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• $$ USA spending 2000-2009, by Federal Agency Before you click, GUESS: Which are the top 3 spenders? 0
• 000_Track Thy Govt (great tools) Open Source (not a govt site), great tracking tools & widgets. Pay attention !! 0
• 000__Know WHAT thy Govt is Funding: HHS TAGGS databasea.k.a. “Do you know where your children ~~ scratch that ~~ $$548 BILLION ~~went?” And why, and whose ideas these were. Mindboggling $$, not to mention concepts. Get to know this site! 0
• 2002 DC Sniper, Family Court Corruption, Federal Fatherhood Fraud, Devoted Dad? Nothing new since then“For three weeks in October, the “Beltway Sniper” terrorized the Metropolitan Washington, DC area. Ten people were shot to death and three seriously wounded while they were doing routine activities like shopping, mowing grass, pumping gas, or going to sch 0
• 2006 GeorgeWBush says, $150 for Healthy Marriages, up to 1/3 Fathrhood ("Deficit Reduction Act") This link leads to a lot of hopeful thinking in the form of Fatherhood and Marriage Grantees. At least it’s organized. See also post 08/14/09 0
• 2006 GeorgeWBush says, $150mil for Healthy Marriages, up to 1/3 Fathrhood ("Deficit Reduction Act") This link leads to a lot of hopeful thinking in the form of Fatherhood and Marriage Grantees. At least it’s organized. See also post 08/14/09 0
• 2010 White House OMB — Proposed DHHS budget This is an overview, but you can navigate easily to the site and look around. Blogger is not happy. 0

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• 000 Handy Dandy Govt Dox site (college library link)Courtesy a university library, of course 0

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• Neurological Basis of the Abuse of Power The site “Selfrepresentedfool.org” speaks some sanity into this topic and others. 0
• Neurological Basis of the Abuse of Power The site “Selfrepresentedfool.org” speaks some sanity into this topic and others. 0

BrowseMe Databases

• 2010 White House OMB — Proposed DHHS budget This is an overview, but you can navigate easily to the site and look around. Blogger is not happy. 0

Issues, per authors

• 2006 – State of American Manhood One of the more relevant pieces around, I blog on this June 2, 2009. Courtesy “postsecondary.org and postsecondaryopportunity.blogspot.com — pls visit! 0
• Kids in Distress in Australia (cf. CourageousKids in the US) Well written discussion, many links. Parallels US situation…”In 1975 the no fault divorce rules came into force. This meant that the normal tests of morality and behavior such as drug addiction, infidelity, gambling, and violence were irrelevant to a d 0
• Richard Gardner says (er, said…) From StopFamilyViolence. Pro-PAS = Pro THIS. FYI, “Stop Family Violence does not agree with the views espoused by Gardner – we find them disgusting, offensive, and most importantly, they are not correct. Gardner’s views are based in his own perverse t 0

