September 29, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

If you do not want to read all of this entry, then nevertheless do yourself the favour of getting a good belly-laugh by watching comedian Alan King’s Survived by his wife (thanks to Allan Chinnery for that link).

Last Saturday Ruth and I went to the celebration of her aunt Jenny’s 100th birthday.  Aunt Jenny survived her husband by 33 years.  He had passed away in 1977, at age 71.

All of that anecdotal evidence would not stand up in a court of law, but the following excerpt from the website of Fathers for Life shows that the anecdotal evidence of women’s longer lives is well supported by objective data from official sources.

(It took me a while to decide to assign this article to the category “Humour”.  Still it is funny, and humour is the more funny the more it relates to the truth.  There is a lot of truth in this story, so you may as well read the rest of the truth relating to this.  Maybe you, too, will find it to be at least somewhat funny that men die so much sooner than women, yet women are considered to be victims in need of protection.  That is worth having a laugh over, isn’t it?)

Differences in the life expectancies of the sexes in various countries in the world

This page contains statistics on the life expectancies of the sexes in various countries in the world.  The statistics shown on this page are a bit dated, from the late 1990s, if I remember right, but I am getting a little tired and will not update them with more recent data.  You can perform that little exercise by yourself and will find that the gender-gap in the life-expectancies of the sexes has widened a little more since that time.

Certainly, life expectancies since then increased for both men and women, but more so for women.  So what is the problem with that? There is not much of a problem, at least not one that men complain about.  After all, who can argue with the truth?  The truth will set us free, as the saying goes, but when the truth is inconvenient, it could become a problem, such as when the shorter average life-expectancies of men in the majority of the nations in the world must be presented in such a way as to show that men’s earlier deaths are a serious inconvenience to women’s quality of life when women reach the end of their days.

That is a truth, too, that from that perspective must be presented as a serious impediment to women’s happiness, such as in Women: Victims of Men’s Shorter Life Span (off-site).  Of course, rather than to look at this from such a biased but politically-correct perspective, one could look at the gender-gap in the life-expectancies of the sexes in a more objective fashion and simply state that the gender-gap exists, and that it favours women.  As comedian Alan King showed in 1987, in Survived by his wife, the truth about the gender-gap in life-expectancies can be made to look very funny, even hilarious (what could be a better reason for making a joke than to make fun of death?).  Still, as Alan King illustrated in his presentation, telling the truth and nothing but the truth about such matters is likely to have the consequence that an elected official calls the truth-teller a male, chauvinist pig.  That is a good thing, too, as thereby any possible complaints by men about having to die so much sooner than women can be nipped in the bud.

With the exception of seven countries (Nepal, Bangladesh, Malawi, Niger, Namibia, Bhutan and Afghanistan), in all other countries listed in Table B women live longer than do men, in some countries by a considerable margin.

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Life Expectancy is not the only measure of quality of life.   The UN has since 1990 annually published a Human Development Index that ranks countries’ quality of life by a combination of indicators, such as life expectancy, availability of schooling (but not the quality of schooling), the GDP, availability of health care (but not the quality of health care) and more. The UN Human Development Index has shortcomings that have been addressed by the Fraser Institute in a more realistic alternative to the UN Human Development Index.

An additional indicator that should be used by the UN as well as by the Fraser Institute to measure the quality of life in a given nation is a measure of how happy people in a nation are with the quality of lives.  Suicide rates are a very good indicator that can be be used for that.  It surely can be no accident that the rankings of nations according to life-expectancies very closely matches that according to suicide rates.

By both of these measures, life expectancies as well as suicide rates, men’s lives are almost exclusively in all nations far worse than those of women’s.

The average of the differences in life expectancies for the sexes in the countries listed in Table B is 5.09 years (by which the life expectancy of men is less than that of the women in a given country).  Turkey is the country in which the difference in the life expectancies of the sexes is closest to the average of all countries.

Russia leads the list with the greatest difference in the life expectancies of the sexes (12.89 years less for men), followed almost exclusively by formerly communist countries — countries in which affirmative action for women made the largest advances for the longest intervals.

Afghanistan is the country that has the largest difference in favour of the average life expectancy of men over women (one year).

Almost all of the developed nations have differences in the average life expectancies that are on average slightly above the average for all countries.  See Table A for details….(See all of the web page)

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September 23, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

You are encouraged to provide your own responses to:

Fatherhood Survey

We’re gathering evidence from a range of children, professionals and the general public in order to present a child-centred case demonstrating the importance of fatherhood. The hope for the project is that we’ll be able to identify, understand and raise awareness of the barriers to father-child relationships and to produce a set of recommendations about how they might be removed.

