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Ill19 p6 Censored No research or reporting is allowed on the plight
of ousted fathers. It is likely that, like me, they cease to be economically
active, at least on the white economy. One source says that 50% of divorced
men cease to be economically active. Another says that 50% of men over the
age of 50 are not economically active. Research and reporting into the
economic effect of the current attack on fathers is urgently needed, but will
not be financed by a radfem-controlled Home Office or Rowntree organisation,
or reported if carried out. - Ed The following data is taken from Dept of Work and
Pensions for no. of non-resident fathers for May 2001. The data for men of
all ages on state benefits is taken from the March 2001 Claimant Count on the
National Statistics website. In March 2001, a total of 893, 000 men of all ages
were on state benefits in the UK. Given that there were in May 2001 (close
enough date) 408, 400 non-resident fathers on state benefit, this means that
408, 000/893, 000 men of all ages on state benefits in mid-2001 are
non-resident parents. This makes 45.73% of men on state benefits, nearly
half, non-resident parents. Prison discrimination Jim Dowsett NK0178 HMP Kingston Milton Road Portsmouth
PO3 6AS Dear
Mr. Catt, I
am a serving prisoner .... Discrimination arises on many fronts. Female
prisoners cannot be searched (rubdown, or up) by male prison officers.
However, male prisoners are forced to suffer the indignity of being searched
by female prison officers. Female prisoners have been granted a statutory
right to wear their own clothes. Male prisoners have to rely on the good
grace of their prison Governor to grant what is deemed to be the privilege of
wearing their own clothes. The female prisoner is given a yearly cash grant,
amounting to many hundreds of pounds, to .... purchase clothes .... they are
also issued items such as personal hair dryers .... Jim Dowsett Bandit country UK .... - Judith O'Reilly and Tom Robbins, Sunday Times, 10mar02, p12 .... Sir John Stevens, Britain's most senior police
officer, .... says he has been "inundated" with support for his
views [on the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)]. And at the same time the
whole justice system, from police to prosecution to prison, is in chaos after
years of criminal negligence. .... Insiders complains that the CPS fails
consistently to respond to correspondence from defence solicitors, fails to
disclose evidence and loses documents. .... Another solicitor, who worked as a police officer
for more than 20 years, described the CPS as "a complete shambles".
Prosecution lawyers, he claimed, were let down by administrative staff whose
English language skills were so poor that they had difficulty in
understanding what was said to them. "You are talking to people who can hardly
speak English and certainly can't understand legal procedures," he dais
.... At times the errors descend into farce. In one
recent committal proceeding, an administrative slip meant that several
alleged offences were simply omitted from legal documents in a case involving
an assault against a police officer. .... In January in London, muggings were up by 40% in a
year. Similar leaps are evident in other cities. The Number of offences
solved by the police has fallen to record lows, with as few as 6% of thefts
from cars being "detected". Even obvious crimes go unchallenged.
.... Those officers who do fight crime get sidetracked
into vast amounts of paperwork. A govt study found that on average officers
spend just 17% of their time on patrol. More than two-fifths of their time
was spent inside police stations and 40% of this time was taken up with
paperwork. "As a sergeant it dawned on me that I was operating like a
clerk, like someone sitting behind the counter at a post office, filling in
forms and documents that were more to do with compiling statistics for the
Home office than enforcing the law," said Glen Smythe, chairman of the
Metropolitan Police Federation. [He is too politically correct to add that the
resulting statistics are massaged to make them PC. When we go after key
statistics, like what proportion of muggings are by youths from fatherless
homes, there is silence. If a statistic threatens to become non-PC, the
procedure for recording and tabulating is altered so as to camouflage the
profile of the mugger - which is the Afro-Caribbean youth coming from a
fatherless home (Ill Eagle 18, p5, Elder.) All those involved are
also careful not to separate out married couples from cohabiting couples, and
thus show the massive difference in criminality etc. The Stinko gang go so
far as to call cohabiting couples married! - Ed] 'Staggers' fights off the wobbles - Richard Brooks, Sunday Times, 10mar02, p14 ".... The magazine will have a re-design but
will keep its name. Christine Odone, the deputy editor, said: "I thought
we needed to get away from the word 'Statesman' with its early 20th century
connotations [to] a name which has more resonance with men and women. ....
" [Elsewhere, Christine writes about her worries that
career women like herself will not be able to marry, so she is not mainstream
radfem. Another indicator of her wobbles is that she does not switch the
journal name straight to "New Stateswoman", the obvious new name in
this age of equality. Perhaps the required underpinnings for a matriarchy are
not yet obvious to us all. - Ed] Club girl is ear biter - The
Welsh Mirror, 8mar02 A clubber bit another girl's earlobe during a fight
in a toilet, a court heard yesterday. Kathryn Cripps, 19, bit the earlobe of
Gemma Turner, 17, in a row leaving a permanent mark. The incident happened at the Auberge night spot in
Abertillery, south Wales. Cripps, of Abertillery, admitted wounding and was
sentenced to an 80-hour community punishment order at Cardiff Crown Court. Ear biter is caged - David Mather, The Welsh
Mirror, 12mar02 A man bit part of his ex-girlfriend's ear off in a
"barbaric" attack, a court heard. Andrew Dyer, 20, assaulted Kelly Marshall, 19,
after meeting her in Cardiff last October. They had split just days before. Cardiff Crown Court heard they had had a
"volatile" relationship. Jailing Dyer for two year[s], Judge Stephen
Hopkins, QC, told him: "This was an attack of extreme barbarity." He added: "You bit her on the ear - tearing
part of it away. Witnesses described seeing it lodged in her hair." Dyer, of Barry, south Wales, admitted wounding. Richard Jones, defending, said the couple were now
back together again and she had visited him in prison. Marriages increase for first time in eight years - Celia Hall, Telegraph,
27mar02, p3 The number .... getting married has gone up ....
partly because of the increasing numbers on their second or third marriages. 42% of marriages involve at least one .... who has
been married before, compared with 37% a decade ago. Marriages in which both .... have been married
before went up to .... 19%, compared with 17% in 1992. National Statistics, Population
Trends 107, Spring 2000, show that there were 264,000 marriages in
England and Wales in 2000, a rise of nearly 2% over 1999. .... People continue to marry later. The average age is 35 for the bridegroom and 32 for the bride. .... Mr Haskey .... stressed that the overall marriage rate, the ratio of the number of marriages to the overall population, continued to fall. .... Ill19 p7 .... appalling leniency British justice has just
shown to the man who raped my wife. - Daily
Mail, 28mar02, p12 British justice has become a sick joke. Release
[of] the brute who raped my terminally-ill wife, .... he had served just 18
months .... Knives, drugs and gang rape are normal in the alien
nation - Charlotte Metcalfe, Sunday Times, 24mar02, sect. 5 p7 The surge in street crime .... "There's lots
of reasons why crime gets committed and the only way you're going to tackle the
problem is to tackle the house, tackle the family .... Nearly half of all black families are headed by a
lone parent yet it would oversimplify to suggest that black boys commit
crimes because they lack father figures. .... Clamping down on these kids by putting extra police
on the streets is only a short term solution .... .... denying that he is a killer - Amelia Hill, Observer, 3mar02, p15 25 years in jail for denying that he is a killer
.... It is alleged five policemen took 30 hours to break
him down; and that the 19-year-old was threatened, intimidated, mocked,
refused access to a lawyer, .... 'We all have our breaking point,' said Eamonn
O'Neil, a campaigning television journalist who has been fighting for Brown's
release for 11 years. ....The trial .... was, by all accounts, a farce ....
'In 1977, it was incomprehensible that a policeman would lie on oath.' ....
the judge sent him down for a minimum of 15 years. A quarter of a century
later, however, Brown is still in jail. .... Brown is the victim of Britain's
longest running alleged miscarriage of justice. .... not even the impressive
list of prison governors, guards and psychiatrists supporting his claims of
innocence can win him parole. For the Parole Board, being "in denial of
murder" is the worst-ever category. .... Women
face the trap of baby hunger - Ameila Hill, Observer, 17mar02, p17 ....
'There has been a definite increase in the number of professional women in
their early- to mid-thirties .... who have been knocked for six by the realisation
they've left having children too late' said Joe Thompson .... of .... a group set up to help people to come to
terms with a life without children. 'These
women are victims of misinformation
and misconceptions,'
he said. ' They thought they were sensible and balanced; they were doing what
everyone told them to do. After all, five years ago, the fact that fertility
dipped so sharply after the age of 30 was hardly known.' ....
