Today’s summit at the Waitakere City Council chambers got off to a late start, which as it turned out was lucky because opening speaker John Tamihere was also slightly delayed. We were informed that his son had needed a bit of fatherly input into the matter of him staying at school for longer than it […]

Dr Muriel Newman MP (ACT party) This Week Newman Online looks at the issue of prostrate screening for men and asks why the Government hasn’t implemented a screening programme for prostate cancer when it kills almost as many men as breast cancer. A few weeks ago, John Tamihere confirmed in his infamous “Investigate Magazine” interview […]

Law Commission recommendations on paternity testing unacceptable to parents and children

Press Release: New Zealand National Party Judith Collins MP – National Party Families Spokeswoman Rich irony in PM’s family friendly photo op National MP Judith Collins regrets that she will be unable to attend the launch tomorrow of a Families Commission survey because she’s “too busy being a parent”. “I am pleased that the Families […]

Prime Minister Helen Clark says she is concerned about Labour MP John Tamihere’s latest criticism of his cabinet colleagues, and thinks the MP has been under stress. Mr Tamihere’s extraordinary comments have been published in Investigate magazine after a conversation with its editor Ian Wishart. Tamihere told Investigate magazine: “Heather Simpson – Helen’s assistant – […]

You are invited and challenged to attend to the first ever gathering in NZ to address Men’s Issues. This is a one day event which draws together a variety of perspectives on men, from academic to activist, from psychosocial to social service. Its intention is to open up the full breadth of the issues for […]

Researchers have given fresh weight to the complaint of many single women – there aren’t enough men. Kiwi men in their relationship-forming years have disappeared in their thousands, says social scientist Dr Paul Callister. The result is that men are increasingly outnumbered. Since 1991, the census has shown a widening gap between the number of […]

A current affairs programme is doing a story which uses as its hook the New Plymouth case where a father was found guilty of assaulting his son, after he allegedly smacked him twice on the bottom. This opens up the wider debate as to whether smacking is the appropriate way to discipline children, and whether […]

Sunday March 13, 2005 The Observer There is never going to be such a thing as ‘a good divorce’ but Suzanne, a 39-year old from East Anglia, reckons hers was ‘probably as good as it gets’. Her decree nisi arrived two weeks ago and her main feelings were of relief and sadness in equal measures. […]

Here are some photos from the first day of Convoy 2005 – taken at the Albany Mega Centre last Saturday. The convoy is on its way to Lower Hutt this morning, and there will be a demonstration at Parliament at 1.00pm Friday.

Men’s Convoy 2005 :

There is some heated discussion regarding Celia Lashlie’s article about raising good men over on Trish Wilson’s blog (in the comments from March 1). One contributor, NYMOM writes: “Women in western society have finally, finally gotten to the point, over the last 30/40 years or so, where they can actually DO something on their own, […]

If adolescent boys could tell their mothers one thing, what would it be? Chill out and stop asking so many questions, says Celia Lashlie. Boys want their mothers to understand they know she’s there, that she cares and that they will talk to her if something big happens in their lives, but they also need […]

Child Support Rip Offs Family Court Fiasco Prostate Posturing Educational Bias No Men’s Ministry… Men Don’t Like This ! ! ! Join the second Men’s Convoy, and take the message about redressing the balance of family dysfunction to the streets and Parliament. Convoy starts Auckland Saturday 5th March 2005 at 1:00 pm and concludes at […]

from Neman Online Helen Clark’s call to get mothers out of the kitchen and back into the workplace failed to strike an empathetic note. As commentators were quick to point out, it had the ring of a communist clarion call. Socialists, of course, firmly believe that a woman’s place is at work and not in […]

I am currently in Family Court proceedings, Wellington for Protection Oder and Custody proceedings. I have had some supervised access to the Family Friend, Johnsonville last year. During Court proceedings the Access Supervisor stated that no one in 18 years has had supervised access at the Family Friend suspended. Has anyone experienced suspension of access […]

My name is Gérard Cassina and I’m a retired French schoolteacher with a degree in English, which I took long ago so please excuse any awkward sentences I could have written. I’ve been delighted reading [the articles at MENZ.org.nz] and I write to you hoping to be useful. My proposition can be shortened in a […]

Waiting in my inbox when I returned from summer holidays was a letter from Martin Lewis, founding editor of MENZ Issues. “Hi John I was googling my name to see if something I had written had a reference on the net when the MENZ Issues archives came up. Interesting to revisit them. Also good to […]

Am I the Father? Paternity Testing Advice in New Zealand — This is potentially very important to you! It is the right of every child to know for sure who its true father is. It is just as important for fathers to know who their true children are. Yet there is a very high likelihood […]

Nearly $1 billion in child support is now owed by absentee parents as the number of broken families in New Zealand skyrockets. A Ministry of Social Development study estimates one in two mothers will, at some stage, raise their children alone — a trend the Government says is reflected in the $873 million owed in […]

Jann Blackstone-Ford and Sharyl Jupe are friends. They work for the same organization. They live just eight houses apart. Their children get along well together. They’ve also been married to the same man. Ms. Blackstone-Ford’s husband of 15 years, Larry, was first married to Ms. Jupe and is the father of her son and daughter. […]

A Hamilton man who helped his runaway daughter elude authorities for a week may face charges, Cambridge police say. Louise Irwin, a state ward, was listed as missing on December 30, after a row with Lynette Karam-Whalley, the Cambridge hairdresser who has been her foster-mother for the past two years. After leaving Mrs Karam-Whalley’s salon, […]

New Statistics New Zealand research shows the number of long-term marriages ending in divorce has risen sharply in the past decade. In 2003, 940 marriages of 30-plus years ended in divorce – 60% more than the 570 in 1993. Experts say the trend is probably driven by women with financial independence leaving their husbands after […]

By using her expiring Attorney-General powers to promote unsuitable candidates, Speaker-designate Margaret Wilson raises memories of President Bill Clinton’s last days, when he effectively pardoned a batch of crooked supporters, ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks said today. Mr Franks was commenting on the appointment of Ms Jan Walker as a District and Family Court Judge. […]

Mobile phones can be a useful safety device for children, but also make them vulnerable. 11.12.04 by Chris Barton Whoever thought it was a good idea to equip mobile phones with cameras probably didn’t anticipate people taking photographs of their genitals and transmitting the images to websites for all to see. But having places on […]