When is New Zealand going to take fatherhood seriously? The hateful feminist regime of Miss Klark has caused so much damage for men I doubt it can be ever repaired. Tim Barnett a strange homosexual Labour MP who helped make my city Christchurch the parole capital of our country has said Labour does not help fathers. Will the new National Government endorse fathers’ rights? Pigs will fly.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/21/fathers-family-policy-government
UK Family policies 'dad-proofed' to give fathers bigger role - but no extra paternity leave
• Minister says services are too 'mother-dominated'
• 'Dads' dialogue' website will mirror mums.net
Ministers have ordered Whitehall to "dad-proof" its family policies, amid concerns that schools, hospitals and other services are preventing fathers from taking a more active role in their children's lives.
Civil servants have been asked to make sure the government is targeting its parenting initiatives at fathers as well as mothers to break the current "mother-domination" of family policy.
Plans already under way include an order to schools to send children's reports to their absent fathers as well as their home addresses, and moves to encourage maternity wards to let fathers spend their child's first night at the hospital instead of being sent home alone.
Campaigners for fatherhood welcomed the plans but were unhappy that the government was still refusing to improve paid paternity leave beyond the current two weeks.
Beverley Hughes, the minister for families, said: "Everything is so mother-dominated in public services and we're trying to change that. The benefits for children of fathers being involved in their early lives are considerable: not just for boys, but there is a particular effect with sons. The relationship with the father is important for a boy's attainment, behaviour and emotional resilience."
She said she wanted to change attitudes because, for some men, the school gate or children's centre could feel as alienating as male-dominated workplaces are for women.
"When we had small children, my husband would sometimes be asked at the healthcentre where the mother was. I hope that level of suspicion is not there now, but fathers tell me there is still some resistance," she said.
Policies being developed include:
• Plans for schools to send children's reports to fathers who live elsewhere.
• A new government-run website for dads to mirror mums.net, the online community for mothers. Its working title is "dads' dialogue".
• The Department of Health is looking at ways hospitals can make it possible for fathers to stay the night after their partner has given birth.
• Activities at children centres will target fathers specifically.
• A dads' version of a baby handbook which has in the past been given to new mothers is being published with the slogan: "Because they don't come with instructions".
• A campaign to get employers to allow more fathers to work flexibly.
• A drive to encourage dads to read to their children.
• Training for all professionals who work with children on how to communicate with dads as well as mums.
• Promoting childcare services to black and minority ethnic fathers.
Evidence shows that today's children are spending increasing amounts of time with their fathers, although mothers still provide the bulk of the childcare.
The last major survey of parents' roles was the Office for National Statistics time use survey in 2001, which found that mothers accounted for more than three-quarters of time spent on childcare activities during the week and two-thirds at weekends. On average, fathers of under-fives spent one hour and 20 minutes a day on childcare activities during the week and two hours and 30 minutes a day at weekends.
Duncan Fisher, founder of the Fatherhood Institute, said: "Fathers' influence on children is crucial to their development, and if you ignore that, you sacrifice a chance to help children.
"The current health and education systems engage with whatever parent turns up. This new plan is to make the effort to talk to both.
"Many fathers feel like the odd one out at the school gate. Fathers are marginalised from the very beginning."
He added that the biggest change the government could make would be to extend paid paternity leave for fathers, who currently qualify for two weeks' paid leave. They can also take up to 13 weeks of unpaid parental leave, but many families cannot afford that option, he said.
"The paternity system is hopeless. We have the biggest deficit between men and women anywhere in the world. That sets the scene for mums to scale down their careers, and fathers to become the breadwinners. It makes a formidable economic force for mothers to leave the workforce. It's hopelessly unfair and it pushes parents apart."
Hughes said that the government was currently challenging an EU regulation which prevents benefits being removed, so that it can replace some paid maternity leave with shared parental leave, allowing mothers and fathers to share paid leave as it suits them. Simply adding extra paid paternity leave was not being considered because of the "financial consequences", she said.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
CHILD CUSTODY, ACCESS AND PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY: THE SEARCH FOR A JUST AND EQUITABLE STANDARD
Dear Peter: Our thanks to Jeremy Swanson from Canada for alerting us to this report by University of British Columbia professor, Dr. Ed Kruk.
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Enjoy the paper, it should be useful to your Shared Parenting efforts.
Sincerely,
Mike McCormick, Exec. Dir.
