Peter Jaffe the biased Domestic Violence teacher at the University of Western Ontario has more mendacious quotes in the London Free Press

I would like to thank Ian for providing this valuable information. Ian quotes, in a kindly manner, the following about Jaffe: " Longtime domestic violence expert Peter Jaffe acknowledges "there are cases that involve false allegations, but they're a small minority." 

Jaffe is not a DV expert. He is a gender specific researcher in Domestic Violence. Less kindly people call him a gender bigot or worse. He does live in a world of Gender Apartheid where he completely ignores violence by women on men and children. 


He ignores the greater initiation precipitated in DV by females, http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/42/15/31-a , he ignores the equanimity of mutual partner aggression, http://www.statcan.gc.ca/Daily/English/050714/d050714a.htm and he ignores the over 1/3 serious injury rate of men who are often attacked with weapons. Further to this, he uses his highly biased one-sided research to remove men from their homes, deny dads a right to shared parenting and does great disservice to his own gender. We call his methods "kindly" gender biased. If you only report on one side of a two-sided problem, it is no more than propaganda and he is the leading Canadian researcher in this area. 

Please note the name of the section where he works. "UWO's Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children". Why is he called to give comments on a human problem when he deals with only one side? The foregone conclusion is he will report only in support of the feminist pogrom and canard that only men are abusers.

Jaffe must know that single moms are the most likely to kill or maltreat their child both in the USA http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/stats_research/index.htm and Australia. Academic large sample research in Canada shows similar causation. 

Mr. Jaffe carefully cherry picks information to give to reporters where he indicates false allegations are minor. In the 1998 Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (N= 7,509) 22% of proven false allegations of sexual abuse were made by custodial parents. These were proven false but many more allegations are found to be unsubstantiated. This is a nice way for the social workers, largely female, to indicate not enough proof was evident to indicate they were false. Many non-custodial dads consider reports by the CAS protective workers to be less than satisfactory. The CAS' across Ontario are currently moving toward aligning themselves with the Violence Against Women (VAW) sector on an official basis rather than the current ad hoc approach. When this occurs, one can expect any reports by CAS protective workers to be highly biased and highly suspect. If the source reports for research lack veracity so then do the results. Ninety percent of physical custody is given to moms in Canada (86% in the USA) thanks to the kind of work Jaffe performs. False allegations increase during custody disputes. If shared and equal parenting were presumed, conflict would be reduced with a lesser likelihood of false allegations. 

A U.S. Air Force study found that 30% of the accusations against alleged male perpetrators were proven false, through DNA evidence or otherwise.  When faced with the prospect of a lie detector test, another 30% of the accusers either failed the test, or refused to take it.  Other major studies put the rate of false accusations of rape at 50 – 60%.
 
In the USA one study found 71% of civil restraining orders were unnecessary or false. (Foster BP. Analyzing the cost and effectiveness of governmental policies. Cost Management Vol. 22, No. 3, 2008.) 

Another analysis found over half of restraining orders did not involve even an allegation of violence. (Office of the Commissioner of Probation, Massachusetts Trial Court: The tragedies of domestic violence: A qualitative analysis of civil restraining orders. October 12, 1995.) 

Ex-MP calls for shared parenting 

DIVORCE: Sarnia-Lambton's Roger Gallaway says judges should grant equal parenting except in proven cases of abuse 

By IAN GILLESPIE, The London Free Press
Last Updated: March 10, 2010 8:35am

When it comes to gaining access to their kids, a growing number of divorced fathers say they've been stymied by a police and court system that reflexively views women as believable and men as violent.


It's an emotional topic that dismays many of those who work in the field of domestic violence.


But a growing number of men's groups -- and a private member's bill (C-422) that would amend the Divorce Act by instructing judges to grant equal shared parenting except in proven cases of abuse -- are advancing this view. 

One man I spoke to, for instance, says his ex-wife falsely accused him of slamming a van door on her leg. And even though that assault charge was later withdrawn by the Crown attorney, the man says the allegations damaged his reputation during proceedings with a family court judge who restricted his access to his kids. 

It's those kinds of situations that the fledgling London Equal Parenting Committee will explore during "an evening of awareness in relation to domestic violence" Thursday at Crouch Library. 

