Prison's around the world tend to allow kids to stay with their parents - either gender parent especially in South America. It is more the norm then not -- only first world countries are surprised by this.

If only one parent is in prison, the other parent can drop of the kids before work -- for daycare.

Its not about women's or men's rights -- its about what is best for the kids when the parent they rely on are in prison. Many of these countries don't have foster systems or resources to give the kids a better option.

And hey, it happens in the US to -- www.aclu.tv/hutto -- and hey note these kids are in prison (sorry a camp) with their parents.

As for why most women are in prison world wide -- Sexual trafficing, breaking of religious restrictions (ie birth out of wedlock--ect), political prisoners, or the most common economic crimes. Prison for violent crimes is rare.

These tend to be poor countries or unsafe countries -- the women's prison in Iraq -- allows kids because they usually don't have dad's due to the war, and there is no where else for them to go.

This is not a discussion of an under threat American male -- that thinks anything with the word female in it is a conspiracy against his belief in male superiority. Its about what is best for the kids.

Currently in all the Energy Trade magazines - we are looking at the closing of over half the nuclear power plants in the US this year. Why, lack of water. Most Nuclear plants are in the south which are going under a real water shortage this year, and guess what a Nuclear plant requires an incredible about of water to cool it. Water level have dropped to the levels that makes it no longer safe to run the plants.

Want to talk about something that makes a Nuclear power plant an uneconomical plant to run -- the shut down/restart cost our crippling, and will need to be passed on to rate payers.

So unless you have a guaranteed source of water, you can't build a plant -- which leaves coastal sites -- on the west coast unfortunately the best sites are in Earthquake zones. I On the East coast building a plant that won't be impacted by coastal erosion, and hurricanes are an issue.

Basically safe places to build a plant, don't have enough water.

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/business/stories/2008/01/24/nuke0124.html

Georgia and Alabama are already being impacted.

Nuclear power won't save us -- and that is without even starting to discuss the other values of this power source.

Water shortages are going to get us before anything else - and without water there is no nuclear power.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

Unfortunately the few who do know history are obliged to watch in horror as a corrupt – bribed (sorry contributions from telecom industries) senate and the ignorant masses, take us down a well worn path to the same fate that attends all dictatorial, paranoid governments of history.

I suffer from the knowledge that I can’t stop the country from marching down the path of fascism, Homeland security and an endless war economy. In spite of history, showing over and over again this path has no destination but ruin.

US companies should/and can have their licenses yanked if they don't play by the rules, the issue is Bush is their pool boy.

US citizens in Iraq are not under Iraq laws at this time, but since we are still in a military action -- it is US jurisdiction.

Arbitration can not cover criminal acts -- only civil. Rape is not a civil complaint, but a criminal one... the Republican appointed judges running our courts, are not smart, knowledgeable or moral people -- they are party creators with a loyalty only to their party -- or they would never have told these women that they had to go to arbitration for criminal disputes.

KBR/Haliburton is denying her a constitutional right by denying her the right to trial.

They are denying her Amendment 14, section 1 of the Constitution which states, " Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

To add insult to injury -- the woman who was gang raped -- the company tried to charge her the cost of the arbitration, she is now testifying for congress, and going public, so the rest of us know how these companies operate.

I don't care about the anoymice -- but the regular trolls.

Now they should be allowed to post all they want, and say anything they want -- but the rest of us should have the freedom to ignore them ... give us the right to block them.

IE I can put in a user name and never see a posting from them again. No feeding the trolls. And only allowing one user id from a source -- so they can be one person or anoymice, not multiple handles.

I don't want to take away anyones freedom of speech or ability to be anonymous -- but I'd love to be able to block users and anonymous when I am reading the letters sections.

And it is not that technically difficult to allow this -- its a glorified sort option.