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Symposium
Question:
Should courts allow DNA testing to determine paternity in
child-support cases?
YES: If DNA is used to free death-row inmates, we should
accept it in paternity cases.
State legislators have sought
to ease the financial burden of welfare payments by demanding
that aid recipients name the fathers of their children. Laws
that once sought to distribute welfare payments by collecting
money from former spouses and lovers have been manipulated
into tools for extorting child-support payments from men who
did not father the children ....
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NO: Biology shouldn't always be considered as destiny in
child-support cases.
Unfair? It may seem that way.
But what about the child? Regardless of the circumstances of
conception, for the child this is the only father he or she
has known. If this man disappears from the child's life, the
child not only loses his financial support, but suffers the
well-known emotional effects of being abandoned by a
parent....
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Boys have been painted as the bad guys in the push to encourage girls to
succeed, leaving many young men feeling confused and alienated, wondering what
they did wrong
The Associated Press
January 5, 1999
According to psychologist and author William Pollack, 'sports are the
one arena in which many of society's traditional strictures about masculinity
are often loosened, allowing boys to experience parts of themselves they rarely
experience elsewhere.'
When Harvard Medical School psychologist William Pollack administered a test
to a group of 150 teenaged boys a few years ago, the results were shocking.
The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It
Authors- Waren Farrell PhD and John Gray PhD
What is the boy crisis?
It's a crisis of education. Worldwide, boys are 50 percent less likely than girls to meet basic proficiency in reading, math, and science.
It's a crisis of mental health. ADHD is on the rise. And as boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls to six times that of young women.
It's a crisis of fathering. Boys are growing up with less-involved fathers and are more likely to drop out of school, drink, do drugs, become delinquent, and end up in prison.
It's a crisis of purpose. Boys' old sense of purpose-being a warrior, a leader, or a sole breadwinner-are fading. Many bright boys are experiencing a "purpose void," feeling alienated, withdrawn, and addicted to immediate gratification.
So, what is The Boy Crisis? A comprehensive blueprint for what parents, teachers, and policymakers can do to help our sons become happier, healthier men, and fathers and leaders worthy of our respect.
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"... the existence of a double standard in the care and
treatment of male victims, and the invisibility and normalization of
violence and abuse toward boys and young men in our society.
Despite the fact that over 300 books and articles on male
victims have been published in the last 25 to 30 years, boys and teen males
remain on the periphery of the discourse on child abuse.
Few workshops about males can be found at most child abuse
conferences and there are no specialized training programs for clinicians.
Male-centred assessment is all but non-existent and treatment programs are
rare. If we are talking about adult males, the problem is even
greater. A sad example of this was witnessed recently in Toronto. After a
broadcast of The Boys of St. Vincent, a film about the abuse of boys
in a church-run orphanage, the Kids' Help Phone received over 1,000
calls from distraught adult male survivors of childhood sexual abuse. It is
tragic in a way no words can capture that these men had no place to turn to
other than a children's crisis line."
Nearly one in 10 girls and one in 20 boys say they have been raped or
experienced some other form of abusive violence on a date, according to
a study released Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Psychological
Association.
Boys have been painted as the bad guys in the push to encourage girls to succeed, leaving many young men feeling
confused and alienated, wondering what they did wrong
The Associated Press
According to psychologist and author William Pollack, 'sports are the one arena in which many of society's
traditional strictures about masculinity are often loosened, allowing boys to experience parts of themselves they
rarely experience elsewhere.'
When Harvard Medical School psychologist William Pollack administered a test to a group of 150 teenaged boys a few
years ago, the results were shocking.
