Cow Pat was a more polite rendition of my first thought after reading Pat Booths column – The Runaway Dads. I know this column will have irritated and angered many in the community.
Archive of November 2005
Ian Hassall bullied by anti-anti-smacking protesters
Ex-children’s commissioner Dr Ian Hassall claims he was bullied and insulted by protesters outside the Auckland Marine Rescue Centre last Tuesday. Mereana Ruri, from the Office of the Children’s Commissioner was speaking to a forum held to prepare for the debate on Green MP Sue Bradford’s private members bill to repeal section 59 of the […]
United Future Labelled Anti-Family by Child Support Reformers
Media Release United Future Labelled Anti-Family by Child Support Reformers “Peter Dunne’s dickensian approach to child support reform will be remembered by parents as Dunne’s disaster, and clearly shows that United Future is a family-unfriendly political party,” observed Mark Shipman, national president of Parents for Children. He was commenting on the first reading of the […]
Save the males documentary screens on TV2
Silly Sue and the Bradford Bill.
Will Cunliffe’s Catastrophe become Dunne’s Disaster?
Parents for Children Media release Will Cunliffe’s Catastrophe become Dunne’s Disaster? “Peter Dunne really has been given a hospital pass from the Labour Government with the revival of the proposed changes to the Child Support Act 1991. Mums, dads, lawyers, economists, social commentators, child advocates… are all saying a real review of the current approach […]
News Release on Child Support.
Woman bites dog
The “Viewpoint” section of the November 2005 New Zealand Medical Journal has an article by Janice Giles: ‘Woman bites dog – making sense of media and research reports that claim women and men are equally violent’. The title of this article makes clear that the writer considers abuse of men by women to be so […]
Child Support Amendment Bill (No 4)
Save The Males
SAVE THE MALES TV2 – Wed Nov 23- 11:25pm A local documentary exploring the claims of men’s rights groups that the feminist movement has gone too far. Save The Males is a documentary following men’s rights groups (masculists) who claim New Zealand has become an insidiously anti-male state, and suggesting we need a men’s movement […]
The Status of Men in New Hampshire
Are NZ Schools Safe for our Boys.
CYF fails to find caregivers
The recent national recruitment campaign to find more CYF caregivers has not succeeded. With children being removed from parents in record numbers, many are being placed with foster parents who are not properly trained, where they get brutally bashed or sexually abused. It’s a pretty dangerous job in an environment where street-smart kids exploit the […]