At 30, a woman's chances of conceiving begin to decline. At 35, the chances
are falling by 5 to 10% a year. At 40, the rate of conception drops to a mere
2%. .... miscarriage rates jump from 25% in the 25-30 age bracket to 40% in
the over-forties. Rapper's .... 18-month sentence for having a gun - Jeevan Vasagar, Guardian, 26mar02, p2 .... Gun crime in London is at an all-time high,
and black violence against black people of particular concern, with 21 deaths
last year. .... "It does look as though a significant number
of young black men in some areas are beginning to admire as role models some
people who are quite heavily involved in crime ...." [I sympathise with those coming from Africa, where
the traditional family is much stronger, being lumped with those from the
Caribbean, where 80% of families are fatherless and gun death is the norm.
This is the same disgraceful behaviour as the PC lumping of Asians with
Blacks, and helps to conceal the statistically disastrous effects of
fatherlessness. The Asian family is very strong, leading to the lowest
teenage pregnancy. - Ed] Black editor wants more stop and search - Philip Johnson, Telegraph, 5mar02, p4 Police should make more use of their stop and
search powers to curb a dramatic rise in gun crime, one of Britain's leading
black commentators said yesterday. .... Mike Best, editor of The Voice
newspaper .... The fall in the number of stop and searches,
especially in London, has coincided with a surge in street crime, with
robbers now more likely to go armed. Mr Best said that while concerns remained among
black people that they were disproportionately targeted by the police, this
was outweighed by the need to bear down on the criminals. .... Diane Abbott,
the [black] Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, said a
"lawless gun culture" was gaining a grip in parts of London. .... .... a black person is still five times more likely
to be stopped. .... For more balance on campuses - Christina Hoff Sommers, Christian Science Monitor, 6may02 Washington - In a recent talk at Haverford College,
I questioned the standard women's studies teaching that the United States is
a patriarchal society that oppresses women. For many in the audience, this was their first
encounter with a dissident scholar. One student was horrified when I said
that the free market had advanced the cause of women by affording them
unprecedented economic opportunities. "How can anyone say that
capitalism has helped women?" she asked. Nor did I win converts when I said that the male
heroism of special forces soldiers and the firefighters at ground zero should
persuade gender scholars to acknowledge that "stereotypical
masculinity" had some merit. Later an embarrassed and apologetic student
said to me, "Haverford is just not ready for you." After my talk, the young woman who invited me told
me there was little intellectual diversity at Haverford and that she had
hoped I would spark debate. In fact, many in the audience were quietly
delighted by the exchanges. But two angry students accused her of providing
"a forum for hate speech." As the 2000 election made plain, the United States
is pretty evenly divided between conservatives and liberals. Yet conservative
scholars have effectively been marginalized, silenced, and rendered invisible
on most campuses. This problem began in the late '80s and has become much
worse in recent years. Most students can now go through four years of college
without encountering a scholar of pronounced conservative views. Few conservatives make it past the gantlet of faculty
hiring in political-science, history, or English departments. In 1998, when a
reporter from Denver's Rocky Mountain News surveyed the humanities and social
sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, he found that of 190
professors with party affiliations, 184 were Democrats. There wasn't a single Republican in the English,
psychology, journalism, or philosophy departments.... The dearth of conservatives in psychology
departments is so striking, that one (politically liberal) professor has proposed
affirmative-action outreach.... [Full text via www.ivorcatt.com/2033.htm or http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0506/p11s02-coop.html ] Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the
American Enterprise Institute. Her most recent book is The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is
Harming Our Young Men. Germaine Greer The Female Eunuch, Bantam, New York, 1972 “My family was an example of the unbroken home that ought to have been broken. My father had decided pretty early on that life at home was pretty unbearable. It gave my mother an opportunity to tyrannize the children, and enlist their aid to disenfranchise my father completely.” Ill19 p8 Male victims of domestic violence Dear Mr. McAulay, I saw an e-mail on a list server that had the
transcript of your recent evidence to Parliament. As a male victim of
domestic violence, (admitted in a court of appeal public judgement that is awaited
at public expense, and which I will forward to you when received) - I would
like to offer you some insight into why there is so little information
available. I went through three years of domestic violence -
physical, emotional, psychological and financial. Some examples are: kicking,
punching, scratching, spitting, cheque cards taken away and given four pounds
a week to live on, threatened with death, had to have my clothes checked to
make sure they were acceptable to my wife etc. Diagnoses ranged from post-natal depression to
depressive anxiety/ neurotic/ manipulative/ somatoform symptoms and then
after a battery of psychological tests - emotionally disturbed. ( Unresolved
conflicts with her parents and an abusive relationship with a man 26 years older
and that lasted ten years). Responses to the violence have been: Family Court welfare Service; refused joint meeting
on the basis of her false allegations. Ignored my evidence etc. Social Services; Did nothing about it, then to the complaints
panel: stated that it was not important because we no longer live together.
Referrals by the Police with witnesses who made statements were lost! They
did not do anything for the children's sake. Solicitors; Told me that if the violence was raised
it would be a reason for stopping contact with the children. Judge; What did you do to deserve it! Because of my experiences, I am the Hampshire
contact for male victims of domestic violence. I am working with a group
called ManKind to get a gender free policy running in the UK. The problems
encountered have been many. Social Workers and the Family Court Welfare
Service (now CAFCASS) operate to a gender biased system. Parents should be
treated equally. I have not only been treated unequally but also I have been
the victim of gross injustices. I have the research by Kevin Browne (Professor of
forensic and criminal psychology at Birmingham university). Current policies
in Social services are encouraging intergenerational abuse. There is a link
between a violent parent and child abuse, specifically locking a child in,
sleep disturbances, anxiety and attention seeking behaviour, daytime wetting
and urinary tract infections. All the symptoms exist in my children. My son
was locked in from the age of 2.5 to 5. I have not had any contact with my children for
over 2.5 years. The 'Family' court in England, operate to gender biased case
law. According to the Court of Appeal, the problem is not the mother's
behaviour or the symptoms in my children but my raising of these concerns. I now have a County Councillor investigating the
activities of Social Services. I have 16 000 pounds costs to pay for trying
to act in the children's best interests. I have had applications for contact
refused. Is it any wonder that men do not disclose the abuse. One case I have
recently dealt with is a man who went through abuse for over twenty years. he
admits his children have been scarred for life. His GP knows of the abuse and
has told him to leave the house for his health. He is on betablockers for it.
