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It is a shame that CYFs do not know what CYFs are doing, the both of which do not know what CYFs are doing.

First CYFs tell us “More than 1000 Maori children were victims of abuse in the past year, a rate far higher than other ethnic groups, Child Youth and Family Services figures show. It dealt with 1010 cases of physical abuse involving Maori children for 2005, compared with 613 Pakeha cases and 451 Pacific Island cases”

Maori babies most at risk, say figures

Then they tell us “Around 5000 children are suspected to be at risk of violence, abuse or neglect every month, statistics from Child Youth and Family show … CYF figures show 58,247 children were reported to be at risk by police and the public from July 2005 to May 2006”.

5000 youngsters reported at risk every month

And than – in the same breath – they tell us “Nationally, around 2500 children are referred to CYF by police every month”. 2,500 per month = 30,000 per year!

2,084? 58,247? 30,000? Can’t CYFs at least co-ordinate to get their facts straight?
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Ah, but how to get past the lace curtain errected by the likes of Air nz and feminist academics where all men are deemed to be potential paedophiles bringing risk to the children in state education?

Hawkes Bay Today: Girls are leaving boys in the dust at high school.

Opinion Wed. June 28, 2006

Foster Care System Disregards Fathers
by Jeffery M. Leving & Glenn Sacks
Jun 15, 2006

When a mother and father are divorced or separated, and a child welfare agency removes the children from the mother’s home for abuse or neglect, an offer of placement to the father, barring unfitness, should be automatic. Yet according to a new report by the Urban Institute, few fathers are able to reunite with their children, who are instead pushed into the foster care system.

The new report “What About the Dads? Child Welfare Agencies’ Efforts to Identify, Locate, and Involve Nonresident Fathers” examines the foster care systems of Massachusetts and three other states. The report contains a shocking finding: when fathers inform child welfare officials that they would like their children to live with them, the agencies seek to place the children with their fathers in only 8% of cases.
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Have I missed something lately? Perusing today’s Stuff.co.nz headlines, it appears that we truly do have an epidemic of domestic violence / child abuse, with some 20 out of 56 national headlines this morning being basically about domestic violence! Having nothing better to do, I thought I would read some of them, and summarise them for you …

Much domestic violence due to repeat offenders

Police report that they attend some 63,000 domestic violence incidents annually, a third of which “we are likely to be going back to the same place we have been dealing with previously”. That means some 42,000 individual cases of domestic violence per annum. But wait! Further down we read “Of concern was that only an estimated 10 per cent of all incidents were reported to police”. Make that some 420,000 cases! 420,000 potential criminal offenders! Bear in mind that Police are only likely to attend incidents that involve real violence – that is physical violence, rather than cases involving woolly femi-nazi definitions of psychological, spiritual, or economic abuse.
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Our law say’s we should look at what’s in the best interest of a child when parent’s seperate as the main focus. Then the law is handed over to the judicial system to implement the law. Who are these judges who decide and implement what is in the best interest of the child? Well, they are people that have passed a law degree, served as full-time lawyers for a sufficient length of time and get basically voted in because of thier good behaviours when they were barristers which they earn’t as a promotion from a lawyer. Do we all know how to get a promotion? Sure, we do. We keep the best interest of the system we work in as number 1. The difference between the law system and a system that makes a business profit is showing initiative or thinking outside the square.

In a business, risk is something a person will take to show their greatness. It has a chance of failure and reward which if it works has worthwhile reward. In fact, in contempory business, one could find big rewards. You don’t find this in Government departments as the judicairy system is. It is supposed to be seperate but is it? Initiative and thinking outside the square is often frowned upon. It has it’s own politics going on within over who is king pin and who are the wipper-snappers rocking the boat. There is no profit, no real cause to aim for. It is a day-in-day-out mundane J.O.B. (Journey of Boredom)

Now, who are the parents that these full-time lawyers who become full-time barristers and then full-time judges decide the fate of?
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(PC Fines for Men’s Rights Site in Cards Next?)
From: Wired News, via the Honor Network

In Italy an sanctioned action taken by the only newly & slightly voted in Italian government (with close ties to the EU and UN leadership), that could have strong repercussion to the Men’s Rights Movement and their forums, has occurred.

