NZ Father & Child Society

NZ Father & Child Society

 
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Websites - General

Custody, access and separation issues contact:

Rob Thomson (rob.thomson@paradise.net.nz) Tel. (06) 323 1158

Family Court

Family Court of New Zealand: www.courts.govt.nz/family/

MENZ

MENZ (www.menz.org.nz): www.menz.org.nz/Information/family.htm

Custody and Access Issues

Family Court

Family Court of New Zealand: www.courts.govt.nz/family/guardianship.html

Family Court Email Discussion List

Paul's News: Get a Fair Deal in the Family Court!

An email list for discussion of Family and Gender-related issues, particularly pertaining to 1) Separation and Divorce, 2) Access, Custody, Guardianship and Shared Parenting, 3) the Family Court, 4) Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS), 5) Child Support Liability, 6) Self-Representation (DIY litigation), and most importantly, 7) the effects on your children, etc.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pauls-news/

CAB

Citizens Advice Bureaux: www.cab.org.nz/ information/Breakdown_of_Relationships.html

MENZ

MENZ - www.menz.org.nz/Information/family.htm
Also: www.menz.org.nz/ go to links under "Support for Fathers / Dads".

Public urged to have their say on way judges appointed

30 April, 2004: Attorney-General Margaret Wilson today released a public consultation paper encouraging New Zealanders to have their say on the way judges are appointed in this country...

Goff launches law website

28 April, 2004: Justice Minister Phil Goff will today launch a website giving public access to a range of law-related information.

"LawAccess was essentially a gateway to the resources of more than 130 government and non-government organisations," Mr Goff said...

Law Society Article: www.nz-lawsoc.org.nz/lawtalk/624lawaccess.htm

NZPA Article: www.stuff.co.nz/ stuff/0,2106,2890743a11,00.html*

Website: www.lawaccess.lsa.govt.nz

[Comment: The site is not particularly well set out. You might find that links do not go directly to the documents mentioned. The one-sided nature of domestic violence legislation is described at:

www.courts.govt.nz/ family/brochures/Domestic_Violence.pdf]

Relationship Issues

Best Interests of the Child

How to Save Our Child When We Can’t Save our Marriage: "an in-depth dialogue with Dr. Warren Farrell, author, Father and Child Reunion, the largest meta-analysis ever done on what is best for children of divorce"

"The video explains why it is now 100% clear scientific fact that shared parenting with equal time and custody is by far the best for children – not by 10% or 50%, but by some measures a factor of 20."

www.bestinterestofchildren.org

Cover art

Legal system is failing fathers, says judge

By Sarah Womack and Yolanda Copes-Stepney in The Daily Telegraph, April 02, 2004: One of UK's most senior family judges launched a blistering attack on the legal system yesterday for failing divorced and separated fathers.

Mr Justice Munby said he felt "ashamed" after dealing with a man who had fought unsuccessfully for five years to see his daughter...

www.telegraph.co.uk/ news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/04/02/nlegal02.xml

Have your say on reforming laws governing parenthood

Claire Phillips, Law Commission, 22 April, 2004: "In recent times, changing social practices, coupled with developments in assisted reproductive technologies, have seen a dramatic increase in the number of children born into families outside the traditional one where the genetic parents raise the child together in a common household...

"The Law Commission is now inviting public submissions on these and other issues..." For more details click the links below:

Article: <click here>
Flyer (PDF, 102k): <click here>

Poorer Outcomes for Fatherless Kids

By Bettina Arndt in the Sydney Morning Herald, 6 December, 2002: The destructive features of single parenthood are beyond challenge, writes Bettina Arndt... In brief, the US statistics are: children living with single mothers are five times as likely to be poor as those in two-parent families...

www.theage.com.au/ articles/2002/10/28/1035683358787.html

Psychiatrist highlights the risks of emotional abuse

By Julie Szego in The Age, 20 October, 2002: Parents who use children "as footballs" in acrimonious separations are guilty of a form of emotional abuse, according to a distinguished child psychiatrist...

www.theage.com.au/ articles/2002/10/28/1035683358787.html

Press release: Separated Fathers - Men in Crisis

University of Western Sydney, posted 9 October, 2002: The pain of separation and divorce is having an alarming effect on the mental health of Australian males and may be contributing to our high rates of male suicide according to UWS academics...

apps.uws.edu.au/ media/news/index.phtml?act=view&story_id=240

Violence-free Families

Ministry of Social Developement www.msd.govt.nz/ work-areas/families-whanau/ families-whanau.html

Other Websites

Certified Male (Magazine)

Go to www.boysed.com/subject.htm - then scroll down to "Family Law"

Certified Male (Library)

www.boysed.com/library/

Yahoo

dir.yahoo.com/ Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/ Men/Fathering/

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