I have a Myspace page titled Sean’s Voice. This page is in honor of my sweet grandson, Sean Michael Sowards who was tortured, abused and neglected leading to his murder by his own mother when he was just two and half years old. It was in June of 2007 (just last year) that we had to say good bye and bury this precious angel. This woman not only abused Sean, but also abused my son, Sean’s daddy over the eight years they were together. (more…)
I made phone calls today as I always do now and then to groups. But groups seem independent IMO. I find it really hard to find groups that are anti male and yet we follow an ideology.
Is this ideology just a political thing? I am serious! Maybe I didn’t get a piece or 2?
Plunket in Auckland can’t figure how they boo’ed John Keys for they don’t think they work with children over 5 years of age and Banardos understand father’s issues. (more…)
Events over the past weekend have reminded me of just how important it is to speak up on family issues.
Last Saturday night, four women dressed in black came to our family home in South Auckland and placed almost 1,000 plastic knives into our front lawn. They also taped an intimidating note on our front door relating to the knives (anonymous of course!). (more…)
There has been one thing in particular that has stayed in my mind for the time I have known about men’s plight in New Zealand. It was told to me when I confronted some leaders of a well to do group in Auckland and argued that I think boys should be allowed to climb trees and be risk takers and fall over and scrape their knees and I think girls should be allowed to play with dolls and tea sets if they want to.
The arguments back were …. well, there wasn’t any because young men were around and spoke up themselves saying they liked being masculine. Why does a hairstyle have to be more important to males than being rough and tough? What is so wrong with sport and what is so wrong with not showing emotions all the time?
Anyhow, the sentence that I will never forget is, “I hope men don’t fall in line because that is the day we have socialism”. (more…)
In a stunning turnaround, Green MP Sue Bradford has told parents that smacking is not a criminal offence and implied that groups like Barnardos, Plunket, Every Child Counts and politicians who have said that the aim of the law was to ban parents physically punishing their children are misleading the public.
Yet only last year, she told Newstalk ZB ‘it is already illegal to smack children but her bill removes a defence of reasonable force for the purpose of correction.’ (more…)
While NZ judges and police refuse to prosecute perjurous complainants, then men (and a few women too) are open to deliberate abuse, through calculated abuse of caught process.
If the judges pay lip service to enforcing these laws, but steadfastly refuse to act, then it is left to men to protect themselves from this deliberate abuse, by driving through private prosecutions.
While men are divided, they are easily conquered. (more…)
Filed under: Men's Health — Ministry of Men's Affairs @ 1:05 pm
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 one and all.
2. I believe that the presence of the Republic of NZ Party on the political scene has contributed significantly to forcing this feminist dominated government to realize that it is fast becoming politically unsafe to continue to take men for granted. (more…)
Labour Party has been quick to criticise John Key of being in a conflict of interest situation. John Key has admitted making a mistake, but denied using his parliamentary position for personal profit.
It is interesting that Labour claims to take conflicts of interest seriously.
Several conflicts of interest that harm families legitimate interests were notified to Labour, in the form of my submissions to Parliamentary Sub Committees:
Given that Labour and National have taken no action towards managing these conflicts of interest, to protect the public from these legal workers, then I question Labour’s sincerity in criticising John Key over a relatively minor issue, when they have failed to act on issues leading to serious damage of our children and also resulting in serious wastage of taxpayer funds for no advantage to society.
Filed under: General — fatheringadventures @ 10:18 pm
G’day again men of MENZ Issues… it’s good to be back and sharing again.
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I have been counselling men for nearly 10 years now, and whilst every one of their stories has differed, one constant remains… the way that their father handled their heart as a boy has shaped their life as a man. Masculinity is bestowed by masculinity, and a boy’s father is the single most important male influence in the first 2 decades of his life. So, I want to put it out there to the men at MENZ Issues… How did your father handle your heart as a boy?
Every year too many Kiwi men’s lives are claimed by medical conditions and diseases that could have been diagnosed and treated effectively had they been caught earlier. Many of them could be saved. And that’s why, in November this year, Rick Martin of Cornerstone Group is going to go for the ride of his life – and possibly yours. prostate cancer, donate money to prostate cancer, new zealand
He’s going to put his own backside on the line, literally, by cycling from Bluff to Cape Reinga, including participating in the Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge (160km), with the aim of encouraging men throughout the country to have annual wellness check-ups.
Rick says, “I want to get as many people together as possible to meet and ride with me into town at the end of each day’s ride to make as much noise and gather as much attention as possible for this worthy cause. This is an open invitation to anyone who can ride a bike!”
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 those who have donated works to be auctioned in memory of sculptor Allister Bowtell who died of prostate cancer in 2006, aged 66.
Renowned sculptor, film designer and model maker, Allister Bowtell, was one of the 35,000 British men diagnosed with prostate cancer each year, but sadly lost his battle.
