Many of you who read this will be fathers and you will be spending some or all of fathers’ day with your children. This is a day to celebrate your role, a role that all too often is not only overlooked and underestimated, but undermined and maligned. This is a day for all of you […]

Dr Janet Fanslow at University of Auckland’s medical school has again been given extensive publicity for ongoing findings in her study on violence against women in NZ, e.g. 1. “Ten per cent of pregnant women victims of violence” NZ Herald 13/08/2008 2. “We all need to be aware of how to protect our country’s young” […]

I just caught a glimpse of the advance news summary on TV3. There was a shot of Peter Dunne taking a seat in front of microphones, a fat report in his hand and the commentary ‘the big plan for child support and how it affects you’ (or something like that). This could be the plan […]

Felicity, my family and I feature prominently in the Sunday Star-Times today. On the bottom of front page: “Academic with links to sex abusers silent on role in drafting ACC rules“ Special Investigation, section C: “Conflicting interests?” The central message of these two stories; that Felicity was influential in the recent changes to ACC payments […]

While this is Austrailian I suspect that similar happens here. Fathers ‘stereotyped’ by Child Support Agency Paul Bibby WORKPLACE August 26, 2010 THE government watchdog responsible for overseeing child support payments has been unfairly focusing on parents who do not pay enough while ignoring those who are getting too much, the Commonwealth Ombudsman says. In […]

There has been a lot of debate recently on MENZ regarding the approach to solving the issues fathers/men face. A lot of it extremely negative and divisive. Most contributors use what is caused a deficit research approach characterised by : Identification of problems Analysis of causes Analysis of possible solutions Plan of action (How will […]

“All it takes for Evil to win is for Good to do nothing”. Part 5 (continued from Part 4, Wed. 30th June 2010) (Like previously this story is not about the malicious mother (syndrome) since that is something I can’t do anything about. This post/story is part of exposing and dealing with the corruption of […]

More than 300,000 families will be able to split their income for tax purposes and reduce their liability under legislation announced today by Revenue Minister Peter Dunne. Mr Dunne has introduced the bill as leader of the United Future Party, and he has government support to get it through a first reading and into a […]

This’ll bring tears to your eyes!

Sometimes an article is perfect the way it is, and sometimes an article is soooo good it needs to be copied and pasted in it’s entirety. This is one such article. (with permission). The decline of the male economy – and of fatherhood – arises less from the empowerment of women than from the government’s […]

Revenue Minister Peter Dunne is calling for a change to the child support system, saying “too many children are suffering”. Close Up revealed tonight that more than 500 parents earning more $100,000 dollars a year haven’t paid child support debts, and Inland Revenue seems powerless to do anything about it. Dunne said the child support […]

I am concerned at the angst showing in many recent posts on these pages. Some men are taking too long to climb out of their hurt and see all of the faces of the world surrounding us. Are they taking responsibility for the hurts that they may have given? 12 Steps shows a good path, […]

There’s a lot of famous trios out there, …. the 3 musketeers, three wise men, Marx Brothers…. Groucho,Chico and Harpo and another to add …. 3 fathers – Alfred Ngaro, Jack Scanlan and Chris Makoare who have started the group ‘Just for Dads’. The fathers formed the group with the thought of it being more […]

Women wash the care less often: http://blog.autoquake.com/news/women-drivers-are-dirtier-than-men/1966 Then there are the lawns, the garden, the rubbish, repairs, fixing the car, etc etc.

Union of Fathers president Allan Harvey says “The system is too crude at the moment and encourages one parent to be a care parent and one to be a cash parent. That’s not best for our children.” Child support reform advocate James Nicolle also said the system was failing both parents and children. “It’s just […]

Many people will have heard mention of the NZ Suicide Prevention Strategy but won’t be aware of exactly what it says, or that it was produced by the Ministry of Health and funded by our taxes. The Strategy was published in 2006 and is intended to be in place until 2016. Well, we all know […]

Minister of Justice Simon Power has been talking for some time about introducing an inquisitorial system for cases involving child complainants and for complainants in sex crimes. Of course, he uses the ploy of referring to “child victims” and “sex abuse victims” to manipulate the public towards believing that all such complainants are necessarily victims […]

How far will a father go to protect his little girl? Two months ago I wrote about a father who has been protesting outside Prime Minister John Key’s home, Social Minister Paula Bennett’s office and CYFS offices around the country. He has been trying tirelessly to save his 3 year old daughter from her mother’s […]

Have a read of this article Upaid child support $17 Million note : Inland Revenue documents released to the Taranaki Daily News show more than half the parents liable for child support in the region had an outstanding debt. A total of $6.7m of the money is assessment debt, money either passed directly on to the […]

Dating New Zealand Women A departing French ambassador to New Zealand once commented at the end of his stay in the country that New Zealand women lacked elegance, complaining that they dressed only in black and ‘walk like soldiers’. That was a bit cruel, though it’s true you won’t see many Kiwi women prancing around […]

CHICAGO – A Chicago-area man is suing Southwest Airlines, saying its flight attendants failed to protect his 14-year-old son from an older female passenger who made sexual advances toward him and offered him illegal drugs during a flight to Florida. According to the lawsuit filed Monday in Cook County Circuit Court, the incident occurred on […]

Mother jailed for ‘cruel, horrible’ abuse

Mother rammed police officer with 5 year old daughter in car.

Aimee L. Sword gets prison for sex with her son

Home alone.

Mum gets 10 months jail.

Disabled Woman Left in 100 Degree Room Dies; Mother, Sister Charged

In Western Australia a mother failed to negotiate a bend and drove her car into a tree.

Mother, 19, charged with assault of former spouse.

Pregnant women who drink alcohol may reduce the sperm count of sons

I have been giving this Child Support and Family Law question a bit of thought lately. Rather than prattle on about the inequities of our Family and Child Support Laws, which in this forum we all know so much about, I thought I would offer up some ideas about where I think it should go. […]

I came across a couple of interesting short videos on the net that echo the message men give through writing on this site and thought “Hey, cool”. This one (below) is about men choosing surrogacy to become fathers rather than risk losing their children when a mother is involved.

Interesting article that is well worth a read. What if a father could choose not to accept financial responsibility for a child before the child was born? Should create some interesting discussion! Regards Scrap If it were law,a financial abortion would allow a man — one who has specifically said to his partner before intercourse […]