Dads are good – and it’s good to be a dad. That’s the message Nelson’s Philip Chapman is trying to get across, especially for Father’s Day. And what better way, he thought, than have T-shirts praising dads? So with the help of Mark Raffills, of Dry Crust Communications, Mr Chapman – a male health advocate […]

JohnP: here’s a great male role model with some advice that I wholeheartedly endorse. Hamilton man Cameron Rowe writes about trading roles and becoming an at-home dad. Melanie had taken care of the kids for four years, but then a job came up she was interested in. We made a major change by deciding to […]

tonyf: Im kind of sceptical of this whole article, but for your information… By Sarah Cassidy Men are more likely to win Nobel prizes and achieve excellence simply because they are more intelligent than women , according to a controversial male academic. In a paper to be published in a leading research journal, one of […]

The speakers at the New Zealand Men’s Issues Summit held in Auckland on 6th May 2005 were filmed by Murray Bacon and Bryan Norton. The videos have been formatted for the web by John Potter, and are available online thanks to www.archive.org. Video of John Tamihere at Men’s Issues Summit [26 MB .wmv] Video of […]

Media Release Parents for Children Child Support Act Creates Unjust and Inequitable Situation for Student Loan Borrowers Parents for Children have been supporting a father, who has a student debt, though the Family Court child support departure order process. The dad was seeking a variation to the rigid child support formula assessment (a Departure Order) […]

Is the glare of publicity too harsh for Family Courts to endure?, ask Citizens for Justice. They note that: On or about 29 July 2005, at about 5pm, exactly 29 days – just 4 weeks and 1 day – after the new “Care of Children Act 2004” came into effect, all those beautiful Family Court […]

Some items in the media about the Christchurch Men’s Issues Summit. In Father & Child Magazine Issue 30, Winter 2005 Page 18: Another forum touts the message that men are hard done by. It has all the ingredients of another expensive failure, writes Harald BreidingBuss. … Now, eight years later, we have had a ‘Men’s […]

Around eleven pm that night a few short hours later he walked from the remnants of his family home, down to the local railway line, his choice of self imposed execution.

Excerpts from RadioNZ Morning Report Wed 6th July 7.08 am The families of four men convicted of rape wept at the High Court in Wellington yesterday as the verdicts were read out. … The rapes took place 16 years ago, and apart from the victim’s testimony there was no supporting or forensic evidence that the […]

New rules aimed at making it easier to settle paternity disputes are under fire even before they’ve come into force. Critics say couples will not always be able to prove who fathered a child because one partner will still be able to say “no” to DNA tests. … “You’re convicted without a trial at the […]

A bill removing the legal defence of “reasonable force” for parents punishing their children should be examined by a parliamentary committee rather than dismissed out of hand, Prime Minister Helen Clark says. Greens MP Sue Bradford’s private member’s bill that would repeal section 59 of the Crimes Act is expected to face its first reading […]

If one hand is a false obligation surely the other is a false duty. The more pragmatic might ask – “Will the issue be ignored before the election and the corruption continue afterwards.” Regardless, such complicity betrays both a decent society and our children.

Dr Muriel Newman Speech to the Christchurch Mens Political Forum, Christchurch Community Law Centre, 7pm. Today we are being asked what our parties would do for New Zealand men. For a long time I have been extremely concerned about government policies, which disadvantage men and marginalise fathers. Since entering Parliament, ACT has consistently campaigned to […]

This week Newman Online looks at the Labour Government’s feminist agenda and how it is undermining the New Zealand family. It is difficult to understand how a government that deliberately undermines the family – disadvantaging children and marginalising fathers – can retain popular support? That is unless the unsuspecting public is not really aware of […]

By Farah Farouque The Age (Melbourne) What has made the dominant sex feel like victims? Paul Black is not the sort of bloke to take to the streets in protest. But this week he did something atypical: fuelled by intense feelings of frustration, he got in his car and made the long trip from Mulgrave […]

Announcing the Manhood 2005 Conference (open to women). The Men’s Health and Wellbeing Association (Queensland) Inc. is delighted to announce the Manhood 2005 Conference, to be held on the 20th — 23rd October 2005 at the Novotel Twin Waters Resort, on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. This inaugural conference will bring together organisations and individuals who […]

Across New Zealand society, marriage has become unfashionable. Sole parents have increased from 10 per cent of families with dependent children in 1976 to 29 per cent today – higher than in any other developed country except the United States. By the age of 20, 35 per cent of Pakeha children, 49 per cent of […]

Women of “marriageable age” are flocking to New Zealand at rates of up to one-third higher than men. A new study has found that New Zealand has a higher ratio of women to men in the peak childbearing ages of 30 to 34 than any other industrialised country, with 9 per cent more women than […]

By Alexandra Frean, Times Online A HUGE shift in attitudes towards fatherhood has occurred, with the present generation of fathers considerably more willing than their fathers were to stay at home to change nappies and warm bottles. A survey by the Equal Opportunities Commission of 1,200 fathers of 3 to 15-month-old children disclosed that almost […]

By Kate Legge, The Weekend Australian Thirty years after the introduction of no-fault divorce, Australia is experiencing a grand correction of the 1970s revolution that provided unhappy couples with an escape clause and introduced benefits to help single parents. Changes that brought adults greater freedom are being corrected at the shrine of personal responsibility. Sole […]

Trickery, ideology and a largely sympathetic media behind anti-smacking lobby Barbara Faithfull As usual with the corporal punishment issue, with the publicity surrounding Sue Bradford’s bill to repeal Section 59 of the Crimes Act I see a mass of misleading and biased media coverage. Having followed attempts to ban smacking in N.Z. for 25 years, […]

Alexis Stuart God does not think like MP John Tamihere and feminism hasn’t gone far enough. Men don’t wake up in the morning to give power away. One can only assume that these claims from the Wellington Town Hall explain why Telecom and Westpac chose to sponsor the 2005 Women’s Convention June 3-7, their banners […]

What do our Prime Minister, Chief Justice, Governor-General, Speaker of the House, Chief Executive of Telecom NZ, and 60 per cent of those with degrees and post-graduate qualifications, have in common? They are the so-called weaker sex – the tender gender.

Women who put their careers on hold to raise children or support their partner’s career are getting bigger payouts when they separate. … Changes to property laws in 2002 allow men and women to sue estranged partners for lost earning potential as a result of being in a relationship. So far most payments have been […]

Child Support has no integrity as it purports to be something it is not, and for that reason it will continue to be the case that some will challenge its deceit, some blindly comply and some wander off and wonder why.