It's hard being a man.

Shenshen

leggo wrote: »

I respect that viewpoint but I'm sure you can also appreciate that your own individual situation, while perfectly valid and worth considering, cannot thus speak for or affect the general laws for everyone. It is but one scenario. Your obviously poor relationship with your father could be another person's poor relationship with their mother. It isn't a man vs woman issue.

And I never said it was. What I said is that it's a children's rights issue, not a parent's rights one. Yet in all these debattes, you rarely if ever have anyone considering this. It's always about the mother or the father.

I agree that children's rights are key here above the parents'. But statistics and research are completely necessary to figure out a workable solution to the problem, else you end up where we are with a completely generalised, gender-based law.

Well, 50% of marriages will end in divorce in the Western world.
Does that make you think yours will? Does this figure have any bearing at all on your personal relationship? No?
Then why should those stats about other people's children have anything to do with your's?

Fromthetrees

Piste wrote: »

Just wondering where you heard that? I'm doing research in this area so it would be nice to see if comparable research has been done in other areas.

Warren Farrell

http://www.warrenfarrell.biz/TheBook/index.html

Linda Nielsen

http://www.wfu.edu/~nielsen/nielsenbrochure.pdf

bee_keeper

py2006 wrote: »

I totally agree. That statutory rape law is beyond comprehension. Especially when we are told that girls at that age are more mature then boys.



Unfortunately this is true to a certain extent as well. I only really became aware of this through Boards. There are been a few posters on Boards that just jump in and try to ridicule men for bringing up such topics or try to twist it into women have it worse etc etc.

ive only been here a wet week and ive noticed that too , on top of that it appears to be mainly men who espouse this view , does a particular kind of man tend to frequent boards ?

Super-Rush

You were told last night that this thread wasn't allowed.

I then told you that i would discuss it with the rest of the mods in the interest of fairness.

You haven't been told that you could start another one and we are still discussing it.

Please do not start it again or you will be banned.