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War Over Parental Rights Has Started in Massachusetts
When School Administrations put Parents in jail just because they asked to be notified and have their children opt out of classes pushing the homosexual life style, we discover the true agenda of radical gay activists.
There will be a second American civil war over the redefinition of marriage,the redefinition of our culture, religious liberty and the endoctination of our children.
America will be divided over this.
(Watch this video of what happen to one family over Massachusetts)
Mr Parker is the new "Rosa Park" on this issue When School Administrations put Parents in jail just because they asked to be notified and have their children opt out of classes pu... more -
Al-Jazeera on child abductions in China
"Between 70,000 and 200,000 babies, children and women are kidnapped each year around China. Baby boys are sold for as much as US$5,000 to desperate childless couples, and some of the abductees even end up overseas in the hands of foreign adopters."
See video for the Al-Jazeera report. "Between 70,000 and 200,000 babies, children and women are kidnapped each year around China. Baby boys are sold for as much as US... more -
Mass Stigma Scars Congo's Rape Survivors
A psychologist in a Congo hospital says decades of war have produced a rape-friendly culture with a double standard. While perpetrators go unpunished the victims, including children, are ostracized. Amnesty International has issued a new warning.
Twenty-five-year-old Mywazo is the proud mother of two.
But she doubts her husband can ever accept that about her. Not after what happened.
For three and a half years, beginning in 2004, Mywazo was held hostage in the forests surrounding her village. There she was raped by men she identifies as Interhamwe, Hutu militias linked to Rwanda's genocide and implicated in rape-and-pillage attacks on villages in the border provinces of North and South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
"The first days, all the men slept with everyone," Mywazo told Women's eNews. "Then each chose a woman to keep. They cut the sex of the women they killed and hung it on their tent walls. I despaired. Each day, I expected to die."
Mywazo, whose last name is withheld for safety reasons, comes from a small farming village in Walungu, near Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu. In this densely forested area, rapes remained rampant this year despite a January peace agreement between the Congolese government and diverse armed groups operating in North and South Kivu.
Women's eNews interviewed Mywazo in mid-August when she fretted about her livelihood and safety if she returned home to her husband. Since then, the situation in eastern Congo has further deteriorated. On Aug. 28, renegade Gen. Laurent Nkunda clashed with the Congolese army in Goma, North Kivu, breaking the tenuous ceasefire. At least 100,000 people have been displaced over the past five weeks.
Last week London-based Amnesty International issued the latest warning, saying thousands of women are being raped and child soldiers brutalized amid renewed fighting in Goma.
Sexual Violence Widespread
In some eastern regions of Congo as many as 70 percent of girls and women of all ages have been raped or sexually mutilated, according to the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, a research center at Harvard University.
Over 2,200 new rape cases were recorded in North Kivu, a July report of the Congo Advocacy Coalition--a network of 64 international and local aid agencies and rights groups--indicated. The South Kivu Provincial Synergy on Sexual Violence, a coalition of representatives from government, the United Nations and civil society, recorded 4,500 sexual violence cases in the first six months of this year.
So Mywazo's story is one of suffering multiplied by the tens of thousands.
On the day of her arrival to the militia's camp where she was held hostage, the spray of gunfire scarred the flesh around her thighs. Another bullet struck where the jaw meets the ear. Now she struggles to chew and to hear. Countless women, she says, were gunned or knifed down in front of her eyes only to be replaced with fresh concubines kidnapped in South Kivu's Walungu territory.
Her first child, Paluku, 5, survived the ordeal with her.
She says she shielded him behind her back when she was struck from the front. Her second child, 6-month-old Chito, breastfeeds sleepily as her mother explains she was born out of Mywazo's bondage to a man she remembers as "Bizimwa."
******************CONTINUES A psychologist in a Congo hospital says decades of war have produced a rape-friendly culture with a double standard. While perpetrator... more -
Six Busted in China Milk Scandal
Six people have been arrested in connection with the tainted milk scandal in China, Reuters reports. The arrests were made in Hohhot, capital of China's main dairy producing region. Thousands of Chinese children have developed kidney problems from drinking milk formula contaminated by melamine. Four have died.
