Up until March 27th 2011, I shared a wonderful strong and happy bond with my then 7 year old boy, since the day he was born.
I was never married to his mother, I am 9 years younger than her and our relationship ended prior to her pregnancy.
Without mo...
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A researcher at the University of Canberra is collecting information from Australian males about males’ experiences seeking and/or receiving counselling for sexual abuse by a biological mother.
This research has been given approval by the Univers...
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The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is investigating how institutions like schools, churches, sports clubs and government organisations have responded to allegations and instances of child sexual abuse.
In its first...
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A screengrab from a documentary called This is What Winning Looks Like, produced by Ben Anderson. The film looks at the practice of bacha bazi, or "boy play", in Afghanistan.
U.S. Marine Maj. Bill Steuber, like most people in...
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Battling stereotypes … preschool worker Craig d'Arcy has set up the Males in Early Childhood Network Group. Photo: Greg Mace
As a young man eager to get into a boom industry with a robust future, Craig d'Arcy spent several years as the only male stu...
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The trauma of child sexual abuse can manifest in many areas of victim/survivors' lives, including their attitudes towards parenting and their relationships with their children. This paper outlines the key findings of the limited research that has inve...
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Police have laid seven charges against a female former teacher at a northern beaches high school, who is accused of grooming a teenage male student for sex.
The woman was arrested at a unit block in Dee Why at 9.15am and taken to Dee Why police station...
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This case has stirred the Australian press for almost a month now. I posted this piece about it some two weeks ago. It’s the case of the Australian woman who moved to Italy to study the language, met an Italian man, married him and ha...
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Unseen Injustice In today’s world of political correctness and empowerment of women, the rights and freedoms of men have been downgraded to the point that they are now considered a second class citizen in the eyes of the US civil court system. The unforeseen consequence that resulted is the breakup of the American family,...
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Texas paternity law was recently changed regarding the need to correct paternity mistakes with DNA testing. March 15, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ — What if a man has been named the father of a child, but has to pay child support because he missed court or was misled into signing a paternity statement without a DNA...
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Virtually every major social pathology has been linked to fatherlessness: violent crime, drug and alcohol abuse, truancy, teen pregnancy, suicide – all correlate more strongly to fatherlessness than to any other single factor. The majority of pri...
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Last week the Federal House of Representatives debated the Family Law Legislation Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Bill 2011. During the debate, the Minister for the Status of Women, Kate Ellis, made a series of false statements to the P...
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Federal Member for Dawson, George Christensen, attacks the Gillard Labor government's changes to the Family Law Act which will water down provisions giving non-custodial parents (mostly fathers) equal access to their children. Transcript from Hans...
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Family violence has, in recent years, been subjected to a very short sighted restricted analysis that is based on stereotypes of victims and abusers. Typically, the "victim" is depicted as a timid, oppressed female and the abuser is portrayed as a brut...
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