When Kamaljit Kaur returned to her home in the Netherlands, she intended to wrap up her life there and start a new one in Canada. But on February 1, she was found dead in her living room in The Hague, allegedly murdered by her estranged husband’s best friend. Now her children are in immigration limbo ...
Divorces tends to leave women with less money and ultimately poorer health than single mothers studies have shown. There can be many reasons why women are financially hit when a divorce occurs. Unfortunately, the study created to find the differences in after-divorce situations found no conclusive reasons why. But they are fairly easy to imagine. ...
Everyone knows that the courts have traditionally favoured divorced mothers getting custody of children. Fathers and fathers’ rights groups have been speaking out about this for years and they will (hopefully) finally get some resolution. There has been a major consultation on the family justice review in the UK and it closes this week. The intention of ...
A British government Council wanted to force a happily married woman with an IQ of 53 on to birth control pills. This was rejected by the courts but has raised some interesting questions about how far a government can go for the safety of the unborn children and why they think this is okay. The ...
Are you sick of your husband and want a divorce? Do you think your daughter is marrying the wrong man? Well if you are lucky enough to live in Japan you can hire a “splitter-upper” to do the deed for you.
Every parent has the right to educate their children about sex and sexual health. But involving them in their own sex play with a webcam is harmful and abusive. This is what happened in a case in Texas with a father and his three daughters, one of whom is eight-years-old.
A weather-beaten eye cast over the media: HatManJim looks at a story in the headlines and as a feminist with a penis (Menimist? Femi-meni-mist? I just believe i n women’s rights, I’m not having gender-reassignment. OK?), attempts to map the sexism inherent in the press, without inadvertently saying anything lecherous about breasts.
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