Last week authorities arrested 22 people in Hebei province suspected of being involved with producing melamine and selling it on to milk farms. The milk scandal triggered recalls and warnings among China's trading partners across Southeast Asia as melamine was discovered in infant formula, chocolate, cookies and other products. Melamine is used to artificially boost the protein content of milk and cheat on quality control tests. Six people have been arrested in connection with the tainted milk scandal in China, Reuters reports. The arrests were made in Hohhot, ... more -
'My ex-husband and I share joint custody of our kids--the way it should be�...
Tracy, a reader, writes:
I am a single mom of two boys. My ex-husband and I share joint physical and legal custody of our children. That is the way it should be. We are both parents to our children and he is a good dad.
On the other side I am currently seeing a wonderful man and father who the courts have seen fit to give minimum visitation. Even though several eye witnesses are willing to testify to his ex's inability to take care of the kids and she has been caught in several lies.
She was fired from a job she was making $17.00 an hour at so she could stay home. She has been living at her parents' house and getting $150.00 per week child support, food stamps and Medicaid. Her hope was to drag $2,000 a month out of my boyfriend, which is what her first attorney told her would happen. Luckily the judge saw through that.
Women nowadays feel they are owed something when they divorce. This is not true. They are no better parents than the fathers.
Granted there are some circumstances where the mother or the father are not qualified to parent. But if both are good parent it should be 50/50 from the get go until all things are settled.
Women feel they can go in crying a sob story and be handed everything. To all women, wake up and smell the coffee! They need to take responsibility for their own lives and the lives of their children that they so desperately want all to themselves. Of course only because they love them.
I think it's time judges realize what is going on and that there are fathers out there that are just as good if not better than the mothers. Tracy, a reader, writes: ... more -
Parlin(NJ) foster parent gets 9 indictments in sex assault case
A Parlin man who was a licensed foster parent with the state was indicted Friday on charges that he sexually assaulted four girls under his care.
Kenneth Nervik, 61, was arrested in July when authorities charged him with molesting the girls at his Washington Road home.
The state Division of Youth and Family Services received a referral regarding an incident of abuse on June 20, and DYFS reported the matter to the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, authorities said.
The nine-count indictment includes charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual contact, and endangering the welfare of the children.
He faces up to 20 years in prison on the worst charge.
Probable cause for the complaint against Nervik lists statements of the victims and witnesses and other evidence.
Nervik is being held at the Middlesex County Adult Correction Center in North Brunswick in lieu of $425,000 bail. A Parlin man who was a licensed foster parent with the state was indicted Friday on charges that he sexually assaulted four girls unde... more -
Why would the media lie??
Doesnt seem right as to why they would claim untruths about why the protestors came down.... I could guess they want people to think Paul and Don didnt know what they were doing???
read more in this link:
http://fishercase.savefatherhood.com/cartoons/mice.html Doesnt seem right as to why they would claim untruths about why the protestors came down.... I could guess they want people to think P... more -
Shockome Syndrome
The feminist movement is worried about the fatherhood movement. The California National Organization for Women recently issued a 95-page report called Disorder in the Courts: Mothers and Their Allies Take on the Family Law System, in which they warn "the fathers' rights movement has been gaining strength and legitimacy. Fatherhood groups are well-funded, well-organized and publicly supported through conservative mouthpieces in the media." In the report, many prominent figures in the Feminist Family Law Movement (FFLM) call for a "mothers' rights movement" to block the rising fatherhood movement.
The National Organization for Women attacked divorced dads in a resolution at its national conference in July. This spring several branches of NOW, including New York and Michigan, issued Action Alerts against moderate legislative attempts to help dads remain a part of their children's lives after divorce or separation.
One of the fatherhood movement's primary goals is to get family courts and family law to properly address the issue of parental alienation. Parental alienation occurs when one parent, usually the custodial parent, has turned his or her children against the other parent, destroying the loving bonds the children and the target parent once enjoyed.