Find out more about the survey and how we’ll use the results by visiting our Fatherhood Commission page.

Find out how to submit a more extensive contribution to our Fatherhood Commission.

Please take a few moments to tell us what you think about the issue of fatherhood. You don’t need to be a father to fill in our survey. We look forward to reading your views.

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* Are you:

Other

If ‘other’ please specify:

a son, a father and a grandfather

* Are you male or female?

Male

* How did you hear about this survey?

Other

If ‘other’ please specify:

Your attempt at posting an off-topic comment at http://blog.fathersforlife.org/2010/09/20/goal-posts-for-thompsons-have-been-moved-again/

Do you believe that fathers are important to their children’s well-being? Please explain your reasons.

Fathers are as important as are mothers.  Only by being able to bond with their fathers as well as their mothers can children fully develop their potential to become completely human.

What do you feel are the main barriers to fathers’ involvement in children’s lives and do you have any ideas on how these barriers could be removed?

One of the main barriers to constructive fatherhood is society’s all-out war against fathers and families.  That leads to the expulsion and exclusion of fathers from their children’s lives.

A good start with removing those barriers could be made by halting the vilification of men and fathers.  More progress with that could be made by putting an end to the criminalization of fatherhood through divorce- and family-courts as well as through various social agencies, foremost the education system and the media.

Further progress would be made by recognising and addressing the problem symptoms and their causes stemming from the systematic and deliberate exclusion of fathers from their children’s lives.  Check: “Experiments in Living: The Fatherless Family”, by Rebecca O’Neill; Sept. 2002, CIVITAS, http://www.civitas.org.uk/pubs/experiments.php?PHPSESSID=04a5571963443f82281d8c0bd4332322

Do you have any ideas on how to encourage fathers who are not involved in their children’s lives to become more active?

Certainly.  Stop the criminalization of fatherhood and let fathers be what only they can, let them be fathers.

If you have any other views on the issue of fatherhood that you would like to share with us, lease comment below.

Perhaps I gained the wrong impression from your website  — correct me if I am wrong — but the elephant in the room glares through all absence of you mentioning it:  no-fault divorce, in which the fault is always and without fail squarely laid on the shoulders of the husband.  In short, you don’t once mention divorce, the major and all-pervasive reason for negative outcomes in child-raising.

[Submitted]

Visit The Children’s Society Fatherhood Survey and provide your views.

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September 20, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

JoNova

Thompsons part 4: Every slope is a watercourse

When Matt and Janet first came to Western Australia they were told they could run a feedlot without regular licenses as long as they were not within 100m of a watercourse. It makes a big difference. If a farm is a category 68, it can run thousands of cattle (and many dairy farms do) without being licensed. This is the ongoing saga of how Big-Government can use complexity to play Kingmaker.

I didn’t think I’d ever find agricultural codes interesting, but by paying attention to the detail we can see just how powerful The Department of Environment (DEC) is, and how selective it can be. You would think it would be easy to measure off 100 m toward a waterway, but how do you define a waterway? You can I might expect that it would have banks, or that in a 100 year flood the water flowing in the gully might have a chance of reaching a body of water big enough to have a fish. Don’t apply for a job at DEC WA.

DEC has declared that Narrogin Beef Producers are a Category 1 property needing licenses because there are watercourses to the North of the feedlot, and to the South West. This picture below,  is a photo (slightly amended) of that paddock to the north in winter. Would you call this a watercourse?

A photo of the Northern “watercourse” of The Thompsons property. (Sign added).

This is the “watercourse” to the South West, a remnant waterway.

Thompsons South West “watercourse”

This is a dry gully visible in aerial shots in the south western edge of their property (see the map image below). There’s no running water in it, and there hasn’t been as long as the Thompsons have been there, and even in the event of a major flood, the gully leads to nowhere in particular. It doesn’t flow into anything. You can follow the tree line of these dry gullies in a google map and see that they eventually might meander into salt pans that are kilometers away….(Full Story)

Related and original story

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September 18, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

URGENT – A call to action for the WUWT community

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Anthony Watts

I need your help, they need your help. Please read this whole story and consider if you can help. WUWT readers may recall this story: Death of a Feedlot Operator

In which the anal-retentive government of West Australia has “licensed” a family farm out of operation due to some shonky science and arbitrary application of the “sniff test”. Yes that’s right, cattle farms smell, so do pig farms, as does any farm. But now it’s reason to shut one out due to baseless complaints from the local greens. And, it all started when Matt Thompson started doubting global warming and talking about it publicly.

