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CYF Complaints Authority Needed As Watchdog on Agency
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 12:31 pm | Family First
Family First NZ says that the Government should immediately establish an independent CYF Complaints Authority as a watchdog on the state agency. The call comes in to response to a number of recent cases - including the case of shocking abuse by two ... More >>
Tourism Board Wastes Taxpayer Funds On Marriage Stunt
Tuesday, 25 June 2013, 5:00 pm | Family First
Family First is slamming the NZ Tourism Board for wasting taxpayer money on a stunt which is politically motivated. It also discriminates against couples who are of the opposite sex. More >>
Smacking Law Confirmed As Spectacular Failure
Monday, 17 June 2013, 10:59 am | Family First
Family First NZ says that six years since the anti-smacking law was passed in a supposed effort to lower our child abuse rates, it has been confirmed as a spectacular failure based on flawed ideology. More >>
Sex Ed Preaches Sexual Licence, Not Sexual Health
Monday, 17 June 2013, 9:11 am | Family First
A review of sex education resources recommended to adolescents in NZ has found that they are seriously flawed with both sins of commission and sins of omission, and that critical life and death information is distorted or ignored. More >>
Drunk Parenting Given Green Light By Judge
Monday, 10 June 2013, 9:05 am | Family First
Family First NZ is slamming a decision by a Wellington District Court judge to dismiss charges against a grossly drunk mother who endangered the lives of her two boys in a potential house fire. More >>
Paeroa School Reveals Agenda of Education Ministry
Friday, 7 June 2013, 9:41 am | Family First
"Schools are being forced to turn a ‘blind eye’ to increasingly unacceptable behaviour and violence because of a drive by the Ministry of Education to reduce the numbers of suspensions and expulsions. More >>
Govt Softens Easter Trading Laws As Pay-Back
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 7:18 pm | Family First
Family First NZ believes that the National government wants to liberalise Easter trading laws as a pay-back for the ‘Mondayisation’ bill which was passed in April. More >>
Education Ministry Bullies School Into Accepting Violence
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 12:07 pm | Family First
Family First NZ is labeling the Ministry of Education “bullies” as they pressure Paeroa Central Primary school to re-enrol a violent pupil despite the danger that the pupil would place the other children in, but says that this case is just the ... More >>
Warning To Marriage Celebrants
Thursday, 30 May 2013, 6:58 pm | Family First
Family First NZ says that information being sent to marriage celebrants by the Department of Internal Affairs about the new marriage laws does not clearly state the correct legal position. More >>
Food In Schools Masks Urgent Social Issues
Monday, 27 May 2013, 6:16 pm | Family First
Family First NZ says that a food-in-schools programme will be a short-term band-aid to mask the more serious issues of parental neglect, loan sharks, budgeting, and increasing living costs. Family First is also disputing claims that the programme ... More >>
One Complainant Results in Deregistration of Charity
Monday, 27 May 2013, 9:24 am | Family First
Official Information Act documents received by Family First NZ show that just one complaint was made against Family First and was lodged on the day that the organisation presented a petition to Parliament on behalf of almost 50,000 kiwis calling on politicians ... More >>
Family First To Appeal ‘State Censorship’
Monday, 27 May 2013, 9:09 am | Family First
Family First NZ is lodging an appeal to the High Court in Wellington today, challenging their ‘politicised’ deregistration by the Charities Registration Board. More >>
Govt Should Promote Country & Culture – Not Casinos
Monday, 13 May 2013, 11:05 am | Family First
Family First NZ says that the government should be encouraging tourists to come to New Zealand to see the country and our culture – not casinos. More >>
Views on Gender, Disarmament OK – But Not Marriage
Friday, 10 May 2013, 9:28 am | Family First
Family First NZ is welcoming the re-registration of the National Council of Women (NCWNZ) to the Charities Register and says it should never have been de-registered. More >>
Family First Websites Still Under ‘Heavy’ Attack
Thursday, 9 May 2013, 9:44 am | Family First
The Family First NZ website www.familyfirst.org.nz and the Protect Marriage website www.protectmarriage.org.nz has suffered yet another major attack by hackers desperate to muzzle them. More >>
Police ‘Sales Pitch’ on Smacking No Comfort for Parents
Monday, 22 April 2013, 9:40 am | Family First
Family First NZ says that the latest review of police activity related to the anti-smacking law continues to show disturbing trends, and is rubbishing police claims that ‘good parents’ are not being criminalised, labeling the claim as simply part of an ongoing ... More >>
A Smack as Part of Good Parental Correction Works – Study
Monday, 22 April 2013, 9:38 am | Family First
Family First NZ says that a study just published shows that smacking does no harm as long as the child knows it is for the right reasons and feels loved – contrary to politicians in New Zealand criminalising these parents. The study of teenagers ... More >>
77 Politicians Commit Act of ‘Cultural Vandalism’
Thursday, 18 April 2013, 9:32 am | Family First
In response to the ‘shot-gun’ passing of the bill redefining marriage, National Director of Family First NZ and co-ordinator of the Protect Marriage campaign, Bob McCoskrie, says: More >>
Green Party’s Views on Marijuana ‘Dopey’ and Dangerous
Friday, 12 April 2013, 11:22 am | Family First
Family First NZ is labeling statements by Greens co-leader Metiria Turei regarding the benefits to Maori of growing marijuana as dangerous and dopey, but expected from the Greens. “A weak-kneed approach to marijuana use will simply send all the wrong ... More >>
No Evidence Supporting Abortion on Mental Health Grounds
Thursday, 11 April 2013, 11:59 am | Family First
Family First NZ is welcoming research from the Christchurch Health and Development Study which questions the current practice of recommending and authorising abortions on mental health grounds, with the authors adding that their conclusions have ‘uncomfortable ... More >>