The evening's main speaker is Roger Gallaway, the former Sarnia-Lambton MP who co-chaired a 1998 federal report called For The Sake Of The Children, which examined issues surrounding child custody. 

"What I find distressing is the lack of objectivity around this whole subject," says Gallaway, who represented his riding for the Liberal party from 1993 to 2006. "There has to be some type of balance put into the discussion. And it's sadly lacking." 

Gallaway regrets that none of the 1998 report's recommendations -- including a call for stricter rules regarding the reporting of abuse -- were ever adopted.
"An allegation of violence is a weapon," he says. "And in Ontario we have a zero-tolerance policy, which generally speaking says that when allegations are made, it's the male who's removed (from the residence). And that then casts the die for what will occur in terms of child custody or access."
Gallaway adds that more and more people are starting to realize that more and more deserving fathers are being shortchanged when it comes to contentious custody battles. 

"There's a growing constituency . . . that sees what's occurring and knows these men aren't bad people," he says. "So the doubt about what is being said about (so-called) violent men is growing." 

Longtime domestic violence expert Peter Jaffe acknowledges "there are cases that involve false allegations, but they're a small minority."


Jaffe insists, however, that there are enough checks and balances already embedded within the justice system to filter out dubious allegations.


"The No. 1 problem we have in 2010 is people living with violence and abuse and not getting help for it," says Jaffe, academic director of UWO's Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children. "What's needed is more resources." 

What's really needed, of course, is a co-operative culture where estranged parents do what's best for their kids. But that's about as likely as me having a baby. 

IF YOU GO
 
What: Domestic Violence in Divorce: Propaganda and other Fictions, presented by the London Equal Parenting Committee and featuring Roger Gallaway.

When: Thursday, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.


Where: Crouch Library, 550 Hamilton Rd.

Admission: Free (for details call 519-614-8713 or e-mail lepcinfo@gmail.com)
Ian Gillespie is a Free Press city columnist.

Mendacity, incompetence, and misandry shows up in Maine again ~ Most often children die at hands of young men

Mike Dowd, Editor

Bangor Daily News

Mr. Dowd:

I have received no information back with respect to my earlier email giving you links to the correct information on Child maltreatment and killing. I have, as a result, written my own op-ed piece in 3 of my blogs as shown below.

Feel free to pass this on to Ricci who deserves to be drummed out of his position as a Doctor and a person consulted by Police. He has done untold damage to innocent men and dads with his unforgivable incompetence.

If you google "Mendacity, incompetence,  and misandry shows up in Maine again" you will find my article.

Mike Murphy

The following article appeared in the Bangor Maine Daily News Newspaper here and below on March 6, 2010. In it the author, Dawn Gagnon, quotes statistics but one has to doubt their veracity given they have not been fact checked. Further they quote a Dr. Lawrence Ricci of Portland, the state’s only child abuse pediatrician and an expert often consulted by law enforcement officials and others for his 22 years of experience in the field. 

Its no wonder dads and men get a raw deal with Police, in the media, and the courts because incompetents like this fellow are considered experts and the media publishes the information as gospel and the Feminists in DV shelters and elsewhere use it as ammunition to vilify men and fathers. It is misandry at its worse.

Here's a quote from the "expert" Ricci  with respect to male perpetrators of child abuse and killing of children "

“That’s certainly the case in Maine, and it’s certainly the case nationally,” Ricci said Friday in a telephone interview.

In Maine and in the United States, the perpetrators of serious physical child abuse or homicide are most likely fathers, next are nonbiological father figures such as stepfathers or mothers’ boyfriends, and then sitters, Ricci said. Mothers are the fourth-most-likely perpetrators and “well down on the list,” he said."

Here's the truth from the most recent National Stats by the Department of Health in Washington, DC from 2007 and the trend is the same over many years going back.

