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Archive of Domestic Violence

Principal Family Court Judge Boshier on TV One

Wed 1st July 2009:

From Peter Zohrab What do people think of what Judge Boshier said on TV One ? You can read what he said at tvnz.co.nz. Watch the video here. In particular, what do you think about what he said about Family Court statistics? You can see the statistics at: justice.govt.nz/ He is saying that the stats […]

Family Court Womens Refuge murder series 3

Tue 30th June 2009:

The family court, women’s refuge and cyfs are the triangle of violence in New Zealand. They are unaccountable, unrepentant and above the law. The equation is, as always, the same: A father in jail, mother dead, children left as orphans. Is this what the family Court is for?

1.5m men are victims of domestic violence in Kenya

Wed 27th May 2009:

A report by a lobby group championing men’s rights on Sunday said over 1.5 million in Kenya are victims of domestic violence daily.

PAS yeah right!

Tue 19th May 2009:

PAS

How outdated is feminist programs?

Sun 15th March 2009:

It is really sad how programs work. This is not a perfect description but it isn’t far off. Someone came up with a theory and this theory extended to other theories. (All students are learning these theories). Then and now research is done by hypothesis to measure these theories. Sociology does this and so does […]

UK MP discusses familycaught problems

Sun 8th March 2009:

UK MP John Hemming has completed over 1 and half hours against the secret caughts on Edge TV. He’s really dishing the dirt on secret courts and dodgy social workers. It’s been uploaded to YouTube: YouTube speeches Campaign . What do you think about his straight shooting comments? Cheers, MurrayBacon.

Family Violence includes men too ya know!

Mon 2nd March 2009:

A shocking display of discrimination has occurred over male victims of Domestic Violence receiving assistance at court in Brisbane, Australia. State funding was given to a group to care for victims of domestic violence but instead the group has given the money back saying “We won’t work with male victims.” “We are not prepared to […]

Stopping Violence Programmes – one size does not fit all

At a hui for anti-violence providers in Auckland on Feb 16th, Principal Family Court Judge Peter Boshier told the participants that too many offenders were dropping out of anti-violence programmes, possibly partly because of the current “one-size-fits-all” approach. Boshier asked: “If there is a one-off act of violence, which is limited to and caused by […]

NZVPA Symposium on Violence Prevention – Early Intervention and Therapy

Mon 2nd February 2009:

Director of the N.Z. Violence Prevention Association Warwick Pudney has organised a Symposium at AUT University on: Preventing violence and making our communities and homes safer.

Another Domestic Violence Suicide

Thu 29th January 2009:

I have retracted this post because I have become aware that the information it was based on was inaccurate. I regret trusting the source of my information. I apologize to Ms Francis and to any other party who may have been distressed by my erroneous statements. I hope in due course and with Ms Francis’ […]

Celebrities coming out to fight for fatherhood

Sun 25th January 2009:

Families have suffered greatly over the past 40 years of social experimentation throughout the Western world. The Family Court has especially been harmful for fathers and children. Men’s Rights Advocate Mike LaSalle from Men’s News Daily has written a summary on Alec Baldwin’s book; A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce. Mike […]

Taiwan gives aid to male victims of domestic violence

Fri 23rd January 2009:

TAIPEI, Taiwan has new regulations passed by lawmakers for harsher penalties for human traffickers which will increase jail terms and fines for perpetrators who engage in human trafficking. Other new rules passed by the Legislative Yuan included welfare aid to male victims of domestic violence and the families in which the children are in the […]

The difficulty of righting wrongs in caught

This paper discusses removal of children, in a perceived emergency. The unwillingness of familycaught “judges” to admit that they have ever made a mistake or an error of judgement, results in bad decisions being difficult to impossible to reverse. It is this rigidity that makes parents extremely fearful of losing a custody hearing in familycaught, […]

Judge their values by their actions, not by what they say.

