Women Industry News April 10, 2009
ACTIVISM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:
- Children Rights Council (CRC) and National Coalition for Men (NCFM) members met with Representative Susan Davis who offered to begin an investigation into the “family court mess” if her office is provided with sufficient evidence. If you live in the San Diego area and have definitive evidence of malfeasance or maladministration in any aspect of the family court arena, particularly Child Protective Services (CPS) or Minor’s Counsel, mail it to Harry Crouch, 932 C Street, Suite B, San Diego 92101 ATTN: GUILLERMO AUAD). In the absence of solid evidence please a letter bullet-listing the problems that you faced or problems of which you are aware. BE OBJECTIVE (no he-said, she-said please) AND BRIEF. No more than 1 page. Nobody will read it if it is longer than 1 page. NO LETTERS/DOCUMENTS BY EMAIL PLEASE.
- NCFM and California Men’s Center members flew from San Diego to San Francisco to testify before the State Elkin’s Family Law Task Force.
- NCFM members and several activists, authors, and domestic violence researchers prepared a letter for the San Diego District Attorney detailing blatant gender discrimination in a new police training video.
- NCFM members have had several conversations or meetings with media representatives interested in pursuing stories concerning such things as CPS corruption and at least one “730 Evaluator” who falsified his professional credentials.
- NCFM members in Los Angeles have proposed to the Domestic Violence Council a gender neutral and inclusive policy for their consideration.
- Another group of NCFM members and a member of the Men’s Health Network have a meeting scheduled with Los Angeles domestic violence industry operatives and program directors to discuss various aspects of service delivery systems.
ACTIVISIM ELSEWHERE:
- (Thanks Dean G.) “…third edition from “The Banner Guy” down in Georgia… the second banner from a few weeks ago garnered a visit from Cobb County PD providing armed escort for a code enforcement inspector hand-delivering notification that the banner did not conform to county residential signage code (too many square feet). Taking advantage of the very same county sign code, [Mr. Cobb] was able to make a minor modification to the banner (top line), turn in into a “holiday oriented” display, and was good to go…” I love this guy!
IT HAS TO BE SOME MAN’S FAULT:
- A 25-year- old Canadian woman was sent for psychiatric assessment to determine whether she can be held criminally responsible for the death a 31-year old man who had multiple stab wounds…
- There’s an Investigation into newborn’s death after the baby boy’s frozen body was found in a snow-bank…
- Father/doctor Kelly Agnew was shot by his enraged wife in Pittsburgh Dr. Kelly Agnew filed for divorce on Feb. 14, 2008, Ms. Agnew filed for custody the same day, two months later Mrs. Agnew shoots the father of two…
- 3 Kids Found Living In Garbage, Feces in Louisville, police discovered three kids eating from the floor…
- Milwaukee Police Find Abandoned Baby’s Mother after a homeowner finds a baby bag stuffed with the baby in the trunk of his car…
- Three sisters in foster care with their three-year-old brother hospitalized on a breathing tube after being starved by mother and her lesbian “lover”…
- (thanks Jeremy, Stan…)
DIVORCE:
- Divorce is Fair and Baskerville’s response, worth the read.
- Children harmed by sole custody so says study…
DISCRIMINATION - BLATANT:
- Fathers just ATM’s for the court…
- $20 billion for women, $0 for men. (thanks Clarence M.)
- Airman make pledge to end sexual assault… have you notice the television ads re same? Article says in Iraq there were 165 military reports of sexual assault last year, about 30 more than the year before. Let’s see, there’s a couple hundred thousand troops, maybe 70% or so of the reports are wrong or false, and thousands soldiers died or were seriously injured in combat of which almost all were men? And some say I have trouble with establishing priorities…
- (from Jerry S. email) “Remember all this? They even towed the cars of the two suspect men and wasted valuable time and resources looking for a male suspect. Maybe even two. Girl Missing, Homes of 2 Men Searched 10 DAYS 16 HOURS AGO… TRACY, Calif. (March 31) - An 8-year-old girl is missing in a northern California town and police say they are investigating two men who they describe as “persons of interest… Teen says man was at pond where girl’s body found… This is what they got Calif. Sunday school teacher booked in child death TRACY, Calif. -A California Sunday school teacher was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and killing an 8-year-old girl whose body was stuffed into a suitcase found in an irrigation pond. Melissa Huckaby, 28, was arrested …”
- State science programs target middle school girls…
- All right ladies, settle down. Let the meeting of the Angry Women’s Club begin…
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE:
- “Harry… battering intervention programs are not working. This study (Batter Intervention Systems of California an Evaluation 2008) has been proceeded byan ever growing number of other studies that clearly document these programs don’t work. The DOJ, after listening to many complaints about the methodology of the previous studies, provided this grant to CA to see what a very sound empirical evaluation would conclude. The CA study finds that educated men without criminal history and no drug abuse had a lower likelihood of re-arrest. However, the CA study fails mention that the DOJ’s most extensivereview of BIP to date documents the same is true for men with those characteristics who do not attend a BIP…. the CA BIPs do little to nothing to change the behavior of most violent offenders… the study does conclude it that none of the BIPs even attempt to address the “different needs” of those arrested.You do not want to end or stop the “system” you simply think it might be a good idea that the interventions following the path that empirical evidence-based studies tell us that they should. That does not take place and CA very much like the rest of the nation just simple keeps doing the same thing over-and-over again - with minor tweaks here and there - while expecting different results.That was the essence of my CA chapter in the book. You simply question why anyone can believe that it isa good idea to keep spending millions on interventions that provide no empirical evidence-based data that they work. (Richard Davis)
- Women shelters (”refuges”) in the UK told to open their doors for male victims or lose their money! Far as I know that’s a first and hopefully the beginning a trend that will find its way across the pond.
