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 […]

Stuff this morning . Note Family First true colors are showing! Note the spin of this article Note no one representing liable parents (UOF – Fair and Reasonable etc) has been asked for comment in this article Child-support dodgers owe their children — and the taxman — billions. Inland Revenue is owed more than $1.8 […]

If you have been separated from your children/child then the chances are that you will have experienced some degree of depression. If you already had an existing disposition toward depression then father alienation by the State will most certainly hurl you into a massive black hole that you may never recover from without undergoing wise […]

Title: Increasing child compliance: Fathers flying solo Authors: Havell, Elaena Margaret Keywords: children triple p solo fathers non-compliance behavioural intervention Issue Date: 2008 Abstract: This study investigated the effectiveness of the Triple P Programme to reduce non-compliant behaviour in three solo father families. Using behavioural monitoring, observational coding, and self-report questionnaires, outcome measures included non-compliant […]

Part 4 (continued from Part 3, 2th June  2010) With a new Judge and a new Counsel for Child (CfC) I thought maybe…maybe now fairness and justice would improve but little did I know then that their inflated egos would not stand for a common man questioning a Judge or CfC’s integrity (or as I […]

The past few months would have to be the worst period of the online men’s movement I’ve seen. It’s not unusual for inside fighting also known as inside politics to occur, and sometimes it’s worth laughing about while other times it gets real messy and pain is inflicted. It’s easy enough to do when men […]

SEPARATED parents owe their ex-partners more than $1 billion in child support payments, the Auditor-General reported yesterday. The Australian National Audit Office investigation into child support reform found that half of separated parents are failing to pay all, or any, of their child support liabilities. The audit report, tabled in parliament yesterday, criticises the Child […]

I have just been advised that MenzShed is getting set up in Kapiti. It has achieved registration as an incorporated society this past week so it can now raise funds for this charitable purpose. The first meeting to formalise the group of people to operate the place will be 3.00 pm tomorrow Tuesday 22 June […]

A question – what would have happened if this was a man? Sex attack gets drink-driver off