“Allister and I were completely unaware of the plague amongst men until he was diagnosed with late stage prostate cancer,” Pat Scovell-Bowtell, Allister’s wife said.
“My only hope is that better diagnostic tests can be developed along with better treatments for those with the aggressive type of the disease.” Read more
Events for prostate cancer in NZ.
One could ask: What right does someone with a few years experience have to judge a movement? What knowledge could someone provide who hasn’t lived through the days of the 1st feminist wave or the 2nd feminist wave?
There are a range of answers that can show a person who has little actual ‘in the face experience with hateful feminists‘ gives a balanced point of view. Especially when that person has vowed to find the answer themselves. (more…)
I found this article while trolling (gosh I like that word) some men sites which had me questioning how NZ works. BTW, Glenn Sacks is a wonderful advocate for men’s rights. The article was written to describe a DV conference and this is part of the article. (more…)
I have just sent the following email to Murrays Bay Intermediate.
Hi Colin,
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We have received a complaint from one of our members that you allowed a pupil to be withdrawn from your school without contacting his father who is of course a legal guardian. Education is a guardianship issue and a school ought to notify a child’s legal guardians when something as major as a mother withdrawing a child from the school occurs.
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We seek an explanation of why the child’s father was not notified.
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We would also like to see the school institute procedures to make sure that this type of thing does not occur again.
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UnitedFuture policy is clear and on the website at www.unitedfuture.org.nz. It would not keep the MWA as it is at all.
UnitedFuture would rename and refocus the MWA and split it, between a work programme to look at issues pertaining to women and an equal work programme to look at issues pertaining to men.
Rumour from the  corridors of Parliament is  that United Failure is promoting a Ministry of Gender Affairs. There is a proviso however the Ministry of Women’s affairs remains sacrosanct and will continue to promote single issue feminism.
Let’s look at what this will mean for Men. Given the track record of the Femilies Commissariat, that other United Failure creation, effectively there will exist two Ministerial Lobby groups who will promote single issue feminism and advance the interests of women.
Note United Failure remains dismissive of a Ministry of Men’s affairs which many consider the only way to redress the balance of discrimination against Men in New Zealand.
The Republicans remain the  only party promoting a Ministry of Men’s affairs ,equal parenting and fair and reasonable Child Support.
A vote for United Failure is a vote for claytons shared parenting and punitive child tax and another voice for women.
Having spent the last six years battling the Family Court I have come to the conclusion that what we need is a well resourced organisation to fight for fathers. I have begun work on a website called www.fathers4justice.org.nz and I want to set up an incorporated society as the organisation. I need a minimum of 15 members to do this. The advantage of an incorporated society is that it is a separate legal entity. This protects the members from any individual liability. It also makes it easier to attract donations. I have made a start on the organisaton’s mission statement and I am interested in feedback. Is there anybody interested in being a possible member? There won’t be any cost although donations will be gladly accepted.
Checkput this Youtube video: “letter to my first seed” 6 pound(artist) he is a tongan rapper, but wait dont get put off, some dads who have visited this site will totally understand this song.
About 5 years ago, I requested a copy of the Family Court Judge’s Benchbook, under the Official Information Act. The kind young man in Justice Department that I spoke to said he couldn’t see any difficulty, but he would double check with the Principal Family Caught Judge, Judge Mahony. (I offered that as it is probably fairly large and I only wanted to look through it, I would be happy to return it after a couple of weeks.)
I heard nothing back, so after about 7 weeks, I wrote formally and then eventually received a reply stating that judges are not covered by the Official Information Act. (more…)
Many of you who read this will be fathers and you will be spending some or all of fathers’ day with your children. This is a day to celebrate your role, a role that all too often is not only overlooked and underestimated, but undermined and maligned.
This is a day for all of you to be thanked for all that you have done for your children, whether it was sacrificing precious time (that you would rather have spent with them) working to ensure that there was bread on the table, or spending a weekend building a doll’s house.
NZ's legislation and public policy is often influenced by advocacy research, which is designed to produce a pre-determined outcome. A classic example is the Hitting Home Report, winner of the 1995 NZ Skeptics Society ‘Bent Spoon Award'.
Nearly 30 years later, the committee declared the award was not justified, and apologised for “lack of critical thinking”.
NZ teacher Peter Joyce’s settled life was disrupted when a woman he had never met accused him of historic rape. With a unique brand of angry humour, his diary plots the stages of his despair and traces his attempts to find justice in the face of the current insistence that we must “believe the victim”.
Dry Ice is a compelling memoir, but much more. The accusation made the writer a reluctant expert on similar cases from all over the world. He throws light on everything that limits public knowledge of false sexual allegations, from dangerous counselling to flawed statistics, and he exposes police investigation methods as blinkered, inefficient and insensitive.
