http://www.motherhoodstudy.net/newzealand/ New Zealand will be the first country targeted in an international survey that aims to provide insights into the reality of motherhood in the 21st century. An anonymous internet questionnaire will go online at midday on Sunday, Mother’s Day, and remain open for several months. It will ask mothers to talk about their thoughts and feelings on [...] [...]
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BATTERED Ian McNicholl revealed today how he lied for his twisted fiancée – who subjected him to 12 months of shocking abuse. As Williamson began a seven-year jail sentence, Ian opened his heart to The Sun. His story shows that, while women remain the main victims of domestic abuse, men can suffer as well. Ian’s list [...] [...] By Paul Revoir Women have won the war for equality but it has left many of them imprisoned and exhausted, a pioneering feminist has claimed. Campaigner Erin Pizzey, who founded the world’s first refuge for battered women in 1971, claims the idea of women happily combining a career and a family has proved to be a [...] [...] 1. VICTORY FOR RESIDENTS: Residents Get Brothel Booted Out Family First Media Release 26 April 2009 Family First NZ is congratulating the residents of Puriri Ave in Greenlane, Auckland for successfully getting a residential brothel evicted from their street. In a letter received by residents from the Mayor of Auckland John Banks, the Council has serviced an Abatement [...] [...] Every day children are torn as their parents split up. New initiatives to involve them in relationship counselling could begin to ease that pain. Jill Goldson, an Auckland Family Court counsellor who was involving children in separation counselling for a research project funded by the NZ Families Commission, has spoken out about the problems children [...] [...] Dozens of newborns are being taken from their mothers every year because of fears for their safety. Child, Youth and Family took 66 at-risk babies less than a month old into its care last year and 15 of them were taken the day they were born. In more than half of the cases, older brothers and sisters [...] [...] All India Forgotten Women (Regd.) and Mothers and Sisters Initiative (Regd.) Press Release In the year 1910, Clara Zetkin, a German women’s rights advocate, proposed that “every year, in every country, there should be a celebration on the same day – a Women’s Day – to press for their demands”. Ever since, International Women’s Day is [...] [...] A Talk by Barbara Kay Columnist, National Post Summary by Cecilia Forsyth Western Vice-President; REAL Women of Canada In introducing her talk, a critique of feminist ideology, Barbara Kay noted a shared belief with REAL Women that “many of our present social ills can be traced not only to the breakdown of the traditional family, but to a [...] [...] Men in their early 20s are just as likely to be abused by their partners as women, according to the latest government figures seen by Newsbeat. 6.4% of men in England and Wales between the ages of 20 and 24 say they were victims over the last year, compared with 5.4% of women. The official definition of [...] [...] Divorce makes men – and particularly fathers – significantly richer. When a father separates from the mother of his children, according to new research, his available income increases by around one third. Women, in contrast, suffer severe financial penalties. Regardless of whether she has children, the average woman’s income falls by more than a fifth [...] [...] |
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