On Sunday night the news broke that a 13 year old girl had died after having a fight with her father. Not long after the media started speculating that she must have been mentally ill. Surprise! An article in English has this to tell:
Odense man charged with murder says he was only trying to knock [...]
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From the Copenhagen Post:
A Jutland couple who made money from allowing men to have sex with two foreign teens living with them had their sentence extended
The Western High Court in Århus today upheld the guilty sentence of a man and woman sentenced to prison for keeping two teenage Slovakian girls in their house as sex [...]
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A couple of days ago a study was published here in DK, and every major news source covered its findings. Here’s the article from The Copenhagen Post.
Mental illness is apparently less likely among children growing up with two mothers.
The study found that while five percent of children from traditional families developed conditions such as depression [...]
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WordPress has this lovely feature called tag surfer. I’ve found some wonderful blogs that way, and sometimes I find some less fantastic ones. A few days ago I found yet another post by an angry white male, who absolutely denies any white male anger to ever have existed. He’s not angry. Nope. Never. No, he [...]
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A while back I wrote about the state of sentencing in abuse-cases here in Denmark.
Overall, our track record is not impressive. The couple who each got sentenced to 5 months for violently abusing the woman’s daughter during a period of (at least) 4 years, they appealed their case – as did the DA. Now both [...]
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Over at Shakesville an anonymous Shaker has written a very moving piece about the perspective of the birth-mother to an adopted child. I highly recommend this.
Birth mothers are a demographic seldom heard from, and then generally only in the context of how soon they want to “replace” their lost child. This is a huge WTF [...]
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A recent proposal has been made here in Denmark, and I am so disturbed by it I hardly know where to begin. I managed to find a news site in English who had the story.
New legislation could allow pregnant alcohol and drug abusers to be committed against their will in order to protect their unborn [...]
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This Danish survey is from 2006, but there’s no reason to doubt its relevance now three years later.
The set out to find exactly how big the effects of parenting were on people’s paychecks. Including considerations for length of education, parental leave, age of parents and age of kids, etc etc.
I’ll just translate the summay from [...]
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I’m a regular reader over at Heartless Bitches International. They have many good articles up, many good rants. I especially like the Rants and the Auntie Dote sections. Everything posted on the site has been through admin approval. But there is one section where small disgusting things slip through the cracks. It’s in the Pukefest. [...]
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Everyone’s heard of the story out of UK. 13 year old Alfie and 15 year old Chantelle becoming parents. And I’m sure they’ll try their hardest. Only days later a stay emerged here in Denmark. Two 13 year olds are having a child together, except they’re no longer together. The news quote the boy as [...]
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