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A MAN has been found guilty of hitting his teenage son with a wooden spoon during an argument over homework.

The obvious problem with organisations like NAPCAN, like other related organisations such as the NSW Department of Child Services (DoCS), is that somewhere along the line their primary purpose ceased being about the protection of children, and became an ideology with a self-imposed reality of re-inforcing stereotypes of child abuse. Rather than finding out who the abusers were, they now became the protectors of women and children, and the challengers to paternalistic authority.

While rape is traumatic for everyone, boys and men are more likely than girls or women to keep that violence to themselves for extended periods of time — if not, forever — and to grapple with a host of mental and emotional ills that accompany their decision, clinicians said.

“There is a certain stigma attached to male-on-male assaults,” said Jennifer Marsh, hotline director for the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN). “We expect men to be protectors and we find it’s much easier to discuss if it’s a female victim.

We finally managed to speak to someone on the phone after persisting for several weeks, only to be told that NAPCAN did not want to associate itself with single fathers’ groups , and that we would not be hearing from them again.

The Gillard Labor government has tabled amendments to the Family Law act that will in effect create a presumption of guilt against fathers in this country to any allegations of abuse.

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?

Malaysia: The overwhelming majority of child abusers are known to the victims, and they include parents and guardians, the Minister of Women, Family and Community Development, Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, said today. Biological mothers and their boyfriends accounted for 52% of all child abuse, while biological fathers accounted for 8%.

This is a true story of one father’s long fight to protect his innocent infant child from an abusive and neglectful mother and the reckless, immoral and irresponsible decisions made by Family Court Judges in Calgary, Alberta Canada during the years 2006, 2007 and 2008.

It all seems so terribly familiar. A trusted, even respected or beloved teacher is accused of having a sexual relationship with a student. What used to shock us, but is now much too commonplace, is that the teacher is a woman.