spousal support from a woman." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fred-silberberg/whats-good-for-the-goose_b_254808.html By MSNBC 8/13/2009 "The years-long U.S. commitment in Iraq and Afghanistan is taking a significant toll on the children of service members, who are 2½ times more likely to develop psychological problems than American children in general, new research indicates." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32406781/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/ By CNN.com 8/13/2009 "A Florida jury awarded a 92-year-old man $1.9 million in compensatory damages for the death of his wife, a former two-pack-a-day Marlboro smoker who started when she was 16 and died in her 70s, attorneys said Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/13/florida.tobacco.award/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By Mark Fass --The National Law Journal – New York 8/14/2009 "A woman who accepted title to the family home as prepayment for 15 years of child support cannot seek arrears simply because the house sold for only two-thirds of the value estimated at the time of the divorce, a Long Island judge has held." Read the entire article: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202433039822&Housing_Bust_Ruled_No_Cause_to_Upset_Child_Support_Pact By CNBC - USA 8/13/2009 "An Ohio lab that lost its contract with the state for DNA testing wants Gov. Ted Strickland to review an agency's decision to award the work to a North Carolina company." Read the entire article: http://www.cnbc.com/id/32407735 By My Fox Boston - Massachusetts 8/14/2009 "The police chief in Conway, N.H., says a Massachusetts man in police custody has died after apparently committing suicide." Read the entire article: http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/man_dies_in_custody_of_nh_police_081409 By Barron News Shield - Massachusetts 8/14/2009 "Recent Barron County discussions about merging the Child Support Agency with the Health and Human Services Department have now led to debate about more consolidations among county departments." Read the entire article: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20359451&BRD=1132&PAG=461&dept_id=157660&rfi=6 By Philip Bowring -- Op-Ed New York Times 8/12/2009 "Shanghai has plenty of achievements to boast about but one record suggests a bleaker future — the world’s lowest fertility rate, with 0.7 births per woman of child-bearing age." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/opinion/08iht-edbowring.html?_r=2 By Tampa Tribune - Florida 8/12/2009 "...Jessica Horrigan is a fugitive for failing to make child support payments. Her grandmother told a reporter she'll try to track her down and make it right. ..." Read the entire article: http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/aug/12/121628/60-moms-listed-pasco-sheriffs-new-deadbeats-site/news-breaking/ By Examiner.com - USA 8/12/2009 "Frank Hatley has spent the last 13 months in a Georgia jail for failing to pay child support, despite the fact that Hatley, the child's mother, and the state knew he wasn't the father." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-5845-Single-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m8d12-GA-man-relieved-of-child-support-debt-on-a-child-that-isnt-his By William M. Bulkeley -- Wall Street Journal - USA "Processing of welfare, food-stamp and Medicaid claims in Indiana was plagued with difficulties when the state outsourced the system to International Business Machines Corp. and Affiliated Computer Services Inc. two years ago. The problem hasn't been resolved since then. "There's a myriad of problems," said Anne Murphy, secretary of the state's Family and Social Services Administration. "Error rates are too high. We're not processing claims within federal guidelines."..." Read the entire article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125003802691324435.html By Chillicothe Gazette 8/6/2009 "Ross County Community Action and Ohio Commissions of Fatherhood recently worked together to conduct a program called the Fatherhood Initiative Program." Read the entire article: http://www.chillicothegazette.com/article/20090806/LIFESTYLE/908060318 By KTUL - Oklahoma 7/29/2009 "The director of the Department of Human Services says cases of child abuse and neglect are down for the third consecutive year." Read the entire article: http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0709/644667.html By ScienceBlog.com USA 8/12/2009 "Mothers and fathers play different roles and make different contributions to a child's upbringing, but a father's influence upon a child's academic success later in life is felt the most when he's involved from the very beginning, says a University of Illinois expert in early childhood education." Read the entire article: http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/parental-influences-differ-determing-childs-later-academic-success-23997.html By Madison Messenger - Virginia 8/12/2009 "The parents of two-thirds of the babies born in Danville in 2007 were not married. In Pittsylvania County last year, 45 percent of the babies were born out of wedlock." Read the entire article: http://www2.godanriver.com/gdr/news/opinion/editorials/danville_editorials/article/more_than_a_name_on_a_certificate/13140/ By MSNBC.com 8/12/2009 "Lisa Pia says her autistic 8-year-old son, Anthony, was transformed last year at the sight of a potbellied pig." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32391049/ns/today-today_pets_and_animals/ By Fox News 8/5/2009 "Men may not want to pin their hopes on acupuncture as a treatment for impotence, or erectile dysfunction, a new review of evidence suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537421,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By Fox News 7/29/2009 "A rapid urine test for chlamydia identified 84 percent of infections in men, offering a quick and painless way to diagnose the common sexually transmitted disease, British researchers said on Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535249,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By FoxNews 7/31/2009 "Men who exercise hard are less likely to die from cancer, according to a Finnish study." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535891,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By ScienceDaily.com 8/11/2009 "Workers hired for temporary, contract, casual or fixed-term positions are at risk for increased mental health problems, according to research to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810104933.htm
By ScienceDaily.com 8/11/2009 "As teens head back to school, health teachers may want to revise their lesson plans. Temple researchers have found that kids who engage in heavy drinking will more than likely also engage in heavy smoking, and they say educators can help combat the trend by addressing both topics as one health risk." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810025253.htm By CNN.com 8/11/2009 "A Georgia man who spent a year in jail for nonpayment of child support -- despite the fact he has no children -- has been cleared of the debt, his attorney said Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/11/georgia.child.support/index.html By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY 8/11/2009 "If swine flu reappears in schools this fall, it'll probably be a school nurse who first discovers it. But nationwide, the ratio of nurses to students falls short of the federally recommended standard, raising concerns that the shortage could undermine efforts to catch and control what could be a deadly flu season." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-08-10-school-nurses_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip&POE=click-refer By Jillian Berman, USA TODAY 8/11/2009 "What's in a name? Apparently a lot, especially if it's your last name. About 70% of Americans agree, either somewhat or strongly, that it's beneficial for women to take her husband's last name when they marry, while 29% say it's better for women to keep their own names, finds a study being presented today at the American Sociological Association's annual meeting in San Francisco." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-08-11-change-name_N.htm?POE=click-refer By Yahoo News 8/12/2009 "Drowsy spectators in one suburban Chicago courtroom might want to stifle their yawns from now on. Clifton Williams, 33, of Richton Park, is facing six months in jail for making what court documents call a yawn-like sound in Will County Judge Daniel Rozak's court last month." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_odd_jailed_for_yawning By Scott Sarvay -- Indiana's NewsCenter - Indiana 8/11/2009 " A Fort Wayne mother is arrested after police say her toddler shot his younger brother in the face on May 11th. 21-year-old Janice Collins is charged with two counts of "neglect of a dependent.".." Read the entire article: http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/52963732.html
By Indiana's NewsCenter - Indiana 8/11/2009 "Actions to boost child support collections from absent parents are down in at least two Northeast Indiana counties, and a Fort Wayne family practice attorney claims the state's new emphasis on automating welfare services is chiefly to blame." Read the entire article: http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/52989922.html By NPR - USA 8/11/2009 "Fatherhood. It's been an important part of President Obama's childhood narrative, growing up with an absent father. It was the cornerstone of a historic speech he delivered last year, assailing men who run away from their parenting responsibilities. And now it's a priority for the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnership, with the launch of the national fatherhood tour last week." Read the entire article: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111770004&ps=cprs By Calaveras Enterprise - California 8/11/2009 "...A workshop to explore the importance of fathers to the family dynamic will be held in San Andreas Aug. 20. Sponsored by First 5 Calaveras and the Prevent Child Abuse Council Calaveras “The Power of Involved Fathers – What Mothers and Fathers Need to Know About Fatherhood” will highlight a male's role in the development and success of children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/articles/2009/08/11/news/news03_parents.txt By Yahoo News 8/11/2009 "It's no secret that men don't like to go to the doctor, but new research finds they're especially likely to stay home if they're big on being macho." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090811/hl_hsn/formachomendoctorvisitsarelesslikely
By MSNBC.com 8/7/2009 "The mother of three young children who drowned after she drove into a central Arkansas lake had been drinking before the crash, authorities said Friday, the second recent case in which a mom was accused of drinking before getting behind the wheel with her kids." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32334528/ns/us_news-life/ By MSNBC.com 8/11/2009 "...Clinton heard from several residents of the camp that they are suffering from malnutrition, malaria, tuberculosis and diarrhea, and that the women and young boys and girls are susceptible to rape mainly when they leave the camp to go into the forest to gather wood for cooking. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32370992/ns/world_news-africa/ By Click Orlando 8/10/2009 " A 60-year-old man was found guilty on Tuesday of groping a woman while she was in costume as Minnie Mouse at Walt Disney World." Read the entire article: http://www.clickorlando.com/news/20352110/detail.html By ScienceDaily.com 8/10/2009 "A new study examining the interactions of black and white high-achieving students in elite, private high schools reveals how today's millennial generation is negotiating race, identity and academic success. In a paper presented Aug. 8 at the 104th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in San Francisco, Michelle Burstion-Young, a University of Cincinnati doctoral student in sociology, says she is breaking new ground in sociological research – exploring culture and race in the leadership class of the millennial generation – in academically competitive environments where an achievement gap does not exist." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810104812.htm By ScienceDaily.com 8/10/2009 "While a number of researchers have examined bullying, particularly in the wake of high-profile school shootings, these researchers largely ignore the ways that bullying is actually defined by students." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810030056.htm By ScienceDaily.com 8/10/2009 "Many clinicians and public health officials view parental involvement as an essential part of solving the current childhood obesity epidemic. However, it's important for parents to use the right approach when trying to combat childhood obesity. Restrictive feeding practices, or forbidding certain foods, may not always be the best solution. A child's inhibitory control, a behavior similar to self-control, may be more important than parental restrictions." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810162144.htm By ScienceDaily.com 8/11/2009 "Schizophrenia waits silently until a seemingly normal child becomes a teenager or young adult. Then it swoops down and derails a young life." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810174305.htm By CNN 8/5/2009 "Don't tell Brad Pitt who or how to love. The actor and star of the new film "Inglourious Basterds" opened up to Parade magazine about his thoughts on love, marriage and fatherhood." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/05/brad.pitt.interview/index.html?iref=newssearch By John Vause -- CNN 8/10/2009 "...Huidong believes Ruicong was sold, possibly within hours, to a family without a son looking for a male heir. Males come with a premium price tag in China. During a videotaped confession, a woman caught trafficking children two years ago told police that boys can sell for up to $1,200, girls for just more than $200. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/10/china.stolen.children/index.html
