Bar worker Jodi McGregor, 24, was furious when her boyfriend – to whom she was pregnant – confessed he’d had sex with her friend. McGregor, of New Plymouth, invited the friend to her home for a party on February 12, got another woman to pin her down by holding her hair, and laid into her […]

PM must act, not rant, over single parents by Martin Fricker, Daily Mirror 20/06/2011 DAVID Cameron hit out at fathers who run out on their children yesterday and said absent dads deserve to be shamed in the same way as drink drivers.………… Mr Cameron said: “It’s high time runaway dads were stigmatised and the full […]

Hi can someone help? My husbands ex wife has successfully applied for an admin review which we filed a cross application. The son attends private school and about a year ago she unilaterally put him into boarding saying she would meet the costs. She lives less than 9km from the school. The review officer ignored […]

Now life for non-resident parents is, potentially, about to get worse. In recent years, the level of a non-resident parent’s income being payable for maintenance was calculated on the following basis: 15 per cent for one child, 20 for two children and 25 for three or more children. Now, under a phased introduction, the proportions […]

WASHINGTON, June 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — “”¦ This is to our President. President Obama remarks often “¦ It’s “¦ been two Father’s Day years in a row where he admonished fathers, especially African American fathers, to step up to the plate. Well, I’m an ex-baseball player; almost went pro years ago”¦ so my analogy is: […]

Auckland Family Court judge Margaret Rogers said more than 1000 pages of evidence had been filed with the court. “At this point in [the child’s] life, [its] future should lie ahead of [it] full of promise and potential. But I fear for [the child] and for [its] future,” she said in a decision issued last […]

Here’s some insight into what is being taught to young women in schools etc about domestic violence, and below is my reply to the newspaper and to Ms Kearns. This article, while containing some potentially useful content, is mainly feminist propaganda that will harm relationships, wreck families and children’s lives and increase the risk of […]

Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, John Key’s chief science advisor has called for better development of teenagers. Prime Ministers Science Advisory Committee He also made another release, which in the longer run is far more important. Evidence and policy formation He also called for looking for evidence, before instituting new social policies and also when evaluating […]

In New Zealand, both the Care of Children Act 2004 and the CYFs Act 1989 legislation require the familycaught to protect children’s access to their own family, unless to do this would endanger the children. Even then, supervised access can be used to sustain relationships, without exposing the children to serious risk. So, although Parliament […]

Judge tells feuding couple to share custody of dogs By Edward Gay 5:30 AM Saturday May 28, 2011 Share15 Email Print Photo / Thinkstock Expand Photo / Thinkstock A prominent political figure and his ex-wife have been told they must share the custody of their two dogs after a long-running dispute in the Family Court. […]

A Rotorua woman has admitted sending threatening texts to herself in a bid to get her former boyfriend into trouble. Jacinta Maree Hammond, 23, used a pre-pay phone to send the texts to her phone and then a few weeks later told police they were from her estranged partner, the Rotorua Daily Post reported. She […]

Several recent posts have discussed mother hazard / father hazard, for risk of injury or murder. I have pointed out that international abductors presently run about 85% mother / 15% father. Unfortunately, as “judges” tend to publicize cases involving father abductors, the public are being seriously mislead, to believe that the main hazard comes from […]

With an increase in single parent stats, we are starting to see the effects its having in our communities. This story from NZherald I thought needing mentioning. My father lost his father at a young age. As a result, departmental effects of this are going onto me. I was never taught many things a “man” […]

Allowing the biological father to raise a child “virtually guarantees the child won’t die”, but substitute the father for another man and you risk harm to the child. Taking under-five child homicide deaths from 1991-2000 fathers and mothers are almost neck and neck but defacto relationships are almost half that again (possibly due to no […]

Simon Power yesterday announced further financial support for those referred to as “victims” in criminal cases. At first glance all seems warm and fuzzy; for example, few would quibble about additional financial support and trauma counselling for “families of victims of serious crimes leading to death”. But a closer look at Power’s support package raises […]

In New Zealand we do not have Child Support. We have a child tax. This tax has absolutely nothing to do with supporting a child. In my view the entire premise of child support is flawed anyway.

By Steve Bucci – Bankrate.com I just checked my credit report and found my wife opened an account using my name and information. I have never used this account. I didn’t apply for this credit. Now the account is delinquent. In your opinion, what is the best way to go about fixing my credit? I […]

Following the reported assassination of Osama Bin Laden, a Radio NZ National Radio interview this morning with Marc Sageman, a former CIA operations manager with the Afghan task force, was interesting. I quote: “Well, the process of radicalisation is a two-step process; one, you join a protest counter-culture against the discrimination and persecution of Muslims […]

From the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse; see here A new report from the Law Commission recommends additional provisions that will make parent and caregivers liable if they fail to protect their children from injury or fail to intervene when a child is at risk. It has also recommended that the core assault and injury […]

And so the shake up begins. Im sure many people are going to be watching this closely. The womans refuge are not happy and im sure others are going to come out of the woodwork. Little concerning this is being rushed through.

Greetings. I am in my second long term relationship, with grown up children from my first marriage, but thankfully no children from my second as my current partner and I are now going through the process of separating. My partner has been to a lawyer, but I do not yet have one. I need to […]

The Greg Meads murder case was previously discussed on MENZ. It became clear that anyone who attempted to discuss rationally issues around this case would be personally abused, including any discussion of the extent to which provocation should be taken into account at sentencing since it had been removed as a partial defence against a […]

April 22, 2011, 7:10 am (From the NZPA) – Full article posted here (in case it gets pulled from Yahoo later). “Te Wananga o Aotearoa says a “human error” allowed a woman convicted of cruelty to a child to enrol in a social work degree. Kylie TeKani was taking classes at the Porirua campus towards […]

When women kill children, understanding galore She was a brave victim of a cold, mean world Struggling alone, a sole parent, abandoned (Though actually, probably, she grew bored with the manhood Ejected the father, erased his involvement What can you expect? Men are useful for money, Nothing else, they’re a hassle, not worth having honey […]

The news story this week about ACC employee Dr Peter Jansen was fascinating. A disgruntled female ACC claimant (on the basis of alleged sexual abuse) wrote potentially defamatory things about Dr Jansen on a blog. Dr Jansen asked her to remove the comments and, when she refused to do so, commenced a defamation case against […]