He never told anyone because he was a Headteacher, and he knew it would be
professional suicide to do anything about it and just put up with it. Why
should he leave the house when he is the innocent party? I am willing to provide evidence to back up the
allegations that I have made. The only way to prove it was to record it
secretly. I also have witnesses, who attest that it was out of the blue and
for no reason other than being in the same room or near her. Ironically I used to be a special needs teacher,
and taught emotionally and behaviourally disturbed children. It is no wonder
that society is falling apart. I have some 3000 pages of research, evidence
and the results of complaints that prove social services actively support the
mother, instead of honestly dealing with the problem. Until there is a change
of culture more children will become abusive themselves. For this reason
alone with the inherent cost to society, those in positions to make a
difference need to listen and to address these serious issues. Shaun
Paul O'Connell. BSc PGCE 76A
San Diego Rd, Gosport, Hampshire. PO12
4QT Tel:07719020208 E-mail: Justjesting@Hotmail.com The Increased Mortality Due to Divorce 11
different scholarly studies conclude: *
Every two divorces in the US cause one premature death. *
The premature mortality rates of mothers, fathers, and the children of
divorce increase by 30% to 200% after divorce. *
Non-marriage causes the premature deaths of 270,000 women and 700,000 men
each year. *
Each 100 additional divorces worldwide cause one additional murder, 6
additional reports of rape, 33 additional armed robberies, and puts 100 more
men in prison. *
Non-marriage is 3-11 times greater a health risk than tobacco smoking--which
Congress believes should be regulated. *
Forty five percent of marriageable American males remain unmarried today, up
from 23% in 1960, leaving 50 million women of marriageable age who are
unmarried. *
Divorce increases the premature mortality rate of men by 4x greater than it
increases it for women. *
Divorce increases the premature mortality rate of children by 44%. *
Divorced and remarried men have a mortality rate 2.5 times higher than
married but never divorced men. *
Single men living alone had identical mortality rates as those living with
"significant others", but 2.2 times as high as married men. *
Divorced women have 16% higher mortality rates as single women and twice as
high as married women. *
Widowed women have mortality rates up to 5 times higher than married women. *
Poor divorced women have a mortality rate 3 times that of non-poor married
women. *
Controlling for other sociodemographic covariates, divorced and never married
men are 2-3 times as likely as married men to die of heart disease, lung
disease, cancer, diabetes, accidents, suicide, homicide, and cirrhosis. *
Single men and women are 2-4 times more likely than married men and women to
die of accidents, auto accidents, homicide, suicide, violence, falls, lung
cancer, cirrhosis, diabetes, and heart disease. *
Single and divorced women have mortality rates twice as high as married
women. *
Single Japanese men have "exceptionally high death rates". *
Church attendance cuts mortality rates in half. *
Only 33% of black children live with both parents. *
The US divorce rate increased 50 fold since the feminists met in Seneca
Falls. *
Compared to married women, divorced or single women are: o
Twice as likely to die of circulatory diseases. o
Twice as likely to die of cancer. o
Three times as likely to die of diabetes. o
Four times as likely to be killed in an accident. o
Four times as likely to be murdered. o
Five times as likely to die of respiratory diseases. o
Five times as likely to commit suicide. o
Five times as likely to die of cirrhosis. 10.7
of each 1,000 unmarried women die each year, compared to 5.7 married women. Of
every 1,000 women who divorce before age 30,
at least 378 will die before age 65 compared to 266 married women. Of
every 1,000 men who divorce before age 30, all of them will die before age 65
compared to 427 married men. If
these 50 million unmarried women were married, 270,000 fewer females would
die each year and 2.2 million fewer would have died over the last 26 years. [From
Fathers Manifesto Full text plus graphs via www.ivorcatt.com/2911.htm ] Ill19 p9 Bouquet for Ann - Hansard, Oct 24th 2001 Column 353 More at www.ivorcatt.com/2034.htm Miss Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone and The Weald): As
ever, it is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Lewisham, Deptford (Joan
Ruddock), who has spoken with much feeling and made a significant
contribution to the debate. She will not be surprised to hear that I do not
entirely agree with her. I have always advocated greater numbers of women in
Parliament. I have always wanted to see more women succeeding, not only in
getting into this House but in holding positions of responsibility. I
earnestly look forward to the day when we have a second woman Prime Minister.
.... The Bill is fundamentally wrong. I must ask this
question; are all the men in this place sound asleep? Do they realise what
the Bill means for them? Have they thought that positive discrimination for
women can entail negative discrimination for men? I am often quite sorry for men. There are lots of
injustices with which they have to put up. For example, they do not live as
long as we do, but they have to work longer in order to get a pension. That
will not be put right for some time. Some 50 per cent. of young men getting
married today will not be able to see their children through to maturity in
the same household. Whereas in the past women have had it very hard, there
are now a few injustices for men. This Bill will create one more. The Bill says that it will be permitted, that one
could have - apparently we should be grateful that we are not being coerced
into it - out of all the methods that could be chosen, an all-women
shortlist. What would that mean for a man in that constituency
who had given to his local council the same life-long service that the hon.
Member for Sheffield, Hillsborough (Helen Jackson) gave to hers, and who had
lived in the constituency all his life? Let us say that the man had worked
there and escaped from there, and that he wanted to apply for the seat when
it fell vacant. He would not be able to represent the constituency if
all-women short lists were in operation. That would be the reality for men under this
pernicious Bill, yet hon. Gentlemen welcome it as a great step forward. It is
a massive step towards inequality for men, and the poor souls just let the
women walk all over them. They do not appear to care what will happen to
them. .... .... False allegation Law reports - Telegraph
Nov 17th 2001 R
v Matthews (Attorney General's reference) Court
of Appeal (Crime Division) Kennedy LJ, Buckley J and Grigson J Nov 2, 2001 Unduly lenient sentence -
perverting course of justice The Attorney General referred as unduly lenient a
community - punishment order on M for perverting the course of justice by
falsely accusing a man, with whom she had had an affair, of burglary and
harassment. He spent 18 days in custody. While not varying the sentence
because of delay in bringing M to trial, the court held that a false
complaint leading to arrest of an innocent person normally merited immediate
imprisonment. [But see next article.] What is rape? [Rape as defined by U.S. govt agencies] Rape
is any form of sexual activity that you don't agree to, ranging from touching
to penetration. Rape is a crime even if you already know the person who
attacked you - if the person is a family member or friend or someone you work
with. It's a crime even if you didn't fight back. It's a crime even if you
were drinking or if you were taking drugs or were given drugs, or if you were
unconscious. Anyone can be raped--children or elderly people, wives or
girlfriends, even men.
http://familydoctor.org/handouts/314.html What is sexual assault? Sexual assault is any type of sexual activity that
you do not want or agree to. It ranges from inappropriate touching to
penetration or intercourse. It also can be verbal, visual, audio, or any
other form which forces a person to participate in unwanted sexual contact or
attention. Sexual assault includes rape and attempted rape, child
molestation, voyeurism, exhibitionism, incest, and sexual harassment. It can
happen in different situations, such as: date rape, domestic or intimate
partner violence; or by a stranger. All forms of sexual assault are crimes. Who are the victims of sexual assault? According to the U.S. Department of Justice, an
estimated 91% of the victims of rape and sexual assault are female and 9% are
male. (Nearly 99% of the reported offenders are male.) The National Victim
Center reports that 683,000 women are raped per year, and 13.3% of college
women say they had been forced to have sex in a dating situation. The
National Violence Against Women Survey found of the women who reported being
raped, 54% were under the age of 18 at the time of the first rape and 83%
were under the age of 25. However, sexual assault affects women, children,
and men of all ages, racial, cultural and economic backgrounds. http://www.4woman.gov/faq/sexualassault.htm
Reached via www.ivorcatt.com/2035.htm [Since, according to the US govt, almost anything
is rape, it is presumably now not possible to falsely accuse a man of rape. -
Ed] http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=280587
[Accurate current rape statistics in Canada can no
longer be obtained, ever since rape got incorporated into the definition of
"sexual assault" through the efforts of then-justice-minister Anne
McLellan. "Sexual assault"
covers a range of "offences" ranging from alleged leering to rape
with aggravated assault. The latter has always been quite rare in Canada.] Rape conviction rate has dropped to just one in 13,
inquiry reveals - Ian Burrell, Independent, 1apr02 A damning official report has found that the rate of
successful prosecutions in rape trials has crumbled from one in three cases
[see below] to one in 13 in the space of a generation. A top-level inquiry into failing rape prosecutions
by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Sir Keith Povey, has revealed
alarming failings by both police investigators and crown prosecutors. Senior officers from forces across England and
Wales have been called to a crisis summit at the police service's National
Crime Faculty at Bramshill, Hampshire, to discuss the highly critical
findings in the report, which will be published by the Home Office this
month. The report, written in conjunction with Her
Majesty's chief inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service, Stephen Wooler,
calls for a team of specialist rape prosecutors to be set up by the CPS. It reveals that the conviction rate after trial in
rape cases has fallen from one-third of cases (33 per cent) in 1977 to one in
13 cases (7.5 per cent) in 1999. One senior police source described the report's
findings on failing convictions as "horrifying". He said:
"This could be seen as very damaging to the police. I just hope we will
be able to move forward from here." Recorded rape offences against women in England and
Wales rose by 1.5 per cent to 7,929 in the year to March 2001. Rapes against
men rose by 11 per cent to 664. Police sources admit that "there is little
deterring the rapist". It is estimated that only one in 10 victims
report crimes to the police, and only 25 per cent of allegations lead to
criminal charges. The odds of a rapist being brought to court are around 1 in
a 100 and those of conviction 1 in 1,300. In the Metropolitan Police area in 2000, there were
2,270 reported cases of rape including some against men. Only 270 alleged
perpetrators were brought to court and only 180 were convicted and sentenced. The
CPS has introduced a number of measures to try and improve the conviction
rate, including coaching its lawyers in cross-examination and investigation
techniques used in successful prosecutions. Lawyers have also been offered
courses in which they are told about the lasting effects on victims,
so they have a greater sympathy with clients. Ill19 p10 There remain fears that some prosecution lawyers at
rape trials fail to appreciate the extent of the trauma suffered by their
clients. Others make no effort to prevent their client's previous sexual
history being revealed as evidence in court. Police forces are also failing to provide victims
with changes of clothing or use mouth swabs and urine kits to obtain evidence
early in an investigation in order to minimise the stress suffered by the
victim. The findings of the inspection report come amid
growing concerns over levels of gang rape, particularly involving groups of
young teenage boys attacking girls of a similar age. [Nonsense piled upon nonsense. RW found that the
govt research in this field is a mess, including the wilful muddling of
terminology by "researchers", confusing the word
"reported" (to the police) with the word "recorded" (by
the police). However, the main crime was to suppress the fact that rape is
now in a special category, in that every allegation (reported rape) must now
be recorded. This is unprecedented, and has led to the number
"recorded" rising from around 2,000 to around 8,000. Now, every
obviously frivolous allegation has to be recorded by the police. Another key
piece of information is that the CPS feel that they dare not drop any rape
cases. Inevitably, the conviction rate has collapsed, although the actual
number of convictions has not. This is the kind of nonsensical quagmire
caused by rampant radfems in control of the Home Office, and to a lesser
degree of the media, along with their client poodle-men. Melanie Phillips
said the Home Office was desperate to jail more men, and didn't care how.