I’ve never made a plea to the WUWT worldwide readership for help, I’m making one now to donate to these people to stave off eviction. If nothing else, do it to spite the government of Western Australia and the greens (Environmental Defender’s Office WA)  that have turned farming into a “crime”. The real crime is that government listens to these hotheads. From Jo Nova’s website:

4 days notice! The Thompsons are served notice of eviction.

Will, Abbey, Janet, Luke, Matt and Kate on their farm. April 2010

From Agmates (and many emails), news comes that The National Bank served notice today that the Thompsons have to be off their property in four days.

This is a family with four young children, who ran a profitable business; they filled in every form and ticked every box. They have broken no laws, and there are no outstanding environmental notices, but yet, they came to Western Australia with their life savings and they are losing everything. (Note: Matt and Janet are from the USA, Hugo, Oklahoma – Anthony)
Continue reading →

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September 17, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

A few days ago I sent out a list of links to recent posts at Dads & Things.

On 15/09/2010 11:15 AM, Samuel M. Polhamus wrote back and stated:

Dear Walter,

Thank you for sending these articles out. I still am, and always will be, forever indebted to the contributions you’ve made for fathers and the rights of them and their children. Yes, as a political force to be reasoned with, we’re still fragmented and ineffectual. Yes, I agree, what our government does with our children once they are able to get their hands on them through the family courts is as leading an indicator that our freedoms are being stripped and socialism is on the march as any indicator available.

We fathers are typically left destitute and demoralized after our experiences. Demoralized poor people make for a poor fighting force.

Our children were fortunate; after the family courts stripped us of all our wealth (minimum of $250,000.00) and left our kids to live with the one parent who treated them as income producers, our children’s pleas to their mother to live with me were finally answered. As my fight was about the commitment to keep our children in their passion - successfully competing with their horses in the rodeo arena - my spare time is devoted to constant rodeo practices and competitions - and two part-time jobs to finance this endeavor. Our kids are now overwhelmingly happy and there have been huge and positive adjustments in their academic and social skills.

I will never forget how government intrusion nearly totally ruined our lives. Not to the point that I throw away the reason I fought the fight - keeping our kids interest first. However, our youngest is thirteen and once they’re on their own I look forward to rejoining the father’s rights movement at a fanatical level.

I have a close friend who, I strongly believe, is going to be elected our new state senator in November. We’ve got some plans to help his campaign in the next month and I strongly believe we’re going to have a very strong father’s advocate in our state government. Presumptive Equal Placement, I like to believe, is close to becoming law in Wisconsin. With this law, I am convinced, most of the problems associated with divorce will go away.

Again, it was awesome to see you still on the look out for us and helping us educate ourselves.

God bless you and Ruth.

Samuel M. Polhamus

Sam, many thanks for that.  –Walter and Ruth

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September 16, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

On 16/09/2010 12:33 AM, [Name omitted] wrote:

Sent from my iPhone

Begin forwarded message:

Hi

I’m a father of two girls … My common law wife took off with the girls 18 mths ago. My life has been he’ll.

I was the stay at home dad … Took care of kids and also worked and gave all money to wife for investments and expenses.

When she left she put a retraining order against me even though I had done nothing …. She simply told me she wishes to move away and is determined not to have me involved in my girls lifes.

I have went bankrupt and the judge states I can see my girls 6 hrs per week.  I’m currently on social assistance yet the judge does not feel I should get spousal support even though my ex earned over 120k last year. Judge Curtis is known as a pro feminist and my lawyer says there is nothing left to do. My girls want an ocl involved as they wish to live with me but the judge says no.

What r my options?

Who can help?

This will probably be too long to be displayed on your cell phone, but the next couple of paragraphs should show.

Fathers for Life has a few articles on how to select a lawyer.  Check those out and pick a lawyer accordingly.

To explore your option in Ontario, you need to get in touch with Ontario fathers-rights organizations.

Don’t just pick one.  Check out several, specifically those that have frequent meetings of their members.  You will learn more from them than you can from a lawyer, as they will have reached various points of progress (or lack of it) in their battles.  A directory is here.

