The mother of two young boys has been refused permission to appeal a High Court ruling preventing her from moving to the United Kingdom with them. The boys’ parents separated in 2007 and shared parenting. The mother initially won Family Court permission to move with the boys to the UK, but the father successfully appealed […]

State agency spy powers ‘chilling’ WHAT’S IN THE BILL THE POWERS: Video surveillance, watching private activity on private property, installing tracking devices, detaining people during a search, power to stop vehicles without a warrant for a search, warrantless seizure of “items in plain view”, power to hack into computers remotely, power to detain anyone at […]

The case of Kevin Driscoll, accused of rape and currently under house arrest in Oregon, USA is a men’s rights issue going begging. The evidence against him is so bewilderingly thin, and the severity of local law enforcement’s response so untoward, that this case promises to be a watershed moment in the advancement of men’s […]

From: NZ Herald Being there when baby’s born If I wasn’t allowed to be present at the birth of my little girl then I would have thrown my toys. This week’s revelations by British childbirth specialist Michel Odent, who reckons childbirth would be less painful and more streamlined if men were not in the delivery […]

AISLING SYMES DISAPPEARANCE This has been a horrible situation for Aisling’s family. Our hopes were with them and we now grieve with them for their tragic loss. Sadly, the case provided another platform for institutional sexism in news reports that police were focusing on local “child-related offending” and people of interest in this regard.

Dear Wendy, I read your article about father’s suicides, with quite a bit of pain. While men’s suicide shows up grossly and obviously in national suicide statistics, I suspect that women’s suicides due to court traumatisation from removal of relationships with children is a faster growing problem. The feeling of traumatisation due to injustice does […]

> From: Suicide Prevention Australia > > Date: 14 October 2009 8:01:45 AM > To: greg @ dadsontheair.net > Subject: Senate Inquiry into Suicide in Australia: Have your say. > Together, we can make a difference… > Reply-To: [email protected] > > > Suicide and self-harm remain unacceptably high in the Australian > community with death […]

My son is twelve. Its been a journey but finally there may be a light at the end of the tunnel.  You see, I have been supporting my son since he was born but yet have never been able to support him.  Supported in dollars yes, but not in the normal sense of being a […]

The FC have finally done their worst. They need to have their closed doors opened to show the criminal injustices they continue to do to children. Just come from an ordered Care and Protection meeting ordered by Judge Druce with the non trustable C4C Christina Cook. Two choices were given, the abused child be made […]

I have seen with my own eyes, children removed from parents and made available for adoption by female//female parents. Uk Government is putting out screeds and screeds and screeds of new Family rules. To me, it looks as though the “Family” issues are getting lost in layers and layers of 1984 style legalese=paperwork. It’s all […]

October is Domestic Violence month and one court case alone in West Virginia, USA, has given a shimmer of hope for men in this terrible time of gender discrimination against them. A group of men and women against discrimination (MAWAD) have taken the state’s family service board to court over discrimination laws. Not only are […]

From: http://www.nzfamilies.org.nz/news-events/separation/families-commission-releases-issues-paper-ahead-of-child-support-review The Families Commission supports a review of the child support scheme in the hopes it will result in more equity, flexibility and information for separated parents.

This makes interesting reading, as it gives the family court’s own perspective of itself. From: http://www2.justice.govt.nz/family/home.asp Welcome to the website of the New Zealand Family Court The Family Court of New Zealand deals with a wide range of issues but many of them involve the care of children. This website explains many of the things you might want […]

From: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/2946437/Parents-living-hell-as-hunt-for-Aisling-enters-fifth-day   Police hunting for missing toddler Aisling Symes have not ruled out she could have been stolen to order. Nothing has been seen of the bright and bubbly two-year-old since Monday night when she was last seen with an Asian woman who was holding a dog on a lead. Aisling’s disappearance from her […]

My brother is in the process of a separation and divorce where his wife of almost ten years has had an affair and called time on their marriage and taken the five children. This occurred almost a month ago and since then he has been going through an absolute nightmare. His wife took the option […]

John Cleese is furious he has to go back on tour to pay for his divorce. Stuff It!

The BBC reports that trials of a male contraceptive are about to begin in Scotland. The scientists claim it can give much better protection against pregnancy than condoms. And it is hoped the work could help pave the way for such a form of contraception to become more widely available. The injections contain the hormones […]

“the right to life extended to the unborn child from the moment of conception and that the use of abortion as a means of resolving health or social problems was a denial of that right.

Lindsay Mitchell makes important observations about the consequences of our DPB system. However, she claims that The DPB has made fathering and fleeing commonplace and accepted. Before the DPB men were jailed for not supporting their families. Draconian, possibly. and makes no mention of the more frequent impact of the DPB in helping mothers to […]

Letters may be sent to [email protected] From: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/2905232/Denied-weight-loss-surgery-because-he-is-a-man Denied weight-loss surgery because he is a man By TIM DONOGHUE and RUTH HILL – The Dominion Post A Wellington man was horrified to be told he would not get taxpayer-funded weight-loss surgery because he is a man. Ron Blair, 68, who weighs 132 kilograms, was referred […]

As said i’m just a little confused on this matter. I have my two children on a 50/50 shared care basis, great i have no complaints on that fact. Where my mind becomes a little confused though is why i am still required to pay excessive amounts each month to their mother when she has […]

NZCPR Guest Forum Stuart Birks Director of the Centre for Public Policy Evaluation, Massey University. 29 July 2009 Should we believe the ‘experts’ Because economic and social phenomena are so forbidding, or at least so seem, and because they yield few hard tests of what exists and what does not, they afford to the individual […]

Mike Moore: Smacking-referendum hoax John Key’s biggest mistake nzherald By Mike Moore The expensive, puerile, futile controversy over the ill-considered anti-smacking legislation is a monument to political cowardice and opportunism. The legislation was never going to achieve what its promoters claimed, and was never going to send good parents to court, as its opponents suggested. […]

Inland Revenue has retrieved $20.1 million in child support, since it launched a joint operation with the Customs Service last year. Under a data matching arrangement which began last September, Customs checks names provided by the IRD against its arrival and departure information. In the nine months to the end of March, IRD was informed […]

By PHIL HAMILTON – The Press Fathers are backing a Families Commission proposal for more shared parenting ahead of a review of the child-support scheme. Inland Revenue will shortly release a discussion document on possible changes to the child-support scheme. In response, the Families Commission has released an issues paper that suggests child support should […]