However, it is failing to get many of these frivolous allegations past
juries. Reporter Burrill is probably just ignorant rather than irresponsible.
Also independently of all this, the definition of rape is being broadened
(under radfem pressure) to include more or less anything a man may do. What a
shambles! Every man is at risk of false imprisonment. Also see previous
article. - Ed] Canada's Sloss retires Supreme Court judge announces retirement - Kirk Makin, Globe and
Mail, 2may02 .... "There was discrimination, yes," she
said. "As [former Supreme Court judge] Bertha Wilson used to tell me,
when you are a woman, you have to prove yourself every day." Judge L'Heureux-Dub, 74, told Justice Minister
Martin Cauchon Wednesday night that she will step down on July 1. The most
senior judge on the Supreme Court and
arguably its most controversial during her 15-year tenure Judge L'Heureux-Dub spoke candidly in her
first preretirement interview about her goals, her trials and her legacy. She said that she will retire confident that women
are now equal partners on the court. But there were tough times in her early
years, when she and Ms. Wilson felt the sting of exclusion from an otherwise
male court. .... ....Judge
L'Heureux-Dub said she has little doubt that misogyny lies at the heart of
the rough ride she has suffered at the hands of critics in the legal and
media world. She said this is typical for female judges, whose rulings and
comments would usually pass unnoticed had they come from a man, but may be
attacked and discredited because they come from a woman. .... Within a vocal portion of the criminal defence bar,
legal academia and the right-wing media, Judge L'Heureux-Dub has been reviled
as an ideologue with a feminist, equal-rights agenda. Her enemies see a
personal agenda at work in Judge L'Heureux-Dub's endorsement of the
"battered woman's defence," tax deductions for working mothers,
expanded spousal-support provisions, and protecting the privacy of
sexual-assault complainants. But Judge L'Heureux-Dub is adamant that her
views are not bias, but an embodiment of the values Canadians have always
stood for equality and
humanitarianism. "It is not an agenda," she said.
"It's a perception of what the law is. You wouldn't want someone here who
has a blank mind and hasn't any idea about the role of the law in society. "When I talk about domestic violence, I know
what I'm talking about. I've been in the trenches as a family-law
practitioner. When I talk about equality, I know what I'm talking about. "Having an agenda and pursuing it are quite
different things," she added. "A good judge has an open mind. They
don't have an agenda. I don't know any judge who has an agenda." The most notorious incident of her judging career
involved a tempest over comments Judge L'Heureux-Dub made two years ago in
the rape case Regina v. Ewanchuk. The furore erupted after the court decided
unanimously to reverse Steve Ewanchuk's acquittal because the lower courts
had erroneously said that Mr. Ewanchuk mistakenly believed the victim was
consenting to sex. The trial judge
and later, Alberta Court of Appeal Judge John McClung observed that the victim's clothing had
conveyed a message that was far from chaste. A concurrence from Judge L'Heureux-Dub and Mr.
Justice Charles Gonthier branded Judge McClung's thinking as stereotypical
and outdated prompting him to write a
letter to a newspaper lambasting Judge L'Heureux-Dub and saying her attitude
helps explain why so many males in Quebec commit suicide. Several legal
commentators and editorialists joined the unprecedented attack on his behalf. As it happened, Judge L'Heureux-Dub's husband,
Arthur Dub, had committed suicide several years earlier. Judge L'Heureux-Dub
retreated into shocked silence as the attacks continued. Noting that Judge Gonthier was left unscathed, she
now says that it is highly doubtful that there would have been any stir had
she been a man. "I can tell you, it hurt because of the personal attacks on my family, my husband,"
Judge L'Heureux-Dub said. "The implication was that I was responsible
[for Mr. Dub's 1978 suicide]. "There is always a kind of stigma about
suicide. My husband was the most wonderful human being you could imagine, but
he had this very deep depression, and that's it. You know, you miss these
people that you love. The attacks brought back all these memories. It was a
very difficult period. Judges are just human beings, and we have feelings and
reactions. I sometimes think people don't realize that we are not mechanical;
we are not robots." .... In 1978, her husband killed himself, and in
1994, her only son died suddenly. [Sometimes reported as suicide. - Ed] Work
became a refuge. "If I had not done that, I would not have survived my
husband's suicide," she said. "I live in the future rather than the
past. You have to build up some resistance to pain a shield; a way to survive. I have the ability to
compartmentalize my life. I can put my pain somewhere, and then work. The
fact that I was able to work during all those periods I think it helped a lot." A hero to those who advocate on behalf of women,
minorities and victims of violence, Judge L'Heureux-Dub maintains that her
critics were naive if they didn't know where she stood from the very start. "My main interest in the Charter [of Rights and
Freedoms] is the equality provisions," she said. "Through all my
legal opinions, I think it is very evident this was a constant preoccupation.
If there is a legacy I would like to leave, it is that particular concern
about equality." [More at www.ivorcatt.com/2036.htm
] "Let him die" 27apr02.
England's highest woman judge has ordered prison authorities to leave a
mentally ill prisoner to die of self-inflicted wounds. The prisoner, known as
W, has refused treatment after wounding himself in protest at the refusal of
doctors to treat his mental condition because they found him too violent.
Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss judged that the prisoner had the capacity to
refuse consent for medical treatment, even if such a refusal would lead to
his death. [BBC News online, 24 April] SPUC expressed concern that no group
had been able to intervene in the case because of the lack of public
information in advance of the hearings. Ill19 p11 Butler-Sloss is to lead selection of next Primate - Helen Rumbelow, 27mar02 The Prime
Minister has chosen Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Britain's most senior family
judge with liberal views on homosexuality, to lead the selection of the next
head of the Church of England. The appointment of Dame Elizabeth, 68, as chair of
the Crown Appointments Commission is a clear signal from Tony Blair that he
is aiming to select a liberal Archbishop of Canterbury to replace George
Carey with an inclusive approach towards women and gays. It will benefit the
bookmakers favourite, the Archbishop of Wales, the Most Rev Rowan Williams,
who has the most radical views of the frontrunners. It will be seen, however, as a setback for the
evangelical Bishop of Rochester, the Right Reverend Michael Nazir-Ali, the
man believed to be Dr Careys choice, and the Bishop of London, the Right
Reverend Richard Chartres, who objects to women priests. Dame Elizabeth will supervise her 16-strong
committee of church leaders in local consultations. Then they will meet for
two and a half days to pray, discuss and vote, observed by Mr Blair's
appointments secretary, before giving Mr Blair a first and second choice this
summer. Each must command a two-thirds majority of the committee. Mr Blair will pass the name of his favourite to the
Queen for final approval, which is expected before Dr Carey retires in
October. It is a task which I shall undertake with all humility and in full
awareness of the great responsibilities which my colleagues on the commission
and I share, Dame Elizabeth said. I am conscious of the immense significance of the
role of the Archbishop of Canterbury, both nationally and around the world. Dame Elizabeth's handling of the Miss B case,
concerning the woman granted the right to die by withdrawal of treatment,
demonstrated that she is keenly aware of the danger of letting her personal
feelings interfere in difficult judgements. In her personal life she is a
regular worshipper and communicant of the Church of England, and is a central
member of its Mothers Union. It was her controversial address to that
organisation two years ago that will most worry the traditional candidates.
