ARTICLES ROUND-UP

Just an update on a few recent articles worth looking at:

Daily Mail - My wife hugged me and then stabbed me in the back (Penny Marshall) Please read comments section.

This is Leicestershire - Support for male victims of domestic abuse (Ciaran Fagan)

Daily Telegraph - Poor white boys score lower than chinese classmates (Tim Ross)

Daily Telegraph - Mother stunned after being accused of kerb-crawling (Chris Brooke) : Mother attacks police tactics mentioning what would happen if it was a man accused.

Evening Standard - Fathers at risk from legal aid cuts (Martin Bentham)

Daily Mail - The children who never see daddy (James Chapman): 369 comments in this section

Daily Mail - More rights for women has led to fewer jobs in the recession (Harry Phibbs)

Daily Mail - My dad is number one role model

Posted by Skimmington

 

 

Comments

[John Kimble]

Leicestershire story is very interesting, have seen it mentioned before. Does anyone know more about this - as i understand it any Women's Aid groups wanting to help men used to get expelled from the National Federation for doing so!

Not sure if this still applies, nothing in the articles about it but would be nice to find out.

[Skimmington]

I think they have John at a local level rather than a national policy level (though I would not be suprised if they did eventually just becuase they need the money - so it would be a pretend concern).

See here
http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/HELP-MALE-ABUSE-VICTIMS/article-2668448-detail/article.html

[John Kimble]

I appreciate it is at a local level. My point was that a consequence of this might be that the Leicester Women's Aid group gets expelled form the National federation. There was certainly a case of this in Wales.

Typically with Women's Aid and similar groups some of those working with vicitms at a local level actually have far less extreme views than the people running the organisation at a National level. Therefore some of this concern may actually be genuine here.