ACFC
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CHILD CUSTODY, ACCESS AND PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY: THE SEARCH FOR A JUST AND EQUITABLE STANDARD
Edward Kruk, M.S.W., Ph.D. The University of British Columbia December, 2008
This paper was commissioned by the Father Involvement Research Alliance (FIRA) based at the University of Guelph . Funding support for FIRA and this paper was provided through a Community University Research Alliance grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The intent of this paper is to promote informed dialogue and debate. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of FIRA or of other researchers/collaborators associated with FIRA. Communications can be addressed to the author.
Entitled "Child Custody, Access, and Parental Responsibility: The Search for a Just and Equitable Standard,", it has been published December, 2008 by Fatherhood Involvement Research Alliance (FIRA). Edward Kruk, professor of social work at the University of British Columbia , proposes a four-pillar approach to child custody determination in Canada (or elsewhere for that matter):
- a rebuttable legal presumption of joint physical custody after divorce
- parenting plans, mediation and intervention/ support in high conflict cases
- shared parenting education and judicial determination in cases of established abuse, along with enforcement of shared parental responsibility orders
The paper provides an empirical foundation for, and a step-by-step process, for implementation of an equal parenting bill.
The paper examines the issues, surveys approaches in UK, USA, Sweden and Australia, examines Canadian Child custody legislation at a provincial level, reviews Canadian efforts to make changes, and critiques the traditional sole custody approach as a basis leading up to the universal four-pillar approach for Equal Parenting.
The link to the full paper (101 pages with over a 100 references) is: http://www.fira. ca/cms/documents /181/ChildCustod y.Kruk.Fullpdf. pdf
The link to the executive summary (9 pages) is: http://www.fira.ca/cms/documents/179/ChildCustody-ExecSummary.pdf
************Enjoy the paper, it should be useful to your Shared Parenting efforts.
Sincerely,
Mike McCormick, Exec. Dir.
ACFC
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Petition of Injustice
As many readers know the Family Court does not hand over court transcripts , professional writer reports and many matters are manipulated in the judges' minutes. All done in the cosy and secretive judge chambers. This is a dishonest Court and the reason why so many men view the Court, as a Court of Injustice. It is impossible to clear your name against any allegation, because the Family Court simply shuts up shop.For example a judge involved in my case said " I am not inclined at this stage to order the release of the report as sought." The report was requested by Doctors helping the family, including my young badly affected PAS children!
I applaud Jadie's petition approach and believe me my anger which is misinterpreted by many as unjustified could be understood if people knew the sinister dealings that judges' get up to in the New Zealand Family Court. I was a much loved father before WW3 started in 2001. I have tried to get judge transcripts from that date until now without little success. People say, us dads are damaged angry units, I say that is not true, as why would I have custody of my teenage daughter. Not one person in the Family Court has ever witnessed the strong bond of LOVE between us. I have been to Court over 200 hundred times , but no one has ever bothered to find the truth that is , I am a GOOD DAD and the sick system is wrong.
Here is a petition regarding a request for a judge to consider the release of a transcript. How can the family court continue to get away this?
Dear dad4justice,
Thank you for signing the "Hand over the transcript Judge Crosbie" petition at iPetitions.com website.
Your signature is valuable and makes a real difference. Please encourage others to sign the petition as well. To do that, just forward the text below to everyone who might be interested:
------- FORWARD THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS -------
Hi,
I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently signed:
"Hand over the transcript Judge Crosbie"
http://www.ipetitions.com/
I really think this is an important cause, and I'd like to encourage you to add your signature, too. It's free and takes less than a minute of your time.
Thanks!
I applaud Jadie's petition approach and believe me my anger which is misinterpreted by many as unjustified could be understood if people knew the sinister dealings that judges' get up to in the New Zealand Family Court. I was a much loved father before WW3 started in 2001. I have tried to get judge transcripts from that date until now without little success. People say, us dads are damaged angry units, I say that is not true, as why would I have custody of my teenage daughter. Not one person in the Family Court has ever witnessed the strong bond of LOVE between us. I have been to Court over 200 hundred times , but no one has ever bothered to find the truth that is , I am a GOOD DAD and the sick system is wrong.
Here is a petition regarding a request for a judge to consider the release of a transcript. How can the family court continue to get away this?
Dear dad4justice,
Thank you for signing the "Hand over the transcript Judge Crosbie" petition at iPetitions.com website.
Your signature is valuable and makes a real difference. Please encourage others to sign the petition as well. To do that, just forward the text below to everyone who might be interested:
------- FORWARD THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS -------
Hi,
I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently signed:
"Hand over the transcript Judge Crosbie"
http://www.ipetitions.com/
I really think this is an important cause, and I'd like to encourage you to add your signature, too. It's free and takes less than a minute of your time.