By Herald Times 8/10/2009 "A 30-year-old Bradenton woman has been arrested on charges of sexual battery for using sex toys on children she was supervising, including one child who is two years old." Read the entire article: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090810/BREAKING/908109975/0/SPORTS By Herald Tribune 8/10/2009 "A 39-year-old Bradenton man was arrested Saturday night on charges of domestic battery after a dispute that began when he was awakened by his live-in girlfriend talking in her sleep, a police report states." Read the entire article: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090810/BREAKING/908109972/0/SPORTS By Herald Tribune 8/10/2009 "As cash-starved states slash mental health programs in communities and schools, they are increasingly relying on the juvenile corrections system to handle a generation of young offenders with psychiatric disorders." Read the entire article: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090810/ZNYT04/908103004 By The Local 8/7/2009 "A 32-year-old woman has been found guilty of the rape of another woman by the Gothenburg District Court." Read the entire article: http://www.thelocal.se/21172/20090807/ By FoxNews 8/8/2009 "An 11-year-old boy died in the intense heat of Death Valley National Park after he and his mother became stranded in one of the world's most inhospitable areas and survived for several days on bottled water, Pop-Tarts and cheese sandwiches, authorities said Friday." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538323,00.html By FoxNews 8/7/2009 "A 14-year-old girl driving a car packed with children crashed into a tree, killing one child, and police said Friday the girl's mother was in the passenger seat at the time." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538040,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r2:c0.000000:b0:z5 By FoxNews 8/10/2009 "When Margie and Stephen Zumbrun were battling the urge to have premarital sex, a pastor counseled them to control themselves. The couple signed a purity covenant." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538701,00.html By Yahoo News 8/7/2009 "It seemed too horrendous even to imagine. But the case of the mother who caused a deadly wrong-way crash while drunk and stoned is part of a disturbing trend: Women in the U.S. are drinking more, and drunken-driving arrests among women are rising rapidly while falling among men." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090807/ap_on_re_us/us_wrong_way_crash_women_drinkers By Yahoo News 8/7/2009 "There aren't just fewer jobs in a recession. There are fewer babies, too. U.S. births fell in 2008, the first full year of the recession, marking the first annual decline in births since the start of the decade and ending an American baby boomlet." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_baby_bust;_ylt=Ar5AAsh9xoig.V5r60W63rvBF4l4;_ylu=X3oDMTJmbjhwZ250BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwODA3L3VzX2JhYnlfYnVzdARjcG9zAzcEcG9zAzcEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawNyZWNlc3Npb25tZWE- By Yahoo News 8/6/2009 "How many bake sales does it take to save a teacher's job? For decades, public-school parents have organized such fundraising events to cover the costs of field trips, sports equipment and other frills that enrich their children's education. Yet now, as recession clouds hang ever lower and state budgets tighten, schools and districts are increasingly asking adults to help pay for essentials." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090806/us_time/08599191459800 By Miami Herald 8/6/2009 "Thinking her husband was dead, a 26-year-old newlywed pulled up to her Boynton Beach town home Wednesday morning in apparent panic. She surveyed the crime scene tape and swarming police officers and began to sob hysterically. A good act, police called it. Investigators say she was the one planning his death -- and they were a step ahead." Read the entire article: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1173481.html By New York Times 8/3/2009 "Married people tend to be healthier than single people. But what happens when a marriage ends? ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/health/04well.html?em By Jeffrey Gettleman -- New York Times 8/4/2009 "It was around 11 p.m. when armed men burst into Kazungu Ziwa’s hut, put a machete to his throat and yanked down his pants. Mr. Ziwa is a tiny man, about four feet, six inches tall. He tried to fight back, but said he was quickly beaten down." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/world/africa/05congo.html?_r=1 By Joe Schwartz -- The Independent Weekly – North Carolina 8/4/2009 "Carrboro mayoral candidate Amanda Ashley owes more than $20,000 in unpaid child support and has served jail time because of her failure to pay, according to Orange County court documents." Read the entire article: http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A398980 By Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott -- Woodlands Online, LLC - Texas "The start of a new school year is an exciting time! New teachers, classmates, books and supplies await a child on the first day of school. As Texas children head back to the classroom, it’s a good time to remind parents of the importance of supporting their children both emotionally and financially." Read the entire article: http://woodlandsonline.com/npps/story.cfm?nppage=31852 By -- Voice of America - USA 8/5/2009 "It is said that babies don't come with an instruction manual. So, raising them through childhood, the school years and off to college is a long and expensive process. How expensive?..." Read the entire article: http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-08-05-voa3.cfm By Robert Preidt -- Medline Plus 8/4/2009 "Screening for domestic violence in doctors' offices, clinics and hospitals does little to reduce subsequent incidents of violence, Canadian researchers have found." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_87727.html By CNN.com 8/5/2009 "Jim Nicholson could've just handed over the cash. Instead, he gave the would-be robber a run for his money -- and paid for it. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/05/bank.teller.stops.robber/index.html By FoxNews.com 8/4/2009 "A special education teacher saw signs that something was wrong with her 10-year-old student. ..." "..."I was concerned, but I didn't have the proof," Lori Nohner-Johnson, a special education teacher in the Hinckley-Finlayson Elementary School who taught Lakesha for three years, said Tuesday. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,536960,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r1:c0.315866:b26949366:z0 By FoxNews.com 8/4/2009 "...The boy reportedly disappeared July 24 after leaving his mother's apartment in Boise, where he was visiting. His father, Charles Manwill, lives in New Plymouth and has had custody since 2008. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,536900,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r3:c0.231355:b26952756:z0 By FoxNews.com 8/4/2009 "A Long Island mother was very drunk, with an extra-large bottle of vodka in her car, and was smoking marijuana before she caused a wrong-way crash on a New York highway that killed her, her young daughter and six others, police said Tuesday. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,536941,00.html?mrp By FoxNews.com 8/5/2009 "...Deng Fei, his father, told supervisors that his son was shy and introverted and they should avoid putting too much pressure on him during the first couple of days. They agreed. Instead, the boy was placed in solitary confinement shortly after his arrival and then beaten by his trainers who scolded him for running too slowly when he was ordered to go jogging. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537076,00.html?mrp By Joshua Rhett Miller -- FoxNews 8/5/2009 "..."It sounds really crazy but I thought maybe there's someone out there who could help me out with a good name," Drummond told FOXNews.com. "I'm running out of names." Drummond — whose six children are 19, 16, 14, 3, 2 and 1 — said the proposal hasn't exactly struck friends and relatives as a savvy financial move. And her husband, Richard, a Navy sailor stationed in Virginia, doesn't even know about it yet. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537426,00.html . ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537426,00.html By Carey Roberts -- RenewAmerica.com 8/3/2009 "In a reprise of Sonia Sotomayor's "wise Latina" comments, the New York Times has settled the age-old debate about who makes better office managers. "No Doubts: Women are Better Managers" announces the July 26 headline." Read the entire article: http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/roberts/090803 By The News Tribune 8/4/2009 "New Hampshire and a Massachusetts Eagle Scout who needed to be rescued from Mount Washington are negotiating the size of his fine, which the state initially set at $25,000. Scott Mason, of Halifax, Mass., spent three nights alone on the Northeast's highest mountain after spraining his ankle and veering off marked trails." Read the entire article: http://www.thenewstribune.com/tacoma/24hour/nation/story/833357.html Read the entire article: http://www.thenewstribune.com/tacoma/24hour/nation/story/833357.html
By The News Tribune -- Tacoma WA - 7/24/2009 "Jennifer Rice, the former Tacoma teacher convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old student, was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison Friday." Read the entire article: http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/crime/2009/07/24/tacoma_teacher_convicted_in_sex_crime_ca By U.S. News & World Report - USA 7/31/2009 "..."Given who's in the White House, we have a chance to do some very powerful messaging and role modeling on fatherhood," says Judy Vredenburgh, president and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, who is helping advise the effort. "This is a subject that the president feels strongly about, so we're moving in the momentum of Father's Day."..." Read the entire article: http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2009/07/31/white-house-to-launch-national-fatherhood-tour-next-week.html By ScienceDaily.com 8/4/2009 " A school-based program that integrates information about healthy relationships into the existing ninth-grade curriculum appears to reduce adolescent dating violence and increase condom use two and a half years later, according to a report in the August issue ofArchives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. The effects of the low-cost intervention appear stronger in boys." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090803173123.htm By ScienceDaily.com 7/17/2009 "Teenagers yearn to fit in and be accepted by their friends. A new study suggests that girls and boys think differently about being judged by their peers as they move through adolescence. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715074920.htm By Pauline Chiou -- CNN 8/3/2009 " A 16-year-old Hong Kong boy makes two phone calls for delivery: One for pizza, the other for the drug ketamine." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/31/hongkong.ketamine/index.html?iref=newssearch By Lisa Respers France -- CNN 8/5/2009 "The hit reality show "Jon & Kate Plus 8" returned to television Monday night with a scenario that many families in America can relate to: what happens when Mommy and Daddy separate. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/04/jon.kate.new.show/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By Stan Grant -- CNN 8/3/2009 "Dr. Fareeha Peracha describes these boys variously as "psychotic," "depressed," and in some cases, "psychopathic." "They have been brainwashed. Brainwashed against people like you and me," she said. CNN was given limited access to about a dozen boys. They had all been kidnapped by the Taliban and taken to camps where they would be trained to kill; trained to be suicide bombers. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/03/pakistan.boys/index.html?eref=rss_crime