Links on Blogroll

• $$ USA spending 2000-2009, by Federal Agency Before you click, GUESS: Which are the top 3 spenders? 0
• 00 Jurisdictionary® work for justice . . insist on due process . . LEARN litigation tools (homestudy/overview) Clear concepts / flowchart…Wish I’d found it before I divorced… I downloaded this shortly before my kids went MIA. Your attorney will not tell you this basic information; it would not be possible to so easily sell you down the river if you knew it. Th 0
• 000 Handy Dandy Govt Dox site (college library link)Courtesy a university library, of course 0
• 000_Bancroft critiques Johnston 1998-Critical Analysis of Janet Johnston’s Typology of Batterers. Why you should care? AFCC (see site) are being trained by such types of understatements of these issues. Bancroft ran one of first batterer’s treatment programs for men, hands-on knowled 0
• 000_Custody Switch Sample Case read after “Bait & Switch.” Classic case. Protective Mom jailed (for protecting, or trying to). 0
• 000_Track Thy Govt (great tools) Open Source (not a govt site), great tracking tools & widgets. Pay attention !! 0
• 000__Custody Bait 'n Switch 101 Explore this Calif. site! (plus NAFCJ.net) to the process — Why aren’t laws enforced? How can this be? ($$$ explained) 0
• 000__Know thy People (pipl link).. A handy site — check out your Experts, Associations, Publications. 0
• 000__Know thy Presidents' Rhetoric An amazing search tool: “The American Presidency Project” he American Presidency Project is the only online resource that has consolidated, coded, and organized into a single searchable database: 0
• 18 categories of reporting Lost in Lima Ohio Who IS this blogger (found 4/22/09)? With 18 categories, and no apparent favoritism, intelligent commentary, and THINKING, its blogs like this (and Chesler, and others) that make me wonder how much, really, am I contributing here? See esp. the heading, “ 0
• 1963 — AFCC — just a little L.A. organization..(Meyer E. & Stanley C.) Tipping the Scales of Justice: AFCC members are: Judges~Lawyers~Mediators~Custody~Evaluators~Psychologists~Researchers~Academics~Parenting Coordinators (HUH??)~Social Workers~Court Administrators~Court Commissioners~ Counselors~Financial Planners. 0
• 1972-2009 Are Women Still "Mad"? (Phyllis Chesler) Mothers on Trial, Woman's Inhumanity to Woman, and more 1972ff (intelligent dialogues from Phyllis Chesler, hard questions, incl. about Domestic Violence / Honor Killings) 0
• 1980ff- Family Law Certification ACFLS was formed in 1980 following certification of the first group of Family Law Specialists. Next to nothing need be known about domestic violence, and child abuse is simply not mentioned in requirements. Interesting, that… 0
• 1981 CPR started (Jessica P., Nancy T., Jane V. plus 3 more)“The Center for Policy Research (CPR) is a private, nonprofit research agency founded in 1981 to work with public and private sector service providers to plan, develop, and test projects that improve the effectiveness & efficiency of human service age 0
• 1984-2005ff "Policy Studies", see "Center for Policy Research." SOME group has to DO what a policy studies group determines must be done. It helps to have staff in common to catch those govt contracts….1984-2005 and still growing, PSI is the executive arm?? of studies produced by CPR for the government. A must-explore site… For example: 0
• 1984-2008 Denver-based PSI, executive arm of CPR-born studies? In 1991, PSI was the first company in the country to operate an outsourced full-service child support office through a contract in Tennessee’s 10th Judicial District. We now run 16 such programs across the country, including the nation’s largest outso 0
• 1985 ACEstudy- Why we need to talk about this…(Robt & Vincent already did…)Childhood sexual abuse relating to adult obesity? ? Kaiser & CDC collaborate to study 0
• 1992 NOMAS-Oh! Brother (Geov P.) … acknowledges anti-feminist backlash…A turning point came at the 5th M&M conference in Los Angeles in 1980, when what had been an explicitly feminist political agenda was challenged by men’s rights presenters wanting to hold a workshop outlining 0
• 1993-Don & Wade get an idea. They have connections..A white house advisor and a child psychologist and “other prominent thinkers” conclude that “Widespread fatherlessness is the most socially consequential problem of our time,” and a multi-million dollar, federally-funded initiative is born…and still pro 0
• 1993-What’s Fair after abuse? asks Jack Jack Straton: “So you are going to take away a father’s rights?” -”By and large, courts in this country have declared wife-beating to be unrelated to a man’s relationship with his child..” 0
• 1993ff-NAFCJ.net (it's not necessary to stay confused about "what happened" in family law) There’s a method to the madness of this system, who’s funding what (whom), and why. History, money trail, documentation 0
• 1994 – Violence Against Women Act, still here.. National Advisory Committee members share their thoughts, ideas, and expertise by submitting recommendations on a variety of priority issues as the federal govt. develops its policies to address the crimes of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating viol 0
• 1995 "The End of Manhood" (rvw by Harvard Educ Publ Group) A Book for Men of Conscience by John Stoltenberg: This book therefore rejects the widespread notion that “manhood” can be somehow revised and redeemed — the contemporary project variously described as “reconstructing,” “reinventing,” “remythologizing,” 0
• 1995 NIJ Natl Instit of Justice (USDOJ/OJP) Address to Congress (See page 27 for section on Family Violence) Since “1994 is VAWA (which is “Title IV” of the Crime Act), and 1994 also marks the start of National Fatherhood Initiative. 1995 marks when then-Pres. Clinton, responding to NFI forces, told the US Exec. Dept 0
• 1995-Bill Clinton, himself faithful to his wife, bemoans fatherlessness and as President instructs the Executive Dept. to reinvent itself. Which, it has… White House Memorandum on Fatherhood primes the federal pump 0
• 2000 –Homeschool group HSLDA morphs to Patrick Henry College near W.D.C., in order to better raise future conservative policymakers(Article) Where conservative Christian, homeschooling org. “HSLDA” meets Patrick Henry College, meets Washington DC (as recounted by a nonbeliever). (Website doesn’t seem to acknowledge domestic violence exists) Location, Location Location: if you’re tra 0