The fatherhood movement has had some modest success in creating awareness of parental alienation, both in the courtroom and in the media. Now the FFLM is hitting back hard. NOW's July resolution denounced Parental Alienation Syndrome as a "defense strategy for batterers and sexual predators that purports to explain a child's estrangement from one parent, or explains away allegations against the estranged parent of abuse/sex abuse of child, by blaming the protective parent." According to NOW, the employment of this "unethical, unconstitutional, and dangerous" tactic is so common as to constitute "epidemic levels of abuse and dysfunction in our court system."
California NOW's report attacks the fatherhood movement and relentlessly assails PAS. CANOW Executive Director Helen Grieco calls PAS a "scam," and says, "As activists we must continue to expose the true agenda of the Fathers' Rights movement. We must eradicate the gender bias...that is rampant in our family courts." The annual Battered Mothers Custody Conference, which will be held January 12-14 in Albany, New York, espouses similar views.
Newsweek magazine, in a recent article called "Fighting Over the Kids: Why Parents Who Batter Win Custody," claims that "many parents nationwide…have lost custody due to a controversial concept known as parental alienation…Parental alienation is now the leading defense for parents accused of abuse in custody cases, according to domestic-violence advocates. And it's working."
Parental alienation was the leading topic at a recent Dallas, Texas domestic violence conference sponsored by the Dallas County District Attorney and numerous domestic violence groups. The Dallas Morning News reports that parental alienation is "an increasingly common defense in child-custody battles [which] is raising concerns among those who work with victims of domestic violence…Advocates of domestic violence victims say a growing number of batterers are using the tactic in court to gain custody of their children." Recent lopsided articles in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Contra Costa Times, the Providence Journal and many others have expressed similar sentiments.
Last October PBS aired Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories on affiliates across the country. The film pointed to an alleged epidemic of loving, protective mothers losing custody of their children to abusive, molesting fathers after the fathers claimed parental alienation.
MORE IN LiNK The feminist movement is worried about the fatherhood movement. The California National Organization for Women recently issued a 95-pa... more -
Harvard Law article on Family courts.........
Alec Baldwin is on a roll - just recently, the affable actor won an Emmy Award for his role on the critically-acclaimed sitcom, 30 Rock. But the 50 year old Baldwin wasn't smiling when he entered Ames Courtroom last Thursday, September 25. He was making his second appearance at HLS to engage in a serious discussion with Professor Jeannie Suk on the problems of divorce courts and custody proceedings.
Baldwin's encounter with the world of family law began in 2000, when he and his then-wife Kim Basinger agreed to separate. The proceedings dragged on to 2004, when the two were awarded joint custody of their daughter, Ireland Eliesse. In 2007, when Ireland failed to answer a call from her father, Baldwin left a now-famous phone message deriding her as a "rude, thoughtless little pig". A recording of the comment was released to the media, and it immediately set off a firestorm. It also led to a messy lawsuit in which Baldwin accused Basinger of leaking the tape.
Against this backdrop, Baldwin's frustration with the family law system - which he saw extending far beyond courts and into the mindsets and attitudes of the public at large - was palpable throughout his discussion with Suk. Baldwin said his new book, which chronicles the experience of his divorce, was filled with "pain, regreat, and anger about the law," as well as his "frustration [and] confusion with the [legal] process". His custody battle, he reported, was "arduous, slow, glacial".
Baldwin reserved much of his consternation for the gender biases which he believes pervade family law. He was concerned when, from the outset, he was assured the specific custody officer his case had been assigned was noted as "good for fathers". "It was troubling," he observed, "that other [custody offices] might have been bad."
Professor Suk noted that Baldwin's experiences of gender bias had led him to become a pioneer of the fathers' rights movement in California. Baldwin, pointing out that this effort now went by the term "shared parenting", discussed his reasons for becoming involved.
Different genders, he noted, were tarred with different stereotypes by courts - men were seen, in particular, as "abusers". "Men walk into a courtroom with a cloud of male aggression overshadowing them," Baldwin said. Adversaries in custody proceedings could often reconstruct otherwise neutral events post facto, he claimed, by using courts' presumptions of male behavior to make them seem like episodes of abuse.
