A Toronto mother wanted on numerous arrest warrants including alleged frauds dating back nine years faces up
to 10 years in prison for keeping her four children from their dad. Armed with a warrant issued by a local
judge to turn the kids, aged two to eight, over to their father's brother in Toronto, officers arrested the
woman Friday.
The court order in Toronto was made at the behest of the children's father in Calgary, who was given custody
after breaking up with their mother, Toronto Police Det. Bob McCran said yesterday.
The order to hand over the kids to their uncle meant they didn't have to go to child welfare authorities
or their mother's parents and grandparents, who live here.
McCran said the children joined their mom for a permitted visit to Toronto but did not come back by the
specified deadline. A Calgary court issued a warrant on Dec. 22 for the mom's arrest.
When officers at 11 Division picked up the children, they learned the woman was wanted in Toronto and
Ottawa on outstanding arrest warrants related to credit card and cheque transactions totalling $5,000.
Olena Sophie Jemetz, 32, is charged with 21 offences including abduction of children, contravention of a
custody order and impersonation to commit crime
Lesbians who split up sue sperm donor for child financial
support
Two lesbians sue sperm donor for child financial support when the lesbians
split up.
A key court decision to grant a father custody of his daughters after the
mother flouted contact orders for four years was today welcomed by
campaigners.
Fathers 4 Justice said that the High Court ruling was a vital victory and
called for more judges to take a similar stance when faced with resistant
parents.
The comments come after Mrs Justice Bracewell transferred the residence of
two young girls to their father because the mother persistently refused him
contact, despite court orders. Read More ..
Wayne Warburton, a research fellow at Macquarie University's Children and Families Research Centre, said: "Mothers have a really powerful effect on the way their kids view the world and themselves, probably because kids spend Read More ..me with their mothers, especially in the crucial early years."
Dr Warburton asked 441 university students to fill out detailed questionnaires on the parenting styles of their mothers and fathers, and on their own patterns of thinking.
He asked them to recall 72 parenting behaviours, including "making a child feel ashamed", being unloving or rejecting, and frequently telling the child they were stupid or would fail. He also asked questions designed to uncover destructive thinking patterns in the students, such as being "clingy" out of a fear of being abandoned.
He found young adults were two-thirds as likely to develop unhelpful patterns of thinking if the toxic parenting they had experienced came from their father rather than their mother.
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This overview paper summarizes recent research on girls who exhibit aggressive
and violent behaviours. It defines relevant terms, outlines factors which may
contribute to girls' aggression and violence, and presents ideas for preventing
these behaviours. A list of resources is also included. 2002, 13p.
A Not Very Funny Valentine
"The Vagina Monologues" are coming to a theater near you … again.
Eve Ensler's politically correct-feminist play is being dusted off on campuses
and in communities around North America for production, often at taxpayer expense.
By Wendy McElroy
January 27, 2004
Since 1998, the play has been part of a drive to convert Feb. 14 from chocolates
and Valentines to Vaginas and Violence.
OTTAWA - The number of Canadians behind bars rose in 2005-06 for the first
time in a decade, as Read More ..ults were jailed while awaiting trial or sentencing.
However, the average number of young people aged 12 to 17 in custody on any
given day continued a decline that began with adoption of the Youth Criminal
Justice Act in 2003.
