October 25, 2006 by Walter Schneider.

Herald Sun (Melbourne)
16 October 2006

Why men are paid more
By Bettina Arndt

Bettina Arndt writes: Every few years the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases data about the gender wage gap. And every time the Labor Party announces the sky is falling in.

The fact that men earn more than women is presented as proof that the country is going backward under Howard.

The white picket fence is rising up to capture us all.

Everyone who participates in this farce knows full well that these wage-gap statistics are meaningless.

So, what if the average woman in Australia earns $300 less per week than the average man.

That statistic fails to take in account the hours worked. In fact, the average Australian Joe Blow works almost twice as many hours as the average Jenny Blow, according to data HILDA, the Household Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia survey….(Full Story)

Bettina Arndt describes nothing new. The wage-gap issue is a staple of redfem propaganda, and the feminist-influenced and -dominated press regularly shrieks about it. What is new is that there are now more often objective journalists like Bettina Arndt who get a chance to set the record straight.

Here is more information on the ostensibly discriminatory wage gap.

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October 24, 2006 by Walter Schneider.

Domestic violence is in the news throughout the whole year, but especially at this time of the year. It’s the season of domestic violence months, October in some countries, give or take a month, depending on country.

Someone pointed me to two comments by Terri Lynn Tersak, “a professional commercial photographer, the President and CEO of True Equality Network, and a member of the Steering and Legislative Committee of the Maryland based think-tank, RADAR – Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting.”

Although the first article shown below appears to reflect in its terminology decades of feminist indoctrination (one always has to look carefully when “people” are being mentioned, as the context of the discussion often leaves no doubt that the non-sex-specific “people” means nothing other than “women” who are victims), it identifies important truths. The abuse business is a big and flourishing industry, it is being used to advantage by advocates and “victims” alike out of greed and for profit, it is involved in criminal activities, and it caters to large numbers of false claims of abuse, to the exclusion of victims who are truly in need.

The article doesn’t mention that men are equally often victims of abuse by women (and of course far more often victims of abuse by other men). Men are twice as likely than women are to become victims of violence. Yet the article did not come close to touching on that, which is an odd omission for an organization that calls itself “True Equality Network” whose CEO expounds on the lack of justice and equitability in the treatment of true victims of domestic violence. Moreover, Terri Lynn Tersak’s article complains much about the abuse of women’s shelters but says absolutely nothing about the lack of abuse of men’s shelters. There is no abuse of men’s shelters because there are none of those. What does not exist cannot be abused. However, don’t male victims of domestic violence who have no shelters at all to escape to deserve a little bit of pity, at the very least from an organization that calls itself “True Equality Network”?

Another odd omission in the article is that children were not mentioned (feminists always religiously avoid doing that in connection with DV). Children are the largest single group of domestic violence victims, and children in families who are being hurt are being hurt by their mothers in the vast majority of cases (just about exactly 70 percent of serious or fatal violence against children in families is committed by the children’s mothers), while the biological fathers of those children rank almost a minuscule last place in the list of the perpetrators of violence against children.

Here is that first article:

VAWA Fails to Protect Women Who Need Protection the Most
October 11, 2006
by Terri Lynn Tersak

http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2006/1011tersak.html

The second article in her series,

Violence Against Women Act: The Fast Food of Law
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
By Terri Lynn Tersak

http://parens-patriae.blogspot.com/2006/10/violence-against-women-act-fast-food.html

castigates the US Violence Against Women Act and the abuse and misuses of the women’s shelter industry even more than the first one did.

That article seems at first more balanced, or better, neutral with respect to the respective plights of the sexes, but then — about half-way down — comes this statement:

The women of True Equality Network, most of who are themselves victims of severe domestic violence, have spent almost five years in courthouses interviewing over 15,000 plaintiffs in domestic violence cases just before they entered the courtroom. The overwhelming number of those interviewed did not attempt to mask the real reasons they filed a domestic violence claim: control, money, and revenge — for everything you could possibly imagine — everything except acts of domestic violence.