Blogger Roberto Mancini was fined $16,000 for defamation. The action taken by at least two mainstream journalists against Mr. Mancini was over mere sarcastic and crude comments made by him, or those visiting and commenting in his forum, and not for the more traditional forums of defamation.

This is the type of issue which should bring anti-PC organizations and the men’s movement closer together to stave off the establishment’s desire to silence forms and forums of decent ( that are much less under their control in the larger branches of the media). Send that anti-PC bloke you might know an email and offer some cooperation sooner, rather than later!

Is Being A Woman Sufficient Defence?

A New South Wales grandmother who skinned and cooked her de facto husband will plead with a court to overturn her life sentence – because she is a woman.

The truth’s getting awefully close now eh Neville?

Oh my God!
This PC crap is what decent nzers tax money gets spent on.
No wonder the place is slipping down the OECD ranks.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3711829a6160,00.html

This morning, on Woodhams magazine show, Robyn Langwell, editor of North & South Magazine said, ‘I think ‘all’ babies should be taken away even if CYFS ‘just’ think there is an issue with the parents.’

Langwell was back-commenting on the Kahui twins and, without any thought for the content of her words, bought straight into state-controlled families regime.

Nanny state knows best. You’re unfit to be a parent! So we will institutionalise your child because we know better.

I wonder how long it will be before parents of new-borns have a cage with a hungry rat in it, clamped to their faces, and asked questions about their fitness to be parents?

Langwell (not the sharpst tack in the box) but getting off on being ‘the editor’ of a sometimes, vaguely interesting tabloid, just helped the system to start aquiring the funds for the cages.

What will be next? Automatic but reversable sterilisation at birth? Then sit a test to have the sterilisation reversed? But gee, the cost will be but $$9,999 with a 100% discount if the woman can prove the rapist, pedophilic, violently aligned father was just a sperm donor and will have no contact with the child.

Langwell, you’re a clown. You are proof positive of a missive my old grandather told me years ago. He said, ‘Never worry what a woman thinks, they don’t do it very often.’

Yet I know so many credible women who do think, yet none have risen to your lofty heights. Maybe that’s the trick. Remain dumb, do loads of body-styling, tow the party line, get into the sexy group, then pretend you have a brain.

Grandad must have met you in a previous life. Maybe he was a colon and you happened to pass by.

Cheers
David.

I have gained so much information and insight from males on this site and I want to tell you as many other people may do or forget to do, “Thank-you.”

From having the opportunity to sit with the North Shore mens group, I can see you really help not just a father and child but a person to find a way to have a chance to be what is important, being thier own life.

I could tell each one individually how special you are but it is what you do together that makes such a difference. You guys don’t do what you do for money, for you do things in your own personal time which you have a right to be selfish with.

What was so impressional to me was the fact that you do not lay blame, for you ask others what their part was and challenge thier fathering role. Not only that, but you give reality to men that may want to deny their women are serious and willing to use the Domestic Violence as a weapon.

Oh my God, you have taught me that I have brought upon myself the reactions I received from my ex-husband. I never saw my actions as encouraging violence until now. I used to put things down to outside influence like alcohol and drugs thinking that you and I were from different worlds but I now see that having a male come home to a house where his woman says, “You can’t come in, because I don’t want you here” is so outrageous. How would I feel working hard and being told in an instance that I am not allowed to enter my home, that I should sleep in my car and somehow in an instant start a life all over again. And then on top of that a huge chunk of my money is taken away from me. You are better than the best for continuing on against all the odds. You put up with us women and I can’t believe that you even want to know us.

I know I am a woman that you guys would normally see as the enemy but I have changed my thinking and I intend to change other women’s thinking.

What was so outrageous last night is that I was under the impression that I had cancelled last night and a friend who has never been into religion said to me, “Maybe God has something in plan for you.” A higher power is neccessary in addiction problems but not God. And then a knock on the door. If that sounds out of it then you know how I feel. But I received more than I hoped for.

So I want to thank you Paul C, Jim Bagnell, Jim Bailey, Dave L, Kerry, Murray, John P, Bevan, Stephen, Intrepid, Starr, Leon, Paul M, Mark, James and the all of you that care for mens issues because without you 300,000 children are without their fathers today and my boys won’t have even the slightest chance.

julie