Get your case out of family court and into a Court of Queens Bench.  Family courts are not there to solve family problems but to speed the easy dissolution of families. (Read more on family courts.)  Here is a summary of what family courts are all about:

[When no-fault divorce became a reality, it] became soon apparent that the courts could not cope with the flood of divorce applications that caused ever-increasing waiting periods before divorce decrees could be issued.  To expedite the dissolution of marriages, family-court systems were implemented throughout the developed nations.  Nothing much would have been accomplished by merely shifting venues and leaving the rules of the court intact.  Therefore the family-court systems were made to operate without jury trials, without the traditional rules of the court, without rules of evidence, and without the mandatory and constitutionally-guaranteed right of respondents (usually fathers, in family courts) to have legal representation [or even to face their accuser].  Many procedures that had been put into place over the centuries to ensure that anyone could be assured a fair trial thus vanished in the family courts.

That, too, was nothing new.  All totalitarian regimes that were obsessed with the eradication of enemies of the state did the same when they created their people’s courts.  We can’t be certain that the example of the people’s courts in totalitarian states was used as a model for the more recent creation of the branch of the judiciary in which the rules of law could be held in abeyance and circumvented.  One thing is certain; all of that worked fine and produced fine results.

The enormous and overwhelming backlog of divorce applications got soon cleared, and the process of the dissolution of marriages has been operating with great speed and efficiency ever since.  In some countries (e.g.: the U.K.) the process operates behind closed doors, ostensibly to protect the interests of the children, although it should be quite obvious to anyone reading this who is being protected….(Source: Freedom, Equality, and Society’s Treatment of Men and Families)

All the best,

Walter
Fathers for Life
Dads & Things

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September 15, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

Today I came across a story about an Australian judge having awarded child-visitation rights to two gay men who took turns donating sperm to two lesbians.

The story appeared on the German-language blog http://www.in-australien.com, apparently a gay-rights-oriented blog, at http://www.in-australien.com/baby-mit-4-homosexuellen-eltern-das-gericht-fallt-ein-urteil_103692

The story is dated Sept. 15, 2010 and mentions that the court decision involves a lesbian couple in Melbourne, with no identification of where the two gay men hail from.  The judge in the case is ostensibly Linda Dessau, but I have no clue as to which court she resides at.

Although I spent a considerable amount of time searching for English-language verification of the story, I have not been able to find any such thing.  Do any of you know anything about this?

Here is a translation of the German-language article into English (it is an edited version of one produced by Babel Fish, but I did not spend very much time in correcting grammar, wording and syntax):

Baby with 4 homosexual parents: The court delivers a decision

In Australia, a lesbian and a gay pair were transformed into four homosexual parents of a cute baby. The Australian court responsible was able to deliver a verdict in this case that awards  rights to all parents  enabling them to be allowed to care for the baby. Originally, the two lesbian life-partners  simply wanted to have a child of their own. A gay couple made itself available as sperm donors, with both men alternating  with their sperm donations. The project was successful, and thereby, approximately two years ago, a small boy came into the world. That evoked such great parental emotions in all four parents who had been involved that now none of them can do without the little tyke and, accordingly, wished to spend as much time as possible with the newly-born.

For that reason, with the passing of time ever more disputes developed  between the two pairs of parents, so that now a court had to decide in the situation. The four tried to find common grounds on parental responsibility and visitation arrangements, in order to do justice to themselves and to the small baby. However, they could find no agreement that would satisfy all parties. Justice Linda Dessau was therefore to decide what was to be the best for the now already 2-year-old child. Because all four persons love the small one dearly and deal responsibly with him, she decided that all participants should be awarded the right  to be allowed to spend time with the boy. The child is to have the possibility in each case of becoming acquainted with all four parents in order to experience their parental love.

The court hands down a clear verdict

 The baby was born in Melbourne and lives until today together with his two mothers here. The two men  had moved to Melbourne already before the birth of the child, in order to have regularly contact with it. After two years all parents had developed such strong feelings that everyone wanted to spend equal time with the infant. Since the baby had  so far lived with the two women and these thus more were involved in its life, the mothers pleaded that the small boy was to live further with them. The judge said, however, that the two men are not just simply sperm donors, but that both feel true feelings for the boy.  On the basis of those facts the judge decided that the boy may live further with the women, although the two men should receive regular visitation rights, to see their offspring grow up and to be able to provide him with their paternal support.

