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 […]

Judge speaks up on Family Court criticisms Saturday June 10, 2006 By Chris Barton Graeme MacCormick retired as Family Court judge in December after serving 15 years on the bench. Here are his views on men’s groups’ protests. Will judges be intimidated by the men’s groups’ protests? I do not perceive the judges of the […]

What level of inhumanity must a person descend to that enables him/her to in any way just upset or deprive a child? But what level of disgusting inhuman descent must one reach before seriously hitting a child is acceptable? What level of inhumanity could enable any person to hit, with such ferocity as to kill […]

And now the Police want the power to issue ‘instant’ DVOs. It seems to me that this is yet another smoke-screen the police are using to ‘ease’ their work-load. The concept being, Herbert The Violent (that’s the Herbert who has just beaten the tripes out his spouse or children) can be slung out on his […]

I have said it before and I will say it again. The government is pooling the funding. This means that for groups to receive funding they have to work together to get more funding. Maybe Jim’s opinion on this, just maybe will back me up. (But then maybe he doesn’t see how I see things) […]

Women have spent the last 20 years trying to solve this problem and it is only getting worse they say. Common sense needs to prevail. OK, so we know that biologically males and females are different but we don’t want to listen to that or take it into account, do we? So let’s combine the […]

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 […]

From an actual case…..BTW, not my particular case. This is CYFS-V-J. CYFS apply for a S78 nd are intent on removing a boy with serious mental and physical issues which require specialist knowledge to manage and treat. The s78 is stayed. Later CYFS assert to the Court that a s78 was the wrong mechanisim to […]

Dateline: Boston Mass.US In a new report of children removed from abusive mothers in the US (Mass.) finds that when ex-husbands ask for guardianship they are turned down in numbers that are astonishing, as reported in the Boston Globe shows so clearly. (6/8/06). The report contains a shocking finding: when fathers inform child welfare officials […]

This was 2 different situations for 2 similar 15 year old boys. I cannot keep it as it was because it could have an impack on the boys. But I have kept the comments. I leave this decision up to webmaster.

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 looks that there is a change happening in male and female relationships. According to a Match.com poll, 48 percent of men (and an equal percentage of women) reported dating partners who drew the same income as they did. Twenty percent of men reported dating women who earned more. There is a want and need […]

I see, like others, the effect the mens coalition is making on our country at the moment. Even Good Morning NZ has shown a part of the media’s coverage. But the time Good Morning has spent is about a book and once again it is stated that most parents sort it out without having problems […]

Dateline: June 5th, 2006 Japan (Intrepid) A mother, whose daughter drowned just over a month ago in a river, is now under arrested in the murder of a neighbour’s boy, while police are now reopening the investigation into the daughter death. After the police shied away from arresting another very suspicious mother again for the […]

I am a parent who has been “forced” to do supervised access as this is the only way I can see my child at present. The Interim custody order was granted under section 59 of the COCA.which relates back to section 29, which states “an order depriving a parent of a child must not be […]

I have been in the FC system battling a co-op of Lawyer for Child, a Judge Wellington, an access supervisor and the system between CYFs and the family court law. Its been the most emotionally draining, un-reasonable, illogical and un-remitting series of events that I have faced. I have now seen my children taken out […]

Some dads say they’re not getting a fair go in the Family Court. Kate Monahan finds out why they are so disgruntled, and sits in on some cases being heard We’ve had a gutsful of the Family Court, their discrimination against fathers,” says Jack Gielen, a spokesman for the Hamilton branch of the coalition, which […]

Parents for Children and Auckland Single Parents Trust are holding meetings around Auckland on the Child Support Act and child support issues that affect parents. The meeting is open to the public and free to receive information on what the child support act is about and how to deal with it by speaker Mark Shipman […]

The Silence of the Damned by John F. Smith, Founder, World Fathers Union Just a fortnight from now I, like so many other fathers around the world, will exercise my right to think about my son thinking of me, while each of us sits estranged from the other on Father’s Day. Thinking is the one […]

HOME: It’s well known that roughly half of America’s marriages end in divorce, but not nearly as well known that two out of three of those divorces are initiated by the wives. Moreover, America’s family court system is scandalously biased in favor of the mother in child custody disputes. Fathers get custody of children in […]

The results are in from the Netherlands and they are telling. With birth rates falling in general across Europe there is one booming group that aren’t Moslem families, and you may not wish to cheer just yet. The numbers for 2003 have been tabulated and they show a devastating problem coming soon (to a place […]

After nearly 10 years of operation, some in the profession believe aspects of the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act 1995 (DVA) are ripe for review. Calls for change as Domestic Violence Act turns 10 A 2004 UK study confirmed that children who have contact with their fathers following a family break-up suffer fewer behavioral […]

FYI, my email to Radio NZ news desk this morning, regarding the story below. To the News desk, Radio New Zealand I note that in your story about a group of pre-schoolers being walked through a dangerous tunnel, you referred only to “two adults” as the culprits. Was this because they were women? If so, […]

Over recent days I have been involved as expert witness in an interesting District Court trial by jury. My client has given me permission to report on it and I will avoid using names and identifying details. The man was accused on two counts of breaching a protection order, and the judge ended up offering […]