Do people set other people up just for spite? Create situations to entrap others just because it’s doable? Maybe even manipulate events to cause an arrest for a restraining order violation? Are they really that smart; or really that stupid? For those of you following the ex-husband Francis “Coyote” Shivers/Pauley Perrette ex-wife wrongful conviction,...
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Social service types might still tell you that no one is to blame for a suicide, except the person who chooses to take their own life. Everyone is responsible for their own actions, they say. Of course, the latter has changed dramatically in the last 20 years or so. Now only men are responsible,...
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The April 15, 2013 New York Times op-ed A Wrenching Adoption Case reveals more about the gender leanings of the newspaper than it does the facts of the case, which the editors either ignored; or, buried. In brief, this case, Adoptive Parents v. Baby Girl, has to do with purported violations of the Indian...
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NCFM Montana State University Chapter Some things leave me speechless…almost. Once in a great while I am privileged to participate in something of major importance. I am proud to announce that the National Coalition For Men has established its first chapter on a university campus. To my knowledge we are the first full-fledged Men’s...
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USNEWS HEALTH reported that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that all women of childbearing age should be screened for signs of domestic violence and referred for treatment if necessary. Apparently, according to the author, Serena Gordon, the new recommendations, published in the January issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, apply to...
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This article was first published August 2008. It was last updated in November 2011. It could use some refreshing, but it is still enlightening considering that the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization is stalled in Congress. Doing that took considerable, deliberate, and concerted effort by many people and several organizations. NCFM played a larger...
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First, I am fairly happy Dad. I’ve never been beaten and battered by the Family Law System like the hundreds if not thousands of disenfranchised fathers with whom I’ve had contact or directly worked, but I know it happens. I’ve been in court and witnessed such pummeling’s more times than I can possibly recall....
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The overbooked Airbus 319 Redeye flight from San Diego lifted off at 11:00 p.m. as scheduled with me wondering if he was still fixated on jumping off the Coronado Bridge. I could see it as we turned to establish our flight path to Washington D.C., all 200 vertical feet of it. The weekend before,...
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This article came about for two reasons. First, a much shorter version is an early contribution to a soon to be launched blog. Second, the expanded version, this one, was triggered by SAVE Services teleconference training about how to effectively work with domestic violence councils, the outline of which I’ve included at the end...
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The small town of Campo sits 2,586 feet above sea level in the mountains 60 miles from downtown San Diego. Situated several miles off Interstate 8 access is by two lane narrow windy roads, ranch land, and stands of ancient oaks. The area is home to the Milquatay (Meel-ka tah-ee’) Indians, descendants of Texan...
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“I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.” — Robin Morgan – former president of the National Ourganization for Women (NOW) and editor of MS magazine Last week we became aware of the Verizon Foundation’s and...
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NOTE: It appears that as of 1/16/2012 or a few days earlier, the offense video mentioned in this article was taken down, which is a good thing. Sixteen years or so ago I attended a workshop at the Santa Barbara home of gender research pioneers and therapists Aaron Kipnis and Elizabeth Herron. Their million...
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“Males need help, too America has had a Violence Against Women Act since 1994. Most Americans also are vaguely aware that men are raped in prison, men are raped in the military, and that boys and men are raped by religious leaders as well as in K-12 and at the university level by both...
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Crime victims should not have to pay their abusers! For two days now I’ve listened to morning talk jock Chip Franklin’s incessant rant and “outrage” over the Chrystal Harris spousal rape case. Her husband was unemployed, losing it mentally, it was a horrible time, I didn’t know what to do, she said. He threatened...
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A number of emails recently arrived, sometimes one right after another, about an upcoming webinar by Jewish Women International, titled When Battered Women Kill: What influences decisions to prosecute and verdicts? One cautionary email said, “Does it get any worse than this…” Let’s help battered women go free when they murder their abusers… but...
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A few years ago we picketed these events because they excluded recognition of male victims of domestic violence. We would often be booed, called women haters, and given baffled looks, if not looks of disgust and hate. But in those days we were the ones primarily concerned about ending domestic violence for everyone, not...
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Newspaper musings peeing standing up, selling babies, Johnny Depp, LGBT Studies, DNA, butchering and cooking husband, false rape accusation, and gazillion dollar divorce. I had a couple of stacks of aging newspapers collecting dust and cramping my work space. I figured this morning I’d go through them and see why they were on one...
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On August 31st the Courthouse News Service announced that a California appeals court affirmed the lower court ruling that “Two and a Half Men” star Jon Cryer must keep paying ex-wife actress Sarah Trigger Cryer $8,000 a month in child support, even though the child is in Jon’s custody, Sarah also had a child...
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By Harry Crouch “Hey, get a grip, Buddy! It’s not my fault you missed your court date and defaulted into paternity. No, it does not matter that you have never seen the woman or know who she is. When you missed your court-date, you became the woman’s father of choice. Yes, one of the...
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“civil rights n. those rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, the 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution, including the right to due process, equal treatment under the law of all people regarding enjoyment of life, liberty, property, and protection…” All Americans have “civil rights”, not just women. Yet the U.S. Department of...
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Transitions first published in 1981, Transitions is the oldest and longest running Men's Rights journal in existence. You can see examples by clicking on the link above. "Active Members" of NCFM can read over 120 historic back issues. For more about our journal of men's perspectives see TRANSITIONS AND NCFM: OUR HISTORY (STILL) IN THE MAKING , December 2011 by Francis Baumli.
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