Chief Family Judge Peter Boshier claims the New Zealand Family Court has become a ‘supermarket court with judges expected to rule on everything from choices of school to choices of surname.

There has been over the last decade ample evidence of misconduct which has not been investigated, because the New Zealand Family Court is expected to provide a political outcome rather, than a sensible decision for the children involved.

Since Men’s Refuge opened last year in June 2009, offering men a place to lick their wounds from wives who abuse them, the number of men using the facility has mushroomed. Some men have been resident in these homes since they opened. Due to a shortage of funding some men were forced to return to […]

Violence is any act or conscious ommission which is ‘designed’ to injure a third party. Thus fraud is violence, as is theft, and cheating. One could argue that an employer, forcing an employee to work extremely extended hours, thus leaving little or time left for his or family to be an act of violence against […]

We hear this word so much these days that the interpretation becomes blurred. For instance :- fervour: intensity of feeling or expression Violence in this interpretation is a positive emotion. In order to stop someone injuring property or someone else do you commit an act of violence?? Can readers please supply this post with the […]

While Officers of the New Zealand Family Court have immunity from criminal prosecution and the Commissioner of the IRD, can recover money carte blanch then men in this country need to fear for their wellbeing.

Having spoken to some of the protesters who have been on the recent crusade against the family court I am surprised to hear about the nature of the behaviour of some of the New Zealand Family Court Staff.

A response to Siomon Maude appointed apologist of the lawyers and Peter Boshier chief spin doctor of the Family Court.

Maude says…. To take action against family lawyers at their homes will not effect changes to the system but will cause distress to their children and the children of the neighbourhood who, not surprisingly, find demonstrations outside their homes intimidating and frightening. Simon Maude Chair One has to wonder exactly which planet Mr Maude lives […]

In the Waikato Times: Fathers target judge’s home An activist group that has demonstrated outside the Auckland homes of 20 legal professionals and others connected with Family Court decisions to deny fathers access to their children is bringing its protests to the Waikato. About 15 members of the Fathers Coalition — an activist group set […]

Media release from the Family Law Section: Simon Maude is the Chair of the Family Law Section of the New Zealand Law Society. He expresses concern about the recent picketing of family lawyers’ homes by members of a men’s group in the Auckland area, as follows. Recently, the website of a group of men issued […]

This is directed at those that post and comment. Well, you know me and more than most people I will meet. (Funnny how a blog site is different than a vocal conversation). Anyhow, now I am being held accountable. Thanks to Starrs comment, i have been e-mailed about things that are of value to womenz.org.nz, […]

As Al asserts, bullying is best described as one person forcing their opinion on another, irrespective of the others’ rights to hold an alternate opinion. And further, that all bullies ‘are’ intrinsically’ cowards. No better example can been seen in the actions of the CYFSterhood. Bereft of any tangible evidence in support, the CYFSterhood have […]

Well the lids coming off Why, can someone explain is so much emphasis put in to mens violence. Also why are there mens stopping violence groups, (although its really precious little), and why are agencies not into change or stopping violence groups for women? Why have I been supporting freinds who are verbally abused and […]

You can’t change history, but on the day you always have a choice.

Any way guys watch out for this preacher, I didn’t catch his name, but now you are not only a physical and sexual threat to your children, you are an emotional one too.

Given that we men can be accused of violence for merely swearing, why is it that so many of the ‘experts’ refuse to acknowledge the non-physical, but equally damaging violence in which so many women indulge. When it comes to the application of manipulative, emotional violence, women lead the numbers by a country mile. But […]

Quebec Father On Hunger Strike Gets Justice Minister’s Letter Promising Action on His Court Ordered Access
( It seems a father has to go to the wall to get the government to act on a father’s behalf)

The Campbell Live report on the Christchurch Health and Development Study findings that men and woman initiate domestic violence about equally missed an opportunity to inform New Zealanders about this important issue. Right from the opening sequence of photographs showing women with bruised arms and faces, followed by scenes from the recent Women’s Refuge fund-raising […]

Parental Alienation Syndrome: How to Detect It and What to Do About It – But May not help in NZ ?

I thought we might get some resolution today. But no. More process. The judge could quite easily have stated, ‘Let’s get this mess to a substantive hearing.’ But no, he wanted more process. But at least I got to see the vile lawyer for child (de Luen) squirm when it was announced my girl’s mother […]

Project Spotlight, and similar initiatives, is exactly how we all need to progress. If all we ever do is complain, yet provide no substantive information to support our complaints, then the system will simply ignore us. We, also, need to get a Spotlight-like programme going. And that is exactly why I have been asking you […]

New Project from the World Fathers Union

Testosterone has a bad reputation. Its public image is always linked to the idea of dumb aggression, to the caveman. But this is misleading. Satoshi Kanazawa at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, studied the biographies of 280 scientists and plotted their intellectual achievements against their ages. He discovered something extremely revealing: the curves of […]

Here is a story you could use as a parallel. Imagine this was a Rape case and the Judge let the “Alleged” offender walk free.