The link to the information is here:

Table 4-5 Perpetrator Relationships to Child Fatalities, 

2007 Child Maltreatment 2007

Relationship to Child	Child Fatalities
	Number	Percent
PARENT	Blank Cell
Mother	347	27.1
Mother and Other	96	7.5
Father	208	16.3
Father and Other	11	0.9
Mother and Father	232	18.1
NONPARENT	Blank Cell
Daycare Staff	24	1.9
Foster Parent (Female Relative)	0	0.0
Foster Parent (Male Relative)	0	0.0
Foster Parent (Nonrelative)	3	0.2
Foster Parent (Unknown Relationship)	3	0.2
Friend or Neighbor	2	0.2
Legal Guardian (Female)	0	0.0
Legal Guardian (Male)	0	0.0
More than One Nonparental Perpetrator	52	4.1
Other Professional	2	0.2
Partner of Parent (Female)	4	0.3
Partner of Parent (Male)	35	2.7
Relative (Female)	29	2.3
Relative (Male)	20	1.6
Staff Group Home	2	0.2
Unknown or Missing	210	16.4
Total	1,280	Blank Cell
Percent	Blank Cell	100.0

Perpetrator Relationships to Child Fatalities, 2007
This table first lists perpetrator relationships including mother, mother and father, father, mother and other, father and other, female daycare staff, more than one nonparental perpetrator, unknown, etc. In the next column is listed the number of child fatalities from the specified perpetrator. The third column lists the percentage. More than 27 percent (27.1%) of child fatalities were perpetrated by a mother acting alone.

Moms and another are more than twice as likely to kill a child as a dad and another

Victims by Perpetrator Relationship, 2007

This pie chart presents victims by relationship to their perpetrators. More than 80 percent (80.1%) of victims were maltreated by at least one parent. Nearly 40 percent (38.7%) of victims were maltreated by their mother acting on her own.
Note the rate by mom and other is 44.4% while dad and other is 18.8%. The rate by the mother is 2.36 times higher than dad. That is 236% greater. Now how to explain that away to those who believe only men are abusive.

I have sent an email to the newspaper as follows and a letter to the editor.  The editor is Mike Dowd mdowd@bangordailynews.net

Re:  Column 3/6/10 Most often children die at hands of young men  By Dawn Gagnon BDN Staff  http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/138378.html

I read Gagnon's column and was quite surprised at the limited research involved. I would want to make you aware that in the USA and Australia the single mom is the most likely to harm or kill her biological child and this increases with a new boyfriend/partner.

All of the stats going back several years are located on this site http://fathersmensrights.blogspot.com/2010/02/letter-to-british-columbia-ministers.html with respect to a letter I wrote to the British Columbia Government in February/10 with links to the USA government sources for the info.

You are giving an isolated and misinformed picture of child abuse from a very small sample size at the  expense of males. The fact you have done so calls into question your sources, your motives and the ability of the reporter.
 



Michael J. Murphy, March 10, 2010

Most often children die at hands of young men

3/6/10

By Dawn Gagnon
BDN Staff 

BANGOR, Maine — Fathers and father figures are most often the perpetrators of severe physical abuse of children, including cases that result in death, according to law enforcement and child abuse authorities in Maine.

On Feb. 23, Damien Christopher Lynn became the first Maine child to die this year as the result of severe abuse. He is the 12th child under age 18 to die as the result of homicide in the state since 2005.

According to authorities, Damien Lynn suffered injuries including brain trauma, a broken arm and broken ribs.

The man police have accused of killing the boy, Edgard Anziani, was the boyfriend of Damien’s mother. He lived on and off with the mother and child for four months before the homicide, according to court records. Anziani, who is from Lawrence, Mass., was arrested by federal authorities Monday in Bladensburg, Md. He waived extradition and is expected to appear in a Bangor court next week.

Statistics maintained by the Maine Department of Public Safety show that 12 children have died as the result of homicide or manslaughter over the past five years. The numbers show that the youngest, the most vulnerable, are most at risk. Eight victims were under age 3, and most of the children died at the hands of a parent, stepparent or the partner of a parent, according to Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety. Click here to see a list of Maine homicide victims under age 18 from 2005 to present.

“We average about 24 homicides over the course of a year, and in a typical year, we usually have at least a couple that are children,” McCausland said.
The exception was in 2008, McCausland said, when five children were murdered in Maine.

“The vast majority are children who died at the hands of a young man, usually the father or the mother’s boyfriend,” he said.

Dr. Lawrence Ricci of Portland, the state’s only child abuse pediatrician and an expert often consulted by law enforcement officials and others for his 22 years of experience in the field, agrees.

“That’s certainly the case in Maine, and it’s certainly the case nationally,” Ricci said Friday in a telephone interview.