- Female deputy back to work after punching out her ex-boyfriend… hmm.
- Ouuu… ex-girlfriend Liza going to the mat re child custody battle with big time actor David Curuso… “It now appears that Liza has decided to retaliate by raising false claims against David, which David finds unfortunate since these claims will divert the parties’ and the court’s attention away from the best interests of the children.”
FEMINISM:
- Bay area loses oldest feminist abortion clinic. The government stopped paying and they couldn’t support themselves. One entitlement program bites the dust. Could this be a preview of more of the same…
- TIME MAGAZINEL has a great interview with Phyllis Schlafly. Me I would have preferred the Equal Rights Amendment passed. If it had much if not most of the discrimination against men may have died long ago… I think the other type feminists figured that out and backed off pushing for the ERA after Phyllis pretty much stopped their movement. Now the fems are pushing an equal rights amendment for women only.
- Women demand equality as long as women and children come first; excellent, the Irish finally figured it out. That’s one country with I don’t know how many more to go…
- Feminists overstate the importance of breastfeeding-I love this women, Suzzane Venker. Suzzane, please marry me and bear my children. Let’s be breeders… she writes, “ndeed, no good feminist would ever suggest a mother stay home on her own accord. Feminists claim to put the needs of children first, but never for a moment suggest women have a choice in whether or not to stay home. Instead it’s society’s fault. If companies simply offered their employees the option of a three-year maternity leave, children could have their mothers at their sides. The fact that women could choose to opt out of their own free will is never entertained. After all, this would require a steadfast belief in personal responsibility.”
- College students: beware of one-party classrooms: excellent book review and brief explanation of how Fe-ME-ism destroyed out educational system and turned classrooms into Khmer Rouge Cambodian re education camps.
- Mother Jones runs, “Feminism’s Frankensteins“… pretty harsh for far left Jone’s Momma.
- Women’s studies course too valuable to lose… sure…
MUST SEE VIDEOS OR LISTEN TO AUDIOS:
- Legislator slams family court, CPS, and the fraud and federal money that destroys families; and, she has the answers for stopping such injustice…
- A dog, a cat, and a rat… to much fan and a heart warmer (thanks Carl, Todd).
- Parental Rights Constitutional Amendment press conference… it’s about time!
- Michigan Representative Brian Calley to introduce a bill to protect parent-child relationships
NEED STATISTICS?
- Children of divorce: Crime statistics…
- NCFM member Ray Blumhorst’s Man’s Oppression List …
- Single Father’s Facts wallet card, easy to carry, easy to handout…
- Author argues for “P-Day” v. “V-Day”. Great stuff.
- Discrimination Against Men by NCFM member Joseph Miranda
PATERNITY FRAUD
- Recipe for a good paternity fraud bill
- Howard S. v. Lillian S.
2009 N.Y. Slip Op. 01880
(New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, March 17, 2009)
Wife’s infidelity, and alleged concealment from husband of parentage of child born of that infidelity, did not rise to level of “egregious or uncivilized” conduct that could justify its consideration in equitably distributing property in couple’s divorce proceedings.
Rabbath C. v Farid H.
No. 1D07-6583
(Florida District Court of Appeal, First District, March 17, 2009)
Both husband’s dissipation of money during his extra-marital affair and his concealment of income and assets during the dissolution proceeding could be factored into the equitable distribution of assets and liabilities.(Thanks Ron H. who notes, “In one, the wife concealed her affair and the fact that the cuckolded husband’s money was supporting a child not his own. That’s OK. The wife gets a share of marital assets with no adjustment for her behavior. She has rights to a share not reduced by her behavior; he has responsibilities to pay for her rights. In the other case it was the husband who had an affair. He did not make the wife support another woman’s child but he did “waste” some of his money on his girlfriend. That’s bad. His share of the marital assets is reduced because of his bad behavior. She has rights to a share increased by his behavior; he has responsibilities to pay for her rights.”)
RESTRAINING ORDERS:
- Carey Roberts another bulls-eye, “Voices from the Grave“, a must read.
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Take Care,
Harry Crouch
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