The December 2009 issue of Journal of Primary Health Care (JPHC), which is edited by my wife Felicity Goodyear-Smith, has a men’s health focus. In the editorial she writes: The health of our men contributes greatly to the health of our nation. Overall men have a poorer health status than women and use our health […]

By Simon Collins 4:00 AM Thursday Nov 19, 2009 NZ Herald A top judge has called for more mental health support for people involved in Family Court cases after finding 18 suspected suicides by people involved in the court in the 13 months to June. Principal Family Court Judge Peter Boshier, in a speech to […]

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 […]

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 […]

Janet Fraser is perhaps Australia’s most ferocious advocate of home births. Her spiel mixes militant feminism and a green age’s worship of Earth Mother: “In a woman-hating society obsessed with the control and regulation of women’s bodies, choosing to birth at home makes a crucial statement of withdrawal from patriarchy.” Medical intervention to help the […]

60 Minutes aired a program Monday 13th 2009 called ‘Mum’s the word” with reporter Karen McCarthy. It showed the classroom of one school in New Zealand that has young single mothers and their children attending to give the mothers a chance to stay at school and make something of their lives. How far we have […]

1. Families Comm’n Pushes Anti-Smacking Ideology In an Op-Ed in the Timaru Herald (27 March 09) entitled ” Positive Parenting means not having to smack ” the new chief commissioner of the Families Commission says: the anti-smacking law is working well and is achieving what was intended (WRONG – see item #2) the law change […]

Julies post gives greatly distorted view: She says ‘At the moment women are outliving men by 5 years ‘ quoting a news item from AMERICA that actually says ‘babies born in 2009’ so postulated effect is 77 years in future! A gross distortion of reality. I do not now think ‘julie’ so masculinist friendly.

In the battle of the sexes, life expectancy is one area where women are still ahead of the game. At the moment women are outliving men by 5 years but according to a new study, the life expectancy gender gap is closing and could have vanished for good within just two generations. Researchers say that […]

Women’s vote strength is powerful indeed, having three times as much influence, where it counts, than men. people commonly believe they ‘know that it is 49% to 51% ‘ but that is population proportion overall: we are concerned here with political power and influence only in the voting cohorts above the voting age of 20. Women as a whole get to vote two elections more than men PLUS in slightly greater numbers… giving overall in voting strength more like 45% to 55% advantage in western societies to women. 10 is twice the vote power where it counts. Thus men CANNOT support democracy! … as currently configured. Some solutions proffered.

What’s the difference between sperm samples and discarded toenails? Answer: A landmark case in the UK has ruled the former is still a man’s property. Sperm samples – given by the men after they were warned by doctors that chemotherapy might damage their fertility – were the property of the six NHS patients who can […]

British scientists have been given the go ahead to inject stroke patients brains with cells form a 12-week-old foetus. Experts believe the cells will regenerate areas damaged by strokes and restore movement and mental skills. Scientists hope one injection could provide a long-lasting improvement to humans. The first group will receive two million cells, with […]

Interesting figures from the USA DNA test doesn’t stop Oklahoma man’s child support liability Nearly 25 percent of about 3,000 paternity tests conducted by the state Department of Human Services from July 2007 through June ruled out the supposed father as the biological parent. Nationally, that number reaches nearly 30 percent, according to the American Association of […]

by Warren Farrell, Ph.D. Virginia Tech, the 2006 Amish and Vermont killings, and Columbine make us cry out, … What’s making our children kill? In fact, it is not our children doing the killing. It is our sons. Yes, violence in the media, the availability of handguns, and poor family values are part of the […]

In NZ, the debate about domestic violence hasn’t got past the “90% of domestic violence victims are women, so provide support services only for the women”. (The values are wrong AND the statistics are wrong!) In NZ, 90% of serious assault victims and murder victims are male. In UK, there are working helpline services which […]

The following news release from the Labour government minister of health inspired me to make the following points: 1. It is good to see the government take some notice of men’s health needs. Without MENZ and the political action of many of those who contribute here, that almost certainly would not have happened. Well done […]

Thursday 11 September 2008 More than 40 of Britain’s leading male artists have united in the fight against prostate cancer, donating their works for the Everyman Men Only exhibition to be held at Liberty in London from 8 to 11 September. Artists Damien Hirst, Sir Peter Blake, Rankin, Patrick Hughes and Martin Parr are among […]

The United Future (UF) policy is in some ways positive. Legal recognition of the concept of a “presumption of shared parenting” after separation is a step forward. Acknowledgement is welcome of the growing research showing that fatherlessness is perpetuated through current family law but is very bad for children. Those who have slaved away for […]

Minister of Housing Maryan Street, under pressure for exorbitant spending of taxpayers’ money, has come a long way since 1981 when she was a teacher at Westlake Girls’ High School. (Herald 28th May) Back then she was a lesbian activist prominent in the Feminist Teachers group who were busily spearheading the push to abolish corporal […]

In today’s Dominion Post The Health Ministry’s foot-dragging stance on prostate cancer screening for Kiwi men is criminal, patient advocates and doctors say. A study by Wellington researchers of prostate screening and treatment, published in the December edition of the international journal Pathology, suggests the ministry’s outdated guidelines could be costing 200 men their lives each […]

Link : What National is saying is that they are going to give our Police the same authority of a Judge to issue an interim injunction. This is an injunction that will automatically stop one party from associating with any children in that relationship.

In a Fathers Day Statement Republican Leader Kerry Bevin puts family devastation clearly at the feet of the feminist agenda, and its moderate face, NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark. By allowing this Government to continue unchallenged in the implementation of its pink policy we leave unaddressed the underlying causes of family devastation. “Family discipline is […]

Retirement Commissioner Diana Crossan agrees women should educate themselves and start saving for retirement. “A man is not a financial plan,” she says. Auckland University economics lecturer Susan St John says linking a tax credit only to paid work cheapens the importance of caregiving. “Once you start to reward work and tie saving incentives to […]

The BBC reported that “A Romanian man sets himself on fire in Bucharest in a desperate bid to get custody of his son who is living in Spain.” They showed a picture here. Unfortunety it doesn’t give us any more information. “Get custody” may in reality mean; to have a meaningful relationship.? The average wage […]