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Thursday, May 8th, 2008Media Release: 8 May 2008
The Society is not surprised that over half the sample (56%) of more than 600 adult “primary caregivers” of children aged between six and 13, who were interviewed as part of a report into children’s television viewing habits; were unable to identify 8.30 p.m. as the time after which programmes that [...]
Pornography addiction and the impotence pandemic
Saturday, December 15th, 2007The Impotence Pandemic by Dr Judith A. Reisman
http://www.drjudithreisman.com/archives/2007/10/the_impotence_p_2.html
Sex therapists and pornographers have long prescribed pornography to correct male impotence and to “spice up” a couple’s sex life. However, the broader meaning of “potency” is “power, authority … a person or thing exerting power or influence.”
The proper contextual definition of modern impotence, then, is not the [...]
Dr. Craig Anderson: Violent Video Games and Aggression
Sunday, December 9th, 2007Dr. Craig Anderson from the University of Iowa is one of the most frequently cited and published researchers in the field of video game violence. Anderson’s work has been used in a variety of venues from scholarly publications to State Supreme Court arguments. Anderson research was used in the Illinois video game legislation defense where [...]
Dad Argues for right to hit son
Friday, December 7th, 2007The Nelson Mail, Friday, 07 December 2007
By SALLY KIDSON - A Nelson father charged with assaulting his son, in one of the region’s first prosecutions under a controversial new child discipline law, says he is prepared to go to jail for his right as a parent and a Christian to hit his child.
Rowan Flynn has [...]
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 hardly fussed if “his kids” were caught watching hard-core gay porn.
Monday, October 15th, 2007“MR CLEAN: Chief Censor Bill Hastings on freedom, family and the filthiest thing he’s ever seen”.
This was the front page headline of Canvas Magazine, an insert in this weekend’s NZ Herald Herald (13/10/07), advertising a three page Cover Story entitled “The Taste Master” by Derek Cheng on “a man who daily wades through horrific scenes [...]
Are Gays and Lesbians Demanding "Special Rights" in Seeking Same-Sex Marriage?
Saturday, October 13th, 2007This question is addressed in the Video Documentary Gay Rights / Special Rights: Inside the Homosexual Agenda marketed in New Zealand by Living Word Distributors (Hamilton).
The Society is most grateful to the Wellington-based gay rights activist, Calum Bennachie, for producing a full transcript of the video – excerpts of which are reproduced below to address [...]
What is Wrong with Gay Marriage?
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Stanley Kurtz examines the social dangers of sanctioning gay marriage.
"A clear majority of the American public opposes same-sex marriage," says Stanley Kurtz of the Hudson Institute. "And yet this opposition, though real, is by-and-large silent. So striking is this general silence, that one cannot help but wonder about the reasons for it."
To read complete article [...]
‘Homophobia’, Same-sex ‘Marriage’ and the Aggressive Lesbian Political Agenda
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007"Homophobia alive and well on [the Kapiti] Coast" was the headline of a recent letter to the editor written by a couple who criticised the Kapiti Observer Newspaper for publishing an article in which mayoralty candidate Jenny Rowan’s "sexual orientation" was briefly referred to. What the article did not disclose to readers was that this [...]
NZ Forum on the Family
Monday, October 1st, 2007This Forum to be held in Auckland on Monday 15th of October 2007 will bring together a national network of pro-family and pro-life organisations, scholars, lobby groups and leaders that seek to promote and protect the well-being of families, the role of parents and the welfare of our children.
For more details, go here.
Promoting Marriage and the Family
Friday, September 21st, 2007Marriage and the Family (With selected Bibliography and Endnotes).
The Society’s Objects, taken from Section 2 of its Constitution, include:
(a) To encourage self-respect and the dignity of the human person made in the image of God. (b) To promote recognition of the sanctity of human life and its preservation in [...]
The Empresses’ new clothes or Smacking: Those Kiwis must be crazy!
Friday, July 27th, 2007By Ruby Harrold-Claesson
Attorney-at-Law in Gothenburg, Sweden. President of the NCHR (www.nkmr.org)
One year ago, I travelled 36 hours from Gothenburg, Sweden to Auckland at the invitation of the Section 59 Coalition. I came to testify at the Parliamentary hearing on the private member’s Bill that proposed a repeal of Section 59 of the Crimes Act and [...]
How Caregivers will be Criminalised Under Sue Bradford’s ‘anti-smacking’ Bill
Friday, April 27th, 2007Press Release 27 April 2007
If Green MP Sue Bradford’s ‘anti-smacking bill’ is passed into law, increasing numbers of childcare workers (e.g. creche and kindergarten workers) and those in the place of parents (e.g. grandparents, foster parents and guardians) will be charged with criminal assault by the police for lightly smacking children for “correction” purposes and [...]
MPS Fail to address Family Planning Association disaster
Thursday, April 5th, 2007Press Release 5 April 2007
The results of the Youth Sexual Health report that was made public yesterday shows that years of tax-payer funded sex education classes organised by the Family Planning Association (FPA) and other like-minded groups have utterly failed to achieve any significant reduction in the high rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted [...]
Legal Opinion by QC Shows How Good Parents Will Be Criminalised by Bradford’s anti-smacking Bill
Sunday, March 11th, 2007United Future MP Gordon Copeland has recently received a legal opinion he commissioned from Peter McKenzie QC, dealing with the effect of Green MP Sue Bradford’s private member’s bill, on the actions of parents who remove their kids using “reasonable force”, against their will, to “time-out zones” for disruptive and defiant behaviour. He concluded that [...]
Well over 80% Oppose Bradford’s ‘Anti-Smacking’ Bill
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006Press Release 21/11/06
The Society agrees with the 87% of New Zealanders who hold strongly to the view that parents should be able to smack their children without fear of breaking the law (Today’s on-line Stuff News Poll). Clearly the overwhelming majority of New Zealanders, as evidenced by the results of numerous nation-wide polls over the [...]
Swedish child abuse increases despite anti-smacking laws
Monday, July 31st, 2006Press Release 31/07/06
Non-government child advocate lobby groups in NZ have urged police to confirm that police officers will not arrest parents for smacking their children, should smacking become a criminal offence if Section 59 is removed from the Crimes Act, upon the passage of Green MP Sue Bradford’s bill into law. In effect, what they [...]
Swedish Parents Kill 258 of their children (1965-1999)
Saturday, July 29th, 2006Media Report 28/07/06
Sweden has been hailed by Green MP Sue Bradford as an enlightened country where anti-smacking legislation has had a significant impact on reducing the number of child homicides committed by parents. She wants to repeal Section 59 of the Crimes Act, which provides a defence of “reasonable force” to parents, or those in [...]
Society Shares Qualified Swedish Lawyer’s Concerns Re S. 59
Friday, June 16th, 2006Family Integrity says that Swedish lawyer Ruby Harrold-Claesson, who coming to New Zealand next month, will be the most qualified person ever to speak in New Zealand on the effect of Sweden’s smacking ban on that country’s social fabric.
Dr Joan Durrant of the University of Manitoba in Canada has been to New Zealand twice reporting [...]
Minister confirms no NZ Court ruling on meaning of S. 59 re "a person in the place of a parent"
Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
Office of Hon Mark Burton, M.P. for Taupo. Minister of Justice. 6 June 2006.
Dear DavidThank you for your email of 22 February 2006 regarding section 59 of the Crimes Act 1961. Your email to the Associate Minister for Social Development and Employment has been referred to me for direct response as these matters fall within [...]