It laid out her liberal agenda, which recognises the rights of transsexuals,
same-sex parents and unmarried couples. Although these were not as good for
children as marriage, she said, they were becoming the norm and would be
something society had to deal with. We have got to live with the reality of the 21st
century, Dame Elizabeth said. In striving for what is best, we cannot dismiss
what is good in other relationships . . . All of us, perhaps particularly
older people like myself, have to be flexible and to recognise that the
traditional concepts of the family no longer encompass the whole range of family
life. In the past the Prime Minister chose the Archbishop
personally, as Harold Macmillan did in appointing Michael Ramsey in 1961. But
the Crown Appointments Commission has been in operation since 1977 in an
effort to strike a fairer balance between Church and State. Dame Elizabeth is the first woman to hold the post.
The previous chair was Viscount Caldecote, who was appointed by John Major in
1991 in the selection of George Carey. Throughout her career she has blazed a
trail for women. She was one of the first women to be appointed to the Family
Division of the High Court in 1979. Today there are just seven women among 97
High Court judges. Driscoll on Cyriax - Margarette Driscoll, Sunday
Times, 17mar02 New deal for divorced fathers It took Oliver Cyriax four years to gain access to
his son. Margarette Driscoll hears how he is organising a revolution in
family law When Oliver Cyriax became embroiled in a legal
battle with his former wife over access to his son he had two things in his
favour. As a former lawyer he could represent himself in court. His second
career, as the author of medical textbooks, reflected his facility with words
and brought in royalties. Even so, it took 26 court cases before he achieved
a decent amount of time with his son. In the first three years, by dint of
perseverance, he pushed up the level of contact from one hour a week to
three. After four years his son was allowed to stay overnight. Now they enjoy the sort of time together that he
believes they should have had in the first place; every other weekend, an
evening on alternate weeks and part of the school holidays. There is happy
evidence of the nine-year-olds presence strewn around the house a Harry Potter trivia quiz, a plastic fort
under the kitchen table and, strangely,
since the arrangement was set in stone by the courts, his relationship with
his former wife has improved. I can even remember why I married her, he says.
Cyriax's case is remarkable only because of his
extraordinary tenacity. Every year, about 110,000 such disputes reach the
family courts, many of which drag on for years. Though the Children Act of
1989 was supposed to sweep away old notions of custody and access in favour
of a new era of shared parenting, it hasn’t happened, a reality that is belatedly
being recognised by the legal establishment. Last month, in the wake of a report for the lord
chancellors office, Making Contact Work, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss,
president of the family division, told The Sunday Times that since the
Children Act came into being, shared parenting had been thought out, but not
sorted out. Thirty years ago, when she began sitting on the
family bench, the mother was automatically assumed to be the central figure
in a child’s life. Now,
she says: "I cannot emphasise enough how important both parents are.
...." Cyriax
spoke at our ManKind 2000 Conference. CAFCASS
External Stakeholder Consultation Workshop - 20may02, London Our Chairman Robert Whiston, Ill Eagle Editor Ivor
Catt, Oliver Cyriax, Eugen Hockenjos were among the fifty people who attended
the first of seven consultations events to take place around the country to
help CAFCASS to decide how to reform the family court system. ManKind will
also attend those in Manchester and Wales, and consult with other groups
attending. Having only just read Baskerville's comprehensive
analysis www.ivorcatt.com/2909.htm
of the way so many institutions form the Divorce Industry, I was horrified by
the title of the event, and by the fact that virtually everyone there would
profit from an increase in divorce, if only psychologically. The collision
between the hordes of professionals and do-gooders present who ran contact
centres with Cyriax discussing his humiliation when attending one as a
father, was stark. Oliver recently ran a very good conference.
Compared with Oliver and us, the level of ignorance among all the attenders,
including the CAFCASS staff, was frightening. The future is bleak. I have
told the heads of CAFCASS that they have a major problem over how to get up
to speed in time before it is too late for them to instigate proper reform.
They can only reform a situation that they understand, let alone know about.
- Ed. The Truth About Child Abuse - Stephen Baskerville .... The massive growth of child abuse coincides
directly with the divorce revolution and fatherless homes. As Sokoya tacitly acknowledges,
child abuse takes place overwhelmingly in the homes and at the hands of
single parents. Ill19 p12 A study just released by the Heritage Foundation
confirms that children are up to 33 times more likely to be abused in a
single-parent home than in an intact family. Contrary to public perception,
write Patrick Fagan and Dorothy Hanks, research shows that the most likely
physical abuser of a young child will be that child's mother, not a male in
the household. A 1996 HHS study found
that almost two-thirds [of child abusers] were females, and mothers accounted
for 55% of child murders according to a 1994 Justice Department report. As
Maggie Gallagher writes in her 1996 book, The Abolition of Marriage: The
person most likely to abuse a child physically is a single mother. The person most likely to abuse a child
sexually is the mother's boyfriend or second husband. . . . Divorce, though usually portrayed as a
protection against domestic violence, is far more frequently a contributing
cause.... .... Even feminist Adrienne Burgess observes that fathers have
often played the protector role inside families. Removing the father is what exposes the children to danger. [see www.ivorcatt.com/2048.htm
. Baskerville flew across to speak at the ManKind 2000 Conference. - Ed] However, the really fabulous Baskerville article
"The Myth of Deadbeat Dads" is at www.ivorcatt.com/Deadbeats.pdf or www.ivorcatt.com/2909.htm http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=295883 Forget 2.4 children ? now it's down to 1.64 - Lorna Duckworth Health Correspondent, Independent, 17may02 The nuclear family has shrunk in size from 2.4
children to just 1.64 as women give birth to fewer babies than at any time
since records began in 1924. The average number of births per woman in England
and Wales reached 2.4 in 1970, when the stereotype of the typical family was
established. But that figure has steadily declined because of the trend
towards postponing childbirth and an increase in the number of childless
women. By 2000, the fertility rate had dropped to 1.66 children per woman.
But provisional figures released by the Office of National Statistics
yesterday show a further 0.02 fall in 2001 to the "lowest level of
fertility" since 1924, when the rate was 2.27. Before the Second World War, the average number of
children born to women fluctuated between 2.00 and 1.75. But the post-war
baby boom caused a surge to 2.68 in 1947, rising to a peak of 2.93 in 1964.
At that time, only 10 per cent of women remained childless but that has now doubled
to nearer 20 per cent. Other statistics showed that the number of babies
born in 2001 was the lowest for 24 years at 594,634 births, 1.6 per cent less
than the 604,441 births in 2000. The number of births outside marriage continued its
upward trend, with 40 per cent of children born out of wedlock compared with
30 per cent in 1990. [As the information leaks out as to how vulnerable
a father now is, women will more and more only be able to get impregnated
(and so get their own council flat) by wide boys who then do a runner. This recent development is pronounced in
Hackney, and is described by Melanie Phillips.. - Ed] [For years now, Robert, Ivor and Eugen have been
predicting that the suicide rate for young men would continue to increase for
a further fifteen years, as the message continues to leak out more and more
through our heavily censored courts and media. More
and more, young men come to realise that they have no future. Also, we said
that the birth rate would continue to fall during that period. For two years
we have strongly urged young men not to; marry, cohabit, or father children
until twenty years from now, when the growing crisis will have to have been
resolved. The social contract between a father and the state
has been comprehensively torn up by the state. A young man who makes any of
the above three mistakes loses all his most basic civil rights, and becomes a
helot. He is fair game for ruthless attack by a large number of state
institutions. It is irresponsible for
a young men to fuel the crisis by marrying, cohabiting or fathering a child
at the present time, because the resulting damage extends far beyond himself.