Thu 18th December 2008:

You must be the judge, to protect your children: Boy’s abductors avoid jail terms December 18, 2008, 12:43 pm http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/5221600/boys-abductors-avoid-jail-terms/ A father and daughter who admitted abducting the woman’s young son in Hamilton in 2006 have been sentenced to home detention. Dick Halton Headley, 70, and Kay Halton Skelton, 38, pleaded guilty in the High […]

Woman, 33 rapes child, kicks out husband, gets pregnant to child and has child kicked out too.

A 33-year-old mother was charged with having sex with a minor three weeks after she found out she was pregnant to the boy, a court was told. The woman was remanded on bail till February 13 for trial in the Timaru District Court after depositions before justices of the peace yesterday. The woman uttered one […]

Taiwan: Mum forces her children, under 10, into prostitution.

Thu 11th December 2008:

From correspondents in Taipei December 11, 2008 03:00pm A TAIWANESE woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for forcing her three underage daughters into prostitution The woman, identified only by her surname, Wei, was convicted of forcing her daughters, then aged six, seven and 10 years old, to work as prostitutes between 2005 […]

Restorative Justice and Intimate Partner Violence

Tue 9th December 2008:

Last night I attended a presentation at Men’s Centre North Shore by PHD student Anne Hayden. She came to public prominence recently by taking the Herceptin petition to Parliament. The meeting was attended by 19 men and 2 woman. Although passions ran high at times, the discussion which followed was ably chaired by Jim Bagnal. […]

Men and Domestic Violence

Sun 23rd November 2008:

Hans made a good point in one of his comments stating that the Domestic Violence laws in New Zealand are biased against men. Canada has a solid Men’s Movement and since the 80’s have tried to find fairness for fathers, men and boys as well as stop the bias and hatred feminism tries so hard […]

Nia Glassie’s siblings doing well with Dad

Wed 19th November 2008:

Nia Glassie’s siblings are thriving in Tokoroa with their grandparents and father as their mother and others implicated in  their sister’s death face jail. Lisa Kuka, 35, was found guilty of two charges of manslaughter in the High Court at Rotorua yesterday after a month-long trial that revealed shocking details of months of abuse that ended […]

Does the new government speak with forked tongue?

I don’t know how to go about it but I think this is an opportunity to press for the state apparatus to support father involvement. Fatherless children are at risk children. Tariana Turia states “Families need to stay strongly connected so that they are able pick up on any issues that arise.” So now is […]

Brisbane woman charged with torture

Mon 17th November 2008:

Nov 16 2008 A Brisbane woman has been charged with torturing a two-year-old boy admitted to hospital with serious injuries. Queensland Police charged the 29-year-old woman from Regents Park, in Brisbane’s south, with one count each of torture, cruelty to a child and two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm. She was arrested after police […]

Men’s intuition good enough to be used as caught evidence!

Fri 14th November 2008:

It seems that men’s intuition is more than good enough, to be used in familycaught, as evidence? Interestingly, scientific checking shows that women’s intuition is less sensitive and less accurate. Men’s suspicious minds better at spotting infidelity Suspicious dads spark surge in sales of DNA kits Is this a bit of a turnaround from the […]

Strategy Conference Call

Thu 13th November 2008:

If you are interested in joining a Skype Conference Call to discuss planning a thorough and complete strategy to respond to the proposed on the spot protection orders please email [email protected] You need to have Skype. You need to be committed to action. You need to understand working as team with diverse people with different […]

Elizabeth Herd – Sean’s Voice

Fri 10th October 2008:

My name is Elizabeth Herd. I have a Myspace page titled Sean’s Voice. This page is in honor of my sweet grandson, Sean Michael Sowards who was tortured, abused and neglected leading to his murder by his own mother when he was just two and half years old. It was in June of 2007 (just […]

Discussions with United Future staff

Wed 17th September 2008:

Hi All I thought everyone might be interested to read this discussion I have had with a United future staff member. Any comments?

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