Right. I don’t want to belittle the plight of these women of True Equality Network, but did they notice that the 15,000 plaintiffs in domestic violence cases whom they interviewed just before they entered the courtroom were in the majority women, while there should at least have been one man for every woman whom they interviewed, and that furthermore they apparently never got to interview any children, who should have comprised more than one-third of all of the people whom they did interview?

I guess not, because a little farther down in that article Terri Lynn Tersak stated that “Renowned professors and scientists who have reviewed this study series have said that the study was conducted using proper scientific methods and has produced “…significant findings that need to be widely published and cited.””

No doubt, the study sample examined by True Equality Network produced significant findings that need to be widely published and cited, but that the study sample was taken using “proper scientific methods” is doubtful. The sample she wrote about cannot possibly be a randomly selected one. It must of necessity be a pre-determined and pre-selected selective study sample, a sample whose nature and origin exclude the possibility of making valid projections to the general population.

Even though that study comes awfully close, it may not be quite classifiable as advocacy research (that is a study that deliberately sets out to prove a predetermined outcome), because it may not have set out deliberately to prove a foregone conclusion. It was a study done by advocates for a selective cause using a selective study sample, not a randomly-selected one. The way it has been described in Terri Lynn Tersak’s article and writings linked to from her article, the study has no validity beyond the selective sample of victims it studied.

The study produced a vast amount of anecdotal evidence but apparently no hard statistics that relate to much that happens in the general population.

The next time when True Equality Network undertakes such a study it should ensure proper proportional representation of all groups of victims of domestic violence in their study sample, not just women. Furthermore it should ensure that the sample is randomly selected, not prescreened by the bureaucracy before its members make it into the court rooms.

Nevertheless, although True Equality Network in that article, too, incongruously mentioned nothing about the lack of shelters for men who need to flee violent relationships, its findings about the corruption that has come to infect the whole system are born out by many other reports on that corruption. The details may vary a little from place to place and from country to country, but the principle remains.

Objective observers of the women’s shelter industry will agree with True Equality Network on one thing: The women’s shelter movement is corrupt, an inexhaustible cash-cow for radical feminists and government agencies alike and an expedient tool used effectively for the implementation of the agenda for the planned destruction of our families.

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October 22, 2006 by Walter Schneider.

RADAR Alert > ACTION Sought

Time to Blow the Whistle on the UN Violence Report

Two weeks ago the United Nations issued its one-sided Study on Violence Against Women:

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw/violenceagainstwomenstudydoc.pdf

If you haven’t reviewed the report yet, think of it this way: What the Violence Against Women Act has done to families in the United States, this report may do to families throughout the entire world.

The report’s portrayal of domestic violence is so flawed that leading family violence researchers around the world are speaking out against its deliberate bias:

- Research on intimate partner violence consistently finds that men and women use similar types of aggression. By ignoring the mutual nature of much partner violence, the UN ensures that both women and men will continue to be victimised in this way. - Nicola Graham-Kevan, PhD, University of Central Lancashire, England

- The UN report s discussion on domestic violence is biased because it deliberately ignores half the problem female perpetrators. Ending violence against women by male partners is not going to be achieved until women also desist. - Murray A. Straus, PhD, Co-Director, Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire

- Much domestic violence research conducted in North America has been so biased that it might be called junk science. It has used selective data and interpreted results in a way that depicts all males as real or potential perpetrators, while downplaying female violence. - Donald Dutton, PhD, University of British Columbia, Canada

- Studies consistently show that throughout the Western world, men and women initiate physical violence at about equal rates, and frequently partner violence is reciprocal. Portraying inter-partner violence as though it only involves male perpetrators and female victims does both men and women a disservice. - Felicity Goodyear-Smith, MB ChB, University of Auckland, New Zealand

For years, feminists at the UN have pushed through their resolutions, conferences, and programs. With no one to tell the other side of the story, these persons have operated virtually unchecked.

All this is going to change on Monday 23 October 2006.

An international coalition has come together to protest this deliberately misleading report. US-based RADAR (Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting) has also put together key information on its website http://www.mediaradar.org under the heading, UN Report on Violence Against Women.