- Ed] Pedophilia
more common among 'gays' Research
purports to reveal 'dark side' of homosexual culture Posted:
April 29, 2002 1:00
a.m. Eastern By
Jon Dougherty 2002 WorldNetDaily.com. 29apr02 Child molestation and pedophilia occur far more
commonly among homosexuals than among heterosexuals on a per capita basis,
according to a new study. "Overwhelming evidence supports the belief
that homosexuality is a sexual deviancy often accompanied by disorders that
have dire consequences for our culture," wrote Steve Baldwin in,
"Child Molestation and the Homosexual Movement," soon to be
published by the Regent University Law Review after Stanford Law Review
backed out. Baldwin is the executive director of the Council for National
Policy in Washington, D.C. "It is difficult to convey the dark side of
the homosexual culture without appearing harsh," wrote Baldwin.
"However, it is time to acknowledge that homosexual behavior threatens
the foundation of Western civilization
the nuclear family." Though the homosexual community and much of the
media scoff at such accusations, Baldwin
who chaired the California Assembly's Education committee, where he
fought against support for the homosexual agenda in the state's public
schools says in his report that
homosexual activists' "efforts to target children both for their own
sexual pleasure and to enlarge the homosexual movement" constitute an
"unmistakable" attack on "the family unit." Baldwin's research is substantiated in a recently
completed body of work written by Dr. Judith Reisman <http://drjudithreisman.org/>
, president of the Institute for Media Education, former member of the Meese
pornography commission and author of numerous authoritative books debunking
sexual myths, including "Kinsey, Crimes & Consequences."
<http://drjudithreisman.org/Kinseycrime.htm> In her thesis
also written for the Regent University Law Review Reisman cited psychologist Eugene Abel,
whose research found that homosexuals "sexually molest young boys with
an incidence that is occurring from five times greater than the molestation
of girls. " Abel also found that non-incarcerated "child
molesters admitted from 23.4 to 281.7 acts per offender whose targets were males." "The rate of homosexual versus heterosexual
child sexual abuse is staggering," Reisman wrote. She said "Abels
data of 150.2 boys abused per male homosexual offender finds no equal (yet)
in heterosexual violations of 19.8 girls." Jay Heavener, spokesman for PFLAG Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians
and Gays, http://www.pflag.org/ counters that federal crime data refute
claims that homosexuals molest children at higher rates than heterosexuals. "According to data from the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), this claim is false," he told WND by e-mail.
"The gay and lesbian community calls into question any dubious research
which flies in the face of our own experience." And Gary Schoener, a clinical psychologist who has
been diagnosing and treating clergy abuse for 28 years, told Salon.com,
"There are far more heterosexual cases than homosexual." In terms of sheer numbers, that may be true. But in
terms of numbers of children abused per offender, homosexuals abuse with far
greater frequency; and boys, research shows, are the much-preferred target. Baldwin says evidence he examined disproves the
assertion that child molestation is more prevalent among heterosexuals. Both
he and Reisman found that media coverage of adult homosexual abuse of minors
is also slanted. Ill19 p13 "The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists
Association (NLGJA) recently
boasted that although homosexuals are less than two
percent of the population, three-fourths of the people who decide the content
of the front page of the New York Times are homosexual," Reisman wrote. That one fact is especially noteworthy, experts
point out, given the recent child sex scandals taking place within the
American Catholic church. A survey by WorldNetDaily of recent news reports
found that rarely did the media describe priestly sexual abuse as
"homosexual" or "gay" activity even though the worst incidents involved male-to-male contact,
and a spate of investigative reports has revealed that the Vatican is
concerned about an upsurge of homosexuals in seminary schools throughout the
world. Gay press promotes sex with
children Baldwin says his research not only "confirms
that homosexuals molest children at a rate vastly higher than
heterosexuals," but it found that "the mainstream homosexual
culture" even "commonly promotes sex with children." "The editorial board of the leading pedophile
academic journal, Paidika, is dominated by prominent homosexual scholars such
as San Francisco State University professor John DeCecco, who happens to edit
the Journal of Homosexuality," Baldwin wrote. During his research, he also found: The Journal of Homosexuality recently published a
special double-issue entitled, "Male Intergenerational
Intimacy," containing many articles portraying sex between men
and minor boys as loving relationships. One article said parents should look
upon the pedophile who loves their son "not as a rival or competitor,
not as a theft of their property, but as a partner in the boy's upbringing,
someone to be welcomed into their home." In 1995 the homosexual magazine "Guide"
said, "We can be proud that the gay movement has been home to the few
voices who have had the courage to say out loud that children are naturally
sexual" and "deserve the right to sexual expression with whoever
they choose. " The article went on to say: "Instead of fearing
being labeled pedophiles, we must proudly proclaim that sex is good,
including children's sexuality we
must do it for the children's sake." Larry Kramer, the founder of ACT-UP, a noted
homosexual activist group, wrote in his book, "Report from the Holocaust:
The Making of an AIDS Activist": "In those instances where children
do have sex with their homosexual elders, be they teachers or anyone else, I
submit that often, very often, the child desires the activity, and perhaps
even solicits it." In a study of advertisements in the influential
homosexual newspaper, The Advocate, Reisman found ads for a "Penetrable
Boy Doll available in three
provocative positions. She also found that the number of erotic boy images in
each issue of The Advocate averaged 14. Homosexual newspapers and travel publications
advertise prominently for countries where boy prostitution is heavy, such as
Burma, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Homosexuality
'youth-oriented'? "Research on the homosexual lifestyle confirms
it is almost exclusively a youth-oriented culture," Baldwin wrote.
"Very few gays exhibit preference for older men." "Some admit to focus on teenage boys," he
said, "some on prepubescent boys, and many cross over between
categories." A 1988 study detailed in Baldwin's report found
that most pedophiles even consider
themselves to be "gay." According to the study, "Archives of
Sexual Behavior," some 86 percent of pedophiles described themselves as
homosexual or bisexual. Also, the study found, the number of teenage male
prostitutes who identify as homosexuals has risen from 10 percent to 60
percent in the past 15 years. When asked what he thought about critics who
attempt to debunk his research, Baldwin said the results speak for
themselves. "For them to say this theory is false is to
call many of the homosexual movement's leaders liars," he said.
"Most of my evidence comes right from the gay community." "I managed to find enough evidence that my
thesis child molestation is an integral part of the homosexual movement is a
valid thesis," Baldwin told WorldNetDaily. Other experts have also found a distinct pattern
between child sex abusers and the incidence of homosexuality. "How long can psychologists be in denial about
the significance of the dark side, and ignore what it implies about the
homosexual condition? And there's a matter of even greater concern. How long
will psychologists eagerly throw open the door to gay life for every sexually
confused teenager?" writes Joseph Nicolosi, Ph.D, http://www.narth.com/docs/whyreveal.html on behalf of NARTH the National Association for Research and
Therapy of Homosexuality a group that
says it exists to "provide psychological understanding of the cause,
treatment and behavior patterns associated with homosexuality, within the
boundaries of a civil public dialogue." The North American Man-Boy Love Association, or
NAMBLA, is "a group that openly promotes sex with minor boys and claims
that boy-lovers respond to the needs of the boys they love," Baldwin
said in his report. The group is often endorsed by "many of the
homosexual movement's most prominent leaders," he said. Advocacy moving to schools Promotion of the "gay and lesbian
lifestyle" is increasing in the nation's public schools. A WND survey of homosexual-oriented websites found
that almost every group has some sort of program to "educate"
teachers, school administrators and other school employees about the
homosexual lifestyle: GLSEN the Gay
Lesbian and Straight Education Network
bills itself as "the largest national network of parents,
students, educators and others" specifically formed to end
"discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender
identity/expression in K-12 schools. Two recent press released boasted of the
Broward County (Fla.) school board approving GLSEN-sponsored "training
for teachers." http://www.glsen.org/templates/news/record.html?section=12&record=1309 A student activist working with GLSEN officials has
managed to "give voice" recently to "gay, lesbian, bisexual
and transgendered students" at California schools; http://www.glsen.org/templates/news/record.html?section=12&record=1271
PFLAG has created a national campaign called,
"From Our House to the Schoolhouse," distributing to school
officials among other materials a booklet entitled, "Just the Facts
About Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer For Principals, Educators, &
School Personnel. http://www.pflag.org/education/schools/docs/justthefacts.pdf [Editor's note: Readers need the Adobe
PDF reader http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html to open and read this file.] Though most school-related programs are sold to
administrators and parents as programs designed simply to end persecution of
homosexuals and lesbians, none disclose what Baldwin says is compelling
evidence that homosexuality is harmful to children. "What
does the academic literature say about the relationship between
homosexuality and child molestation? Quite a bit, actually," he wrote,
quoting data compiled by the Family Research Institute: "Scientific
studies confirm a strong pedophilic predisposition among homosexuals." The institute, after reviewing more than 19 studies
and peer-reviewed reports in a 1985 "Psychological Reports"
article, found that homosexuals account for between 25 and 40 percent of all
child molestation. "But this number is low," Baldwin says,
"due to the fact that many reporters will not report if a child molester
is a homosexual, even if he knows that to be the case." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27431 [The relevance to fathers is as follows.
