I went back to school as an adult student to study business, with an accounting major in the hope of starting my own business a number of years back. While studying the last papers I phoned my tutor and said I was disappointed because I felt the amount of compulsory social papers took up time […]

I and other contributors on MENZ have criticised NZ suicide researchers for showing relatively scant interest or care in younger middle aged men’s suicides, particularly if not coloured. This criticism seems to apply to all NZ suicide research published in the last 20 years. Although some commentators put this down to callous disregard for men, […]

The intense scientific and courtroom debates in the 1990’s and early 2000’s, referred to as “the memory wars”, have largely settled now because of the large amount of research demonstrating beyond doubt that, through a variety of simple influences, children and adults can easily develop memories for events that never happened and that existing memories […]

Dear John Potter In February last year you wrote a comment supporting the Big Buddy organisation, in which you said that buddies would not be assigned to boys with a father present, but excluded by the Family Court. That’s certainly what I believed when I became involved. But now I hear on the grapevine that […]

Fathers Need Families UK are organising a march on Whitehall, to support shared parenting and a less profit driven family law (ie less adversarial) approach in UK. Such an approach would improve the situation of children, rather than financially pilfering and socially damaging families, as familycaughts in UK and NZ are currently operating. This brings […]

Greg Meads killed his wife by shooting her at close range and he has now been convicted of murder. His action was no more acceptable in a civilized society than a wife similarly killing her husband, and Mr Meads deserves appropriate justice. However, the case is relevant to the men’s movement for at least two […]

I have been in Australia recently and this story has received quite a lot of publicity. What do you thnk?

When familycaught personnel utter these words, they are really refusing to look at the parental competence of the mother. Although perhaps well meaning, for many cases where both parents are sufficiently competent in parental skills and mental health, their do-gooder approach completely fails to address the job entrusted to them by Parliament, for a significant […]

Virginia is due to execute a woman, the first in the US state since 1912 and the first anywhere in the country for five years. But why is the execution of a woman such a significant event? Is Teresa Lewis an unusual death row case?

The MENZ site owner has suggested that new matters be contributed by way of new posts rather than being included as comments on historical posts. This for various reasons including that new posts include titles for search engines to find, and comments will only stay on the “new comments” list briefly so won’t be seen […]

Last Wednesday I received a message on my voice mail from TVNZ looking for someone from a men’s group to comment on a recent speech about Legal Aid in the Family Court by Justice Minister Simon Power. Unfortunately, I didn’t get back to them in time to make any suggestions about who to talk to. […]

Plotting ex-wife gets 7-14 years in jail Kristin Ruggiero will spend 7 to 14 years in state prison for what police say was part of a years-long ploy to use the criminal justice system against her ex-husband, who was thrown in jail and nearly lost his career during a bitter divorce. Judge Kenneth McHugh said […]

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 […]

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

A MAN set himself on fire outside of Brisbane’s Supreme Court complex after an unfavourable family court decision, according to witnesses at the scene. It sounds like he sat down for a while and thought about it quietly. Then he set himself alight. 90 percent of his body was burned. He was taken to hospital […]

If feminism is about equality then why don’t feminists ever talk about retirement issues? For example males in NZ used to have a life expectancy 7 years less than women until very recently. The gap is now down to 4 or 5 years. Even so this is significantly less. In addition males in retirement tend […]

Hi folks I have created a private group for those who are involved as McKenzie Friends or self litigants in the family court that may be of interest to some.

Over the past few months there have been fathers protesting outside Family Courts, CYFS offices (child, youth and family) on both North and South islands, Prime Minister John Key’s home and MP Paula Bennett’s office. It’s a group led by a father going through a terrible ordeal to save his daughter’s life in a CYFS […]

This woman turned a man’s life upside down with her false rape complaint. A truely hideoous crime in our society. Predictably the news paper report critises the victim for being unwilling to face his tormentor. At no point are we even told that the criminal was even charged with anything let alone sentanced. Then there […]

I have shared care and guardianship of my two children. They have been left a substantial amount of money by my ex-partner’s grandmother (their Great-Grandmother) which will set them up for life. I have only learnt about this by accident from a 3rd party. My ex-partner is taking my children to court to take their […]

The New Zealand Family Court is at least 8 years behind Australia and this gap is growing. Have a read of this article from the Sydney Morning Heard published in Oct 1996. Since then these changes and also changes to Child Support have been made in Australia. The judiciary are only slowly changing but they […]

A New York woman spent 9.5 years in divorce proceedings screwing over her ex husband. Nothing new about that. What made the news was that having realised how easy it is for a determined woman to destroy an ex husband it dawned on her that some other woman could do the same thing to her […]

Australian Government Remains Silent on Judicial Fraud Thursday, April 15, 2010 By Ash Patil The 7th of April 2010 marked the fourth anniversary of the Magill v Magill paternity fraud case in Australia, effectively creating two remarkable precedents in terms of the perpetuation of fraud in this country.

Men have no reproductive rights. In fact they are punished and held in servitude for the reproductive choices of women. Think I am exaggerating? Think again. Here is an American group raising awareness of this issue. “The problems connected to unwanted pregnancies exist not because a guy has sex. Sex will always happen. The problems […]

The series starts Wednesday 31st of March and thanks to the online men’s network, I will be able to post links for your viewing pleasure. But for now, a preview will suffice………….. Sara Feilden, the producer for Films of Record, who made the BBC series says she is glad to have found the brief window […]