In Maine and in the United States, the perpetrators of serious physical child abuse or homicide are most likely fathers, next are nonbiological father figures such as stepfathers or mothers’ boyfriends, and then sitters, Ricci said.
Mothers are the fourth-most-likely perpetrators and “well down on the list,” he said.

The dozen children who died as the result of severe physical abuse “are just the tip of the iceberg,” Ricci said Friday. Ten times as many Maine children end up in the hospital because of severe physical abuse, and 10 times more are injured but never taken to the hospital, he said.

Common risk factors for child abuse include parents who have been victims themselves; parents who have been in the child welfare system, such as foster care; parental drug and alcohol abuse; criminal history and prior child protective history, Ricci said.

Maternal depression and socioeconomic stressors also are factors, he said.
“Those are some of the big ones,” he said, adding that poverty plays a large role in the problem.

“My colleagues around the country and I have seen almost a doubling in the last two years of significant abuse of babies, we think because of the economic downturn, both because of the economic stress it puts on families directly and because of the loss of available support services,” Ricci said.

“When you can’t provide the basic support services for families, the babies suffer,” he said, adding that the state has had difficulty providing those services.
To that end, Ricci and other child advocates in Maine are hoping that the recently launched “Period of Purple Crying” program, which now operates largely through donations and volunteers, will have an impact.

The educational campaign seeks to teach new parents that prolonged, intense crying often is normal and that parents and caregivers need to give themselves a break when the stress that results from the crying threatens to overwhelm their self-control.

A similar program introduced in upstate New York a few years ago brought about a 50 percent reduction in the number of serious injuries from shaken baby syndrome, Ricci said.

Though the “Period of Purple Crying” program has been available at hospitals in many parts of Maine for more than a year, Ricci said it is still too early to say how effective it has been.

One service that Ricci said he would like to see one day in Maine is long-term home visitation that would specifically target high-risk families. Ideally, the service would be provided until the child reaches school age before development problems from abuse and neglect have a chance to set in.

“Once they do, they are almost impossible to reverse,” he said.

Though it likely wouldn’t have saved Damien Lynn, state law requires a long list of professionals to report suspicions of child abuse and neglect or when a suspicious child death occurs.

The list includes law enforcement officials, clergy, municipal and state officials, school staff and bus drivers and bus attendants, medical and emergency medical professionals, social service workers, mental health providers, child care workers, summer camp personnel, domestic violence counselors, sexual assault counselors, film and photographic print processors, court-appointed guardians or advocates and any other person who is responsible for the care or custody of a child.

Those who are legally required to report suspicions of abuse also must make a reasonable attempt to take color photographs of any areas of trauma that are visible on a child, the law states.

To report child abuse or neglect, call the Maine Child and Family Services hot line, which is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The toll-free number is 800-452-1999, and the TTY line for the deaf and hard of hearing is 800-963-9490.

http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/138378.html

Victim feminist organization in USA mounts campaign to become enablers of child abuse called Parental Alienation

Fathers & Families a Children's, Parent's and Dad's advocacy group in the United States  has been spearheading a campaign to get Parental Alienation into the ongoing research for the upcoming revision of DSM-V ( Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), the American Psychological Association’s reference work for determining whether a person has certain disorders. You can participate by clicking here. The National Association of Women (NOW) a strident,  well funded Marxist Victim Feminist group is playing the gender card on it and mounting a counter claim.

This is excellent for a number of reasons. The first one is this emotional abuse of children is not gendered. There is ample history of it before the courts and in studies to clearly show the non-gendered nature of it. Both moms and dads do it but because it is associated with custody more often than not, and moms in Canada get physical custody in 90% of cases (in the USA 86%) it has more frequency with moms.  Either way it is terrible emotional abuse of children and the target parent.  It will call NOW out to have to explain its posture, which will be the old canards that women are victims of abuse and it is used by men as a court room tactic to continue the abuse and get custody.  Given Lesbians are doing it I wonder what NOW calls that. Wait, I think they have invented something else to rationalize it and I can't wait to hear what it is.  If you have contact with NOW let me know the term they use and their explanation.