Charles Krauthammer published a key article "Defining Deviancy Up"
in The New Republic, 22nov93.
".... it is not enough
for the deviant to be Ill19 p14 normalized. The normal must be found to be deviant.
.... Normal middle-class life .... stands exposed as the true home of
violence and abuse and a whole catalog of aberrant acting and thinking. ....
entirely new areas of deviancy .... politically incorrect speech - have been
discovered." Only anti-father "research" is funded. The
current demonisation of heterosexual men and of fatherhood by all agencies of
society goes hand in hand with the normalisation, or validation, of deviancy.
Thus, the promotion by the media of the adulation of buggery is an attack on
fatherhood, as is the current promotion of promiscuity and of single parent
motherhood. - Ed] Lawyers in family court - how have they fared? - Dr. C Corry, 23apr02 Many, if not most of the people on this [email]
list have been dragged, kicking and screaming, through the shipwrecks
erroneously described as courts in these perilous times. The master mariners
guiding us through these rocks and shoals are supposed to be the lawyers. So how do lawyers perceive the dysfunctional
entities in the imposing edifices? And how do they fare when called to answer
to the bar, instead of plead before it? Two stories came to me recently, one from an
Arizona attorney, and another from one in Michigan, who are faced with the
same situations so many of you are. Perhaps you will agree that when a system doesn't
even work for its adherents, then it is truly a disaster. While many fine men and women serve in the halls of
justice, today their good work is overshadowed by the bizarre and
disastrous rulings of those few
black-robed monsters who have made a mockery of the very name of law. It was President John F. Kennedy who stated that:
"If you make peaceful change
impossible...you make violent revolution inevitable." We must seek peaceful means of restoring
justice and respect for our
Constitution if families and our society are to survive because
we cannot long continue down the
present path. - Chuck Corry Details at www.ivorcatt.com/2041.htm
Geldof backs role of single fathers By Arifa Akbar, Independent, 23apr02 Bob Geldof spoke up for the rights of single
fathers yesterday, urging the courts to reject the idea that mothers always
make better carers than men. The pop star said awarding custody automatically to
mothers did not always work, adding that where feasible judges should give
custody to the partner not moving out. Although both parents should be equal in the eyes
of the law on custody matters after a break-up, some lawyers believe the
courts unduly favour mothers. In 1998, Geldof, 50, won custody against his former
wife Paula Yates of their daughters, Fifi, 18, Peaches, 12, and Pixie, 11.
After the death of Ms Yates two years ago, he now also cares for Tiger Lily,
her five-year-old daughter fathered by Michael Hutchence, the late INXS
singer. In an interview with Reader's Digest magazine,
Geldof called on custody courts and judges to "understand that not all
men are brutal, indifferent bores, and women ministering angels". He said: "Where one partner leaves the other,
the children should remain with the partner who has not left. "Men adore and love their children as much as
women, though they may display it in different ways." Referring to his court battle for his children as
the "nightmare years", he said he had endured "universes of
grief and deserts of emptiness" after his divorce from Ms Yates. Vanessa Lloyd Platt, a divorce lawyer, said that
although the law did not show any favouritism to mothers in custody matters,
she understood the singer's frustrations. "Women do not automatically have rights over
children when a couple split up but there is a slight favouring of the mother
because there is an assumption that children will live with Mum," she
said. "Every day of the week can be unfair when
fathers are equally able to look after children but are told, sorry, it's got
to be the mum." Ms Lloyd Platt said the number of men applying for
custody had increased over the years, but added that there was still "a
long way to go" in overcoming the presumption in favour of mothers.
[Thorpe, below, makes it even longer. - Ed] http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/shtml/NEWS/P21S1.shtml
Judge's son is jailed for double drunken driving - The Sun,
20aug00 The son of a senior judge has been jailed for drink
driving. Gervase Thorpe, 32, whose father is an Appeal Court
judge, was caught drunk behind the wheel twice within seven months. On both
occasions he refused to give a breath test. He was jailed for four months on
Friday. Exeter magistrates told how he refused to take a breath test when he
was first caught on New Year's Day in Cornwall. And four weeks ago Thorpe, of Fulham, West London,
was spotted driving erratically along a Devon country lane. The court heard
his privileged background had made him a target of hate attacks while on
remand. Thorpe, sporting a black eye, admitted driving while disqualified and
without insurance, twice failing to provide a breath test, and careless
driving. He had previously been banned for four years for
drink driving in 1995. Lord Justice Thorpe, 62, [whose first
marriage ended in divorce in 1989 and who remarried in the same year; he has
three sons. - Ed] was not in court. Thorpe's
attack is against women's interest Only 2 months ago three Law Lords ruled that (with
others) Thorpe, the Court of Appeal Judge, had "exceeded their
jurisdiction and usurped the role of parliament when they rewrote the
Children Act..." www.ivorcatt.com/2046.htm
The stories about Thorpe's son in the gossip
columns [twice jailed for drunk driving] might help one understand why Thorpe
lacks confidence in a man's ability to function as a parent. Thorpe's ruling is no surprise. The English Family
Courts have for some years banned independent experts to scrutinise the level
of expertise or ignorance amongst judges. Expert psychologists and researches
are banned from attending the public galleries in Family Courts, and the
public gets no protection against ill-informed, dated or plainly wrong
theories which are held to be the truth amongst the Secret Court Judiciary.
