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Parental Alienation is a well established condition that is widely considered a form of child abuse, and clearly a form of spousal abuse/ex-spousal abuse too. However would you recognize parental alienation if it was happening to your child and to you?

Australian Federal Police officers concealed evidence and submitted false documents in the prosecution of an Australian pilot on child sex charges, resulting in his wrongful conviction, the man’s lawyers claim. Fred Martens, who spent 940 days in a Queensland prison after being convicted of the rape of a 14-year-old Papua New Guinea girl in Port Moresby, is suing the federal government for $45 million.

A GROUP of male passengers travelling in a female-only carriage on New Delhi’s new metro system were ordered to do sit-ups on the platform by the furious women, according to reports. At least one carriage is reserved for women on every metro train in the Indian capital, where female residents and tourists have complained about [...]

Firstly, the gender-centric message gives the impression – perhaps unintentionally – that domestic violence and partner abuse is only committed by men. The best evidence suggests that this is far from the truth. When the Australian Bureau of Statistics in its Personal Safety Survey, Australia, 2006 (ABS Catalogue No. 4906.0) surveyed the extent to which respondents had experienced physical assault in the home within the previous 12 months, it found that 60,900 men (compared to 125,100 women) had experienced such domestic violence by a perpetrator of the opposite sex.

A coalition of domestic violence researchers, counsellors, psychologists and men’s health workers has asked the Minister for Women Kate Ellis to investigate the possible misuse of Federal anti-violence funding by the White Ribbon Foundation. The Foundation has been allocated $1 million over 4 years to help their White Ribbon Ambassadors work in regional, rural and remote communities – particularly in high schools – to influence the change of attitudes and behaviours that perpetuate violence against women in Australian society.

Last week, for the first time in my eight years on Sunrise, I was specifically excluded by a guest from interviewing them because of my gender. Not that Hollywood star Portia De Rossi didn’t like me personally (which I could probably understand) but simply because I was a male.

Since 1980, the number of single dads in the U.S. has doubled to nearly 1.6 million. The number of single father parenting is growing an average of six percent each year, which is double the rate for single moms.

“We had shared parental custody, so she wouldn’t be able take him to another state, let alone another country, without a written court order from me,” Dall said last week. “We’ve got a loving, supportive family that’s (standing behind us). We’re all heartbroken.”

A squad of New York police officers in bulletproof vests swooped into an upper Manhattan park and charged seven men with the “crime” of playing chess in a park. The men were detained and each were issued a sumons for attending a park area that was off-limits to adults unaccompanied by kids – even though there were no oher youngsters present at the time.

A recent case in Canada involving a couple that engaged in consensual kinky sex is testing the limits of the concept of prior consent. In the case, a man and woman had agreed to asphyxiation during sex, but when the woman was asphyxiated she says she came to and found out, she claims to have repealed her consent.