Thanks!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Minister backs call on violence
Hey Minister and Judge what about white men who have been done over by a corrupt and sinister Family Court? This is more unlawful gender discrimination from a Court system that is family destructive and evil. How long can it be allowed to continue? Shame on you all!! Kids deserve better, ask mine!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10557315
Minister backs call on violence
By Simon Collins
Justice Minister Simon Power is keen to meet Judge Peter Boshier to discuss ideas.
Justice Minister Simon Power is keen to meet Judge Peter Boshier to discuss ideas.
Justice Minister Simon Power has called for an urgent report from officials on a top judge's suggestion that programmes to stop domestic violence should be redesigned for one-off offenders and for Maori and Asian men.
Principal Family Court Judge Peter Boshier said on Monday that the current standard group programmes for men whose partners were granted protection orders against them did not suit all offenders.
"I believe we should screen in order to determine whether attendance is likely to be effective," he said.
He suggested different approaches for "one-off acts of violence" and for Maori and Asian men, noting that almost a quarter of protection orders were granted against Maori respondents even though Maori made up only 14.6 per cent of the population.
Mr Power said he rang Judge Boshier yesterday and was keen to meet him to discuss his ideas.
He has also asked Ministry of Justice officials for written advice on the issue.
Agencies running anti-violence programmes yesterday generally agreed with Judge Boshier's comments, but said they would need more resources.
"What is needed is more funding to explore that," said the director of Friendship House in Manukau, the Rev Vicki Sykes.
She said her agency already ran a Samoan-language programme but it did not get any Government funding to set it up.
"It took three years to get that programme approved. Once we got it approved, now we are training up more facilitators who can speak Samoan so we can increase our capacity, and we are close to being able to open up a second group," she said.
"We are also working with Indian community groups to support them in the development of their programmes and training some of their facilitators with our team." She said Maori agencies in Otahuhu and Mangere also ran separate programmes for Maori offenders.
The men's programme co-ordin-ator at Preventing Violence in the Home, Aaron Steed-man, said he already directed men who were either deaf, extremely angry or who spoke little English into one-to-one counselling instead of group sessions.
"I've had a Burmese man who had an interpreter with him and we spent 13 sessions together," he said. "A lot of it is just explaining the differences in the law between the two countries. They just served this piece of paper on him, he didn't know what it was."
Mr Steedman said court bailiffs who served protection orders should try to make sure the respondents understood what they meant.
Meanwhile, Mr Power said he planned a second bill on domestic violence.
He introduced a bill before Christmas which would allow police to issue on-the-spot safety orders ordering offenders to leave their homes for up to five days.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10557315
Minister backs call on violence
By Simon Collins
Justice Minister Simon Power is keen to meet Judge Peter Boshier to discuss ideas.
Justice Minister Simon Power is keen to meet Judge Peter Boshier to discuss ideas.
Justice Minister Simon Power has called for an urgent report from officials on a top judge's suggestion that programmes to stop domestic violence should be redesigned for one-off offenders and for Maori and Asian men.
Principal Family Court Judge Peter Boshier said on Monday that the current standard group programmes for men whose partners were granted protection orders against them did not suit all offenders.
"I believe we should screen in order to determine whether attendance is likely to be effective," he said.
He suggested different approaches for "one-off acts of violence" and for Maori and Asian men, noting that almost a quarter of protection orders were granted against Maori respondents even though Maori made up only 14.6 per cent of the population.
Mr Power said he rang Judge Boshier yesterday and was keen to meet him to discuss his ideas.
He has also asked Ministry of Justice officials for written advice on the issue.
Agencies running anti-violence programmes yesterday generally agreed with Judge Boshier's comments, but said they would need more resources.
"What is needed is more funding to explore that," said the director of Friendship House in Manukau, the Rev Vicki Sykes.
She said her agency already ran a Samoan-language programme but it did not get any Government funding to set it up.
"It took three years to get that programme approved. Once we got it approved, now we are training up more facilitators who can speak Samoan so we can increase our capacity, and we are close to being able to open up a second group," she said.
"We are also working with Indian community groups to support them in the development of their programmes and training some of their facilitators with our team." She said Maori agencies in Otahuhu and Mangere also ran separate programmes for Maori offenders.
The men's programme co-ordin-ator at Preventing Violence in the Home, Aaron Steed-man, said he already directed men who were either deaf, extremely angry or who spoke little English into one-to-one counselling instead of group sessions.
"I've had a Burmese man who had an interpreter with him and we spent 13 sessions together," he said. "A lot of it is just explaining the differences in the law between the two countries. They just served this piece of paper on him, he didn't know what it was."
Mr Steedman said court bailiffs who served protection orders should try to make sure the respondents understood what they meant.
