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| Broadsides: Underfed Liz Hurley Makes For Underweight Babies |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 5:15 pm |
| Tags: Broadsides, Childbirth, Domestic Violence, Motherhood, Yummy Mummies |
| Women like Victoria Beckham, Liz Hurley are being blamed for the obsession with rapid weight-loss after birth, which, researchers say, can put women at risk of giving birth prematurely the next time... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Global Peace Index: Re-calculating the Metrics of Peace to Include Abuse of Women, Children |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 8:16 pm |
| Tags: Female Circumcision, Domestic Abuse, Human Rights |
| Riane Eisler suggests that the Global Peace Index needs to be re-calculated to include the level of violence against women and children. Dark underbelly of the world’s most ‘peaceful’ countries Riane Eisler (Christian Science Monitor) The first-ever study ranking countries according to their level of peacefulness, the Global |
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| DV Victim Languishes in Jail For Refusing to Give Up Her Son’s Safe Location |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 9:36 pm |
| Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Child Custody, Divorce, Visitation, Hague Convention Kidnapping International Child Custody |
| to Canada to escape domestic violence by the father, according to her. For that, she has been convicted of kidnapping, and faces a sentence of up to three more years in prison. She has already served eighteen months for refusing to disclose where the boy is safely hidden. The boy’s father has denied any abuse. He claimed he had |
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| Domestic Partnerships and the Continuation of Maintenance |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 1:12 pm |
| Tags: Alimony, Civil Union, Cohabitation, Domestic Partnership, Maintenance, Post Divorce Issues, Separation Agreements, Settlement Agreements, Spousal Maintenance |
| Postings in two divorce and family law blogs highlight a growing conflict between the states on how to deal with a parties continuing obligation to pay alimony or maintenance, as it called in New York, if the former spouse enters... |
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| Domestic Partnerships and the Continuation of Maintenance |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 1:12 pm |
| Tags: Agreements, Alimony, Civil Union, Cohabitation, Domestic Partnership, Maintenance, Post Divorce Issues, Separation Agreements, Settlement Agreements, Spousal Maintenance |
| Postings in two divorce and family law blogs highlight a growing conflict between the states on how to deal with a parties continuing obligation to pay alimony or maintenance, as it called in New York, if the former spouse enters... |
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| Heterosexual Supremacists Circulate Even Worse Anti-Gay Constitutional Amendment |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 4:29 pm |
| Tags: California, Ballot Measures, 2008 Elections, Domestic Partnership, Heterosexual Supremacists, Conservatives, Lgbt, Politics, Marriage |
| by California law on other domestic relationships.This is a much harder amendment to defeat because it explicitly leaves California domestic partnserships (which are the equivalent of civil unions) alone and doesn't try to define what "a man and a woman" are. It is basically a constitutional amendment version of Propostion 22, which what was an |
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| Domestic Drama |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 10:09 pm |
| Tags: The Stories, Bonnet, Brand New Car, Domestic Drama, Feel Better About The Sex, Giant Red Bow, Happy Birthday, Her Nipples Went Hard, Kevin, You Fucked Him |
| bonnet, brand new car, domestic drama, feel better about the sex, giant red bow, happy birthday, her nipples went hard, kevin, you fucked |
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| Parenting Responsibility Made Complicated |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 11:07 pm |
| Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Child Custody, Visitation |
| Dad is murdered. Mother is convicted of the crime and sentenced to jail. Mother’s sister and brother in law are appointed guardians of seven year old child. Legal custody is shared by guardians and Dad’s parents, who live in another state. Court orders guardians not to take child to visit Mother in jail. Guardians later move for |
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| There is something fundamentally wrong here. |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 11:56 am |
| Tags: Fisa, Alberto Gonzales, Domestic Spying, Wiretapping, Surveillance, Separation Of Powers |
| The Congress is at the threshold of a major capitulation on FISA. There's no doubt that there are a lot of political (read: electoral) implications to this vote. We all know that. We've been through this fear mongering routine before, where the public is rattled by vague pronouncements about unspecified threats (or about whatever's going on in |
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| Surviving Domestic Violence |
| Published: August 5, 2007, 1:59 pm |
| Tags: Domestic Violence |
| Domestic violence or intimate partner violence is not just a family problem it is a society problem. This is a pattern of assault and coercive behaviors which include physical, sexual, and psychological attacks, as well as economic coercion used by adults or adolescents against their current or former intimate partners. |
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| Ingraham falsely asserted NY Times said "we should not update [FISA] to meet current advances in technology" |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 8:30 pm |
| Tags: Laura Ingraham, Fox Amp Friends, Fox News Channel, Domestic Spying, National Security Foreign Policy |
| During the August 3 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, discussing the debate over proposed changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), nationally syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham falsely asserted that "[w]e have major editorial pages in the United States -- The New York Times, etc. -- saying that we should not |
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| WOOP's, go home |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 3:05 pm |
| Tags: Economics, George W Bush, 2008 Election, Congress, New England Politics, Immigration, Domestic Policy |
| I'll give Bush a chance to prove this. I want to see how many of our ethically driven DC critters try to prevent ICE, the Social Security people, and other agencies from doing their job. As soon as the law is enforced, the moaning will start. In the past, when their constituents complained, Georgia congressmen threatened the INS funding, stopping |
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| Brooklyn Teenager Charged for Leaving Baby to Save Dinner, Since Baby Nearly Drowned |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 11:40 pm |
| Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Child Custody, Juvenile Delinquency Dependency |
| A teenaged Brooklyn mother was caring for her own eleven month old baby as well as her boyfriend’s two year old sister. She was alone, bathing the babies and trying to make dinner at the same time. The dinner was burning. So she allegedly left the babies, unsupervised, in the tub for a few minutes to tend to dinner. And her eleven |
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| Mandatory Arrests in Domestic Violence Police Calls Reportedly Lead to More Murders of Intimate Partners |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 11:47 pm |
| Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse |
| Domestic violence remains a stubborn problem that refuses to go away despite society’s efforts. Unfortunately, some perceived solutions haven’t panned out. For example, about twenty years ago, many states devised a procedure they thought couldn’t miss. Mandatory arrest on all domestic violence calls which summoned the police. |
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