Well, I am not an expert in matters of such a confoundedly confusing parental situation in which a judge declares the physically-impossible, that there can be two mothers and two fathers of one child.  All I have to go by is my many years of experience with raising sheep.  Furthermore, tit-for-tat, I would like to, just as homosexual-rights-activists are fond of doing, project from the parental practices in the animal world to  those that come into play in civilization.

Even King Solomon found parental disputes by mothers in such issues extremely confusing but devised a practical solution that enabled him to rule which of two competing “mothers” was the natural one who truly deserved to be the one mother whom the boy in that case was to be assigned to, so as to preserve the standards that made society work well.  Judge Linda Dessau appears to have assumed powers of judgment that vastly exceed the wisdom possessed by King Solomon.  Nevertheless, my experience in such matters with the sheep that we raised over the years will almost certainly lead to the situation in this case where reality will bite all the participants in the butt.

The hormone oxytocin exerts a powerful influence in such cases, powerful enough to evoke parental influences and feelings for all ostensible parents involved.  However, within a relatively short time the confoundedly confusing parent-child relationships always and without fail lead to disastrous outcomes that are often even fatal (most definitely in the case of sheep and especially in regard to “child abuse” by sheep as a result of maternal confusion).

The experimentation with human standards in such matters must come to an end.  Homosexuality is an evolutionary dead-end, most definitely in the animal world in the wild and in husbandry.

Aside from that, I wonder why I can’t find any references to this particular case of  the confusion of homosexual-rights with normalcy in civil society.  Should one not think that this case should have made the news where it took place?

Can anyone help out with some more information on this case?  Is the whole story perhaps just the creation of a new urban myth in the making?

–Walter

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September 13, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

Toronto Sun

Bad cop gets slap on wrist
Michele Mandel| QMI / Sun Media | Thursday, September 9, 2010

NEWMARKET - The York Region cop he blames for framing him and ruining his life stood before the police board and received a slap on the wrist.

For carrying on an affair with Sherry Major while investigating her claims of sexual assault against her estranged husband, Staff-Sgt. Terry Jordan was handed an 18-month demotion to sergeant Wednesday.

“This is a very unfortunate situation that has had an impact on all of us as police officers,” said York Regional Police chief Armand La Barge following the disciplinary ruling by Supt. Karen Noakes. “Obviously it’s very upsetting and disappointing.”

La Barge called it a fair decision. But for the man Jordan threw in jail, it was hardly punishment enough.

“He went out of his way to nail me and for nine years of crap, this is what he gets? I’m disgusted,” said Dan Major. “Meanwhile, I’ve lost my kids. I lost my ability to work…”  (Full Story)

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September 13, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

Yahoo! News | The West Australian
10 September 2010

Swiss pioneer shelter for newly separated husbands
By Barbara Prevel, Reuters

Geneva (Reuters) - A trickle of newly separated Swiss fathers looking for
shelter and help after marital breakdown have been finding a warm bed and a
sympathetic ear from a pilot project on the shores of Lake Zurich.

Protestant pastor Andreas Cabalzar has founded Switzerland’s first shelter
for newly separated fathers in the Swiss village of Erlenbach, not far from
Geneva….(Full Story)

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Battered men’s shelters

Although domestic violence is in the vast majority of cases mutual violence and slightly more often initiated by women that by men, there are., with extremely rare exceptions, no shelters in which battered men can find refuge with their children.

Over the years and decades during which battered women’s shelters became all-pervasive and virtually inexhaustible sources of revenues through found-raising  for feminist issues and programs in the developed nations, any attempts to establish battered men’s shelters faltered due to lack of funding and in some cases through obstruction by feminist-dominated and -controlled government bureaucracies.

Virtually all of the few battered men’s shelter that opened their doors and began to serve men in need on account of marital strife struggled for survival and in short order closed their doors again due to shortages of funding and other necessary resources.

You may wish to explore this issue in some more depth at the website of Fathers for Life.   Here is a list of pertinent articles and reports.

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September 12, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

Men’s News Daily

Friday, September 10, 2010
By J. Steven Svoboda

Why has Michael Gurian, author of over twenty books mostly relating to children and/or gender, devoted a book to boys and purpose?

In answer to that natural question, the author lists “some of the core issues of male purposelessness”, including schools not trained in caring for and motivating boys; media “attack[ing] males as defective and dangerous (and, quite often, just plain stupid) without also providing a variety of strong role models”; families lacking male role models or not understanding their critical importance; and “workplaces helping young women secure employment, but assuming young men will do just fine at landing a job, even though millions are not finding useful work.”…(Full Story)

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