Professor Suk agreed at least that the definition of violence had expanded too far; any instance of "bad behavior" could be used to determine that custody by a parent might not be in the best interest of a child. "The pendulum has swung too far," Baldwin concurred, recounting an incident in which a representative of the National Organization for Women told him the group thought of wrongfully-convicted men as "collateral damage" as long as one abused spouse or child could be saved under the current legal regime.
As a consequence of such sentiments, Baldwin asserted, fathers were often alienated from their children throughout divorce proceedings, and sometimes for long thereafter. He emotionally recounted how the fathers of children's friends came to play more of a role in their lives than their own, and how fathers would wind up spending more time talking to lawyers than to their children. The actor characterized parental alienation as a form of child abuse itself.
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MORE IN LINK Alec Baldwin is on a roll - just recently, the affable actor won an Emmy Award for his role on the critically-acclaimed sitcom, 30 Roc... more -
Should mentally ill mom take full blame in toddler's near drowning?
What kind of a mother would try to kill her own child?
One like Andrea Yates of Houston. Or, Lashuan Harris of Oakland. And now, police say, Fotini Huntley of Citrus Heights.
Although the circumstances vary, the accused mothers have something significant in common. All are said to suffer from severe mental illness.
Cases like these befuddle the courts and other systems designed to hold criminals accountable and protect innocents. Is a mother who is mentally ill capable of safely caring for a child? And if a tragedy occurs, should the mother be held fully accountable?
These are some of the questions being asked in the aftermath of the attempted drowning of Antonia Huntley. Antonia's mother, Fotini, was arrested Sept. 27 after she told police that she had drowned her daughter. Family members and others told The Bee that Huntley has long suffered delusions and other symptoms of schizophrenia. Officials are looking at her husband Anthony's possible culpability for leaving her alone with Antonia when he went to work.
The 2-year-old girl was taken to UC Davis Medical Center and is fighting for her life. Her mother, who was arraigned Wednesday in the medical ward of the Sacramento County jail, has been charged with attempted murder.
"How could a mother do that? It's something that most people just can't understand," said Karen Henry, president of the California office of the National Alliance of the Mentally Ill. "But what you have to remember is that mental illness is a brain disorder. It affects how people think."
The issue has been explored in several high-profile cases, including that of Andrea Yates of Texas. After two trials, Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2006 for drowning her five children in the bathtub. In 2005, Lashuan Harris of Oakland was declared insane by the court after she tossed her three small sons to their deaths in the frigid San Francisco Bay.
Lawyers have suggested that Huntley's mental illness will play a role in her defense in Sacramento Superior Court.
"This case is the very definition of mental illness: a mother harming a child. It's so unnatural," said Diane B. Howard, a public defender who represented Huntley at her arraignment. "It's extremely tragic for everyone." What kind of a mother would try to kill her own child? ... more -
Jail Kids
An undercover investigation into the abuse of children in Philippine jails.
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Video appears to show brothers, 2 and 5, smoking pot
"Police in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, said a videotape found in a search for stolen goods appears to show two teenagers persuading a 2-year-old boy and his 5-year-old brother to smoke marijuana.
Third-degree felony charges have been filed against the teenagers.
'I have never seen anything like this quite so disturbing,' said Bruce Ure, director of public safety for the Watauga Police Department. 'Our children count on us to protect them; these individuals did everything but protect these children.'" "Police in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, said a videotape found in a search for stolen goods appears to show two teenagers persuadi... more -
Poverty Protesters Make Plea To PM
Thousands of protesters are taking part in what they hope will be Britain's biggest ever march against child poverty.
The Campaign to End Child Poverty rally is calling on the Government to keep its promise of halving child poverty in the UK by 2010.
Supporters are reminding Prime Minister Gordon Brown that he needs to invest an extra £3bn in the 2009 budget to tackle the problem.
The Campaign - a coalition of more than 120 UK organizations - is marching from Trafalgar Square to Westminster in central London.
Campaign director Hilary Fisher said: "Today is an historic day for children across the UK.
