The events of the last few days have seen shades of village green rising across the country as the Roast Busters story unfolds. Flaming torches and pitch forks are not going to promote any level of understanding as to why this has happened – I would suggest quite the opposite. If there is any attempt […]

I would like to focus on what lead these boys (not men as the media first suggested becasue they were 15 and 16 at the time) and to a lesser extent the girls to the situation they find themselves in today. The mere fact the girl drank until she was drunk and boys posting a […]

A man’s home is his castle. That’s a saying, not so old as when knights were bold – that bastion of freedom, where every man had the opportunity to own and occupy his piece of land, with little interference from the state or another man. But within the time of living memory this has changed […]

Is he being suppressed by the clobering machine? Its worth “Googling” “Benjamin Easton” to see the causes he has fearlessky fought, including fathers rights.. I conjecture that his success gaining the publics eye championing his various “Causes” has caused the establishment to attempt to muzzle him.

This issue was discussed recently in the post Men’s Concerns Gaining Traction The issue “portrayed’ as a man-ban might have not have gained traction but it would be naive to think it doesn’t still exist in another form; that is exactly what this article says – the intent is still there, we’ll find another way […]

The Lombard Finance Company collapse, the losses and the roll-on effect on its investors is a well-known story in New Zealand. Prime Minister John Key announced today that Sir Douglas will retain his knighthood.

Hi, My son is a Year 12 student at a large college in Hamilton. He was formerly in my custody but has been in his mother’s custody since 2008. The mother and I don’t get on and as a result of this she is quite obstructive and won’t send me copies of my sons school […]

Norwegian parents should go on date nights to help reduce the country’s soaring divorce rate, the [Norwegian] government says. Solveig Horne, the country’s minister for children, equality and social inclusion, has set herself the goal of strengthening families and reducing the divorce rate, which at 40 per cent is one of the highest in Europe.

Stuff story A Wellington taxi driver has been found not guilty of driving carelessly after a collision that claimed the life of his unborn son. Bililigne Gebretsadik, 41, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of careless driving, two of causing injury and one of careless driving causing the death of his unborn child in […]

I saw this today and thought, this is such a relevant piece of art in today’s social climate. I have no idea who the artist is.

A Wellington woman spoke on the phone for more than eight minutes as her 15-month-old baby drowned in the bath, a jury has heard. Stuff News She then made two separate calls to her parents, trying to arrange for a rug doctor to clean the carpets later that day. This will be interesting to see […]

Read more: http://www.3news.co.nz/Police-trial-new-system-to-tackle-domestic-violence/tabid/423/articleID/318946/Default.aspx#ixzz2ixgsKNJo “We know that New Zealand offenders score very highly compared to our Canadian counterparts and we’re very concerned about that,” says Kiri Hannifin of Women’s Refuge. The origins of ODARA as shown in a previous post are Canadian and relate specifically to marital assaults by husbands on their wives.

Brief Spousal Assault Form for the Evaluation of Risk or B-SAFER This is a form that has been developed by the New Zealand Police along side the modified version of the Canadian ODARA domestic violence predictive assessment tool. Do we have any information on the purpose and use of information? It is possible these B-SAFER […]

Anyone heard of ODARA. New Zealand Police are now using the ‘Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment’ ODARA for short, imported from Canada. ODARO is a predictive assessment to determine the likelyhood of a person deemed to have assaulted their partner assaulting them again. The results rank a person on a scale of 0 – 13, […]

This is an article about Japan that appears in Fox News This trend in Japan has been mentioned here before. It would be interesting to know how extensive the trend is in Asia and the reasons behind it. Certainly a population’s future could be severely tested with such a trend. The bizarre trend, dubbed by […]

I am offering support to Commodore Keat. This man served his country for almost 40 years. His only crime was not to tell his superiors about a private relationship he had with a civilian subordinate and not ending it. Well whip-d-do-dang.

The Ministry of Men’s Affairs is a community group because successive governments have ignored the voice and welfare of NZ men. Each Saturday in October a few of us have been pounding the pavements in different cities to raise awareness of men’s issues and to encourage people to wear a black ribbon rather than supporting […]

Full Story Figures released exclusively to the Sunday Star-Times by Police Minister Anne Tolley showed in the year ending June 30, police investigated 89,947 family violence cases – 3225 more than in 2011. Yet of those, only 39,716 investigations resulted in offences being recorded. This was down on the previous year’s figure of 40,024. So […]

Above is a bit of humour. Now read this story. midtown Manhattan, said police, who were called to the scene after a guard noticed a strong odour coming from one of the bags.

MoMA has been encouraging study and consideration of media reporting of situations involving men and fathers, both about the underlying situations and the way that media manipulated these stories. This individual case study approach is very illustrative of the ups and downs, but may miss out on seeing the bulk of the wider picture. For […]

she says it all.. https://www.embooks.com/blog/single/broken-families-broken-britain

Oooh, Shock Horror, How Exciting, A Scandal! Auckland’s newly elected Mayor Len Brown confirms allegations made on the WhaleOil blog site that he participated in a 2-year extramarital affair with a younger woman who served on a council advisory board. This revelation immediately became the top news story around the country. But how silly it […]

The research, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, showed the Metropolitan Police detained the highest number of children aged 17 and under for both years, with 14,370 in 2010 and 13,860 in 2011. This is an interesting article looking at the number of children held in overnight custody in the London Metroloitan Police Area.

NEED BETTER WORK STORIES? [The link above takes you to the front page, which presently contains this story. After a week, you will then need to look down the front page, or search for the title “Need better work stories”.] 8 October 2013 A 7-day trial in the Auckland High Court begins Monday, 14 October, […]

The world economy is like a chess game, but not one between two players who take turnabout. Each piece on the board has its own mind, plays its own game, may move when it wants, and the game progresses in a sometimes unpredictable manner. The five days referred to above is when the US could […]