NADADs

The more I read, the more bizarre it got.
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled this week on a case where an allegation of spousal abuse – never substantiated – is the heart of a troubling story that has concluded in law, but has certainly not brought any sense of moral closure to those who track gender bias in the courts. Quite the opposite, in fact.

In a stunning and unusual family law decision, a Toronto judge has stripped a mother of custody of her three children after the woman spent more than a decade trying to alienate them from their father.

SHINER, Texas (AP) — Hearing his 5-year-old daughter crying from behind a barn, a father ran and discovered the unthinkable: A man molesting her. The father pulled the man off his daughter, authorities say, and started pummeling him to death with his fists.

Oregon's Department of Justice has agreed to pay 300 thousand dollars to a Bend family, to settle their allegation the state acted improperly during a sexual abuse investigation. Questions about the state's handling of that investigation made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

A report into the death of nearly 200 young people in contact with child-protection services has been described as "deeply shocking".

DALLAS - Authorities said they received a report Wednesday of a woman advertising the sale of her baby boy in a classified advertisement. By Friday afternoon, mother and child were in custody.

It’s not often that a Crown attorney urges leniency in sentencing, but that was the case when Shannon William Benoit went before the judge to find out what would happen to him Monday.

PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY - Scrutiny of a child welfare agency could get worse as yet another foster parent is about to face sex crime charges in Prince Edward County.

Our good friend to the north, Paulette MacDonald sends us the below on behalf of her organization, the Canadian Equal Parenting Council.  It’s a nationwide organization dedicated to the proposition that all parents are created equal and the kids need both of them.  Here’s what she said in a letter to the London Free Press and to us.

Chatham-Kent police are looking for those responsible for breaking three windows at the Chatham-Kent Children’s Integrated Services building