By Pam Baker -- SanLuisObispo.com 7/30/2009 "...According to the Department of Justice report on the National Violence Against Women Survey, nearly 900,000 men are victims of physical violence by a domestic partner. That roughly translates to a man being beaten every 38 seconds. The government counts both heterosexual and homosexual male victims of abuse in the study. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/living/family_relationships/story/799385.html By Glenn Sacks, M.A. and Ned Holstein, M.D. -- MSN Lifestyle "Four Sacramento County Sheriff's cars pulled up in front of David Woods's house. He tried to explain to them what happened. But the lead deputy cut him off: "Yeah, that's fine. Put your hands behind your back." David said, "No, wait, she stabbed me ... there's the knife. See the knife? See my neck wound? See?"..." Read the entire article: http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/bigger-picture/article.aspx?cp-documentid=20968901&page=0 The number of girls schools has dwindled in the state sector since the 1970s and has been dropping more recently among private schools, as more and more parents demand co-ed schools. Only 221,000 girls and 160,000 boys are now taught in state single sex secondaries out of a total school population of more than 3.5 million. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/mar/18/secondary-schools-girls-gcse-results By USA Today 8/3/2009 " Depression in children as young as 3 is real and not just a passing grumpy mood, according to provocative new research." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-08-03-depression-kids_N.htm?csp=34 By Ashley Fielding -- Gamesville Times 7/31/2009 "Two recent cases involving teacher-student relationships have spurred a state legislator to clear up any question about such romantic trysts in Georgia. State Rep. Doug Collins, a Gainesville Republican, said sex between students and teachers should never happen, no matter a student’s age or if the sex is consensual. He is writing a bill to make sexual contact between teachers and students illegal in all cases." Read the entire article: http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/article/21787/ By This is Sommerset - 7/21/2009 "A father's hopes for justice and compensation after he was falsely accused of rape could be shattered by yet another court battle. Clive Bishop was on the brink of making legal history earlier this year when he managed to win the right to compensation for the trauma he suffered when a drunken woman made up an allegation of rape against him." Read the entire article: http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/somersetnews/Compensation-rape-slur-cast-doubt/article-1182397-detail/article.html By Colorado Daily.com 7/31/2009 "A few thousand men — and, for the first time, women, children and people of Messianic Jewish faith — gathered at the University of Colorado’s Folsom Field for a Promise Keepers conference Friday." Read the entire article: http://www.coloradodaily.com/news/2009/jul/31/promise-keepers-conference-folsom-boulder-women/ By Medical News Today 7/19/2009 "Being a father is an important factor in a man's decision to seek help for mental health issues, according to a survey released by the American Psychiatric Association. More than 6 million men suffer from depression each year, and though many try to deal with it on their own, the survey indicates that fathers are more likely to take their mental health seriously for the sake of their children." Read the entire article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154593.php By Medical News Today 7/22/2009 "New research indicates that screening children for symptoms of depression, the most common mental health disorder in the United States, can begin a lot earlier than previously thought, as early as the second grade." Read the entire article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/158428.php By ScienceDaily.com 6/30/2009 "When students are underachieving, school policymakers often examine class size, curriculum and funding, but University of Missouri researchers suggest establishing relationships may be a powerful and less expensive way to improve students' success. In a review of the research they show that students with positive attachments to their teachers and schools have higher grades and higher standardized test scores." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090630132009.htm By Lisa Respers France -- CNN 8/3/2009 "What a difference a few weeks can make. There was a time when fans of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" sympathized with Jon Gosselin, the seemingly beleaguered father of twins and sextuplets whose wife appeared to nag and belittle him before millions of viewers." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/03/jon.kate.return/index.html
By FoxNews 7/29/2009 "A rapid urine test for chlamydia identified 84 percent of infections in men, offering a quick and painless way to diagnose the common sexually transmitted disease, British researchers said on Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535249,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By FoxNews.com 7/31/2009 "Men who exercise hard are less likely to die from cancer, according to a Finnish study." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535891,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men
By FoxNews 8/3/2009 "A Scottish psychologist has caused quite a stir with his most recent study, which says having sex without a condom is actually good for your mental health, The Scotsman reported." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,536260,00.html By NBC Sports 7/31/2009 "...“It definitely puts things in better perspective. But still, it doesn’t lessen the blow when you lose a golf tournament or miss a cut," Tiger Woods says of fatherhood. ..." Read the entire article: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/32209921/ By Chris Norwood -- Daily Home Online - Alabama 8/1/2009 "Perhaps the most remarkable statistic in the report is the percentage of teens who are high school drop-outs, which improved by 23 points. The national rate improved by 36 points, however." Read the entire article: http://www.dailyhome.com/news/2009/dh-localnews-0801-cnorwood-9g31v5706.htm By Tim Nudd -- People.com 8/3/2009 "A rep for former Alaska Gov. and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has firmly denied Internet reports this weekend that she and husband Todd Palin both had affairs and are now planning to divorce. " Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20295502,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines By Elaine Aradillas - People.com 8/3/2009 "A Los Angeles judge signed off Monday on a deal granting Jackson family matriarch Katherine Jackson custody of her son Michael's three children, with a family allowance paid out of the entertainer's estate." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20295525,00.html By ABC News 8/3/2009 "A southern Tasmanian woman has been remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of a four-year-old boy." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/03/2644889.htm By Paul Thompson -- DailyMail - UK 8/3/2009 "Three women exacted a painful revenge on a cheating husband they discovered had been sleeping with them all at the same time - by super glueing his private parts." The angry women lured the married father to a motel where they decided to humiliate him." Read the entire article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1204038/women-revenge.html
By Andy Dolan DailyMail - UK 8/3/2009 "Supporters of a women's refuge were 'shocked and stunned' to be told it is being closed - because it does not cater for men. By FoxNews.com 7/31/2009 "A federal jury on Friday ordered a Boston University graduate student who admitted illegally downloading and sharing music online to pay $675,000 to four record labels." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535948,00.html?mrp By FoxNews.com 7/31/2009 "Boxer Arturo Gatti's body was exhumed Friday to allow the Quebec coroner's office to perform a new autopsy at his family's request. The development comes a day after Brazilian police classified Gatti's death as a suicide. Until Thursday, police in the northeastern Brazil city of Recife considered it a homicide, with his wife as the prime suspect." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2009Jul31/0,4670,BOXGattiDeath,00.html PLEASE NOTE: MensENews has obtained permission from the author to publish this article on our website. Permission to reprint this article must be made in writing via e-mail to IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD(R) at: insearchoffatherhood@gmail.com
A NATIONAL FATHERHOOD POLICY: THE BLUEPRINT FOR EMPOWERING AND STRENGTHENING FATHERS, FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES, AND A NATION
By: Diane A. Sears Managing Editor - IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD(R)
For America’s Married Fathers, Divorced Fathers, Custodial Fathers, Non-Custodial Fathers, “Stay-At-Home” Fathers, Incarcerated Fathers, Military Fathers, Teenage Fathers, and Single Fathers, creating and implementing plans that will move their families forward and positively shape the minds and souls of their children has become a daunting responsibility in the Millennium. The creation of a proposed National Fatherhood Policy would provide America’s Fathers with the resources and tools that they need and want to strengthen their families. Strong families strengthen and empower communities. And strong communities empower a nation. The creation and implementation of a National Fatherhood Policy would be in the best interest of the United States of America. It is the blueprint for empowering and strengthening Fathers, families, communities and a nation.
A National Fatherhood Policy will bring together Fatherhood Advocates, Fatherhood Practitioners, faith-based organizations, social entrepreneurs, religious institutions, academic institutions, legislators, legal professionals, health care professionals and providers, social services professionals and providers, grassroots community organizations, and concerned individuals who have key “pieces of the puzzle” in the form of resources and support services that can effectively address the critically unique issues that confront America’s Fathers. These key “pieces of the puzzle” may take the form of, for example, innovative ideas that await implementation, existing programs that have a successful track record, and health, legislative and male parenting education initiatives. Imagine, if you will, a National Fatherhood Policy that would lead to the development and implementation of legislative initiatives that resolve the critical state of Men’s Health in the United States. The establishment of a Federal Equal Custody Act under the auspices of a National Fatherhood Policy would enable America’s 25,000,000 Divorced and Non-Custodial Fathers to have a dominant presence in the lives of our children – our future – our bridge to the future. And a National Fatherhood Policy would pave the way for the institution of Parenting Time Credit which would allow Non-Custodial Fathers to have an increased presence in the lives of our children – our future – our bridge to the future.
A few examples initiatives which could become the framework for a proposed National Fatherhood Policy are provided below.
LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVES Men’s Health Issues – The Establishment Of An Office Of Men’s Health
The alarmingly rising incidence of colon cancer, prostate cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease among American men has made men’s health a critical issue. Due to the fact that many men are Fathers, the critical state of men’s health has become a Fatherhood issue.
How critical is the state of men’s health in the United States?
It is estimated that American women are outliving American men by approximately six (6) years and that approximately 22.1% of men in the United States have coronary heart disease. According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men. It accounts for approximately 9% of all cancer-related deaths in men in the United States. The American Cancer Society (www.acs.org) projects that 1 out of 6 men in America will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and that 1 out of 35 men will die from prostate cancer. In 2009, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Men’s Health Network (www.menshealthnetwork.org), approximately 186,000 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. Approximately 1 out of 10 American men will be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease by their 55th birthday. The Center for Disease Control (www.cdc.gov) which collects and maintains diabetes statistics has found that men are more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes than women. In 2008, approximately 77,250 men were diagnosed with colorectal cancer and at least 24,260 male colorectal cancer patients succumbed to the disease. Approximately, 10.9 million men in the United States -- or 10.5% of all American men -- who are over the age of 20 are estimated to have diabetes. Diabetes increases significantly the risk for an individual to suffer a stroke or be diagnosed with heart disease. And not surprisingly, the incidence rate for stroke and heart disease is high for American men.