"Thousands are to show our Prime Minister how important it is that he listens to our plea not just for a better future for children who are living in poverty but for a better present."
Research published this week by the Campaign found that in 174 of 646 parliamentary constituencies across the UK, more than half the children live in poverty.
It suggested that pockets of the UK were in "turmoil" and millions more children than previously thought were being left behind.
Of the 13,233,320 children in the UK, 5,559,000 - more than a third - live in low-income families or families in poverty.
In his Labour Party Conference speech last month, Mr Brown announced plans for "ground-breaking legislation" to solve the issue by 2020.
At Downing Street today, Mr Brown assured campaigners he would stick to his word.
He said: "One of the great causes of this generation is the eradication of child poverty and I am saying that we will in law make it the duty of Government by 2020 to eradicate child poverty in this country.
"While it is a long haul, we want to show step by step how we can achieve that goal." Thousands of protesters are taking part in what they hope will be Britain's biggest ever march against child poverty. ... more -
Man raped girl, 13, in churchyard
A knifeman in fancy dress who raped a 13-year-old girl in a churchyard has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years. Alexander Meyer, 25, who lives near Oxford, was also placed on the sex offenders register for life for the attack
The court heard Meyer threatened the girl with a knife during her ordeal in a churchyard shed at an annual fancy dress party in July. Meyer admitted to the rape and also confessed to possessing indecent images of children, which were found on two computers.
The judge also banned Meyer from ever working with children and described the offender as a significant risk to young girls. A knifeman in fancy dress who raped a 13-year-old girl in a churchyard has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years. Alexander Meyer, 25... more -
All children could be vaccinated against flu
All children could be vaccinated against flu under plans being considered by the Government.
Scientists are investigating whether all children should be protected against flu or only certain age groups, Prof David Salisbury, director of immunisation at the Department of Health told The Daily Telegraph.
It comes after Government advisors called for all pregnant women to be offered the vaccine. Research has shown it can protect the newborn baby for up to six months, when they are at their most vulnerable.
Prof Salisbury said both plans are "actively on the agenda".
"We are looking very carefully at the evidence. It is very easy to underestimate the burden of flu in children, it is not necessarily picked up as flu. There are deaths from flu in children."
He said that in one year, 20 children died from the disease. Mathematical modelling is being carried out to determine which age groups need to be vaccinated and what the up-take rates would need to be for there to be a significant drop in the number of cases.
Earlier this year the Health Protection Agency published research showing that vaccinating children under the age of two could reduce cases of influenza A by between 11 per cent and 22 per cent and influenza B by up to a third. Influenza A and B are two species of the virus that cause flu.
If vaccinations were extended to the under fives, cases of influenza A would be reduced by between 22 per cent and 38 per cent depending on how many children had the jab and cases of influenza B would be cut by between 44 per cent and 69 per cent.
The largest effect was found if all children under 16 were offered the vaccine, with up to 97 per cent of cases of influenza A prevented along with 96 per cent of influenza B.
If all under 16s were offered the flu jab it would mean an extra 10 million vaccines would be needed, taking the total to more than 25m each year.
More research is being carried out to establish if this is cost-effective.
Prof Salisbury said: "We need to know if vaccinating children on an annual basis is a good use of resources and that is where we have got. We need to wait for the outcome."
In America all pregnant women and all children from the age of six month to 18 are routinely offered the seasonal influenza vaccine as part of the national programme as they are amongst the most likely to be admitted to hospital with complications if they contract the virus.
In the UK only the elderly and people at risk of complications because they have long-term conditions like lung disease, multiple sclerosis or severe asthma are routinely offered the jab.
Prof Salisbury said millions more people under the age of 65 with these conditions should be vaccinated. All children could be vaccinated against flu under plans being considered by the Government. ... more -
Michigan advocate for women and children gets 2008 Sunshine Peace Award
Cathy Church, an Upper Peninsula advocate for protecting women and children from domestic violence, recently received the 2008 Sunshine Peace Award.
As an assistant prosecutor, Church put many abusers in jail.
The northern Michigan attorney has a long history of ongoing public service.