This is what we are asking you to do:

- Send the ambassador for your country or region a short message. A boilerplate letter is shown below. Feel free to modify the first two introductory paragraphs - but remember to always be polite and respectful.

- Send your message to the appropriate contact(s) listed below. If you live in the E.U., please send your message to both the French and Dutch delegations, which are sponsoring the resolution:

Delegation> Ambassador > Email > Fax

Australia > H.E. Mr. Robert Hill > australia@un.int > 212-351-6610

Canada > H.E. Henri-Paul Normandin > canada@un.int > 212-848-1195

France > H.E. Mr. Jean-Marc de la Sabliere > france@un.int > 212-421-6889

Netherlands > H.E. Franciscus Majoor > netherlands@un.int > 212-370-1954

New Zealand > H.E. Ms. Rosemary Banks > nzmissionny@earthlink.net > 212-758-0827

USA > H.E. John Bolton > usa@un.int > 212-415-4443

[Note: H.E. stands for His/Her Excellency]

Another good person to receive your message is UN Deputy Secretary-General Malloch Brown: Malloch.brown@un.org

Please do this today. The UN’s Third Committee will be taking action on this report, possibly this coming week. Your voice is important. But time is of the essence.

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Dear Ambassador ________ :

Recently the UN Secretariat released the Secretary-General s Study on Violence Against Women. Although the report is well-intentioned, leading experts in family violence say the report s portrayal of domestic abuse is biased and one-sided. Dr. Nicola Graham-Kevan of the University of Central Lancashire in England says about this report, By ignoring the mutual nature of much partner violence, the UN ensures that both women and men will continue to be victimised in this way.

Worse, many of the report’s recommendations, if implemented, will serve to violate the civil rights of innocent citizens, undermine families, and separate children from their fathers.

These concerns are documented in a number of reports that are available at http://www.mediaradar.org/. I am respectfully requesting that when this report comes up for consideration by the Third Committee, that you strongly urge the committee to:

1. Simply Note (but not Welcome ) the recent Secretary-General s report.

2. Discourage implementation of the recommendations of the Study on Violence Against Women until its long-term effects on families and children are analyzed and understood.

3. Request incoming Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to undertake a counterpart Study on Violence against Men.

Sincerely,

[your name and address]

Date of Release: 21 October 2006

R.A.D.A.R. Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization of concerned men and women working to assure that the problem of domestic violence is treated in a balanced and effective manner: http://www.mediaradar.org

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October 19, 2006 by Walter Schneider.

Steven Kaminski Finally Compensated An Alberta man who spent seven years in prison for a sexual assault he didn’t commit was the recipient of a $2.2-million secret settlement by the RCMP for malicious prosecution

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October 19, 2006 by Walter Schneider.

The web pages on the topic of Anorexia Nervosa are by far the most-often visited web pages at Fathers for Life.

This blog category has been set up to give those people who wish to comment on the issue of anorexia nervosa a chance to do so.

It appears that concerns about anorexia nervosa should not target it as being a deadly disease (it isn’t and kills very rarely), as they should target the physical and emotional ugliness it creates for those who chose to acquire the addiction as well as for those who care about anorexia-nervosa addicts.

This blog is moderated. There are conduct rules that must be followed.

Walter Schneider

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October 9, 2006 by Walter Schneider.

Another good article by Cary Roberts:

Back in 1995, HRC led the U.S. delegation to China to attend the United Nations World Conference on Women. There Hillary held forth on the economic status of women, making the claim that “Women are 70% of the world’s poor.” And sure enough, Madame Hillary is at it again. Two weeks ago, she spouted the “feminization of poverty” cliché at her…..
Full story: http://www.newswithviews.com/Roberts/carey138.htm

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October 9, 2006 by Walter Schneider.

CBC News, Wednesday, October 4, 2006

The social services system in Newfoundland and Labrador failed a 13-month-old boy, who drowned along with his mother in a 2003 murder-suicide, a review has found.

Zachary Turner died when Shirley Turner, 42, clutched him to her body and jumped into Conception Bay, several kilometres outside of St. John’s.

“Nowhere did I find any ongoing assessment of the safety needs of the children,” coroner Peter Markesteyn, referring both to Zachary and Turner’s daughter from another relationship, wrote in a three-volume report released Wednesday.