Another important factor is related to mendacity and that is how NOW is able to still attract revenue from the gullible politicians to keep them going.  According to NOW women do not abuse. They are benign and only respond defensively or because of hormone imbalances. In other words they are completely controlled by the Patriarchy that nebulous and invisible force of masculinity that rules everything.  The argument is as fallacious today as it was when created but the propaganda machine this organization has works wonders. It matters not that social science shows females initiate violence more than men, lesbians have a higher rate, mutual aggression between genders is about equal and single moms are the largest group to kill or maltreat children on a national scale in the USA and in Australia.  When they start the same kind of campaign ranting on without any scientific proof about Parental Alienation large numbers of credible people in the Social Sciences, Legal, as well as target male and female parents can speak out against it with facts.

Let the debate begin and lets get NOW out in the open to explain their case. Lets get a person to person debate going with people like Glenn Sacks, Mark Rudov and many others with these feminists.  I'm certainly willing to get involved in a forum to bring their house of cards crashing down. It may well be the turning point of the gender wars where if we make them look like the mendacious purveyors of mythology they really are we can get help for men who also suffer from Domestic abuse.


 This is the Action Alert to counter the Fathers & Families campaign under the auspices of  NOW’s Tracy Simmons:

I am writing you, the leaders of various groups that represent battered women, for your help in one of the most important matters we will address this year. The American Psychiatric Association is considering adding Parental Alienation to the Diagnosticians book, which would legitimize this legal tactic into a real disorder.

Parental Alienation Syndrome has now morphed into Parental Alienation Disorder thanks to the fathers’ rights organizations who are wildly pushing this through, and why wouldn’t they? It benefits the abuser and discriminates against the victims of abuse, which are overwhelmingly women.

This gender specific, abuse excuse, junk science can not be allowed to enter into the scientific community as there is nothing scientific about a syndrome/disorder whose only symptoms are a uterus, divorce papers, and bruises. I ask that you all to take action against legitimizing this outrageous theory by e-mailing the APA and asking your groups to do the same.

Lets ensure we stay involved and counter these deniers of severe emotional abuse of children and in so doing clearly show they are enablers of child abuse not protectors of children.  They have only one thing in mind. The continuation of the entitlement system in place for feminists and for them, as always, the end justifies the means.

Fathers & Families has a very good FAQ page on Parental Alienation here. 

Are Vancouver and Delta police acting like Jackbooted Brown Shirts?

You may have heard of the term FemiNazi.  That term applies to mendacious propaganda put out by feminist groups, which vilifies without merit all men as abusers and all women as victims. They use false research and information to support this contention. It can involve false allegations including both physical and sexual abuse of women and children. It is designed solely to ruin men's lives and continue the tax supported entitlement system passed by testicularly challenged politicians. Jack Layton, Ontario Premier  McGuinty, Chris Bentley, AG, Ontario are three examples that come to mind.  It is ironic Layton now has Prostate Cancer so in his case it is more than a metaphor. He is Canada's leading "Girly Man" and political opportunist.

Many DV shelters are the HQ's for this and they actively advise moms and women to bring about allegations of abuse. Lawyers are clever at it couching it in terms of areas where certain behaviours may enhance the getting of permanent custody.  With moms, who get 90% of sole custody, it works well and has for years. It is so embedded in the legal culture that training provided to Judges by the National Judicial Institute incorporates the work of such feminist sycophants as Peter Jaffe, a teacher at the University of Western Ontario. Jafffe turns out very one-sided reports which, with pretty much 100% accuracy, always support the claim of a one sided gendered abuse. The London Police Chief Faulkner, worships at the feet of Jaffe and he has created a corporate culture in London, Ontario similar to Vancouver.

It is no accident Family Court Judges across this vast nation make such consistent decisions favouring moms.  Man is bad - woman is benign.  The real world tells a different story with DV as equally mutual and in the majority of cases initiated by the female.

 One can see the outcome of this culture which is obviously embedded in some Police Services as well. The two thugs, who are supposed to serve and protect as Police Officers, acted like Nazi Goons and what they did to this family is unforgivable.  Are they fired and charged with criminal assault yet?  Has anyone seen a mug shot of them? In fact, has anyone seen their pictures at all?