What are some of the key “pieces of the puzzle” to resolving
A number of Fathers, Fatherhood Advocates, Fatherhood Practitioners, health care professionals and providers, legislators, and concerned individuals point to increased research, increased research funding, health awareness and education programs, and equal and greater access to health resources and support services as key “pieces of the puzzle” to resolving the critical state of affairs of men’s health in the United States. A school of thought exists which proposes the creation of an Office of Men’s Health within the United States Department of Health and Human Services that would act as an advocate for men’s health issues in the same manner in which the Office of Women’s Health, established in 1991, acts as an advocate for women’s health issues. An Office of Men’s Health would help men obtain increased research and increased research funding for their unique health issues, orchestrate regional health awareness and education programs, and provide all American men with equal and greater access to health resources and support services.
The need for the creation of an Office of Men’s Health within the United States Department of Health and Human Services has not gone unnoticed by American legislators. In 1994, the United States Congress established National Men’s Health Week which is observed during the week leading up to and including Father’s Day of each year. As an example, in 2009, Men’s Health Week will be observed from 15 June 2009 through 21 June 2009 (see www.menshealthmonth.org/week and www.cdc.gov/men).
In 2001, United States Congressman Randy Cunningham of California (R-San Diego) and United States Congressman James McDermott of Washington State (D-Washington) first introduced into Congress the Men’s Health Act (“The Men’s Health Act”) as legislation which would establish an Office of Men’s Health within the United States Department of Health and Human Services and promote men’s health in the United States. The Men’s Health Act has been introduced into Congress annually since 2001. In 2007, H.R. 789, the Office of Men’s Health Act Of 2007, was introduced in the 110th Congress. The last known “major action taken” in connection with H.R. 789 has been reported as occurring on 2 February 2007, at which time the legislation was “referred to the House Subcommittee and referred to the Subcommittee on Health” (see Washingtonwatch.com at http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_ 789. html).
In 2009, efforts continue to establish an Office of Men’s Health within the United States Department of Health and Human Services. On 27 April 2009, United States Congressmen Baron P. Hill (D-Indiana) and Timothy "Tim" Murphy (R-Pennsylvania) introduced into the 111th Congress of the United States H.R. 2115 Men and Families Health Care Act (“H.R. 2115”). H.R. 2115 which is also co-sponsored by United States Congressman Frank LoBiondo (R-New Jersey) was referred to the House Of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce on 27 April 2009.
The Creation and Enactment of a Federal Equal Custody Act
There is an estimated aggregate of approximately 25,000,000 Non-Custodial and Divorced parents, the overwhelming majority of which are Men, in the United States. Non-Custodial and Divorced Fathers in the United States say that the courts relegate them to spending time with and seeing their children approximately two weekends each month, which they estimate to be about 14% of parenting time. Many of these Non-Custodial and Divorced Fathers refer to themselves as “Fourteen Percenters”. And a number of them are attempting to change public policy and legislation which determine the amount of time they are allowed to spend with their children by proposing “equal parenting legislative initiatives” on the state level. At the same time, many Non-Custodial and Divorced Fathers are clamoring for the creation and enactment of a Federal Equal Custody Act that would establish equal parenting as the law of the land. Their argument for the enactment of a Federal Equal Custody Act revolves around the school of thought that the establishment and enforcement of equal parenting legislation is “in the best interest of the child”. Researchers in the United States and in a number of countries outside of the United States support this school of thought.
The hope of American Non-Custodial and Divorced Fathers for the creation and enactment of a Federal Equal Custody Act in the United States has been buoyed by the fact that, in October 2007, Denmark, which has a high divorce rate, enacted and implemented equal parenting legislation. What does that mean? It means that Danish children of divorced or separated parents have equal access – on a 50/50 basis -- to both Dad and Mom. Danish Dads now have joint physical custody and parenting time which amounts to 50%.
American proponents for the establishment of equal parenting legislation in the form of a Federal Equal Custody Act argue that enactment of this legislation would provide a mandate for American family courts to “act in the best interests of the child” and award joint legal and joint physical custody of children to separated and/or divorced parents.
A Look At State Equal Parenting Initiatives In California, Indiana, Michigan, and West Virginia
In the absence of the creation and enactment of a Federal Equal Custody Act, Non-Custodial and Divorced Fathers are working to create and place equal parenting initiatives on the ballot in a number of states. Equal parenting initiatives have found their way to the ballot box in a number of states which include, but are not limited to, California, Indiana, Michigan, and West Virginia.
California
The groundswell for equal parenting legislation in California moved California State Assemblyman Merwyn Dymally, during his tenure as a state legislator, to become the principal author of California Assembly Bill No. 1307 (Shared Parenting Bill 1307 (AB 1307)). Thousands of California voters placed telephone calls and e-mailed, faxed, and “snail-mailed” letters in support of Shared Parenting Bill 1307 to members of the California State Assembly. However, despite the demonstrated support for the equal parenting legislation, on 3 May 2005, California Assembly Shared Parenting Bill No. 1307 was defeated in the California Assembly Judiciary Committee.
Indiana
Indiana State Senator Dennis Kruse (Indiana State Senatorial District No. 14), on 20 January 2009 introduced Senate Bill 560–Presumptive Joint Custody Following Divorce – which, inter alia, requires that courts adopt the presumption that joint legal custody and joint physical custody are in the best interests of the child in divorce cases. Indiana Senate Bill 560 also mandates that meetings, hearings, and conferences in family law litigation matters be recorded (as a general rule, to date, these meetings, hearings, and conferences are not usually recorded) and provides for (a) punitive action to be taken against a parent who knowingly (i) falsely accuses the other parent of child abuse, child neglect or spousal abuse; and (ii) prevents the other parent from exercising his or her right to parenting their child or children; (b) law enforcement officers to file a report with the law enforcement agency employing the said officers in connection with their responses to calls involving parenting time contempt; and (c) the mandatory collection of statistics on child support payment contempt charges – i.e., the number of individuals who are incarcerated for contempt of court for failing to pay child support, inclusive of the length of the sentence and the amount of time served. Michigan
In 2003, the DADS of Michigan Political Action Committee (www.dadsofmichigan.org) launched a petition drive to place equal parenting as a question on Michigan’s election ballot. Due to insufficient signatures, the move to place equal parenting as a question on Michigan’s election ballot was unsuccessful. On 5 April 2007, House Bill 4564, an equal parenting legislation, was introduced into the Michigan State Legislature by Michigan Representative Glenn Steil, Jr., a Republican. House Bill 4564 was referred to the Michigan’s House Family and Children’s Service Committee. On 10 October 2007, House Bill 4564 was reported in the Michigan House and it was recommended that the bill be referred to the Michigan House Judiciary Committee. House Bill 4564 was referred to the Michigan House Judiciary Committee on 10 October 2007. As of this writing, an online review conducted by the undersigned concerning the status of legislation for 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 for the State of Michigan did not render any further mention of action taken with respect to House Bill 4564. West Virginia
Fathers, Fatherhood Advocates, Fatherhood Practitioners, and concerned individuals were successful in organizing an Informational Equal Parenting Legislative Hearing that was held on 30 January 2008 in the Capitol Building in Charleston, West Virginia at which time they voiced their support to West Virginia legislators for the passage into law of HB 4042 – Joint (Equal) Parenting Act; HB 3060 – Penalties For False Reports Of Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, And Domestic Violence; and HB 4002 – Providing Procedures For Contesting Paternity.
Legislation Modifying Child Support Guidelines
Non-Custodial and Divorced Fathers, as a whole, honor their financial obligations to their families. Non-Custodial and Divorced Fathers, Fatherhood Advocates, and Fatherhood Practitioners contend that it is the fairness of the calculation of the formula for child support and the child support guidelines which gives them “cause for pause”. The angst expressed by Non-Custodial Fathers, Fatherhood Advocates, and Fatherhood Practitioners centers around the contention of Non-Custodial and Divorced Fathers that access to their children and the time allotted to them by the family court system to nurture, mentor and love them is miniscule when compared with the large sums of money garnished from their wages for child support. In 2004, the State of Indiana modified its child support guidelines to reflect the institution of Parenting Time Credit for Non-Custodial Parents. As a result, the amount of child support obligations paid by Non-Custodial Fathers in Indiana are reduced by the additional amount of time that Non-Custodial Fathers spend with their children. The State of Indiana’s modification of its child support guidelines, through the institution of Parenting Time Credit, represents a blueprint for modifying child support guidelines throughout the United States.
MALE PARENTING EDUCATION INITIATIVES Establishing Fatherhood And Men’s Studies Programs In America’s Academic Institutions
The establishment and maintenance of Women’s Studies Programs in American academic institutions in the late 1970s has done much to provide women with key “pieces of the puzzle” have helped to empower women and transform society’s perception of women and their importance in our families, our communities and our world. A growing and strong consensus exists for the establishment and maintenance of Fatherhood and Men’s Studies Programs at academic institutions throughout the United States. Fathers, Fatherhood Advocates, and Fatherhood Practitioners have all expressed the need for the creation of Fatherhood and Men’s Studies Programs which would serve to provide key “pieces of the puzzle” for Men to address and resolve their unique health and parenting issues.
Akamai University which is located in Hilo, Hawaii is an academic institution that is answering the call of Men throughout the United States for the establishment and maintenance of Fatherhood and Men’s Studies Programs in America’s academic institutions. Akamai University under the leadership of its President, Douglas Capogrossi, Ph.D., offers what has come to be viewed as one of the most uniquely comprehensive Fatherhood and Men’s Studies Programs in academia. If you are looking for either a national or global model for Fatherhood and Men’s Studies Program for an academic institution, you can look to Akamai University.
