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Friday 28 September 2007

Archive for September, 2007

Police: Mom tried to frame daughter for killings

Friday 28 September 2007 @ 11:02 am

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A woman suspected of killing two husbands was charged with attempted murder Thursday after authorities said she poisoned her daughter and tried to cast suspicion on the younger woman for the two men’s deaths.

Comments (0) | Posted in crime + punishment, outrage

Drama teacher accused of sex with student is jailed indefinitely

Thursday 27 September 2007 @ 2:07 pm

An 18-year-old who said she began a sexual relationship with Santaluces High School drama teacher Andrew Foster when she was 16 testified Monday that she loved him deeply.

Comments (0) | Posted in bias, crime + punishment

Mom convicted of killing her 4 children gets life

Wednesday 26 September 2007 @ 6:55 pm

Indiana woman admits to giving young kids sleeping pills, strangling them

Comments (0) | Posted in child abuse, crime + punishment, domestic violence

Men with deep voices may be more fertile, study finds

Wednesday 26 September 2007 @ 2:15 pm

The study, published online this week in the journal Biology Letters, examined the reproductive patterns of the Hadza, a Tanzanian hunter-gatherer tribe that lives much the same way that human beings did 200,000 years ago.

Comments (0) | Posted in biology, human nature, men + women, sex and metropolis, sex science

Amnesty offered to ‘deadbeats’ who pay

Wednesday 26 September 2007 @ 2:13 pm

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Lancaster County Domestic Relations Office has declared Thursday and Friday “amnesty days” for parents who owe child support and are wanted on outstanding bench warrants.

Comments (0) | Posted in child support

Good Samaritan Sex Offender

Tuesday 25 September 2007 @ 11:19 pm

The police report improbably charged that Palacios solicited sex from the undercover officer, even as his wife sat in the passenger seat, and his daughter was on her way out from getting a beverage. Makes you wonder how many men have been wrongfully arrested for solicitation who didn’t have their wives and daughters nearby to vouch for them. Also makes those websites cities put up posting mugshots of suspected (not convicted) johns all the more invidious.

Comments (1) | Posted in bias, crime + punishment, misconduct, sex and metropolis

A sex crime by any other name: Experts refute idea that age-of-consent sex crimes against boys are ‘victimless’

Tuesday 25 September 2007 @ 11:17 pm

The defense attorney for a former kindergarten teacher charged with sexually molesting two 15-year-old boys describes the one-night incident in Corte Madera as a victimless crime.

Comments (0) | Posted in bias, crime + punishment, sex and metropolis, sex politics

When Ties to a Parent Are Cut by the Other

Monday 24 September 2007 @ 12:35 pm

Most people would agree that one parent has the power to turn a child against the other parent; however, classifying the behavior as a mental health syndrome, as Dr. Baker does, has met with considerable criticism in the past. “It’s been a very controversial area,” said Dr. Baker, 48, who lives in Teaneck, N.J., and has a doctorate in psychology from Teachers College at Columbia.

Comments (0) | Posted in Parental Alienation, child abuse, psychology, sex and metropolis

Connecticut Governor Cancels Plan To Charge Custodial Parents For Child Support

Monday 24 September 2007 @ 12:33 pm

HARTFORD, Conn. — Governor Rell says she’s telling the state officials to cancel plans to deduct a $25 annual fee from about 15,000 child support checks sent to custodial parents.

Comments (0) | Posted in child support

Women with ‘intrinsic drive for motherhood” set future traits

Sunday 23 September 2007 @ 8:08 pm

…women who leave the most descendants will be those with an intrinsic drive for motherhood. Over time, she suggests, those genetic traits that influence women away from motherhood will become less prominent.

Comments (0) | Posted in human nature, sex and metropolis, sex science