http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:23:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's a video of a speech by Carol Rhodes.  For over 20 years, she was a Friend of the Court in Michigan's 37th Circuit.  That meant that she was part of the court bureaucracy that administered custody, child support and visitation issues.  She's written a book entitled "Friend of the Court, ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/21/carol-rhodes-blows-the-whistle-on-michigans-family-courts/ Jill Berry, head of the Girls School Association of the U.K. caused some excitement last week when she told secondary school girls to be realistic.  Read about it here (Guardian, 11/13/09).  She told girls in private schools that, as they mature, they will face "an unprecedented amount of pressure to ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/21/uk-girls-school-association-head-tells-girls-to-be-realistic/ This is an extract from a letter written by Tony, an adult struggling to come to terms with the abuse he suffered at the hands of his aunt from the age of three.'I know that the experts say that female sexual abuse is rare,' he writes. 'Don't believe it. There ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/21/increased-reports-of-child-sexual-abuse-by-women-may-lead-to-greater-understanding-better-responses/ As it is in the West, so it is in India only worse. This article reports on Indian men's protests on International Men's Day (DNA India, 11/20/09).  In Mumbai, men and women (often second wives) took to the streets holding signs and shouting slogans like these: "Indian male - hapless animal"; "women empowered ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/20/we-are-the-world/ There aren't many invariable rules in life, but I'm pretty sure this is one: if you hear someone say "his lack of presence" when he means "his absence," you're dealing with a bureaucratic mentality, possibly in its terminal stages.  Look out for trouble. Not long ago, according to this article, in ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/20/red-alert-dad-on-campus-release-the-hounds/ A while back, I posted a piece about two separate Canadian surveys that show overwhelming support for equally-shared parenting laws.  Each showed support of around 78%.  At the time (and maybe still), there was a bill before Parliament to establish the presumption of equally shared parenting in divorce and custody ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/20/mass-rep-alice-peisch-knows-better-than-her-district-on-equally-shared-parenting/ When parents are at loggerheads, there should be much more done to sustain the interests of the father and child. When a mother turns her child against the father, when a mother refuses to comply with a court order on contact, nothing is done because it is felt sanctions against ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/19/report-20-of-divorced-parents-want-to-make-other-parents-contact-with-child-as-unpleasant-as-possible/ It's been many years since feminists like Katha Pollitt at The Nation waxed apoplectic about a Washington, D.C. mother who lost custody of a child to her ex-husband.  The woman was a hardworking senior aide to, if memory serves me, a Congressional representative.  As the job requires, she pulled long ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/19/lisa-belkin-grapples-unsuccessfully-with-concept-of-gender-equality-in-custody/ In the United Kingdom, a recent poll has revealed some facts about the children of divorce and the divorce process itself that are at once disturbing and completely expected.  This article reports on the the survey conducted as part of the 20th anniversary of the Children's Act of 1989 (Telegraph, ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/19/poll-uk-family-court-system-failing-separating-fathers-from-children/ I can't agree with the headline of this piece, but then, I'm not sure the writer does either (The Guardian, 10/26/09).  And beyond the headline, it's a pretty good piece. "Men Should Be Encouraged to Be Full-Time Fathers" is not an idea I can support.  For decades now, feminists have rightly ... http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/18/guardian-writer-starting-to-get-it-about-fathers/