A Look At Akamai University’s Fatherhood and Men’s Studies Program
As President of Akamai University (www.akamaiuniversity.us), Douglass Capogrossi, Ph.D. presides over an academic institution that is “dedicated to the betterment and sustainability of the human condition and the planet”. Akamai University employs teaching techniques that moves and empowers its students to think “out of the box” and “beyond the confines of the classroom”. Having said that, it probably should come as no surprise that under Dr. Capogrossi’s leadership, Akamai University creates key “pieces of the puzzle” to empowering and strengthening Fathers through its comprehensively unique Fatherhood and Men’s Studies Program. In 2004, Dr. Capogrossi created a University Council. Members of the University Council advise Dr. Capogrossi on Fatherhood and Men’s issues and assist him in enhancing the curriculum offered at Akamai University’s Fatherhood and Men’s Studies Program and attracting high-quality faculty.
What can a Fatherhood and Men’s Studies Program offer students? The Fatherhood and Men’s Studies Program at Akamai University offers a myriad of coursesthat include male psychology, men's and father's rights, masculine spirituality,models and roles of masculinity, contemporary issues facing men, earlychildhood development, new roles for fathers, the modern family, gender and power, the challenge of marriage, issues in men's physical health, gender and politics, ancient and modern rites of passage, life stages, male psychology, menin literature, the men's movement, and new models of male leadership.
Our children need Fathers. Fathers strengthen and empower families. Strong families empower communities. And empowered communities strengthen a nation. A National Fatherhood Policy which embraces the health, legislative, and academic initiatives that I have discussed is a blueprint for providing Fathers with the essential tools they need to move their families forward and positively shape the minds and souls of their children. After all, isn’t it really about the children?
Diane A. Sears, is the Managing Editor of IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD(R), an international quarterly male parenting journal; the Author/Editor of a Fatherhood book --IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD(R)--TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES; a Member of the University Council for Fatherhood and Men's Studies Program at Akamai University in Hilo, Hawaii; and the Director of IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD(R)'s International Fatherhood and Men's Issues Internship Program.
By Bartlesville Live - Oklahoma "The state Department of Human Services wants to allow people to make payments at kiosks. Read the entire article: http://www.bartlesvillelive.com/content/news/state/story/State-looks-at-new-payment-option-for-child/HVBVWboiR0Gz-V7kD2sKlg.cspx By Cathy Kelly -- San Jose Mercury News - California 7/31/2009 "The results of a large-scale parenting study conducted in Santa Cruz and three other California counties confirms the importance of involving fathers in parenting lessons and programs, and provides a template for doing so. The results of the study commissioned by the state Office of Child Abuse Prevention were to be released today." Read the entire article: http://www.mercurynews.com/centralcoast/ci_12957837?nclick_check=1 By The Examiner – District of Columbia 7/29/2009 "Only 150 officers stand watch these days over more than 3,500 inmates — about 700 more than capacity. 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Read the entire article: http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/pi/52029457.html By FoxNews 7/31/2009 "...Robert "Bob" Harrod, who his daughter and some family members say has mild dementia, disappeared from his home in Orange County on Monday — a month after his marriage to Fontelle Heeter, whom he first proposed to 59 years ago. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535895,00.html By USA Today 7/31/2009 "The boyfriend of the Massachusettw woman accused of kidnapping a baby girl who had been cut from her slain mother's womb said he was convinced he was the infant's father, and was stunned when police moved in on the couple." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-07-31-baby-father_N.htm?csp=34 By MSNBC.com 7/31/2009 "Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., has been diagnosed with an early stage of prostate cancer and intends to have surgery early in August, his office said Friday." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32237475/ns/politics-capitol_hill/ By Adrienne T. Washington -- Washington Times 7/26/2009 "..."It's about time we had something for men," said Scott Williams, vice president of the Men's Health Network (MHN) and co-founder of Women Against Prostate Cancer (WAPC). "Blue makes sense for men and is a great rallying cry for men and their families. We're excited by the potential for it. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/26/true-blue-well-being/ By ScienceDaily.com 7/30/2009 "Rates of severe childhood obesity have tripled in the last 25 years, putting many children at risk for diabetes and heart disease, according to a report in Academic Pediatrics by an obesity expert at Brenner Children's Hospital, part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090729121708.htm By Medical News Today 7/14/2009 "Men and women who walk or ride a bike to work appear more fit, and men are less likely to be overweight or obese and have healthier triglyceride levels, blood pressure and insulin levels, according to a report in the July 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals." Read the entire article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/157431.php By Amy Albin -- UCLA Newsroom - Press Release 7/27/2009 "Those from homeless families more likely to suffer mental health problems ..." Read the entire article: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/study-finds-significant-number-96968.aspx?link_page_rss=96968 By News-Leader.com - Missouri 7/29/2009 "There may not be a manual that tells you how to be a father, but the CoxHealth Women’s Center offers the next best thing - “Fatherhood: Basic Training,” according to a news release from the hospital." Read the entire article: http://www.news-leader.com/article/20090729/BREAKING01/90729058/CoxHealth+offers+fatherhood+training+class By Melissa Correa -- WWBT12 – Virginia 7/29/2009 "They can't print the checks fast enough. Right now, the state is handling about $2 million a day in child support payments. "You can run, but you can't hide. Move to California. Move to Idaho. Move to Texas. We will follow you," said Nick Young, Virginia Director for Child Support. Sign up for unemployment and the state's got you there too. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nbc12.com/global/story.asp?s=10813031 By Dan McDonald -- MetroWest Daily News - Massachusetts 7/30/2009 "...In an interview yesterday, David Cohen acknowledged he has gone to jail after falling behind in payments, but said he fell behind because his ex-wife persuaded the courts to increase the alimony while he was struggling with several ailments, including heart conditions. He underwent surgery several times and was unable to work, he said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x1537495586/Man-ex-wife-spar-over-250K-in-child-support By Trudy Schuett -- The Examiner 7/27/2009 "...The 2005 document put out by the NCADV with federal funding to suggest themes for Domestic Violence Awareness Month is entitled, Action for Social Change. For 111 pages, this PDF goes on about things like the language used to talk about the issues, finding new groups of victims to claim, and items such as graphic diagrams of the special ways handicapped and elderly women, even babies are victimized. There are sources cited that once again blame men and the “patriarchy” for the continuing oppression of women. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-12866-Domestic-Violence-Examiner~y2009m7d27-Domestic-Violence-101-The-personal-vs-the-political By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY 7/29/2009 "...These men from the Columbus, Ohio, area are the unusual new faces of joblessness in this groundbreaking recession: older men cut loose from employment at the peak of their earning power and work experience. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2009-07-29-oldermales_N.htm?csp=34 By Coshocton Tribune - Ohio 7/23/2009 "A pregnant woman would have to have written informed consent from the father of the fetus if she wants an abortion in Ohio under a bill introduced in the General Assembly." Read the entire article: http://www.coshoctontribune.com/article/20090723/UPDATES01/90723021 By Lisa Collier Cool -- Good Housekeeping 7/21/2009 "Parents, pull up a chair: Here's how to help your kids do their very best at school ..." Read the entire article: http://shine.yahoo.com/event/backtoschool/7-things-teachers-wish-parents-knew-490739/ By YahooNews.com 7/29/2009 "Otty Sanchez, a schizophrenic with a history of hospitalizations, refused to take medication for her postpartum depression, her son's father said. She'd been going to regular counseling and had been briefly hospitalized since the boy was born. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_baby_decapitated By Steve Lombari -- InjuryBoard.com - Iowa 7/27/2009 "It should be called the Hatley Amendment, in honor of Frank Hatley, a 50-year-old man who’s been in jail since June 2008 for not paying child support even though two separate DNA tests in the last nine years prove he’s not the father. ..." Read the entire article: http://desmoines.injuryboard.com/miscellaneous/states-will-should-begin-jailing-mothers-who-wrongfully-identify-men-in-paternity-actions.aspx?googleid=267326 By Jan Ransom -- Howard University the District Chronicles – District of Columbia 7/26/2009 "...Hall eventually found out about the Fatherhood Initiative Program, which at the time was located at a United Planning Organization community service center in Northwest. The program helped him through school, financial issues, problems with his mother and housing. ..." Read the entire article: http://media.www.districtchronicles.com/media/storage/paper263/news/2009/07/26/Neighborhood/Single.Dad.Steps.Up.With.Help.Of.Fatherhood.Program-3753058.shtml By FoxNews.com 7/27/2009 "A father who had no interest in his 4-year-old daughter did the unimaginable — hurling her off a 120-foot cliff to avoid paying child support, a prosecutor said Monday during the man's murder retrial." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534978,00.html?test=latestnews By Sergio Bichao -- My Central Jersey.com 7/27/2009 "The engineering class going on this summer on the third floor of the Allison Road classroom building on the Busch campus does not look like any other engineering class at Rutgers University. In fact, it may not look like any other engineering class anywhere. That is because everyone in the class is an adolescent girl." Read the entire article: http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20090727/NEWS/90727002 By MSNBC.com 7/27/2009 "A woman charged with murdering her 3 1/2-week-old son used a knife and two swords to dismember the child and ate parts of his body, including his brain, before stabbing herself in the torso and slicing her own throat, police said Monday. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32171926/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/ By Josh Levs -- CNN 7/20/2009 "...It's a two-sided coin: Many American fathers are working harder than ever as their managers try to take care of business with fewer workers. On the flip side, many dads who've lost their jobs are finding that they're becoming the new Mr. Moms. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/07/20/dads.and.recession/index.html?iref=newssearch
By Dana Rosenblatt - CNN.com 7/27/2009 "...All of these young artists -- members of a program called No More Victims -- have at least one parent who has served time in prison. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/07/27/bia.children.of.inmates/index.html By FoxNews.com 7/14/2009 "A South Carolina judge has ordered the closure of a South Carolina funeral home where a worker cut off the legs of a body to fit in a casket. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532542,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r4:c0.123885:b26405336:z0 By FoxNews.com 7/14/2009 "Living happily ever after needn't only be for fairy tales. Australian researchers have identified what it takes to keep a couple together, and it's a lot more than just being in love. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532491,00.html By ScienceDaily.com 7/14/2009 "University of Denver (DU) researchers find that couples who live together before they are engaged have a higher chance of getting divorced than those who wait until they are married to live together, or at least wait until they are engaged. In addition, couples who lived together before engagement and then married, reported a lower satisfaction in their marriages. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090713144122.htm By ScienceDaily.com 7/27/2009 "Divorce and widowhood have a lingering, detrimental impact on health, even after a person remarries, research at the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins University shows. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727135523.htm By San Francisco Examiner -- 7/25/2009 "Rachael Bouma calculated the cost of keeping rambunctious kindergartners under control at her son's school at exactly $227. That was the amount she and other parents in the Tacoma district figured every family with kids in Lowell Elementary's kindergarten classes would need to contribute to save the jobs of three teacher's aides. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sfexaminer.com/nation/Parents-pass-the-hat-to-make-up-for-school-cuts--51620657.html By The Independent.com 7/25/2009 "Clowns, magicians and puppeteers, who have spent their lives entertaining children, will have to pay to register on a new government child protection database, despite already proving they do not pose a threat. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/tears-of-a-clown-who-will-have-to-pay-to-entertain-children-1760696.html By MSNBC.com 7/24/2009 "...Experts like Sharon Lamb, a professor of mental health at the graduate college of education at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, said it’s all but inevitable that children will want to spend time wearing only their birthday suits, especially in certain situations. "Clothes can be uncomfortable," said Dr. Lamb, a co-author of the forthcoming book "Packaging Boyhood: Saving Our Sons From Superheroes, Slackers, and Other Media Stereotypes."..." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31939730/ns/health-the_new_york_times/
By Cathy Young -- Boston Globe Editorial 7/16/2009 "LYNN Rosenthal, a veteran of the battered women’s advocacy movement, was named to the new post of White House counsel on violence against women on June 26. On the same day, a conference opened in Los Angeles disputing the basic tenets of the movement Rosenthal represents - such as the view that domestic violence is overwhelmingly a male crime against women rooted in patriarchal power. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/07/16/battered_women___and_men/ By Howard Kurtz -- Washington Post 7/25/2009 "...In a letter to the paper's editor, Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon accused Carol Rosenberg of "multiple incidents of abusive and degrading comments of an explicitly sexual nature." Gordon, who deals primarily with the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison, said in the letter that this was a "formal sexual harassment complaint" and asked the Herald for a "thorough investigation."..."