• 2002 DC Sniper, Family Court Corruption, Federal Fatherhood Fraud, Devoted Dad? Nothing new since then“For three weeks in October, the “Beltway Sniper” terrorized the Metropolitan Washington, DC area. Ten people were shot to death and three seriously wounded while they were doing routine activities like shopping, mowing grass, pumping gas, or going to sch 0
• 2002, MINCAVA, The Troubling Admission of Supervised Visitation Records in Custody Proceedings (pdf)For years, judges have asked parties litigating custody cases to find “neutral third parties,” generally a family member or close friend, to supervise visitation. … (for WHY they’ve been asking, see my post of 05-26-09: Federal Funding mandating increa 0
• 2003ff Why, maybe, people are fat, drunk, smoke, depressed, maybe… At what age did YOU become sexually active? A Kaiser / CDC study asked over 17,000 adults this and other questions. 0
• 2005 Calif Judge pleads guilty to porn California Superior Court Judge Nailed for Kiddie Porn (character of this site is not the point here)… 0
• 2005- Calif NOW asks Congress to investigate Fathers Rights Funding Alas, what is CA NOW doing since about 2005 on this issue? HOWEVER about 3 links on the main family law page give some VALuABLE info on history of family law system (see Calif. Court Report 2002). Though I am not a member, or anything of a radical femini 0
• 2006 – State of American Manhood One of the more relevant pieces around, I blog on this June 2, 2009. Courtesy “postsecondary.org and postsecondaryopportunity.blogspot.com — pls visit! 0
• 2006 GeorgeWBush says, $150 for Healthy Marriages, up to 1/3 Fathrhood ("Deficit Reduction Act") This link leads to a lot of hopeful thinking in the form of Fatherhood and Marriage Grantees. At least it’s organized. See also post 08/14/09 0
• 2006 GeorgeWBush says, $150mil for Healthy Marriages, up to 1/3 Fathrhood ("Deficit Reduction Act") This link leads to a lot of hopeful thinking in the form of Fatherhood and Marriage Grantees. At least it’s organized. See also post 08/14/09 0
• 2007ff-”God, Man, Then … Wait, How Does That Go?” (Curtis C./JMMS) “Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality (JMMS) is an online, scholarly, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal.” I will be checking this out. They discuss rhetoric vs practice and how people negotiate gender identities in these places. 0
• 2008 NOMAS opts for NY’s approach “Batterer programs, created in the mid 70’s, were originally designed to “treat” offenders. Today, most programs across the country continue to be entrenched in a treatment-based perspective, despite overwhelming empirical evidence that effective treatmen 0
• 2009 – David Blankenhorn writes Obama, as if his predecessors hadn't "gotten through" to Clinton and Bush, earlier. What posturing!Father-to-Father, “More than half of all U.S. children today are likely to spend at least a significant portion of their childhoods living apart from their fathers. For African American children, tragically, that figure is at least 80 percent.” (Some of t 0
• 2009 June – Natl Institute Justice (NIJ/USDOJ/OJP) Special Rpt – Practical Implic of DV Research for Law Enforcemt, Prosecutors, Judges 95pp, 228 cites. Take a look: “1.6 How widespread is fatal domestic violence?..in 2005, 1,181 females and 329 males were killed by their intimate partners. ..Intimate partner homicides constituted 11% of all homicides/ 30% of all female murders (1976-200 0
• 2010 White House OMB — Proposed DHHS budget This is an overview, but you can navigate easily to the site and look around. Blogger is not happy. 0
• Anonymums – Australian but not exclusively national.Several links. Take some time here. 0
• Another Outspoken MomFurther and ongoing coverage of fundamental issues // news commentary 0
• Evangelical Christianity's Catch-22 on Violence The practice of hiding, ignoring, and even perpetuating the emotional and physical abuse of women is … rampant within evangelical Christian fellowships and as slow as our legal systems have been in dealing with violence against women by their husbands, 0
• Getting the Guns-SCal Law Review, problems with CA SB 218 (Michelle Deutchmann) thoughtful discussion All too often, the difference between a battered woman and a dead woman is the presence of a gun. //E]nforcement is the Achilles’ heel of the . . . process, because an order without enforcement at best offers scant protection and at worstncreases the vi 0
• JusticeWomen — if you read NOTHING else, understand this short concept, and be aware! Over the last 15 years, the U.S. violence against women movement has become increasingly embedded in the very institutions we most need to change. The feminist rape and domestic violence centers of yesterday have become morphed into the quasi governmental 0
• Kids in Distress in Australia (cf. CourageousKids in the US) Well written discussion, many links. Parallels US situation…”In 1975 the no fault divorce rules came into force. This meant that the normal tests of morality and behavior such as drug addiction, infidelity, gambling, and violence were irrelevant to a d 0
• Law/Legal Research sites, Courtesy Patrick Henry CollegeDon’t forget to view “Bible College That Leads to the White House” @ http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0421-09.htm 0
• More Acroynms: HHS in re OWH (Office of Women's Health) Directions Collaborations The Office on Women’s Health (OWH) was established in 1991 within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its Vision is to ensure that “All Women and Girls are Healthier and Have a Better Sense of Well Being.” Its mission is to “provide leadersh 0
• Richard Gardner says (er, said…) From StopFamilyViolence. Pro-PAS = Pro THIS. FYI, “Stop Family Violence does not agree with the views espoused by Gardner – we find them disgusting, offensive, and most importantly, they are not correct. Gardner’s views are based in his own perverse t 0
• StopFamilyViolence-Org (chart: Family Law v DV priorities) This chart is very helpful in understanding why Family Law does not deal well with Domestic Violence (or Child Abuse). The priorities are different. PLS NOTE: on “Related Blogs/URLs” my link to this organization is a misdirect. Having trouble correcti 0
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Ltrs to/from US Presidents ~ Federal Agencies

