While Officers of the New Zealand Family Court have immunity from criminal prosecution and the Commissioner of the IRD, can recover money carte blanch then men in this country need to fear for their wellbeing.

The March 2006 New Zealand Reader’s Digest has an article titled ‘Big Boys Don’t Cry’, which has a list of resources that includes this web site! It says (not very accurately): Lots of links and an online forum. Runs support meetings in Auckland. But hey, who’s complaining? Welcome to any new readers who arrive by […]

It is not the brave new world of women, simply retrodictive ignorance, and a sad indictment of our society that as mothers and fathers, we allow our children to be used as the political fodder of egalitarian tyrants.

If only people would stop talking about smacking and start understanding the significance and the implications of section 59 of the Crimes Act, and how it relates to our children – your children, and the future of fathers in New Zealand.

Why have two ministers in two governments refused to release this information. The question we have asked is how much money has the IRD recovered from the deceased estates of how many men in the past 6 years.

I fear that the men of this country have lost their self respect and pride that they will allow section 59 to removed from our statues. The illusion of the institution has blinded them, they no longer realise that they are required to participate.

The article concludes with a veiled suggestion that fathers should shut up, pay up, and the state will see to it that the nations children will get the financial support they are entitled to.

Cow Pat was a more polite rendition of my first thought after reading Pat Booths column – The Runaway Dads. I know this column will have irritated and angered many in the community.

The General Court recognises that men are an important resource for families and children, and wishes to explore the causes and consequences of a variety of social, economic and health problems facing men.

Rift erupts over male suicide policy The Press A serious rift has appeared among suicide experts over policies targeting male suicides. The debate erupted yesterday as the Males and Suicides Symposium 2005 organised by Suicide Prevention Information New Zealand (Spinz) opened in Christchurch. Spinz is a non-government, New Zealand-wide information service, in partnership with the […]

A Stuff News Release advises the launching the out of the blue campaign, for male depression and suicide, then links to a website about female and gay depression.

Insert (I can’t blame men for leaving NZ, when I see these engineered political cover-ups, I wonder why I would even want to exist on the same planet as these people. Perhaps we could have a conference about the number of men that have committed suicide in the last 6 months while being pursued by […]

Of all age groups for NZ males 75 years and under with the exception of one, youth aged 15 – 19 have the lowest suicide rate.

The boys may now need more than a condom and a pre-nuptial in their tool kit, for protection!

So who has been hunting male lately? I would really like to know, how many of those missing men are in another country? and how many are in a coffin?

You can call me sexist, bigoted, biased, or anything else that takes your fancy, but I doubt you find a convincing argument supporting the appointment of a female Police Commissioner to resurrect the Police Force from its current regrettable position

By DONNA CHISHOLM – Sunday Star-Times Advocates of prostate cancer testing believe the Health Ministry is about to change its controversial advice which discourages men from being screened unless they have symptoms. Wellington pathologist Professor Brett Delahunt, president-elect of the International Society of Urologic Pathologists, says he is optimistic the recommendations will change after lobbying […]

He is living in his car with his dog in the electorate for which I am a candidate. I have spent time with this man during the week.

Child Support might better be referred to as issue tax. It is nothing more than a crippling pole tax most often levied on the biological father, accompanied by a sinister mythology in the way it is portrayed.

Men who are overweight are more likely than thinner men to be diagnosed with prostate cancers that are less likely to be detected on screening and more likely to be aggressive, according to a report in the medical journal Urology.

Medical opinion is swinging towards prostate cancer screening for men, a leading Christchurch urologist says. The debate was reignited at the national GPs conference in Christchurch yesterday, despite current Ministry of Health advice against a national screening programme. In a show of hands, most GPs at the conference debate indicated they would offer prostate-specific antigen […]

What do our Prime Minister, Chief Justice, Governor-General, Speaker of the House, Chief Executive of Telecom NZ, and 60 per cent of those with degrees and post-graduate qualifications, have in common? They are the so-called weaker sex – the tender gender.

Australian and New Zealand researchers have identified a treatment which cuts the chances of prostate cancer returning by 60 per cent. The 10 year Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG) trial on 800 men with inoperable prostate cancer found a period of hormone therapy before radiotherapy could help stop the cancer returning. The treatment also cut […]

Witnessing a loved one give birth, especially for the first time, is both an anxiety provoking and exhilarating experience. Yet for many fathers childbirth was not the joyous experience they hoped for. Having a baby is an extraordinary event in a man’s life, but many men do not receive the support they need. Some suffer […]

Today’s summit at the Waitakere City Council chambers got off to a late start, which as it turned out was lucky because opening speaker John Tamihere was also slightly delayed. We were informed that his son had needed a bit of fatherly input into the matter of him staying at school for longer than it […]