England's Judges have no training in child psychology. Instead they depend on
ill trained CWO's to offer them law grade advice and little does it matter to
these Judges their own so-called experts have no adequate training about
child development or current findings by family researchers. Thorpe and other Judges know about the incompetence
in England's Family Courts, and they have shown themselves very determined to
hide their dark secrets by issuing threats of imprisonment against those who
want to remove the lid from this scandal. Thorpe and others take it as their god-given right
to impose huge financial burdens on taxpayers by removing fathers out of
children's life, and by creating can-not-do-wrong mothers who are rewarded
with a god-given right to exist on taxpayer's benefit handouts, which can
amount to £167,500 per fatherless child. There is every change that Thorpe's ruling will
also damage modern women by also giving this message to employers: DO not
promote women of child bearing age into positions of responsibility, because
women when faced with a choice between career or children can't help
themselves... I am angry that Thorpe's ruling means that my
partner stated that he would now not support me in advancing my career
because he would not want to bond with our child while treated as disposable. Maybe
the time has come to impeach Thorpe so that children may once more have a
chance to have fathers who are valued, and in order to take away this Secret
Court Champion who is opposed to a society where merit and negotiation,
rather than gender, determines what people may do and can achieve... Monika, 23apr02 --------------------------------- "ManKind Strategy Pays Off - future policy to be based on 'outcomes' says LCD report. Women's Aid reprimanded in report for veering off omtp DV ossues again. This four page report was inserted in the middle of Ill Eagle 19. __________________ Ill19 p15 Post-Thorpe
Tribulations The Thorpe Legacy "House husbands" got short shrift
from Thorpe in his April ruling that said mothers are, by their very sex, the
natural carers of children. In other counties, e.g. Canada and the US, this
is known as the 'tender years doctrine' and is based on the agricultural
judicial observations of farm animal behaviour (Yes, even in the 21st century
it's about that scientific). But what of the other implications for
househusbands? Being a househusband, or
single father, has many pitfalls. Not only do Social Services not
think to advise you of what's on offer but it also never crosses their mind
to 'outreach' this group of single parents. Social Security and the Job
Centre can be equally unhelpful. For instance, single fathers don't have to
go down every two weeks to the job centre to sign on, but who there will tell
a single father that? But by far the most common omission is men's
knowledge of what Home Responsibilities Protection (HRP) means to them. When
someone, in our case a father, looks after children or an old or disabled
family members they either don't go out to work, or find only a part-time
job. In both instances it can result in a halving their pension when they hit
65. This is because they haven't paid
enough National Insurance Contributions. Without a complete NIC history a full
pension at retirement will not be forthcoming. HRP was designed to overcome
this problem. HRP began in 1978 and was intended to reduce the number of
years needed to qualify for a full pension. Quite when it was made available
to men is unclear. But to qualify you must be in receipt of
"Child Benefit" for a child aged under 16. If your wife has left
you with kids who are over 16, HRP can't help. But if they are under 16 and
your name is the first of the two names, or the only one, listed on the benefit book, then you
qualify. If you are looking after a sick child or
adult and you are able to qualify for Income Support then you also qualify to
HRP. All the details can be found on Form CF411. We all known that if you are a woman you
need only 39 years worth of NIC to get a full pension compared to men who
need 44 years before they qualify. But HRP continues the sexist bias. For
example, If a woman has worked and earned 20 years of NIC, then without HRP
she will get only 52% of the full basic pension. If she is able to claim HRP
for 10 years (ie 20 + 10) she will get 69% of the full basic pension. If she
is able to claim 19 years of HRP (ie
20 + 19 = 39) she will 100% of the full basic pension. But for a man who has worked and earned not
20 but 30 years of NIC then without HRP he will get only 69% of the full
basic pension. With 10 years of additional HRP (30+10) he gets 89% of a full
pension and with 19 years of HRP (ie 30 + 19= 49 years) he will get 100% of
his full basic pension. Why he has to work 49 years rather than 44 is not
explained. Further discrepancies arise when the number
of years worked falls. For example, if a woman works for only 15 years and is
able to claim 19 years of HRP she will get 75% of a full pension. If a man
works for only 15 years and then qualifies for 19 years of HRP he will get
only 60% of his full pension (a 15% difference in final payout). If this has set you thinking just how you will be placed in future years, ask for form BR19, which will give you a forecast of your pension when, or if, you hit 65. - R.W [Sent to Vernon Coaker MP] Rosie
Winterton Mr Anthony Hewson, Chairman, CAFCASS, 13th
and 14th Floor, Archway Tower, 2 Junction Road, London N19.5HQ Dear Anthony, Re: The
Independent, 14 March 2002 Has Rosie Winterton suddenly come to her
senses and emerged as Britain's biggest supporter of ManKind and of civil
rights we have in parliament ? Or has the junior minister lost her senses and
mistakenly become Britain's biggest supporter of ManKind ? Does she not know that her proposed amendments to the Adoption
and Children Bill now before parliament, [to cut off violent a violent parent
from its child] will cut off more mothers from their children than it will
fathers ? Does she not realise that more mothers murder their babies and
small children than men ? And doesn't she know that mothers are more abusive
to children than men ? Does she not know that more "damage" is done to
children by depriving them of their fathers than by the alleged and
unquantified trauma when they witness domestic conflict? I
wonder whether at one of your regular weekly meetings with her you shouldn't
perhaps jog her memory as to the overwhelming data available on this subject.
An examination of NSPCC records and of their library will reveal who it is
who actually perpetrates violence towards children. I am aghast at the report
and can't believe she has knowingly played straight into our hands. However, if the newspaper report is accurate and the amendments
are aimed at only one sex, ie fathers and men, then warn her to expect a
lawsuit very quickly and possibly a humiliating political climbdown when we
invoke the Human Rights Act. Yours sincerely, Robert Whiston, Chairman,
ManKind [The British Government will spend any amount of your taxpar's money to fight to continue its discrimination against men. This proves that the Home Office and other govt departments are riddled with vicious radfems and poodle-men. To see a case very similar to the Hockenjos case, where the Secretary of State was refused leave to appeal to the Lords, go to www.ivorcatt.com/2064.htm In this other case, the govt is spending vast sums to delay correcting an injustice to widowers as long as possible. Perhaps we should get into applying the process of surcharging town councellors for misconduct to central govt paid officials and politicians. - Ed] dvds Stinko
supervises the madcap Domestic Violence Data Source, see www.domesticviolencedata.org Any activity, including economic, by a man comes within the definition of DV Censorship 10may02,
Brian Robertson lists the types of censorship in the UK. See www.ivorcatt.com/2043.htm Mom kills, dad kills: Two takes on tragedy - Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail,
2mar02, pA1 LOS ANGELES -- The case has all the
elements of a media sensation: five children dead of asphyxiation; a parent
charged with first-degree murder in their deaths; the other parent horrified
by the apparent act of homicidal depression that destroyed the family. But this is not the case of Andrea Yates,
the Texas mother on trial for the drowning of three of her five children last
year, and who could yet be charged in the deaths of the other two. Instead,
it is the case of Adair Garcia, 30, charged last week with murder in the
deaths of five of his six children, who died from inhaling the fumes from a
barbecue ignited while they slept. The Yates trial has become the biggest U.S.
media sensation of the year, its every detail splashed on front pages and
analyzed in lengthy TV discussions. The Garcia case has so far failed to make
the front page of any major newspaper, even in the family's home town of Los
Angeles, and has quickly disappeared from the news. There is only one obvious
difference between the two: Ms. Yates is a mother, Mr. Garcia is a father.
Popular opinion has shown one of its perverse turns. People are obsessed with
mothers who kill their children, while little interest is shown in fathers
who do the same. The distinction lies deep in human
psychology. When fathers kill their offspring, it is viewed as a serious
crime; when mothers do it, it is seen as a deep sickness, one that garners
both sympathy and profound horror. "Killings by aggrieved fathers are
generally done out of jealousy and anger, directed at hurting the ex-spouse
or ex-partner," said Jordan Steiker, a law professor at the University
of Texas. "Our society is very ambivalent in labeling women as murderers.
To make sense of a crime
through mental illness
is Ill19 p16 much more common with women, and especially
with mothers," she said in an interview yesterday. Mr. Garcia's case certainly fits this
pattern. Police initially thought that five of his six children had died in a
terrible accident. Mr. Garcia's mother-in-law, arriving to babysit on the
morning of Feb. 20, found seven bodies in a bungalow in Whittier, a
neighbourhood in south Los Angeles, and a smoldering barbecue in the living
room. Five children, ranging in age from 2 to 10, were dead after breathing
the fumes all night; a nine-year-old was unconscious, as was their father,
Mr. Garcia, found lying beside the barbecue. When the horrified mother,
Adriana Arreola, showed up on the scene and collapsed in grief, police began
to doubt the case was an accident. The marriage had been on the rocks; she
had moved out for a week, and Mr. Garcia had spoken ominously of depression
and revenge. He was soon charged with five counts of first-degree murder and
one count of attempted murder. He will be arraigned on March 19. It remains
to be seen whether the jury and sentencing judge will treat him differently
from Ms. Yates. Well-established precedent says he will be treated much more
harshly if he is convicted. Michelle Oberman, a law professor at DePaul
University in New Jersey, argues in her recent book Mothers Who Kill Their
Children that juries rarely assign murder convictions to mothers accused of
killing their own offspring, or request tough sentences such as the death
penalty. This, she speculates, is because these cases are almost always
matters of deep clinical depression, generating considerable sympathy rather
than rage. "Throughout common-law history, juries
and judges have tended to agree on one thing: When a mother kills her child,
it is generally different from other forms of homicide," Prof. Oberman
wrote in an opinion article on the Yates case this week. "Different
because these cases are not only about the horror of dead children, but also
about desperate and deeply troubled women." In Texas, the public is divided between
those who wish Ms. Yates would be given psychological treatment rather than a
criminal trial, and those who argue strenuously that she should be sentenced
to death. No such debate has arisen over Mr. Garcia.
Instead, the few Los Angeles citizens who have noticed the case have
expressed mystification. "How do you understand this?" asked Los
Angeles County Sheriff's Lieutenant Don Bear on the day of Mr. Garcia's
arrest. "There really is no way that you can understand this or why
someone would do something like this." The
Los Angeles Times carried Lt. Bear's mystified remarks, along with all other
coverage of the Garcia family tragedy, on page B4. Continued at www.ivorcatt.com/02f.htm [Ill Eagle 1999 issues are at www.ivorcatt.com/99.htm ] [Most past Ill Eagle issues are at www.ivorcatt.com/98.htm ] [Ill Eagle 2001 issues are at www.ivorcatt.com/01.htm ] [Ill Eagle 2002 issues
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