Meanwhile, Mr Power said he planned a second bill on domestic violence.
He introduced a bill before Christmas which would allow police to issue on-the-spot safety orders ordering offenders to leave their homes for up to five days.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Thirteen year old dad not uncommon
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-
ONE News
Baby faced Alfie Patten's daughter, Maisie, was conceived when he was just 12. Her mother, Shantelle, was 15 when she gave birth.
ONE News asked Statistics New Zealand to go back through the records to find out the age of New Zealand's youngest parents.
The never before published data shows that in 2007, the most recent year for which figures are available, New Zealand had 15 new fathers aged 13-14.
That is the most on record.
The figures are even higher for girls.
In the same year, one new mum was registered at 12 years old, six at 13, and 45 at 15 - which is Shantelle's age.
Thirteen year old dad not uncommon
6:34PM Tuesday February 17, 2009ONE News
- WATCH the video (1:59)
Baby faced Alfie Patten's daughter, Maisie, was conceived when he was just 12. Her mother, Shantelle, was 15 when she gave birth.
ONE News asked Statistics New Zealand to go back through the records to find out the age of New Zealand's youngest parents.
The never before published data shows that in 2007, the most recent year for which figures are available, New Zealand had 15 new fathers aged 13-14.
That is the most on record.
The figures are even higher for girls.
In the same year, one new mum was registered at 12 years old, six at 13, and 45 at 15 - which is Shantelle's age.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Abused children waiting to be rescued by the Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome
Sadly the New Zealand Family Court will not recognize the existence of PAS, because they use it as weapon of war so they can raise the male suicide rate. Shame on you Judge Boshier you are a total let down for so many damaged children! How many examples of children stuffed up by the corrupt family court do you want Judge Boshier? Help me dad, said my daughters, how do you sleep at night Mr judge freak?
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2009/13/c8701.html
Abused children waiting to be rescued by the Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome
TORONTO, Feb. 13 /CNW/ - The first Canadian International Symposium for
Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) will be held in Toronto at the Toronto Metro Convention Centre from March 27-29, 2009. Speakers from the fields of psychology, family law, and mediation will be making presentations to attorneys and mental health professionals. Parents whose children suffer from this mental health condition are very welcome to attend to conference "Parents that abuse children with parental alienation are a danger to our entire society," said Joe Goldberg, Host and Founder of the symposium. "There
are literally hundreds of thousands of children who are victims of parental alienation abuse and family law attorneys and mental health professionals are the only ones who can rescue them. This symposium will provide the information on how to best protect these children."
Participants to this three-day symposium will hear such topics discussed as: 'Mediation Strategies in Managing PAS Disputes,' 'Treatment for Alienated Children,' and 'Doing what is Right for the Children, and Knowing When to do it.' Speakers include: Amy Baker, Ph.D., a prominent psychologist in developmental psychology, Pamela Stuart-Mills Hoch, M.A., and Bob Hoch, M.A. co-founders of the Rachel Foundation for Family Reintegration, and David L. Levy, J.D., a pioneer in the field of children's rights. With over twenty
speakers in attendance, everyone will come away with new knowledge about how children are being psychologically abused by a parent, and how it can be prevented. A media room will be available for interviews with speakers and other notables in attendance.
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2009/13/c8701.html
Abused children waiting to be rescued by the Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome
TORONTO, Feb. 13 /CNW/ - The first Canadian International Symposium for
Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) will be held in Toronto at the Toronto Metro Convention Centre from March 27-29, 2009. Speakers from the fields of psychology, family law, and mediation will be making presentations to attorneys and mental health professionals. Parents whose children suffer from this mental health condition are very welcome to attend to conference "Parents that abuse children with parental alienation are a danger to our entire society," said Joe Goldberg, Host and Founder of the symposium. "There
are literally hundreds of thousands of children who are victims of parental alienation abuse and family law attorneys and mental health professionals are the only ones who can rescue them. This symposium will provide the information on how to best protect these children."
Participants to this three-day symposium will hear such topics discussed as: 'Mediation Strategies in Managing PAS Disputes,' 'Treatment for Alienated Children,' and 'Doing what is Right for the Children, and Knowing When to do it.' Speakers include: Amy Baker, Ph.D., a prominent psychologist in developmental psychology, Pamela Stuart-Mills Hoch, M.A., and Bob Hoch, M.A. co-founders of the Rachel Foundation for Family Reintegration, and David L. Levy, J.D., a pioneer in the field of children's rights. With over twenty
speakers in attendance, everyone will come away with new knowledge about how children are being psychologically abused by a parent, and how it can be prevented. A media room will be available for interviews with speakers and other notables in attendance.
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