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		<title>The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap. Why We Should Reconsider Gender Neutral Family Leave Policies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 02:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap by Susan Pinker http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/sexual-paradox.html &#160; Myth &#8211; &#34;Equality under the law&#34; means that men and women are the same in all ways. Fact: &#8211; &#34;Equality&#34; under the law means that WHEN men and women are the same in all ways, the law will treat them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abatteredmother.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13374373&amp;post=1394&amp;subd=abatteredmother&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cut TANF Title IV-D programs which represent $4Billion of waste</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>DV CASES REQUIRE DV EXPERTS: DUH! By Barry Goldstein &#8220;Times-Up&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 02:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DV CASES REQUIRE DV EXPERTS: DUH! By Barry Goldstein I can understand why the court system did not immediately seek to learn from and rely on domestic violence experts when domestic violence first became a public issue in the mid to late 1970s. There was no research available and few domestic violence advocates. A popular [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abatteredmother.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13374373&amp;post=1392&amp;subd=abatteredmother&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Read an Excerpt From Phyllis Chesler&#8217;s Book &#8212; &#8216;Mothers On Trial&#8217; By Phyllis Chesler &#8211;Battered Mothers Loose Custody To Abusers- FoxNews</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Abusive Parent &#8211; The abuser often recruits his children to do his bidding</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Vaknin, click here for link to his website The abuser often recruits his children to do his bidding. He uses them to tempt, convince, communicate, threaten, and otherwise manipulate his target, the children&#8217;s other parent or a devoted relative (e.g., grandparents). He controls his &#8211; often gullible and unsuspecting &#8211; offspring exactly as he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abatteredmother.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13374373&amp;post=1388&amp;subd=abatteredmother&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Children need. . . THIS? standards and practices in child custody evaluations, Family therapy, Supervised Visits and other &#8216;profiteers&#8217; in Family Court (mafia)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children need. . . THIS?&#160;standards and practices in child custody evaluationsCHILD CUSTODY EVALUATORS: IN THEIR OWN WORDS APA Guidelines for Evaluating Parental Responsibility &#8211; parenting evaluations &#8211; child custody IMPORTANT NOTICE: hereANOTHER IMPORTANT NOTICE hereparenting parenting plan or time parental rights and responsibilities for MAIN ARTICLE see hereThis webpage is: CUSTODY EVALUATOR QUOTES at http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/custody-evaluator-quotes.html [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abatteredmother.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13374373&amp;post=1387&amp;subd=abatteredmother&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Custody Disputes Now Tougher for Battered Moms: Mothers On Trial-The Battle for Children and Custody; Motherhood Under Siege</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Phyllis Chesler Organization: More Articles on Motherhood and Child Custody Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody. In this new edition of her 1986 groundbreaking book, Chesler, a psychotherapist and women’s studies scholar, retires dated material and adds eight new chapters. By supporting her original contentions with new cases, the author demonstrates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abatteredmother.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13374373&amp;post=1386&amp;subd=abatteredmother&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GAL Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also See: The Guardian Ad Litem Scandals &#8211; Legislative Reforms Needed http://bit.ly/lSM0x3 &#160;&#160;&#160; GAL Power Marcus Griffith &#34;As a result, she has viewed all allegations of sexual abuse by her children &#8230; as efforts to discredit her and to gain the advantage in a custody battle, rather than wake-up calls to a victim of child [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abatteredmother.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13374373&amp;post=1378&amp;subd=abatteredmother&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Don&#8217;t We End Domestic Violence? Society has the knowledge and ability to prevent a large majority of domestic violence crimes and especially murders.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Don’t We End Domestic Violence? By Barry Goldstein Society has the knowledge and ability to prevent a large majority of domestic violence crimes and especially murders. It is not like cancer or heart disease which would require some fundamental changes in human behavior to achieve massive reductions. We could easily put together a change [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abatteredmother.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13374373&amp;post=1377&amp;subd=abatteredmother&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Guardian Ad Litem Scandals &#8211; Legislative Reforms Needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian Ad Litem Scandals &#8211; Legislative Reforms Needed Posted in Uncategorized by americanmotherspoliticalparty Posted with permissions from: Montana Public Radio, KUFM, which ran on their news broadcast 10-5-2010. Interview with Assistant News Director Edward O&#8217;Brien and Kathleen Russell of the www.CenterForJudicialExcellence.org about the cottage industry of Guardian Ad Litems aka GAL&#8217;s and the much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abatteredmother.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13374373&amp;post=1375&amp;subd=abatteredmother&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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