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A Leduc woman and former youth worker is facing sex charges over an alleged relationship with a young client.
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Youth worker faces sex charges | Canada | News | London Free Press

  • The 34-year-old woman is a former employee of the Edmonton and Area Child and Family Services Authority. She was a youth care worker at the time of the alleged relationship.
  • Nicole Doreen Myrfield is charged with one count of Sexual Exploitation of a Young Person.
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Women have always been more likely to rob for need and not for the thrill. It’s more likely they’re going to be robbing for diapers for the baby or something.
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Forensic sociologist Rosemary Erickson on the rise in Bonnies robbing banks without their Clydes. (via newsweek)

  • Erickson is a researcher who has been following the phenomenon of such ladies in recent years. She prefers to call them “female bank robbers.”  “If she robs a bank, she’s no lady,” Erickson says.
  • Erickson suggests there are two primary reasons for the growth in female bank robbers. 
  1. “One is more independence on the part of women, a general cultural thing,” Erickson says. 
  2. “The other, more important thing: it’s a function of the economy.”
I’m not convinced. It seems to me that as women approach (and in some cases, surpass) equality, women increasingly the “good” roles males had as well as the bad. The main trend here is 1) while 2) is just a circumstantial blimp.

(via newsweek)

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futurejournalismproject: Daughters Are Precious My morning reading in the Hindustan Times today. A new column by actor-activist Amir Khan. He writes: Every conceivable reason that I have come across during our research of people explaining why they want a boy and not a girl as a daughter does not seem to make any sense to me. For instance, “if we have a girl then at the time of her marraige we have to pay dowry”, or “a girl cannot perform the last rites after the death of her parents, or near and dear ones”, or “the girl can’t take the vansh, or family forward”…All these are man-made reasons. We have created dowry and are now killing the girl child as if she is responsible for it. We have decided for ourselves that girls can’t perform last rites and then we say the girl is to blame.” FJP: Agreed, approved, and happy to see this in a newspaper. will it ever change?

futurejournalismproject:

Daughters Are Precious

My morning reading in the Hindustan Times today. A new column by actor-activist Amir Khan. He writes:

Every conceivable reason that I have come across during our research of people explaining why they want a boy and not a girl as a daughter does not seem to make any sense to me. For instance, “if we have a girl then at the time of her marraige we have to pay dowry”, or “a girl cannot perform the last rites after the death of her parents, or near and dear ones”, or “the girl can’t take the vansh, or family forward”…All these are man-made reasons. We have created dowry and are now killing the girl child as if she is responsible for it. We have decided for ourselves that girls can’t perform last rites and then we say the girl is to blame.”

FJP: Agreed, approved, and happy to see this in a newspaper.

will it ever change?

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