Archive for November, 2007
Violent Computer Games and Youth Crime. Is there a link?
Friday, November 30th, 2007The NZ Herald reports: “Violent Xbox video games are being fingered by a top police officer as a possible cause of rising violence among young people.
“Superintendent Bill Harrison, national manager of police youth services, says youth violence rates have jumped in the past two or three years throughout the Western world, coinciding with the rise [...]
The Case For Marriage
Monday, November 26th, 2007Book Review by Kerrie Allen
THE CASE FOR MARRIAGE: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better off Financially.
by Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher
(Broadway Books, 2000, 260pp, $29.90.Available from AD Books)
The Case for Marriage provides the solid research facts about why marriage is a social good, more than just sex - and why sex [...]
Chief Censor’s Annual Report on Hardcore Porn ‘Control’ Cause for Alarm
Thursday, November 15th, 2007Report 15/11/07
The latest Annual Report of the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) tabled in Parliament yesterday, raises serious issues about its use of tax-payer funds ($3,458,777 held at 30 June 2007) and its lack of disclosure regarding its classification processes, particularly in relation to its clearance of well over 1,000 degrading and gratuitous [...]
Society Applauds DIA Trialling of Blocks on Child Porn by ISPs
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007Press Release 13 November
For a number of years the Society has been suggesting that all New Zealand ISPs (Internet Service Providers) to block ALL overseas based websites that host child pornography AND hard core pornography (NZ-based websites containing “objectionable content” including child porn are illegal under NZ censorship laws). Gay rights activists, paedophiles, homosexuals wanting [...]
HIV epidemic and NZAF - a flawed crock
Sunday, November 4th, 2007Press Release 5/11/07
The Society is concerned that despite millions of dollars of taxpayer funds having been poured into the NZ AIDS Foundation (NZAF) each year, the numbers of new HIV infections diagnosed each year among “men-who-have-sex-with-men” (homosexuals and bisexuals) is continuing to rocket upwards, along with other nasty sexually transmitted diseases – syphilis, gonorrhoea, genital [...]