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2010 — The ten most popular pages at F4L

  1. Children of Divorce & Separation — Statistics (50,042 views)
  2. Suicide rates in countries throughout the world (41,635 views)
  3. Anorexia Nervosa: Changing Ideal of Beauty or insane Obsession? — Main Page (34,857 views)
  4. Population pyramids for selected countries in the regions of the world (22,398 views)
  5. Fathers for Life — Home Page (20,396 views)
  6. Suicide in Canada (17,138 views)
  7. Anorexia Nervosa — Beauty or liberation? Horror for some! (13,594 views)
  8. The reunion of Joni Mitchell and her daughter Kilauren Gibb (10,682 views)
  9. Feminism? You want feminism? Which brand would you like? (10,474 views)
  10. Family Violence — Main Page (8,861 views)

She-wolves in sheeps’ clothing

By Elizabeth Willmott Harrop - posted Thursday, 2 September 2010

Article here. Excerpt:

‘Female child abusers are the 21st century equivalent of lesbians in the Victorian age: not legislated against because they do not exist. The nature of woman being incapable of “deviancy”, as the bigoted Victorians said. Hence in New Zealand, the Accident Compensation Corporation was unable to accept claims from boys sexually abused by women, until the law changed in 2005. Prior to that the perpetrator of “sexual indecency” had to be male.

However, statistics indicate that female child abusers not only exist, but in numbers approaching those of males. In New Zealand, 48 per cent of child abusers for 2006, where the perpetrator gender was known, were women. In the USA in 2002 63 per cent of all child abuse, from neglect to sexual abuse, was perpetrated by the mother. In 40 per cent of cases the mother acted alone.

The UK’s Lucy Faithfull Foundation estimates women are responsible for 10 per cent of all child sexual abuse and that 5-20 per cent of pedophiles are women. Meanwhile in New Zealand, 40 per cent of the 1,200 men helped by the Christchurch-based Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse Trust (MSSAT) in 2010, were sexually abused by women when they were boys.’… (Full Story)

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Daughter, wife of AZ official accused in sex case

Thanks to mensactivism.org/

Story here. Excerpt:

‘PHOENIX – The daughter of a county supervisor has been arrested on suspicion of sexual misconduct with the same teenage boy that her mother is accused of sexually abusing over a three-year period, police said Thursday.

Rachel Katherine Brock, 21, was arrested Wednesday on three counts of sexual conduct with a minor and one count of transmitting obscene material as part of an ongoing investigation surrounding her mother, 48-year-old Susan Brock.

In Rachel Brock’s initial court appearance, acting attorney John Rock argued that the judge should free her on bond because there appeared to be no physical evidence to support any of the charges. Rock also said the teen would have been asked if he had been a victim of any other sexual abuse when Susan Brock was arrested in October.

A third woman, Christian Hart Weems, 37, was arrested in the case Tuesday on suspicion of obstructing a criminal investigation and conspiracy to commit computer tampering. She’s accused of deleting potentially incriminating e-mails between the boy and Susan Brock. Police say Weems is a friend of Susan Brock.’

(Full Story)

Daughter charged in Edmonton woman’s death

CBC News

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 | 4:42 PM MT

Edmonton homicide detectives have arrested 27-year-old Kirsten Lamb and charged her with first-degree murder in the death of her mother, Sandra Lamb, 49.

(Read more)

Funeral held for boys allegedly killed by dad

CBC News

Father charged with 2 counts of 1st-degree murder
Tuesday, December 28, 2010 | 4:54 PM MT

….A funeral service was held on the Kehewin Cree Nation for the boys, who were three and six when they died nine days ago.….

The boys’ father, Jason Bruce Cardinal, 31, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder. The boys were found dead in a north Edmonton townhouse early Dec. 20….

The boys were living with their mother, but Alberta’s Ministry of Children and Youth Services was involved with the family.

The children were in the care of Alberta’s Ministry of Children and Youth Services, but were not permanent wards…..