It seems clear the Delta Police are as corrupt as the Vancouver Police Service and have botched the investigation.  The war on men continues and this is only the tip of the iceberg. Everyday across Canada innocent men are thrown into jail under similar circumstances. The only difference is you don't hear about it. In this case the incompetent thugs got the wrong person.  Even if they had found the right house only an allegation had been made which is not proof of guilt.


The bottom line message that needs repeating over and over is Domestic Violence is not a zero sum problem only applying to women. It is a human and family problem. It is time to change the paradigm and it’s time to stop the political correctness including Nazi style police actions. .  In Canada DV is pretty much equal between men and women with females actually precipitating it at a higher rate than men.  Why do they do this? Simple - because they can - men seldom hit back.  Many men need services as well and its time to provide it rather than just a single gender.

Feminism in this day and age is the true "F" word and sooner or later men will stop "sucking" this up and find their family jewels to become a potent political force.MJM
 

Yao Wei Wu is due to return to hospital to assess damage to his eye.

Photograph by: Handout, Ming Pao newspaper (www.mingpaovan.com)

A Vancouver man who was mistakenly beaten by two police officers says Delta police have botched their investigation of the incident.

In the early hours of Jan. 21, Yao Wei Wu, 44, was woken up, dragged out of his house on Lanark Street and beaten by two police officers in plain clothes.

Wu, a tiling subcontractor, suffered fractures to his face and injuries to his legs and back. His eyes were swollen shut. His wife, Chi Nan Man, who was present during the assault, says she has suffered serious psychological trauma.

Vancouver police subsequently apologized, saying the officers had been called to a domestic-violence incident but had got the wrong address.

Police Chief Jim Chu asked the Delta police to conduct an “independent” investigation into the matter.
But Wu says he is unhappy with the Delta Police Department.

In a statement of claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court, Wu says that although investigators were quickly able to ascertain that officers Nicholas Florkow and Bryan London had perpetrated a serious assault, they’ve breached their duty and conducted a negligent investigation.

The suit says Delta police failed to arrest and detain the two officers, failed to interview them and failed to obtain physical evidence of the trespass and assault, including fingerprints, blood and tissue samples, DNA evidence and photos.

It says Delta police failed to gather physical evidence for tests, failed to interview material witnesses and failed to prepare a report to Crown counsel in a timely way, or at all, and failed to recommend charges be laid.
“The Wu family is very dissatisfied with the investigation of this matter,” says a statement released by Cameron Ward, Wu’s lawyer.

“They feel that charges should have been laid weeks ago and that the men who beat Mr. Wu up are receiving preferential treatment because they are police officers. They don’t believe the Canadian justice system should work this way.”

The statement says the Wu family was asked to file a complaint with the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner but they have no confidence with that process, because it involves police investigating police.

“The OPCC is staffed almost entirely with former police officers who must naturally be uncomfortable finding fault with their former colleagues.”

The plaintiffs are seeking unspecified general and special damages as well as aggravated, exemplary and/or punitive damages.

No statement of defence has been filed by the defendants, which include the city of Vancouver, the two Vancouver cops and the Delta police.

Vancouver police referred questions to Delta police. A spokesman for the Delta police said there would be no comment and added that he couldn’t say when the investigation will be complete.

A statement of claim contains allegations that have not been proven in court.

kfraser@theprovince.com

© Copyright (c) The Province

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Manology: Exploring 21st Century Masculinity

I send spring greetings! I write to let you that my on-going course for men, Manology: Exploring 21st Century Masculinity, will be starting a 12 week spring run on March 11th.  Please feel free to spread the word through your networks.  All men 19 years and older are welcome.  Women - in addition to encouraging you to support men to consider checking out Manology, women will be welcomed as participants on May 6th, in our co-gender dialogue session!!  Here are the Manology course details below: 

Course Description:

Manology is an on-going, drop-in course for men 19 years and older, of all stages, backgrounds, orientations, and ethnicities. It is delivered by a diverse team of educators and facilitators with a wide range of knowledge and skills to share. Men are celebrated and supported, and are offered insight, experiences, and conversations on the physical, mental, and spiritual journey of manhood. It’s for men who are interested in exploring male identity and are ready to encourage other men to do the same. Dates: Thursdays, 7:30 - 9:45 pm, March 11 - May 27 Cost: $12 drop-in, $10 for registered men. Site: Roundhouse Community Centre, downtown Vancouver.