A longtime prosecutor of domestic abusers in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Cathy Church (center) receives Peace Award from Doris Buffett (right) on August 9, 2008 in Wilmington, North Carolina.
The Sunshine Lady Foundation was established in 1996 through the vision and determination of Doris Buffett, the sister of financier and philanthropist, Warren Buffett.
Church was honored as one of twenty extraordinary individuals who have worked in the domestic violence field and made a positive difference in the lives of battered women and their children.
Candidates for the prestigious award are selected from across the nation for excellence in developing resources and facilitating the social change necessary to end violence against women and children. Cathy Church, an Upper Peninsula advocate for protecting women and children from domestic violence, recently received the 2008 Sunshin... more -
Argus Leader newspaper & video series on the Lakota teen suicide crisis in Sou...
For years the majority of the white media in South Dakota has not done in-depth coverage of the shocking teen suicide crisis facing teens and young adults involving the Rosebud Indian Reservation and Lakota peoples.
However, there have been a few exceptions and the crisis has been covered for more than a year by the Native American media.
Now the Argus Leader newspaper in South Dakota has done a series of stories and videos about this problem.
The White Buffalo Calf Woman Society and its executive director Tillie Black Bear have done a herotic job trying to stop the suicide epidemic - but they need your help.
Follow the above link to get to links to all the articles and videos by the Argus Leader Newspaper in South Dakota. For years the majority of the white media in South Dakota has not done in-depth coverage of the shocking teen suicide crisis facing te... more -
Annual Domestic Violence Walk set for Oct. 6, 2008 on Lakota Rosebud Indian Reserv...
The White Buffalo Calf Woman Society is sponsoring its annual walk for victims of domestic violence on October 6, 2008 on the Lakota Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
It's one of numerous events during October to celebrate the White Buffalo calf Woman Society's shelter for women and children who are victims of domestic violence.
The White Buffalo Calf Woman Society in Mission, S.D. is sponsoring the 22nd annual “National Day of Unity Against Domestic Violence Walk” at 9 a.m. on October 06, 2008 on the Lakota Rosebud Reservation.
The walk is designed to bring awareness to the growing problem of domestic violence against native women. The walk will begin at the IHS Hospital and will stop at the following points: Rosebud Sioux Tribe Law Enforcement, tribal courthouse, Spotted Tail Cemetery and end at tribal building
October is domestic violence month. The motto for this year’s walk is: “Change our present, protect our future. Take a stand, speak out. Silence will not end the violence.”
The walk is one of several events planned during a month-long celebration of the WBCWS 31st anniversary.
Native American women are the target of violent battering, rape, assault, and homicide at a much higher rate than any other ethnic group of women or men in the country.
Crime victimization rates in the Native American communities are significantly higher than in any other communities. Native American women are in a much more dangerous position than any other women in the country.
Homicide is the third leading cause of death for Native women. Over 75% of there women were killed by a family member, an acquaintance, or someone they knew.
Here are some statistics:
American Indian women experience the highest rate of Domestic Violence in the United States.
Three-fourths of Native American women have or will experience some type of sexual assault in their life time.
Abusive relationships are based on the mistaken belief that one person has the right to control another.
More than 47% of women will be raped in their life time.
Over 50% of all women will be battered by their spouse/partner or someone they know sometime in their life.
A woman is physically abused every nine seconds in this country, usually by their spouse or partner.
For more information contact the WBCWS at 605-856-2317
Or visit the WBCWS website:
http://www.wbcws.org The White Buffalo Calf Woman Society is sponsoring its annual walk for victims of domestic violence on October 6, 2008 on the Lakota R... more -
Oldest domestic violence shelter in world for women of color celebrates 31 years o...
The White Buffalo Calf Woman Society has a month-long series of events during October 2008 to celebrate 31 years serving all women and children on the Lakota Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Founded in 1977, it was the first domestic violence shelter in the world for women of color - although it also serves "our white sisters," according to Tillie Black Bear, one of several courageous native women who created the shelter. The White Buffalo Calf Woman Society has a month-long series of events during October 2008 to celebrate 31 years serving all women and... more
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