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 […]

Hi. Can someone plse advise where i can find info my rights on me now being a legal guradian. I have just won access for my 20month young daughter. By the end of the year I shoud be having her on a regular basis every second weekend. I need to know things like ‘ how […]

Written by Barbara Faithful Dr. Muriel Newman has produced the attached impressive editorial on the chicanery behind the smacking referendum and its aftermath. In my view some highlights of it are :- Firstly, she points out that the 54% response rate to it (so derided by the anti-smacking lobby) “is almost the same as the […]

Starting on Monday, the third year of NZ’s greatest week! Monday evening launch with Mayor Bob, photography awards for local schoolchildren plus Rex McCann and Harald Breiding-Buss, among others, as guest speakers. Free Toolbox parenting nights with Pio Terei, Fun in the Mall at Westfield Henderson all week, Raising Teen girls and Raising teen boys […]

In this mornings Hearld Kiwi women are an unusually possessive lot – if you believe their partners. A national survey reported today by the Families Commission has found that one in every seven Kiwi men say their partners get angry if they speak to other women, compared with only 9 per cent of women who […]

Hi all Has any body been able to lay a charge against a woman with police on either false pretence, mental abuse, fraud,making a false statement? Or lay a protection order against a woman? It is a long story with me, but the latest is I have had a protection order placed on me from […]

Oh, yeah!!!! 😀 Almost 90 per cent of people who participated in a referendum asking New Zealanders whether smacking should be illegal have voted no, preliminary results show. When you consider this referendum was about ‘the people‘ versus ‘the state‘ with all it’s power and tax payer money, this sure was a landslide. Read more.

1) In this article Refuge says education on protection orders needed : it is stated that the protection order could not be served on Ms Liu’s husband, Nai Yin Xue 2) In this article Violence in dumped toddler’s family it is stated that Mr Xue, a 54-year-old magazine publisher, last appeared in court in June, […]

This story jumped out at me yesterday. An older man takes exercise in the Rotorua Redwoods Forest, a huge public reserve. He’s a bit unusual in his manner. He dares to say “a good day for it” to a woman also exercising who passes by him on the track and this “made her nervous”.

This mornings Dominion Post Almost a third of liable parents are shunning child support obligations, the highest rate in five years. At June 30, the child support hole totalled $1.5 billion. Inland Revenue is chasing more than $527 million owed by parents, with more than $1 billion owed in penalties. Fathers in Manukau and Gisborne […]

I sent an email to my son today on his birthday and share it only becuase it will hopefully remind us all what wonderful children we have, I am not seeking any credit or back patting for this, just thought you might like to hear it. Dear *edited*, It is seven years ago today that […]

Should Domestic Violence in New Zealand be portrayed as men are batterers and women are victims? Should we really be shown one sided abuse through Family Violence campaigns, policies, advertisements on TV and radio? Should our laws, police work and community care reflect this Ideology of men are bad and women are good? Here is […]

Good morning judge green, now known as judge clarkson. I met you at a familycaught hearing at 10 am on 6th October 1992. I had applied for this hearing 10 months earlier, after my children were abducted from my settled care and then re-enrolled into schools in the mother’s area. Although I applied to the […]

Whose Finger Pulled the Suicide Trigger? The TVNZ website, source NZPA had the following report: Bevin said the Father’s Coalition had wanted to raise with the commission a range of issues, particularly the likelihood that family break-ups, and events such as separations and divorces, were key factors in a high incidence of suicide among middle-aged […]

The Families Commission cancelled a meeting with a group of loudmouthed, somewhat poor, self-opinionated fathers. Having taken the decision about one week prior, they notified these fathers, as they tried to walk into the Families Commission building in Wellington. If we look at the constructiveness of the Families Commission action, we can see that if […]

Living comfortably with our human reality – we are animals Putting responsibility where it is due – on the original decision-maker. A recent incest case in Auckland District Caught brings home how some of our legislation is quite out of touch with our human reality. When children are separated from siblings or a parent at […]

The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison AVON BOOKS, INC. 1350 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10019 In this extraordinary memoir, one of today’s best young American writers transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman’s life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter that began when […]