(Read more)

Mom Who Stabbed Her Kids Sentenced To Prison

Thanks to Stephen Hicks:

The Palm Beach Post

December - 28 - 2010

Riviera Beach mom who stabbed, sliced her kids sentenced to 27 1/2 years

By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL 

— A woman convicted of stabbing her infant son and slicing open the arm of her daughter was sentenced by a judge this afternoon to 27 1/2 years in prison.

During her trial earlier this month, lawyers for 30-year-old Wendy Harden argued she was not guilty by reason of insanity on the charge of attempted first-degree murder of the infant, and jurors found her not guilty….(Full Story)

She does the crime, he does the time

…at least that is the intention of Oakland County Assistant Prosecutor Sydney Turner.

Sidney Morning Herald
December 28, 2010 - 8:58AM

Husband charged after discovering wife’s affair by reading her emails on shared computer

A US man who says he learned of his wife’s affair by reading her e-mail on their computer faces trial on felony computer misuse charges….(Full Story)

PC Feminism

It appears that the concept of PC Feminism evolved out of, or is an umbrella term that describes, a combination of various factions of feminism, such as Affirmative-Action Feminism, Gender-Feminism, Hegemonic Feminism, Pop-Feminism, Post-Modernist Feminism, Radical-Feminism, Survivor-Feminism, Total Rej (total rejection) Feminism, and Victim Feminism, in short, any and all forms of feminism that elevate women to the status of a superior class of citizens and relegate men and boys to the category “sub-human”.

Therefore, PC Feminism not only promotes superior status, rights and privileges for women but makes all-out discrimination against men and boys politically correct and desirable.

Feminisn is Female Supremacism

(Full Story)

…good will toward men?

From the website of the Family of Men Support Society:

“NO MEN ALLOWED”
Misandry at the government level (City of Calgary , Province of Alberta , Government of Canada ) and at community level agencies.

No Men Allowed to participate at any meetings, therefore male victims of female-perpetrated domestic violence are denied a voice.

The system is autocratic, exclusive & misandrist.

The system is not democratic, inclusive or open minded.

The divorce from hell?

It reads more like one hell of a divorce.

…Catherine once tried to run over Larry with a van. “This is always a telltale sign that a husband and wife are drifting apart,” Judge Quinn remarked dryly.

No kidding…, but there is much more in the article.

Toronto Globe and Mail

December 16, 2010

In family court, a judge turns to ridicule to defuse the rage

By KIRK MAKIN

A feuding couple and their ‘high-octane hatred’ prompt a highly unusual judicial roasting

(Full Story)

In a novel twist, Judge Quinn granted the wife, Catherine, sole custody of the feuding couple’s 13-year-old daughter. However, he ordered Larry to pay Catherine just a dollar a month in spousal support.

That appears to have been a good decision, as the daughter seems to have become alienated beyond repair against her dad.  However, although the article identifies a-dollar-a-month in spousal support for the ex-wife, nothing is mentioned about how much child support the father will have to pay for kids he no longer will be able to see.

Besides, will all of the actors in the drama have seen the last of the case?  Surely there is nothing preventing someone from launching an appeal. You want to take bets on who will launch one of those?

At any rate, you will want to watch this video:

Parental Alienation ~ Emotional Kidnapping

Listen well to what Alec Baldwin says as he is being interviewed in the third video in the series. It shows how hard it is even for men who were put through the parental-alienation grinder to get away from preconception and perhaps even all-out indoctrination about men’s paternal rights.

At minute 2:22, Alec Baldwin states that men have to earn 50:50 custody. Why would that not be true of women?

At minute 3:12 Alec Baldwin mentions that he has no respect for men who abuse women and fight for custody to gain power, out of spite and for no other reason than to hurt women. Well, why does that not cut both ways?

The point that one needs to pay attention to is that if not even the target in a case of parental alienation feels that equal rights come into the picture when awarding equally or equitably shared parenting, then why would he expect the judges to have more objectivity than such a victimized father does?