By Delores Handy -- wbur.org 7/23/2009 "...Despite the growing number of women seeking help, there are still many victims in the shadows — male victims. Research shows women assault their partners nearly as often as men. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/23/male-domestic-violence By Emediawire (press release) - Washington 7/27/2009 "...DNA Worldwide today announced the launch of the Worlds most advanced DNA Test for Paternity. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.emediawire.com/releases/dna_test/paternity_test/prweb2679974.htm By Robert Rule -- Examiner.com 7/26/2009 "There is a growing fathers’ rights movement in the United States and especially Ohio where fathers are treated very unfairly. A little known fact about child support is that the county is allotted large sums of money for each case that is enforced." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-16500-Lake-County-Independent-Examiner~y2009m7d26-Fathers-rights
By ScienceDaily.com 6/29/2009 "...Men who had a mediocre relationship had a higher incidence of depression, anxiety, psychological and somatic stress reactions than men with worse or better relationships. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090623090711.htm By ScienceDaily.com 7/8/2009 "An earlier study by Carita Håkansson, senior lecturer at the School of Health Sciences, Jönköping in Sweden, shows that meaning and balance in everyday life are predictors of health among women. However, the most important predictor of health among men is their ability to manage the demands of their working life." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090707094825.htm -- Baltimore Sun 7/16/2009 "Police recently concluded that former Baltimore Ravens star Steve McNair was shot dead in his sleep by girlfriend Sahel Kazemi in a murder-suicide. Yet while there are more than 10,000 media entries on Google News for "Steve McNair," only a few of them mention the phrase "domestic violence."..." Read the entire article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.mcnair16jul16,0,5844465.story
By USA Today 7/16/2009 "Nearly 36% of black Americans are obese — much more than other major racial or ethnic groups — and that gap exists in most states, a new federal study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/weightloss/2009-07-16-obesity-blacks_N.htm?csp=34&POE=click-refer
By Tina Matherson -- CNN.com 7/20/2009 "From the outside, Johnny and Shanna Woodbury looked like the perfect couple. They had been married 13 years, owned multiple properties and were successful managers." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/07/20/bia.strong.black.marriage/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By Tulsa World - Tulsa, Oklahoma 7/13/2009 "...Currently, the eight tribes that have child support programs are in negotiations on contracts that would allow the state to perform intercepts of IRS and state tax refunds for noncustodial parents who owe child support money. Under federal law, only states can make tax refund intercepts. ... Read the entire article: http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20090713_11_A1_Whenth6749 By The Saginaw News Editorial Board 7/12/2009 "...Obviously, our society is moving away from a marriage-minded model for child-rearing. ... Read the entire article: http://www.mlive.com/opinion/saginaw/index.ssf/2009/07/saginaw_county_newborns_get_a.html By Mary Wells -- The Washington Informer 7/9/2009 "More than 60 men and women received certificates from a life skills programs designed to teach individuals how to reconnect with their children and families, manage their anger and embrace sobriety as a lifestyle during a 10-month program sponsored by Adam’s House on Mon., June 22. " Read the entire article: http://www.washingtoninformer.com/wi-web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1626:adams-house-celebrates-graduates-achievements&catid=88:prince-georges-county&Itemid=157 By CNN.com 7/23/2009 "..."I believe that Sgt. [James] Crowley acted in a way that is consistent with his training at the department, and consistent with national standards of law enforcement protocol," Commissioner Robert Haas said, referring to the officer who made the July 16 arrest at the professor's home. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/23/officer.gates.arrest/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By Elizabeth Cohen -- CNN Senior Medical Correspondent 7/23/2009 "...Reid, who is African-American, firmly believes that if he'd been a white man, the junior doctor wouldn't have been so quick to order the cheaper and more drastic solution over his objections. "I think it was very disrespectful. As a matter of fact, I think she was looking down on me," he said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/23/doctors.attitude.race.weight/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By ScienceDaily.com 7/13/2009 "The relationships between children and their parent of the same gender in the earliest years of life could be the key to understanding why some young people become obese and others do not, new research conducted by the EarlyBird Diabetes Study has shown." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090713100918.htm By ScienceDaily.com 7/8/2009 "Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third leading cause of cancer death in both men and women and the second leading cause of cancer death when both sexes are combined." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090713085600.htm By ScienceDaily.com 7/3/2009 "...A common stereotype about older people is that loneliness is typical for older women, rather than for older men. One problem with this stereotype is that feelings of loneliness are not particularly common among either men or women in the Nordic countries. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090703065456.htm By ScienceDaily.com 7/21/2009 "African American men could be putting their health at risk by avoiding disease screening, in the belief that the results might threaten their masculinity." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090721104240.htm By Shailagh Murray -- Washington Post 7/23/2009 "Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) confirmed Thursday that the Senate would not pass health-care reform legislation before the August recess." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/23/AR2009072301967.html By ScienceDaily.com 7/15/2009 "While attending university, men are equally likely as women to have been victims of physical or emotional violence, and that violence is often linked to drinking, according to a new study led by University of British Columbia researcher Elizabeth Saewyc." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715090635.htm By ScienceDaily.com 7/23/2009 "A first-of-its-kind RAND Corporation study has linked the rapid growth in health care costs in the United States with job losses and lower output among industries that commonly provide workers with health insurance." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090723142053.htm By Christopher Ketcham Men.Style.com "In Utah, a modern-day caveman has lived for the better part of a decade on zero dollars a day. People used to think he was crazy ..." Read the entire article: http://men.style.com/details/features/full?id=content_9817&pageNum=2 By New Zealand Herald 7/23/3009 "A tearful 12-year-old girl's interview about a sexual assault arranged by her father for $40 was all lies to get him in trouble, she told a court today." Read the entire article: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10586025 By YahooNews 7/22/2009 "Mental health records for Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho that were missing for more than two years have been discovered in the home of the university clinic's former director, according to a state memo shared with victims' family members." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090722/ap_on_re_us/us_virginia_tech_shooting By Kenosha News.com – Wisconsin 7/22/2009 "Kenosha County will use $450,000 in federal stimulus funding to beef up child support enforcement efforts through Sept. 30, 2010." Read the entire article: http://www.kenoshanews.com/news/county_board_accepts_450000_grant_6030979.html By Larry Altman -- Daily Breeze - Torrance, California 7/22/2009 "The broker found slain inside a Westchester house twice had his license to practice real estate suspended for failing to pay child support, state records showed Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_12886508 By FoxNews.com 7/10/2009 "Women wanting to get pregnant should find themselves an ugly man, new research suggests." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,531402,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/men By CNNHealth.com 7/18/2009 "Five years from now, there's an excellent chance you won't have the same health insurance you have (or don't have) right now. That's because members of Congress are gearing up to reform the U.S. health care system, and unlike in 1993 when then-first lady Hillary Clinton tried her hand at changing the medical system, this time the important players -- doctors, insurance companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers -- seem to be on board." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/18/ep.health.reform.basics/index.html By CNNHealth.com 7/20/2009 "For 12 years, Georgia Dunston and Dr. Chiledum Ahaghotu have been trying to figure out why African-American men develop prostate cancer at an earlier age and are twice as likely to die from it than any other group in the United States." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/20/prostate.cancer.black.men/index.html By Telegraph.co.uk 7/16/2009 "Pupils as young as seven were left traumatised after a school staged a 'War of the Worlds' style production during which a teacher was abducted by aliens." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5842324/Children-traumatised-by-War-of-Worlds-abduction-of-teacher.html By Phyllis Schafly -- Townhall.com 7/21/2009 "...Did you know that debtor's prisons (putting men in prison because they can't pay a debt) were abolished in the United States before we abolished slavery, but that they exist today to punish men who are too poor to pay what is falsely called "child support"?..." Read the entire article: http://townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2009/07/21/family_court_injustices_to_men By Kansas City Star - Missouri 7/20/2009 "A new Missouri law decriminalizes nonpayment of child support for parents, assuming they don't have a serious criminal history. Instead of going to jail, the "deadbeats" will be enrolled into a program similar to drug court, the Post Dispatch reports. They'll get vocational help and, if necessary, substance-abuse counseling." Read the entire article: http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/2009/07/new-mo-law-eases-the-burden-on-deadbeat-dads-and-moms.html By WBNG-TV - Binghamton, NY 7/20/2009 "A former employee of Delaware County admitted to stealing money from a child support payment fund." Read the entire article: http://www.wbng.com/news/local/51227967.html Father of Family Rescued From Burning SUV Says Trapped Son, 4, Saved by AngelsTuesday, 21 July 2009
