During a domestic argument, you head-butt your partner in the face; breaking their nose and spraying the children with blood. You would expect the police follow their mandatory arrest policy, lock you up overnight, take out a domestic protection order, and charge you with assault. You might be seen to jail, or depending where you […]

Scoop Article You just want believe this….

The Sunday Star Times carried an article on weekend entitled Crackdown on white collar family assualts. The article announced that the the Government is planning a multi million dollar crackdown on Family violence. “..Including trying to combat the largely hidden problem of white collar domestic violence” It goes on to talk about how Statistic New […]

I have been engaged in debate in another forum, the NZ Association of Rationalists and Humanists, about the status of men under feminism. One member drew attention to a research paper from the Dunedin Longitudinal Study that he claimed showed men commit much more domestic violence than do women: My reply follows and includes discussion […]

2 January 2007 Todd Minerson Executive Director White Ribbon Campaign Canada [email protected] Dear Mr Minerson AN OPEN LETTER TO TODD MINERSON, THE WHITE RIBBON CAMPAIGN, CANADA I am writing to express my deepest regret at the misleading and hateful attitudes that your organisation is promoting. I am particularly concerned that you totally ignore women’s violence […]

[email protected] I am looking at a recent copy of the Kapiti Observor highlighting letters to the Editor on domestic violence. Three of the four authors of these letters are well known amongst men’s groups, of which I am sure you are aware. It is a small orchestrated effort to make a point and obviously one […]

I’ve decided to forgive Simon Collins for his Preventing Violence in the Home promotion after reading his well researched Monday NZ Herald article: Domestic violence campaigners accused of bias Two top health researchers have accused the Families Commission of “ideologically driven” bias in presenting domestic violence as a problem of men battering women. Professor David […]

Also by Simon Collins in Saturday’s NZ Herald, another story titled ‘Changing places‘ set my mental propoganda alarm ringing by a beginning with three atrocity stories about violent men: These three stories from the Herald in the past year have a common theme. In all cases, desperate men turned to violent or controlling behaviour at […]

In the NZ Herald on Saturday: No refuge for battered male victims By Simon Collins The Separated Fathers Support Trust ran the four-bedroom refuge, officially a men’s “retreat house”, in Manurewa from December 2002 until May, when the manager, Warren Heap, became paralysed with the rare nerve disorder Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Heap says the refuge was […]

RADAR Alert > ACTION Sought Time to Blow the Whistle on the UN Violence Report Two weeks ago the United Nations issued its one-sided Study on Violence Against Women: violenceagainstwomenstudydoc.pdf If you haven’t reviewed the report yet, think of it this way: What the Violence Against Women Act has done to families in the United […]

Scoop article quoting Dalziel I understand that you are also very close to concluding (or recently have concluded) a two-year contract with the Ministry of Social Development, which will give you certainty about ongoing core funding. The challenge though is to ensure that funding levels remain realistic over time. It wasn’t the justification I was […]

Psychiatrist and social commentator Thedore Dalrymple has spent a lifetime working with the dregs of British society — violent criminals and the politicians he believes are responsible for many of the failings of modern society. … Less than 24 hours after arriving in New Zealand this week, he had already opened a Pandora’s box of […]

The story below is a rare glimpse into the way power and control is exercised by radical feminist gatekeepers. It is interesting to compare their behaviour with other feminist groups such as the National Network of Stopping Violence Services, and Doctors for Sexual Abuse Care. Wanganui Chronicle: Refuge wrangle goes on Wanganui agencies are again […]

Many people still regard this as the smacking debate. What does the repeal of Section 59 really mean. Firstly there is a conflict between section 59 of the Crimes Act, and The Care of Children Bill. You try and lodge a custody application based on discipline issues in the family court and they will simply […]

by Donald Dutton, 2006. UBC Press, Canada ‘Rethinking Domestic Violence’ is the third in a series of books by Donald Dutton critically reviewing research in the area of IPV (intimate partner violence). After 20 years of viewing IPV as generated by gender and focusing on a punitive “law and order” approach, Dutton argues that this […]

I have to begin by saying I’m not exactly proud of having to admit to having been a victim of domestic violence; seeing as how I’m a big boy (6-1 in my sox, strong, and with several martial arts to my credit). Meet Yula (pronounced Yura). 40. A Korean beauty. In NZ with 3 kids […]

My friend Dave has just posted a critique on his website of a recent NZ Herald article: Attitudes change towards old taboo Before we go any further, let me make it quite clear where I stand on violence: I don”t believe it is OK for men to hit women. I don’t believe it is OK […]

Hi, Rory MacKinnon here from In Unison, Unitec’s student magazine. Our next issue is themed “the Men’s Issue” where we will, not suprisingly, address men’s issues. At present I’m working on an article about the cultural phenomenon of The Slap- specifically when a woman slaps a man: whether there is any justification for it, how […]

Opinion: Dave Crampton Big News with Dave Crampton Bradford & Kiro Disagree On Smacking Green MP Sue Bradford and Children’s Commissioner Cindy Kiro are in sharp disagreement over Bradfords bill which aims to remove reasonable force as a defence for child discipline from the Crimes Act. Such is the disagreement that Kiro refuses to comment […]

New Zealand domestic violence experts are dismissing claims men are more likely to be the victims of violence among young couples as irresponsible and damaging. The University of New Hampshire study shows women carry out more unreciprocated physical attacks on men while dating, than than men do on women. But domestic violence experts in New […]

An Auckland District Court jury in the trial of a woman charged with stabbing her husband heard closing arguments yesterday. The 34-year-old woman has pleaded not guilty to one charge of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. Police said her injured husband, 49, called them on February 20 last year about 3.30am, saying […]

It may be less obvious to many, amid the projections of a seemingly idyllic society; however it is the latter category, into which the New Zealand family court has evolved.

Stuff: Foreign brides swamp refuges ‘Men are legally allowed to bring them into the country and beat them senseless. We’re setting them up to be abused.’ Heather Henare, Women’s Refuge national manager

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.

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.