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 […]
Archive of Domestic Violence
Campbell Live Story Domestic Violence
Can you please help? URGENT. We are doing a story on men who are physically assaulted by their female partners, a story that is rarely told. We are looking to talk with a woman who is a reformed husband abuser to talk with John Campbell regarding her experiences and what she did to help herself. […]
Domestic Violence.
Signs of change?
Reading an article in the current (May) issue of North & South magazine I see some possible signs of change in the thinking that drives NZ social policy. The author of “Our Shame”, as many magazine writers have done before, has set out to (in her words) “traverse the grim statistics of child abuse, neglect, […]
Tamihere Meeting
The Next Allegation.
The Michigan Man
Christchurch study shows woman equally violent
A new publication calls into question the generally held view that casts males as the perpetrators of domestic violence and females as the victims. The study found that in most couples, men and women are about equally violent. Lead researcher David Fergusson said agencies dealing with domestic violence should not assume men were the perpetrators […]
Men’s Centre North Shore responds to White Ribbon Day
Last week’s North Shore Times had an article titled: Men’s group says they’re victims, too. Men’s Centre was responding to White Ribbon Day on Nov 25th – the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Jim Bagnall was quoted: “People need to get the whole thing in perspective. I think in most cases […]
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 […]
The Status of Men in New Hampshire
Domestic abusers should loose jobs
Christchurch Women’s Refuge says employment contracts should have a clause requiring people convicted of domestic violence to be fired from their jobs. Refuge manager Annette Gillespie said employers needed to get tougher on domestic abusers and send a message that family violence was not acceptable. “We (Christchurch Women’s Refuge) definitely support employers threatening staff who […]
Peter Dunne must be bitterly disappointed
At a meeting between men’s groups and United Future leader Peter Dunne in Birkenhead last year, I listened to him talk about the Families Commission, which he hoped would address some of the concerns we raised about the state-mandated removal of fathers from children’s lives, and the anti-male bias within the courts and the social […]
Protest at Stopping Violence Services conference
About 20 people turned out at Waipuna Lodge in Auckland to protest at the Stopping Violence Services 2005 Annual Conference. In an effort to draw attention to the use of Protection Orders as a weapon by some women, the theme of the protest was ‘Revenge is just an allegation away‘. Several of the fathers I […]
Fathers plan kayak protest at conference
For the first time, news of a father’s protest has made it into the (NZ Herald ) – before it has even happened! Headlined Fathers in kayaks protest at family violence event Simon Collins writes: Fathers plan to protest in kayaks on Auckland’s Panmure Basin on Saturday to protest against a judge who will be […]
Feminist concern over protection order drop
With the National Network of Stopping Violence Services Annual Conference under way at Auckland’s Waipuna Lodge, the feminist propaganda machine has kicked into high gear. The Herald warns that: ‘Faith in protection orders wanes‘. The story by Simon Collins begins with an impressive graph with prominent red arrows pointing upwards under the heading “Male Assaults […]
The real “Great Satan”
Us Senate Reauthorizes Feminist Man Hating Bill NewsWithViews.com by David R. Usher Last week, the U.S. Senate approved reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (led by Senator Joe Biden of Delaware), amidst a hail of public criticism of the program. A substantial collection of mainstream organizations and scientists oppose VAWA for one basic reason: […]
Gender and Domestic Violence – conflict of theory and data
A paper published earlier this year in a peer-reviewed scientific journal explores the negative impact radical feminist ideology has had on the treatment of Domestic Violence. The paper details are: The gender paradigm in domestic violence research and theory: Part 1–The conflict of theory and data. Donald G. Dutton, Tonia L. Nicholls Aggression and Violent […]
MENZ mentioned in ChCh Press
Headed: ‘Man —haters’ on abuse checklist , a story in the Press yesterday written by Kim Thomas notes the fact that we recently linked to an item on another site containing a checklist for spotting women who make false abuse allegations. Thomas reports: The Masculinist Evolution New Zealand (Menz) website says false allegations of domestic […]
More feminist backlash against Judge Recordon
The Radical Feminist attack on Judge Recordon for daring to deviate from the politically-correct line continues. A Press Release issued by Karen Price, National Women’s Rights Officer at the New Zealand University Students’ Association, insists the Judge’s attitude to domestic violence is outrageous. Price argues in favour of continuing with the ‘one size fits all’ […]
My Brain Stays Asleep
In an October 22-28 2005 Listener article titled: ‘My Eyes Stay Awake‘, Dennis Welch writes about the “effect on children exposed to domestic violence”. Personally, I can’t help wondering if the article is more about the effect of young, attractive, blond interview subjects on aging male journalists! To enlighten us, Welch interviews Jane Drumm, Executive […]
Refuge support for Judge Recordon
Refuge supports not jailing wife-beaters NZ Herald Glenda Ryan, manager of Henderson’s Viviana refuge, said local refuges supported a Waitakere pilot scheme which encourages men charged with domestic violence to plead guilty and attend anger management courses and drug and alcohol counselling. The pilot makes men charged with domestic violence less likely to be jailed […]