By FoxNews.com 7/21/2009 "The father of a 4-year-old boy saved from a burning SUV in Milwaukee says his son was surrounded by angels." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534258,00.html?test=latestnews By FoxNews.com 7/21/2009 "Las Vegas police are investigating how a 5-year-old boy apparently found a gun inside a car and accidentally shot himself in the head." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534255,00.html?test=latestnews By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY 4/8/2009 "Author Michael Gurian is the father of two daughters, but he says society has paid too much attention to girls, and now it's the boys' turn. He says some boys lose interest in school, have behavior problems or turn to violence and need direction. Gurian's latest book — which he says completes his trilogy on boys — is called The Purpose of Boys. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-04-08-gurian-boys_N.htm By ScienceDaily.com 7/17/2009 "Impulsive boys with inadequate supervision, poor families and deviant friends are more likely to commit criminal acts that land them in juvenile court, according to a new study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716113301.htm By ScienceDaily.com 7/9/2009 "...Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Duke University studied a sample of 681 parents of 433 fourth- and fifth-graders from 12 schools in Houston. They found that those parents who conveyed the importance of high-intensity team sports to their children had more active children. Both the boys and girls watched less TV and spent less time on their computers. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090706090317.htm By FOX2now.com - St. Louis, Missouri "Senator Jeff Smith along with members of the Fathers Support Center announced the changes in front of the Civil Courts Building. The changes include letting judges dealing with child support cases assign non violent fathers to educational, vocational , or job training instead of giving them a felony and sending them to jail." Read the entire article: http://www.fox2now.com/ktvi-fathers-rights-child-support-071909,0,7959908.story
"...With unemployment at generational highs, more divorced parents are struggling to meet their child support or alimony requirements, citing lost jobs or reduced earning power. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_3support.6945989jul19,0,7380347.story Adam Kuperstein and Brian Hamacher -- Miami News 7/20/2009
By Dave Alsup -- CNN 7/20/2009 "It takes seven minutes to execute a death row inmate, according to the state of Texas. At that rate, Mike Graczyk has spent about 40 hours of his life watching men -- and a few women -- die." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/20/texas.execution.witness/index.html?iref=werecommend By CNN.com 7/20/2009 "...The Billingses, who were known for adopting special-needs children, were fatally shot during a home invasion robbery, police have said. Their bodies were found in their bedroom, said the court documents. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/20/florida.slain.couple/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By Janet DiGiacomo -- CNN 7/20/2009 "An 11-year-old Ohio boy is helping ease his family's financial burdens, one toy at a time." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/20/ohio.boy.helps.family/index.html By Rachel Rodriguez -- CNN 7/20/2009 " On July 23, 1969, as Apollo 11 hurtled back towards Earth, there was a problem -- a problem only a kid could solve." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/07/20/apollo11.irpt/index.html?eref=rss_topstories By Kristina Davis -- San Diego Union Triibune 7/16/2009 "...Von der Heyde said Rivera had been barraging her with text messages and e-mails asking her to reduce his $1,200-a-month child support. He was threatening to move back to Puerto Rico, she said. “I said to him, 'It's not me, it's the court order and based on what you earn,' ” Von der Heyde said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jul/16/1m16wife001248-wife-suspect-attack-2-sorry/?northcounty&zIndex=132823
By Chicago Sun-Times - Illinois 7/16/2009 "...Tribbett is seeking more child support from Briggs for their nearly 2-year-old daughter. "We're looking for Lance to support Nariana as he would if the child were living with him. We want Nariana to enjoy a lifestyle as any child whose father earns a substantial income might enjoy -- certainly nothing less than he provides for his other children," Mirabelli said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1668946,CST-NWS-briggs16.article
By Alberto Vargas -- Examiner.com – San Diego California 7/15/2009 "Across the country, unbeknownst to most Americans, many disabled veterans find themselves fighting a war they shouldn’t have to be fighting and they need some help. The issue at stake is the inclusion of disability benefits in the calculation of divorce settlements, where judges – on many occasions – have ignored existing federal law (USC Title 38; Section 5301)." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-11974-San-Diego-Community-Issues-Examiner~y2009m7d15-Disabled-vets-losing-benefits-in-divorce-settlements By Ellen Gabler -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee, Wisconsin 7/15/2009 "Joshua Fritz has yet to keep his promise. As a result, some of his former employees are still waiting to find out what happened to child support payments that were deducted from their checks but never reached their children." Read the entire article: http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/pi/50905152.html By Jade Bulecza -- WALB-TV - Albany, Georgia 7/15/2009 "A man who was wrongfully jailed for more than a year was released from the Cook County Jail this afternoon." Read the entire article: http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=10733482&nav=5kZQ By Hollie McKay -- FoxNews.com 7/15/2009 "Cameron Diaz is in the "single" status herself, but the 36-year-old starlet still believes that the long-lasting love her parents (who were married in 1969) shared is one of the key contributors to her sterling on-screen success today." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532744,00.html By Ellen Goldberg -- NBC DFW 7/16/2009 "North Texas man gets 17-digit surprise on his credit-card statement." Read the entire article: http://www.nbcdfw.com/around_town/shopping/Wow-Quadrillion-Dollar-Credit-Card-Bill.html?yhp=1 By Mike Krumboltz -- Buzz Yahoo 7/15/2009 "Most weddings go off without a hitch. But every once in a while, the blessed event gets a surprise twist. This past weekend, NBA star Richard Jefferson's wedding left guests asking a big question: "Where the heck is the groom?"..." Read the entire article: http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92812
By Tom McKee -- WCPO - Cincinnati, Ohio 7/14/2009 "Many leaders of Ohio's Job & Family Services Departments said Tuesday they're worried that future cuts in state funding will severely hurt their ability to serve people in need. JFS agencies handle food stamp distribution, adult and children protective services and child support enforcement." Read the entire article: http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story/Ohio-Job-Family-Services-Directors-Fear-More/0z-46wk2F06N1eIQ9GwNIQ.cspx By Bill Rankin -- Atlanta Journal Constitution - Georgia 7/14/2009 "Frank Hatley has languished in a South Georgia jail for more than a year. The reason? He failed to reimburse the state for all the public assistance his “son” received over the past two decades. The problem? Hatley is not the biological father -- and a special assistant state attorney general and a judge knew it but jailed Hatley anyway." Read the entire article: http://www.ajc.com/news/court-knew-man-jailed-91036.html
By KOHD - Bend, Oregon -- 7/14/2009 "As local unemployment rates rise, child support is becoming harder for some parents to pay. The Oregon Department of Justice is offering a new program for those who lose their jobs and can't pay the same amount of child support they owe based on their old income." Read the entire article: http://kohd.com/news/local/134092 By ContactMusic.com 7/14/2009 "AKON's lawyers have denied the R&B superstar is running away from his responsibilities - after the mother of one of his children alleged it's impossible to serve the star with child support papers." Read the entire article: http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/akon-denies-running-from-child-support-payments_1109639 By Tom Proebsting -- Huntington News 7/14/2009 "...Second, a growing segment of the prison population is there because of their failure to pay child support payments. Lump these offenders with those who steal and you have another significant group of inmates, the majority of which are there for non-violent crimes. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.huntingtonnews.net/columns/090714-proebsting-columnsprisonreform.html Father Dies Trying to Save Son From Irate Driver in Chuck E. Cheese Parking LotMonday, 20 July 2009
By FoxNews.com 7/13/2009 "A man walking his young son across a street was mowed down and killed by a driver who bashed into seven cars as he tore through a New York neighborhood, police said." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532041,00.html?mrp By CNN.com 7/13/2009 " The family of a Somali-American man who died in Somalia have said they want to know who is responsible for recruiting him to join an al Qaeda-linked Islamist insurgency." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/07/13/somalia.american.killed/index.html?eref=rss_topstories By Mark Curnutte -- Cincinatti.com 7/11/2009 "Families splintered by divorce face more hardship when a parent gets laid off. With the recession pushing the unemployment rate to 9.5 percent, job losses have not spared two-household families." Read the entire article: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090711/NEWS01/907120340/Child+support+echoes+unemployment By KOB.com - Albuquerque, New Mexico 7/10/2009 "New Mexico has collected a record in child support payments" Read the entire article: http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S1022273.shtml?cat=504 By Seattlepi.com 7/11/2009 " Former Vancouver police officer Clyde Ray Spencer spent nearly 20 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually molesting his son and daughter. Now, the children say it never happened." Read the entire article: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_recanting_abuse.html By YahooNews.com 7/10/2009 "A Pennsylvania attorney who was released from prison Friday after serving the longest imprisonment on a civil contempt charge in U.S. history said judges have too much discretion in cases like his." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090710/ap_on_re_us/us_jailhouse_millionaire By FoxNews.com 7/12/2009 "Brazilian authorities detained the wife of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti and formally accused her Sunday of killing him at an upmarket seaside tourist resort in Brazil." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,531770,00.html By Les Carpenter -- Washington Post 7/9/2009 "Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair was shot four times and killed by his girlfriend Sahel Kazemi, who then used the same gun to shoot herself in the head, according to a Nashville police investigation and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation report." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/08/AR2009070803900.html By The Money Times 7/9/2009 "Mere one day after a much-watched public memorial for Michael Jackson, who died June 25, his dermatologist, Dr. Arnold Klein, has come forward to dispel speculation that he is the biological father of the late pop star's children and that he gave Jackson the drugs that presumably led to his death." Read the entire article: http://www.themoneytimes.com/featured/20090709/jacksons-dermatologist-refutes-paternity-rumors-id-1075777.html By William Ehart -- Washington Times 7/12/2009 "If you recently earned a B.S., an M.A. or a Ph.D., chances are someone is holding a big IOU." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/12/college-grads-face-ious-worst-job-market-years/ By Douglass Dowty -- The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com - Syracuse, NY 7/9/2009 "A new do-it-yourself site allows state residents to fill out child support modification, adult name change and estate court papers online. There will also be access to these forms at the Criminal Courthouse in Syracuse." Read the entire article: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/fill_out_name_change_child_sup.html By Jose de Wit -- Rio Grande Sun - NM 7/9/2009 "Just four days after he appeared on KDCE radio June 5 touting his volunteer work with Big Brothers Big Sisters, the state Human Services Department filed court papers to garnish child support payments from Española Mayor Joseph Maestas’ paycheck." Read the entire article: http://www.riograndesun.com/articles/2009/07/09/news/doc4a54d2eca1208717545068.txt By Sarah Hopkins -- WHAG - Hagerstown, MD 7/10/2009 "Paying child support is never easy, but paying it when you've lost your job is even harder." Read the entire article: http://your4state.com/content/fulltext/?cid=71772 By Ventura County Star - Camarillo, CA 7/9/2009 "Renewing his insistence that policy changes must be part of any agreement to balance California’s budget and stop the flow of IOUs, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday put the spotlight on the state’s welfare-to-work program, which he called “the most generous of all the states.”.." Read the entire article: http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/jul/09/governor-targets-welfare-to-work-program-for/ By FoxNews.com 7/8/2009 "Former Playboy model Shauna Sand cheated on ex-husband and soap opera star, Lorenzo Lamas, with his then-18-year-old son, A.J. Lamas, Star Magazine reports." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530805,00.html?mrp