To check out upcoming themes and presenters, or for more info, please visit our website: www.masculinity21st.wordpress.com  

Manology has garnered solid attendance since it's beginning last Sept, as well as media interest.  Print interviews can be found at:

http://www.davidhatfield.ca/media.php   As well, Manology will be featured in an interview on Joy 10 TV  that will air March 20th on a show called "Winds of Change". 

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Mom Tried to get a contractor to "Whack" dad but got caught

Here is a case of Parental Alienation taken to the extreme. Mom wants Dad whacked. The mom's lawyer is spouting the usual drivel about the woman actually being the victim but somehow I think the facts are probably different. Hopefully the lawyer will get his butt sued for slander. They will say anything as long as they are getting paid.  What do courts think they are doing by telling a dad who can't afford it to pay $11,000.00 a month for child support. Courts create far more adversary than not and where was this "poor" mom who wanted dad "whacked" getting the $20,000.00 if she was so desparate.MJM

 

Updated: Sat., Mar. 6, 2010, 4:29 PM

Long Island mom got a cheap 'hit'

By KIERAN CROWLEY, JENNIFER BAIN and DAN MANGAN

Last Updated: 4:29 PM, March 6, 2010

Posted: 2:47 AM, March 6, 2010

An upper-crust Long Island housewife accused of hiring a hit man to off her hubby lamented she could only afford to maim him -- but then was thrilled to learn she could whack him at a bargain-basement price of just $20,000, authorities said yesterday.

That's the stone-cold, cost-calculating mentality of sick soccer mom Susan Williams, 43, who allegedly hired an undercover cop this week to whack her husband of 21 years. She was held yesterday on $1 million bail.
The twisted plot didn't surprise her long-suffering spouse, Peter Williams.

His lawyer said the woman "tortured" the poor man with sick lies during their divorce in a grab for their million-dollar Garden City home and other cushy assets.

She even allegedly turned their four kids -- ages 11 to 19 -- against him.

"I can't believe it took her this long" to try to kill Peter, said his divorce lawyer, Nancy Dreeben.

"She's a desperate woman, and she will just do whatever she needs to do to get what she wants. She's a narcissist."

Dreeben said Susan admitted she cheated on her husband during their marriage -- even bedding the real-estate lawyer for whom she worked before he fired her.


Susan stole marital assets and then, after filing for divorce in 2008, falsely accused Peter -- a 46-year-old fence-company owner -- of physical violence against their kids and of forcing her to have deviate sex, Dreeben said.

Those claims were never substantiated and Susan a year later even willingly agreed to allow Peter visitation rights, the lawyer noted.

Peter Williams, 46, a Baldwin resident who is now working to get custody of his kids, said, "I am thankful that the person that my wife sought to help in hiring a hit man had the decency to contact the appropriate authorities -- otherwise I would probably be dead."

But yesterday, Susan's lawyer painted a different picture, accusing the husband of being abusive and a deadbeat dad.

"There's a long history of problems, physical and sexual," in the marriage, attorney Stanley Kopilow said. "He's not a nice guy."


Susan's dad, Brendan Galligan, sobbed outside his Long Island home while defending his daughter.

"She had no money, and he wasn't paying for anything. She was having a very hard time," Galligan said.

"We tried to help her as best we could as parents, but now this happens," he said. "It's totally devastated my wife and me."


Dreeben admits Peter has failed to pay court-ordered monthly child support of $11,000 because he can't afford it.

She also said that sky-high amount was set by a judge after Susan lied about the couple's finances.


Susan was busted Thursday after authorities secretly recorded her negotiating with the "hit man" -- actually an undercover cop.

Susan had previously asked an unidentified man for help in arranging the attack on her husband, Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice said. That man contacted the DA.

"Initially it was, 'I want him hurt,' " Rice said. "Then it became, 'I want him gone.'

"She didn't think she could afford [a murder]. She didn't realize it was so cheap. When the $20,000 amount was thrown out" by the purported hit man, "she then made it clear what she wanted him to do," the DA said.

After learning the price, Susan allegedly forked over a $500 down payment as well as her husband's photo and personal information, but no more money changed hands.

Additional reporting by Selim Algar and Murray Weiss
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