Category Archives: Family

BSA Report on Children’s Television Viewing: Cause for Alarm

By SPCS | Published: May 8, 2008

Media 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 [...]

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Pornography addiction and the impotence pandemic

By SPCS | Published: December 15, 2007

The 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, [...]

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Dr. Craig Anderson: Violent Video Games and Aggression

By SPCS | Published: December 9, 2007

Dr. 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 [...]

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Dad Argues for right to hit son

By SPCS | Published: December 7, 2007

The 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 [...]

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The Case For Marriage

By SPCS | Published: November 26, 2007

Book 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 – [...]

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Are Gays and Lesbians Demanding "Special Rights" in Seeking Same-Sex Marriage?

By admin | Published: October 13, 2007

This 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 [...]

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What is Wrong with Gay Marriage?

By admin | Published: October 11, 2007

Stanley 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 [...]

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NZ Forum on the Family

By admin | Published: October 1, 2007

This 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.

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Promoting Marriage and the Family

By admin | Published: September 21, 2007

Marriage 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 all stages. (c) To [...]

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The Empresses’ new clothes or Smacking: Those Kiwis must be crazy!

By admin | Published: July 27, 2007

By 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 [...]

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How Caregivers will be Criminalised Under Sue Bradford’s ‘anti-smacking’ Bill

By admin | Published: April 27, 2007

Press 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 [...]

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MPS Fail to address Family Planning Association disaster

By admin | Published: April 5, 2007

Press 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 [...]

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Legal Opinion by QC Shows How Good Parents Will Be Criminalised by Bradford’s anti-smacking Bill

By admin | Published: March 11, 2007

United 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 [...]

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Well over 80% Oppose Bradford’s ‘Anti-Smacking’ Bill

By admin | Published: November 21, 2006

Press 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 [...]

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Swedish child abuse increases despite anti-smacking laws

By admin | Published: July 31, 2006

Press 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 [...]

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Swedish Parents Kill 258 of their children (1965-1999)

By admin | Published: July 29, 2006

Media 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 [...]

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Society Shares Qualified Swedish Lawyer’s Concerns Re S. 59

By admin | Published: June 16, 2006

Family 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 [...]

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Minister confirms no NZ Court ruling on meaning of S. 59 re "a person in the place of a parent"

By David | Published: June 6, 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 [...]

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‘Anti-Smacking’ Lobby Submissions Analysed

By David | Published: May 29, 2006

Family Integrity representatives attended the first sitting of the Justice and Electoral Select Committee last Thursday to consider submissions on MP Sue Bradford’s Bill to repeal Section 59. It was a showcase of the “heavies” lined up in favour of repeal: Save the Children, EPOCH, Familes Commission, UNICEF, Parent.org, Barnardos, Relationship Services, CCS, IHC and [...]

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NZ Police confirm repeal of s. 59 criminalises parents who discipline by smacking

By David | Published: February 24, 2006

Friday, 24 February 2006 On 11 August 2005, Dr A Jack of the Legal Services of the NZ Police, wrote to Mr Craig S. Smith, National Director Family Integrity. His letter, which has been brought to the attention of parliament by Judith Collins MP, is reproduced below with minor editorial additions in square brackets that [...]

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