The American Journal of Public Health (5/03) has declared that men are in a “silent health crisis.” Almost every chronic illness affects men more often than women. Men account for 80-95% of homeless adults, job deaths and suicide deaths, are more likely than women to have mental disabilities but less likely to be treated...
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NO LESS than 35% of domestic violence victims are male victims. So why do virtually all government, corporate, nonprofit, and private donation money for domestic violence money go to women? Male victims of domestic violence have been seriously neglected in public policy, outreach and services. But they are not rare at all. They’re just...
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Almost every month we read of another man freed from prison because the false accusations that caused their incarceration were later proven false or a woman recanted. Even if there is no conviction, a false allegation of rape emotionally, socially, and economically destroys a person and their immediate and often extended families. False accusations of...
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In October, the Twin Cities Chapter of NCFM had a booth at the annual conference of Education Minnesota, the state teachers association. This conference is always one of our busiest events. For the fifth straight year, we distributed literature about the school system’s bias against boys, and articles with suggestions on how the school...
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On November 10, 2008, UCLA School of Law invited NCFM attorney Marc Angelucci to be a guest speaker for the fourth year in a row to students in a Human Rights and Sexual Politics seminar. As always, he discussed the history and basic philosophy of NCFM and the men’s movement in general, briefly covering issues of such as fathers’ rights, male victims...
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On November 10, 2008, five NCFM members and several male victims of domestic violence attended and spoke out at the Los Angeles City Domestic Violence Council’s monthly meeting about male victims of domestic violence and NCFM’s recent appellate victory in Woods v. Shewry. There were a few heated exchanges but for the most part things went smoothly. ...
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On 10/14/08, NCFM won a landmark victory for battered men in the appellate case of Woods v. Shewry, originally filed by NCFM back in 2005. The California Court of Appeal (4th District) ruled that it is unconstitutional to exclude male victims of domestic violence from state-funded programs because it violates men’s constitutional right to equal protection. ...
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The Twin Cities Chapter of NCFM had a booth at the 2008 Dakota County Fair, held August 4 – 10 at Farmington, Minnesota. Many fairgoers visited our booth to talk and to take literature about a wide range of men’s and boys’ issues. This was the fourth straight year that we have had a...
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On July 22, 2008, NCFM attorney Marc Angelucci argued the case of David Woods v. State of California before the Third District Court of Appeal in California. The 3-judge panel (pictured below) appeared very much in agreement that excluding male victims of domestic violence from state-funded domestic violence provisions (CA Health & Safety Code Section 124250), and that...
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On June 26, 2008, NCFM’s President, Harry Crouch, testified before the California Commission on the Status of Women on behalf of NCFM. See http://www.californiamenscenters.org/wordpress/?cat=12 National Coalition for Men www.ncfm.org
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