Turner, a general practitioner, fled to Newfoundland after her estranged lover Andrew Bagby, 28, was shot to death in a Pennsylvania parking lot on Nov. 5, 2001. [full story]

Mother arrested in death of her 2 children

SECTIONS FROM CORONER’S REPORT ( You can read it on our website)

Neville, The Child and Youth Advocate for the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, said two things were evident from reading the report. “One: Zachary Turner’s death was preventable. And two: Zachary was in his mother’s care when he should not have been.”

Markesteyn found that officials, who were working on the presumption of Turner’s innocence, were more concerned about the welfare of the woman than for her infant.

Turner frequently asked for, and received, help from social workers, with dozens of visits made on her behalf.

Neville said she found it difficult that no one was putting Zachary’s interests first.

http://www.canadiancrc.com/articles/CBC_No_need_for_Zachary_Turner_to_die_04OCT06.htm

http://www.canadiancrc.com/articles/Newspaper_Articles_2006.htm

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CBC News, Wednesday, October 4, 2006

A 31-year-old mother has been arrested after her two children were found dead in an apartment in Barrie, Ont., early Wednesday morning.

The two girls, aged one and three, were found in a highrise apartment on Coulter Street located between Sunnidale Park and Bayfield Mall in the west end of the city. Barrie is about 80 kilometres north of Toronto.

http://www.canadiancrc.com/articles/CBC_Mother_arrested_death_2_children_04OCT06.htm

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Alberta baby-killing verdict discussions echo national infanticide debate

Canadian Press, By: LISA ARROWSMITH, September 27, 2006

WETASKIWIN, Alta. (CP) - It’s a small farming community whose high number of auto dealerships has given it a reputation as a good place for a deal on a car.

But the morning after a young local woman was convicted of murdering her newborn baby, debate on the leafy streets of Wetaskiwin, Alta., was over much higher stakes than Ford Vs. Chevy.

“Ten years is not sufficient,” said an adamant Gail Doolittle, referring to the sentence handed out to Katrina Effert, 20.

“That’s the justice system. We need to give them a chance,” she sneered as she loaded her two-year-old daughter Heather into a car seat at a local grocery store.

http://www.canadiancrc.com/Infanticide.htm

http://www.canadiancrc.com/CP_Alberta_baby-killer_verdict_national_infanticide_debate_27SEP06.htm

http://www.canadiancrc.com/articles/Edmonton_Journal_Verdict_shocks_experts_28SEP06.htm

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When is a law not a law?

When do-gooder politicians fail to proclaim it

TORONTO SUN, By LINDA WILLIAMSON, October 1, 2006

Sometimes the good guys win, and it’s great news.

The bad news is, sometimes just winning isn’t enough.

Let’s start with the good news first. After a last-ditch effort by a grieving mother and her legion of supporters, the Ontario legislature last week passed a private member’s bill that we can all hope will help save young lives.

Bill 89, known as “Kevin and Jared’s Law” and spearheaded by Conservative MPP Cam Jackson, was passed — against all odds — after Julie Craven, mother of 8-year-old murder victim Jared Osidacz, essentially shamed our legislators into it.

http://www.canadiancrc.com/articles/Toronto_Sun_When_is_a_law_not_a_law_01OCT06.htm

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October 7, 2006 by Walter Schneider.

This morning we went to one of our friend’s funeral services, Jerry Lien, a biker, a poet (he never studied poetry, but his poetry was appreciated by many in this area), a divorced father who never lost touch with his children, a man who loved his children and whose children loved him back in return until the day he died.

Nevertheless, Jerry drank, more than was good for his health. Two weeks ago he still looked healthy, but then his liver gave out, his kidneys shut down, and within a few days he died, 68 years old. He began drinking after his divorce, after his livelihood became food for the ravenous legal industry. He was a good man and certainly deserved the love his children had for him.

Far too many divorced men go down that road, some of them come to the end a lot sooner. That is one of the things we’ve got to work on to change for the better.

Here is Jerry’s last poem:

Life’s Thin Line