• 1993-Don & Wade get an idea. They have connections..A white house advisor and a child psychologist and “other prominent thinkers” conclude that “Widespread fatherlessness is the most socially consequential problem of our time,” and a multi-million dollar, federally-funded initiative is born…and still pro 0
• 1995 NIJ Natl Instit of Justice (USDOJ/OJP) Address to Congress (See page 27 for section on Family Violence) Since “1994 is VAWA (which is “Title IV” of the Crime Act), and 1994 also marks the start of National Fatherhood Initiative. 1995 marks when then-Pres. Clinton, responding to NFI forces, told the US Exec. Dept 0
• 1995-Bill Clinton, himself faithful to his wife, bemoans fatherlessness and as President instructs the Executive Dept. to reinvent itself. Which, it has… White House Memorandum on Fatherhood primes the federal pump 0
• 2006 GeorgeWBush says, $150mil for Healthy Marriages, up to 1/3 Fathrhood ("Deficit Reduction Act") This link leads to a lot of hopeful thinking in the form of Fatherhood and Marriage Grantees. At least it’s organized. See also post 08/14/09 0
• 2009 – David Blankenhorn writes Obama, as if his predecessors hadn't "gotten through" to Clinton and Bush, earlier. What posturing!Father-to-Father, “More than half of all U.S. children today are likely to spend at least a significant portion of their childhoods living apart from their fathers. For African American children, tragically, that figure is at least 80 percent.” (Some of t 0

