Pronunciation:/pəˈternitē, /
noun
- 1 (especially in legal contexts) the state of being someone's father:he refused to admit paternity of the child
- 2 paternal origin:his enemies made great play of the supposed dubiety of his paternity
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
paternity(pa·ter·ni·ty)
Paternity fraud (pa·ter·ni·ty - fraud)
Pronunciation:/pəˈternitē, / /frôd, /
noun
- wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain: he was accused of being the father of the child until DNA comparison demonstrated otherwise
- a person or thing intended to deceive others , typically by unjustifiably claiming or being credited with accomplishments or qualities: mothers exposed as tricksters and frauds
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French paternité, fraude, from late Latin paternitas, fraus from paternus fraud- 'deceit, injury''relating to a father'paternal(pa·ter·nal)
Pronunciation:/pəˈtərnl, /
adjective
- of or appropriate to a father:he reasserted his paternal authority
- showing a kindness and care associated with a father; fatherly:my elders in the newsroom kept a paternal eye on me
- [attributive] related through the father:his father and paternal grandfather were porcelain painters
Derivatives
paternally
adverb
Origin:
late Middle English: from late Latin paternalis, from Latin paternus 'fatherly, belonging to a father', from pater 'father'paterfamilias(pa·ter·fa·mil·i·as)
Pronunciation:/ˌpātərfəˈmilēəs, ˌpä-, /
noun (plural pa·tres·fa·mil·i·as /ˌpātrēzfə-, ˌpä-/)
- the male head of a family or household. Compare with materfamilias
Origin:
Latin, literally 'father of the family'fraud(fraud)
Pronunciation:/frôd, /
noun
- wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain:he was convicted of fraudprosecutions for social security frauds
- a person or thing intended to deceive others , typically by unjustifiably claiming or being credited with accomplishments or qualities:mediums exposed as tricksters and frauds
Derivatives
fraudster
noun
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French fraude, from Latin fraus, fraud- 'deceit, injury'
Meaning
Subject
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Meaning
child(child)
Pronunciation:/CHīld, /
noun (plural children /ˈCHildrən/)
- a young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority.
- a son or daughter of any age.
- an immature or irresponsible person:she's such a child!
- a person who has little or no experience in a particular area:he's a child in financial matters
- (children) the descendants of a family or people:the children of Abraham
- (child of) a person or thing influenced by a specified environment:a child of the sixtiesOPEC was in a sense a child of the Cold War
Phrases
child's play
a task that is easily accomplished.
from a child
since childhood.
with child
formal pregnant.
Derivatives
childless
adjective
childlessness
noun
Origin:
Old English cild, of Germanic origin. The Middle English plural childer or children became children or children by association with plurals ending in –en, such as brethren
father(fa·ther)
Pronunciation:/ˈfäT͟Hər, /
noun
- 1 a man in relation to his natural child or children.
- a male animal in relation to its offspring.
- (usually fathers) literary an ancestor.
- (also founding father) an important figure in the origin and early history of something:Dorsey should be remembered as the father of gospel music
- a man who gives care and protection to someone or something:the prince is widely regarded as the father of the nation
- the oldest or most respected member of a society or other body.
- (the Father)(in Christian belief) the first person of the Trinity; God.
- (Father)literary used in proper names, especially when personifying time or a river, to suggest an old and venerable character:Father Thames
- 2 (also Father)(often as a title or form of address) a priest:pray for me, Father
- 3 (the Fathers or the Church Fathers)early Christian theologians (in particular of the first five centuries) whose writings are regarded as especially authoritative.
verb
[with object]
- be the father of:he fathered three children
- (usually as nounfathering) treat with the protective care usually associated with a father:the two males share the fathering of the cubs
- be the source or originator of:a culture which has fathered half the popular music in the world
- (father someone on) make a woman pregnant:he fathered a child on a one-night stand
- assign the paternity of a child or responsibility for a book, idea, or action to:a collection of Irish stories was fathered on him
- archaic appear as or admit that one is the father or originator of:a singular letter from a lady, requesting I would father a novel of hers
Derivatives
fatherhood
Pronunciation:/-ˌho͝od/
noun
fatherless
adjective
fatherlessness
noun
fatherlike
Pronunciation:/-ˌlīk/
adjective & adverb
Phrases
like father, like son
proverb a son's character or behavior can be expected to resemble that of his father.
Derivatives
fatherhood
Pronunciation:/-ˌho͝od/
noun
fatherless
adjective
fatherlessness
noun
fatherlike
Pronunciation:/-ˌlīk/
adjective & adverb
Origin:
Old English fǣder; from an Indo-European root shared by Latin pater and Greek patēr
Parental Alienation
Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)
[1] Parental alienation syndrome (abbreviated as PAS) is term coined by Richard A. Gardner in the early 1980s to refer to what he describes as a disorder in which a child, on an ongoing basis, belittles and insults one parent without justification, due to a combination of factors, including indoctrination by the other parent (almost exclusively as part of a child custody dispute) and the child’s own attempts to denigrate the target parent.[1] Gardner introduced the term in a 1985 paper, describing a cluster of symptoms he had observed during the early 1980s. ParentalAlienation Syndrome
In Dr. Richard Gardner’s second edit of parental alienation syndrome, he defined PAS as “a disorder that arises primarily in the context of child-custody disputes. Its primary manifestation is the child’s campaign of denigration against a parent, a campaign that has no justification. It results from the combination of a programming (brainwashing) parent’s indoctrination and the child’s own contributions to the vilification of the targeted parent.” He went on to emphasize the point that if “true parental abuse and / or neglect is present” and the child’s animosity is justified, PAS would not be an appropriate explanation for the children’s feelings.
