While we can be grateful that we have not been burying forestry workers at the same rate, we cannot allow our forestry industry to continue to operate in the same way. We are a disgrace by international standards. The New Zealand forestry industry has been the subject of many recent media reports, some of which […]

As of yesterday the Tories in the UK have a plan to eliminate the public paying for parents unable to come to a voluntary arrangement for Child Support. I do not know the costs involved in an administrative review in NZ but it is bound to be a shit load. The threshold for obtaining one […]

The internet is a wonderful tool to share information and menz is a popular site for New Zealand fathers looking for information regarding: separation and divorce parenting plans that become parenting orders Shared parenting Equal parenting Full Custody aka day-to-day care of children domestic violence child support and more One such father didn’t seem to […]

Please can anyone help with this very difficult situation i am in ? I am a tradesman here in chch and i have recently been accused and charged with assault. My partner has started an argument when I returned late – and then after attacking me with an electrical cord and then a wall hung […]

What a weird and hypocritical society we live in. Beyonce’s sister, Solange Knowles, attacks Jay Z and most media see it as a joke. This is not a slap but punches and kicks over a period of minutes with intent to injure. TVNZ 7 Sharp’s Mike Hosking treated it as good humour. This message of […]

Story here. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11253304 I’m not sure how this would work for the father of the first child. Does he get to pay for the mother and both children? Does the state get to pay for the baby that derives from the sperm donor? Or should the mother pay for this one? Maybe the sperm donor […]

With all the discussions going around Labour’s proposed policy on compulsory Kiwisaver, I was quite surprised there was hardly any discussion around how this would impact the non-custodial parents in this country, a group that consists mostly of males. Labour wants to make a compulsory 9% off the gross wages. Anyone paying child support is […]

This, apparently, is to raise awareness of female circumcision. It is doing the rounds on social media and has a discussion here. One astute commenter (male obviously) making the observation; Strange how this bird can ride a sex toy in public and no one says a word but … if I used a Masturbator in […]

We know, and it is often discussed on Menz, how women are held to different standards of accountability. In this post I want to look at a social anomaly in the way society responds to women. The recent post Pussy Pass for Judith Collins looks at how British Prime Minister David Cameron and New Zealand […]

From STUFF today (7 May 2014) A woman says she should not be responsible for half her former husband’s secret borrowings against their million-dollar family home. The woman thought they had a debt-free home and they even had a party to celebrate paying it off, the Court of Appeal was told today. Court hearings have […]

A suggestion to have women-only swimming sessions in Hamilton has caused plenty of waves, with some people saying there should be male-only sessions as well. Hamilton City Council’s manager for recreational swimming, Mathew Baylis says the proposal is not do to with segregation, but more to do with making women feel more comfortable being in […]

One of the issues being canvased in the lead up to this year’s election, is why a growing number of New Zealanders are not voting. Over 800,000 voters chose not to cast a vote in our last parliamentary election, and we’ve had a couple of spats amongst regular commenters here at Menz, about the validity […]

Work Required to Change to Open Marketplace for Parenting Plan Certification Services Below is a list of areas of legislation needing to be changed. This has been taken from my Submission to Review of Family Court. Please add points left out into comments. Where suggestions I have made are unrealistic or unfair to women or […]

I said in the post Pussy Pass for Judith Collins; John Key has already made this an impossible situation for himself, when after failing to hold Collins to account he glibly told New Zealand: ‘Well I wouldn’t want to be in her shoes if there was repeat of it.’ It was suggested to me recently […]

There have been several posts recently where non-custodial parents have had difficulties in being heard at all in familycaught$. One of the dishonest manipulations, for taking sole custody (the concept of sole custody was repealed in Care of Children Act passed by Parliament in 2004, but not familycaught$) is the without-evidence Protection Order. Time has […]

U.S. colleges under investigation for sexual violence The US Department of Education press release 1st May: (see here) The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released today a list of the higher education institutions under investigation for possible violations of federal law over the handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints.

OK, so it seems that the mother of my children is taking my 2 kids to Canada to live and I will have no knowledge of where they will be living and no contact details whatsoever. I live in Australia which is irrelevant really because she blocks my access to them when I visit NZ […]

Cabinet Minister Maurice Williamson is in an undesireable position today after it is revealed that he made a phone call to a high ranking Police Officer following a domestic violence arrest. At the centre of the phone call is National Party donor Donghua Liu, who made a $22,000 donation to the party. Liu was arrested […]

This is an interesting article published in the New York times – story here The article looks at varying aspects of boys fitting into (in this case American) society and at the negative economic flow-on effects for a society failing it boys. It comes at a time when the US economy is falling substantially behind […]

This article is found here at theantifeminist.com (Transcribed from the original media report here which is in Spanish) The Spanish Supreme court has acquitted a father accused of sexually abusing his daugther after a local court in Almeria had sentenced him to seven years in prison. The Supreme court heard the original trial had relied […]

Story here. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11245848 Notwithstanding the new ACC policy is gender neutral, I would like to compare what ACC provide for (an almost exclusive female applicant) who has either been abused or allegedly abused to what men receive in comparison to loosing access to their children. It sends a very clear message that this country cares […]

Paul Simon and his wife Edie Brickell were BOTH arrested for Domestic Violence, yet reporter Bernadine Oliver-Kirby decided to only use Paul Simon’s name in the headline. Once again a distorted view is presented. Oh, it does say in the report that they were both arrested … if you get that far after reading the […]

A woman has appeared in court in Christchurch today on a charge of murdering a man at a residential address. Details here at Stuff.co.nz The 22-year-old appeared in the Christchurch District Court this morning charged with murdering an “unknown male” yesterday. Court documents allege she murdered him “manually”. I hope that wasn’t a bit of […]

New press relaease from Parents 4 Justice. “Family court lawyers advocating for shared care in high conflict parenting situations is an intentional bid to create future work opportunities for themselves” says Amy McDonald founder of Auckland based Parents 4 Justice. The research suggests shared care under these circumstances is not in the best interests of […]

We don’t normally go for words bigger than wheelbarrow or marmalade on this blog, but there was a call for a specific term, one that owns a little sophistication, to assure the so called ‘left wing elites’, that we understand the extend of their pain and suffering; the disorientation and confusion that they are dealing […]