Organizations

• 1963 — AFCC — just a little L.A. organization..(Meyer E. & Stanley C.) Tipping the Scales of Justice: AFCC members are: Judges~Lawyers~Mediators~Custody~Evaluators~Psychologists~Researchers~Academics~Parenting Coordinators (HUH??)~Social Workers~Court Administrators~Court Commissioners~ Counselors~Financial Planners. 0
• 1980ff- Family Law Certification ACFLS was formed in 1980 following certification of the first group of Family Law Specialists. Next to nothing need be known about domestic violence, and child abuse is simply not mentioned in requirements. Interesting, that… 0
• 1981 CPR started (Jessica P., Nancy T., Jane V. plus 3 more)“The Center for Policy Research (CPR) is a private, nonprofit research agency founded in 1981 to work with public and private sector service providers to plan, develop, and test projects that improve the effectiveness & efficiency of human service age 0
• 1984-2008 Denver-based PSI, executive arm of CPR-born studies? In 1991, PSI was the first company in the country to operate an outsourced full-service child support office through a contract in Tennessee’s 10th Judicial District. We now run 16 such programs across the country, including the nation’s largest outso 0
• 1993ff-NAFCJ.net (it's not necessary to stay confused about "what happened" in family law) There’s a method to the madness of this system, who’s funding what (whom), and why. History, money trail, documentation 0
• 2000 –Homeschool group HSLDA morphs to Patrick Henry College near W.D.C., in order to better raise future conservative policymakers(Article) Where conservative Christian, homeschooling org. “HSLDA” meets Patrick Henry College, meets Washington DC (as recounted by a nonbeliever). (Website doesn’t seem to acknowledge domestic violence exists) Location, Location Location: if you’re tra 0
• 2005- Calif NOW asks Congress to investigate Fathers Rights Funding Alas, what is CA NOW doing since about 2005 on this issue? HOWEVER about 3 links on the main family law page give some VALuABLE info on history of family law system (see Calif. Court Report 2002). Though I am not a member, or anything of a radical femini 0
• 2009 – David Blankenhorn writes Obama, as if his predecessors hadn't "gotten through" to Clinton and Bush, earlier. What posturing!Father-to-Father, “More than half of all U.S. children today are likely to spend at least a significant portion of their childhoods living apart from their fathers. For African American children, tragically, that figure is at least 80 percent.” (Some of t 0
• JusticeWomen — if you read NOTHING else, understand this short concept, and be aware! Over the last 15 years, the U.S. violence against women movement has become increasingly embedded in the very institutions we most need to change. The feminist rape and domestic violence centers of yesterday have become morphed into the quasi governmental 0
• More Acroynms: HHS in re OWH (Office of Women's Health) Directions Collaborations The Office on Women’s Health (OWH) was established in 1991 within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its Vision is to ensure that “All Women and Girls are Healthier and Have a Better Sense of Well Being.” Its mission is to “provide leadersh 0
• Richard Gardner says (er, said…) From StopFamilyViolence. Pro-PAS = Pro THIS. FYI, “Stop Family Violence does not agree with the views espoused by Gardner – we find them disgusting, offensive, and most importantly, they are not correct. Gardner’s views are based in his own perverse t 0

Overviews

• 18 categories of reporting Lost in Lima Ohio Who IS this blogger (found 4/22/09)? With 18 categories, and no apparent favoritism, intelligent commentary, and THINKING, its blogs like this (and Chesler, and others) that make me wonder how much, really, am I contributing here? See esp. the heading, “ 0
• 2002 DC Sniper, Family Court Corruption, Federal Fatherhood Fraud, Devoted Dad? Nothing new since then“For three weeks in October, the “Beltway Sniper” terrorized the Metropolitan Washington, DC area. Ten people were shot to death and three seriously wounded while they were doing routine activities like shopping, mowing grass, pumping gas, or going to sch 0
• 2010 White House OMB — Proposed DHHS budget This is an overview, but you can navigate easily to the site and look around. Blogger is not happy. 0
• JusticeWomen — if you read NOTHING else, understand this short concept, and be aware! Over the last 15 years, the U.S. violence against women movement has become increasingly embedded in the very institutions we most need to change. The feminist rape and domestic violence centers of yesterday have become morphed into the quasi governmental 0
• Kids in Distress in Australia (cf. CourageousKids in the US) Well written discussion, many links. Parallels US situation…”In 1975 the no fault divorce rules came into force. This meant that the normal tests of morality and behavior such as drug addiction, infidelity, gambling, and violence were irrelevant to a d 0
• Richard Gardner says (er, said…) From StopFamilyViolence. Pro-PAS = Pro THIS. FYI, “Stop Family Violence does not agree with the views espoused by Gardner – we find them disgusting, offensive, and most importantly, they are not correct. Gardner’s views are based in his own perverse t 0
• StopFamilyViolence-Org (chart: Family Law v DV priorities) This chart is very helpful in understanding why Family Law does not deal well with Domestic Violence (or Child Abuse). The priorities are different. PLS NOTE: on “Related Blogs/URLs” my link to this organization is a misdirect. Having trouble correcti 0

US Govt Sites, search tools

• 000 Handy Dandy Govt Dox site (college library link)Courtesy a university library, of course 0
• 2006 GeorgeWBush says, $150 for Healthy Marriages, up to 1/3 Fathrhood ("Deficit Reduction Act") This link leads to a lot of hopeful thinking in the form of Fatherhood and Marriage Grantees. At least it’s organized. See also post 08/14/09 0
• 2010 White House OMB — Proposed DHHS budget This is an overview, but you can navigate easily to the site and look around. Blogger is not happy. 0
• More Acroynms: HHS in re OWH (Office of Women's Health) Directions Collaborations The Office on Women’s Health (OWH) was established in 1991 within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its Vision is to ensure that “All Women and Girls are Healthier and Have a Better Sense of Well Being.” Its mission is to “provide leadersh 0

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