Gardner describes what the severely alienated child will look like. To better understand PAS and help prevent the damage its causes children and families, I am suggesting that parents and the courts must understand the process that leads to PAS. Therefore I am defining parental alienation (PA), rather than PAS, as any constellation of behaviors, whether conscious or unconscious, that could evoke a disturbance in the relationship between a child and the other parent.
My definition of Parental Alienation is different from Dr. Gardner’s original definition of PAS in 1987: “a disturbance in which children are preoccupied with deprecation and criticism of a parent-denigration that is unjustified and/or exaggerated.” I am placing the emphasis on the brainwashing processwhile Dr. Gardner’s definition goes a step further to explain that the term is similar in meaning to brainwashing except that he adds the additional component of the child becoming active participant in the denigrating the targeted parent. In effect, the child has been successfully brainwashed.
In Dr. Richard Gardner’s second edit of parental alienation syndrome, he defined PAS as “a disorder that arises primarily in the context of child-custody disputes. Its primary manifestation is the child’s campaign of denigration against a parent, a campaign that has no justification. It results from the combination of a programming (brainwashing) parent’s indoctrination and the child’s own contributions to the vilification of the targeted parent.” He went on to emphasize the point that if “true parental abuse and / or neglect is present” and the child’s animosity is justified, PAS would not be an appropriate explanation for the children’s feelings.
Gardner describes what the severely alienated child will look like. To better understand PAS and help prevent the damage its causes children and families, I am suggesting that parents and the courts must understand the process that leads to PAS. Therefore I am defining parental alienation (PA), rather than PAS, as any constellation of behaviors, whether conscious or unconscious, that could evoke a disturbance in the relationship between a child and the other parent.
My definition of Parental Alienation is different from Dr. Gardner’s original definition of PAS in 1987: “a disturbance in which children are preoccupied with deprecation and criticism of a parent-denigration that is unjustified and/or exaggerated.” I am placing the emphasis on the brainwashing processwhile Dr. Gardner’s definition goes a step further to explain that the term is similar in meaning to brainwashing except that he adds the additional component of the child becoming active participant in the denigrating the targeted parent. In effect, the child has been successfully brainwashed.
With either definition, the motivation for the alienating parent has both a conscious as well as “a subconscious or unconscious” component.
The children themselves may have motivations that will make the alienation worse. Their hedonistic outlook for immediate gratification or their desire to avoid discomfort makes them vulnerable allies for siding with the alienating parent. The children become an advocate for the alienating parent by becoming the spokesperson for their parent’s hatred. They become the soldiers while the alienating parent is the general directing the action in the background against the targeted parent. The children are frequently unaware of how they are being used. It is most important to understand that if the child is angry and refuses to visit the targeted parent because of actual abuse or neglect, the child’s behavior is not a manifestation of PAS. This is why the issue of false allegations is so important.
Misandry
What is ‘misandry’ and what is ‘anti-misandry’?
Misandry is the hatred of males as a sex, as opposed to misogyny, the hatred of women; or misanthropy, hatred of the human species. Misandry comes from misos (Greek μῖσος, “hatred” + andr-ia (Greek anér-andros, “man”. Those holding misandric beliefs can be of either sex. Thus it holds to common sense that Anti Misandry is to work toward removing misandry from our culture.
Can you give me some demonstrations of misandry? Sure. Have a look at the second-wave feminist view of men for an example. Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist who shot Andy Warhol in 1968, provides a famous example of misandry in her self-published SCUM Manifesto. In case you’re wondering, SCUM is an acronym for ‘Society for Cutting Up Men’, practically a call for gendercide, the culling of men. Quite literally, Solanas expressed her desire to “institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.“
http://antimisandry.com/articles/
Misandry is the hatred of males as a sex, as opposed to misogyny, the hatred of women; or misanthropy, hatred of the human species. Misandry comes from misos (Greek μῖσος, “hatred” + andr-ia (Greek anér-andros, “man”. Those holding misandric beliefs can be of either sex. Thus it holds to common sense that Anti Misandry is to work toward removing misandry from our culture.
Can you give me some demonstrations of misandry? Sure. Have a look at the second-wave feminist view of men for an example. Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist who shot Andy Warhol in 1968, provides a famous example of misandry in her self-published SCUM Manifesto. In case you’re wondering, SCUM is an acronym for ‘Society for Cutting Up Men’, practically a call for gendercide, the culling of men. Quite literally, Solanas expressed her desire to “institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.“
http://antimisandry.com/articles/
Matriarchy
Pronunciation:/ˈmātrēˌärkē, /
definition of matriarchy from Oxford Dictionaries Online
noun (plural matriarchies)
definition of matriarchy from Oxford Dictionaries Online
noun (plural matriarchies)
- a system of society or government ruled by a woman or women.
- a form of social organization in which descent and relationship are reckoned through the female line.
- the state of being an older, powerful woman in a family or group:she cherished a dream of matriarchy — catered to by grandchildren
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