By Canada.com 7/7/2009 "A lawyer representing actor Keanu Reeves in a paternity suit brought by a woman from Barrie, Ont., said he is "very confident" the case will eventually be dismissed." Read the entire article: http://www.canada.com/Keanu+Reeves+lawyer+confident+paternity+suit+will+dismissed/1766213/story.html By Medical Device and Equipment.com 7/9/2009 "IDENTIGENE says 50,000 of its DNA Paternity Test Kits have been purchased since retail sales began in a West Coast test market in November 2007." Read the entire article: http://www.medicaldevicesandequipment.com/article/identigene-has-sold-over-50-000-units-of-its-retail-dna-paternity-test-kits/489879.aspx By CNN.com 7/10/2009 "Police in the United Kingdom are questioning a teacher on suspicion of attempted murder after one of this students was allegedly struck in the head with a metal weight." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/10/uk.school.science.attack/index.html?iref=newssearch By MSNBC.com 7/6/2009 "...Police are called to investigate everything from cyber-bullying and schoolyard fights to brutal hazing rituals, and tormenters can be prosecuted under anti-bullying laws in dozens of states. Proactive parents aren't afraid to confront school officials or take the matter to court, and schools are training students and teachers alike to spot and report bullying. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31757076 By MSNBC.com 7/7/2009 "...Nielsen also found that boys spent 7 percent more time online than girls, but girls viewed 9 percent more Web pages than boys did in May 2009. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31785826 By Fox News.com 7/2/2009 "A convicted child molester with a knack for eluding authorities was sentenced to 155 years for sexually abusing two boys, including a prepubescent youngster whom he was living with in the U.S. Virgin Islands, officials said Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529895,00.html By FoxNews.com 7/7/2009 "..."I can watch the news many nights and there's no mention of what's going on in Afghanistan or Iraq and there's boys dying over there," Bradshaw told FOXNews.com. "Oh God, I can't talk."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530361,00.html By FoxNews.com 7/4/2009 "Cynthia Mary Roberson is an unemployed mother who police say led her 12- and 14-year-old sons and their friends to commit at least 20 armed robberies and assaults, including the beating of a teenage boy who had nothing more than an orange lollipop. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530057,00.html By MSNB.com 7/9/2009 "Jim Carrey is going to be a grandfather." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31836742/ns/entertainment-access_hollywood/ By People.com 7/5/2009 "Although divorce papers have been filed, Jon and Kate Gosselin have made good on their pledge to focus on their children, reuniting for a July 4 picnic with their eight kids." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20289486,00.html By FoxNews.com 7/9/2009 "An Idaho woman face charges that she had sex with a 14-year-old boy that she was hired to watch in August 2007. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530882,00.html?mrp By Steve Helling -- People.com 7/9/2009 "...Woods, who missed much of the last golf season due to a knee injury, tells PEOPLE that he used the break to spend time more solid, quality with his then 1-year-old daughter, Sam. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20290355,00.html By WISC - Madison, Wisconsin 7/8/2009 "A local judge and a sheriff are squaring off over changes to a state statute. At issue is the penalty parents face when not paying child support. Critics said the recent change may actually eliminate a motivation to pay-up." Read the entire article: http://www.channel3000.com/news/19987405/detail.html By KansasCity.com 7/7/2009 "Men will have two years to challenge paternity rulings with DNA tests under legislation signed Tuesday by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon." Read the entire article: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/1311974.html By Lovisa Stannow -- Washington Times 7/8/2009 "The effort to end rape in U.S. prisons and jails has emerged as an unlikely unifier of civil society in recent years. Human rights organizations, faith-based groups, lawmakers from the left and the right, and -- increasingly -- prison officials have made a commitment to addressing sexual abuse in detention." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/08/responsible-for-those-in-custody/ By Sydney Morning Herald - New South Wales, Australia 7/7/2009 "More than $32 million has been clawed back from separated parents trying to dodge paying child support because they filed a tax return to get their tax bonus, the federal government says." Read the entire article: http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/tax-bonus-catches-child-support-dodgers-20090707-db90.html By Kirk Makin -- Globe and Mail - Canada 7/7/2009 "An Ontario Superior Court judge has ordered a crusading fathers'-rights activist to pay $20,000 to the federal government as punishment for mounting an ill-founded challenge to federal child-support payment guidelines." Read the entire article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/father-ordered-to-pay-20000-punishment/article1207517/ By Bizjournals.com - Tennessee Story 7/6/2009 "More than 100 Shelby County workers will lose their jobs, according to the most recent Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development dislocated worker report released Monday." Read the entire article: http://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2009/07/06/daily5.html By CivSource 7/7/2009 "The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) announced a five-year deal with Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. today to use the company’s electronic payment card solution for assistance benefits like the state’s Child Care Assistance Program." Read the entire article: http://civsourceonline.com/2009/07/07/acs-illinois-ink-electronic-payments-deal/ By CharlotteObserver.com – North Carolina 7/7/2009 "...States that allow debt collectors to seize consumers' wages have sharply higher bankruptcy rates than states such as the Carolinas, which prohibit or strictly limit the practice, an Associated Press analysis has found. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/business/story/819923.html By Leah Ward Sears -- CNN.com "After Tommy's sudden death, we found among my brother's personal effects a questionnaire he had completed in 2005 for a church class. The very first question was a fill-in-the-blank that went like this: "At the end of my life, I'd love to be able to look back and know I'd done something about ....." "Fathers," Tommy wrote. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/07/02/sears.family.divorce/index.html By Bob White -- News Enterprise - Elizabethtown, Kentucky "...First indicted on the Class D felony in 1993 in Hardin Circuit Court, Thompson was later convicted. After failing to catch up on the large arrearage, a probated prison sentence for Thompson was set for revocation. ... Read the entire article: http://www.thenewsenterprise.com/cgi-bin/c2.cgi?053+article+News.Local+20090703154141053053003 By Connecticut Post Bridgeport, Connecticut 7/4/2009 "About 24 million American children are growing up with absent fathers, and the state of Connecticut and President Barrack Obama are working to reduce that number." Read the entire article: http://www.connpost.com/women/ci_12755903 "Jay Walker of Cedar Rapids says he’s losing his life, attempting to keep up with child-support payments for his 10-month-old son." Read the entire article: http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090705/NEWS/707059988/1006
By Michael Keifer -- The Arizona Republic 7/3/2009 "Los Angeles Angels outfielder Gary Matthews Jr. stole home in a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on June 28. But three days earlier, he was tagged by the Arizona Court of Appeals in a child-support case that sets precedent in family-court fights in which the income of the parents is wildly lopsided. At issue was a 4-year-old child Matthews fathered by a Phoenix woman he never lived with. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/07/02/20090702matthews0702-ON.html By Marshall News Messenger - Marshall, Texas 7/6/2009 "A high-profile proposal to expand the Children's Health Insurance Program divided lawmakers this spring before fizzling out at the last moment and reignited sore feelings when it didn't make Gov. Rick Perry's agenda for the just-wrapped special session." Read the entire article: http://www.marshallnewsmessenger.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/2009/07/06/0706uninsured.html By Michael Birnbaum -- Washington Post 7/6/2009 "When the Online School for Girls flickers to life this fall on computer screens across the country, students will take part in an unusual experiment that joins two trends: girls-only schooling and online teaching. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/05/AR2009070502424.html
By Avis Thomas-Lester -- Washington Post Staff Writer 7/4/2009 "Tynita Johnson had attended predominantly black schools in Prince George's County for 10 years when she walked into Will Thomas's AP government class last August and found something she had never seen. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/03/AR2009070302498.html By Laura Sessions Stepp -- Washington Post 7/5/2009 "Bobby Krotendorfer didn't expect to be a father at 19, or jobless at 20. But he's determined to be a loving dad and strong breadwinner. The first part comes easily. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/26/AR2009062602533.html By Christina Hoff Sommers -- Weekly Standard 6/29/2009 "A "man-cession." That's what some economists are starting to call it. Of the 5.7 million jobs Americans lost between December 2007 and May 2009, nearly 80 percent had been held by men. Mark Perry, an economist at the University of Michigan, characterizes the recession as a "downturn" for women but a "catastrophe" for men." Read the entire article: |
