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Social Problems Will Worsen As Marriage Rates Decline
Friday, 3 May 2019, 11:40 am | Family First
Family First NZ is warning that the declining marriage rate is a disturbing link to social problems in our society including rates of child abuse, domestic violence, teen crime and child poverty. More >>
Shock Cannabis Poll: Yes To Medicinal, No To Legalising
Tuesday, 23 April 2019, 9:20 am | Family First
In a shock poll result, less than 20% (one in five) New Zealanders support legalisation of marijuana, but there is strong support for lifting restrictions for medical use (65%), according to an independent poll of 1,000 people by Curia Market Research. ... More >>
MPs Recommend Euthanasia Bill Die A Natural Death
Tuesday, 9 April 2019, 2:31 pm | Family First
Family First NZ says that the Select Committee considering David Seymour’s assisted suicide bill have been unable to agree that the bill be passed , and warn that the bill is ‘not workable in its present state’. More >>
Overwhelming Majority Tell MPs To Kill The Euthanasia Bill
Sunday, 31 March 2019, 1:59 pm | Family First
Family First NZ, a member of the Care Alliance which has analysed the almost-39,000 submissions made regarding David Seymour’s assisted suicide bill, says that there is overwhelming opposition to the bill being considered by Parliament and that MPs ... More >>
Students Get Green Light For Dangerous Drug Use
Tuesday, 19 February 2019, 3:10 pm | Family First
Family First NZ says that allowing drug use and drug testing at university orientation weeks is flawed and dangerous, and is being used by drug-friendly groups and a government apparently soft-on-drugs as a wedge for the normalisation of drug use. More >>
1 in 3 Support Families Opting In, Not Out, For Sex Ed
Thursday, 7 February 2019, 7:08 pm | Family First
A third of parents have expressed support for children only being given sex education at schools if the parents specifically ‘opt in’ to the programme. Currently, parents have to notify schools if they want their children excluded, but many families ... More >>
Attempts to Legalise Dope In Troubled Portugal
Tuesday, 22 January 2019, 1:40 pm | Family First
MEDIA RELEASE FAMILY FIRST NZ 21 January 2019 Attempts to Legalise Dope In Troubled Portugal TRAFFICKING, ORGANISED CRIME, CONSUMPTION, PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES ALL ON THE INCREASE More >>
Free Public Wi-Fi Should Block Porn - Poll
Friday, 18 January 2019, 9:12 pm | Family First
A nationwide poll has found strong support for cafes, libraries, and other public places which offer free Wi-Fi to be required to block access to pornographic websites. In the independent poll of 1,000 New Zealanders by Curia Market Research, respondents ... More >>
Biology Over Gender Identity In Schools - Poll
Monday, 14 January 2019, 3:42 pm | Family First
Polling by Curia Market Research has found stronger support for children not to be taught that their gender can changed and for toilets and changing rooms to be based on biological sex. In the poll of 1,000 New Zealanders surveyed last month, ... More >>
No Room at NZ’s Christmas Inn for Down syndrome?
Sunday, 23 December 2018, 1:55 pm | Family First
Family First NZ says it is deeply disturbed that a family is being turned away from New Zealand and torn apart because of one of the family members having Down syndrome . They are calling for the government to overturn this heartless decision immediately. ... More >>
Australia Govt Supports Charity Advocacy For Marriage
Monday, 17 December 2018, 11:31 am | Family First
The Australian government has accepted a recommendation from the Ruddock review into religious freedom to amend their Charities Act to ensure that groups who say marriage is between a man and a woman are not stripped of their charitable status. More >>
Seymour Concedes Opponents’ Euthanasia Concerns Are Correct
Friday, 14 December 2018, 12:27 pm | Family First
Family First NZ is welcoming ACT MP David Seymour’s significant backdowns on his assisted suicide bill, and says that this indicates just how weak and flawed the bill is. More >>
Maintaining Illegality Of Drugs Vital For Public Health
Thursday, 13 December 2018, 5:26 pm | Family First
Family First NZ says that the Government’s announcement of taking a tough line on synthetic cannabis is the right move, but maintaining the illegality of drugs is also important because we should continue fighting drugs and the devastation its ... More >>
Changes To Marijuana Laws Should Now Stop
Tuesday, 11 December 2018, 6:58 pm | Family First
Family First NZ says that with the cannabis medicine bill being passed today, it is now time for politicians to move on from the issue and not to make any further changes which liberalise the law or legitimise and normalise the use of dope in the ... More >>
Overwhelming Opposition Confirmed On Assisted Suicide Bill
Tuesday, 11 December 2018, 6:57 pm | Family First
Family First NZ says that the overwhelming opposition to David Seymour’s assisted suicide bill by submitters to the Select Committee is no surprise and was already indicated during the earlier Inquiry by the Health Select Committee. More >>
Coroner’s Call To Raise Drinking Age Welcomed
Thursday, 6 December 2018, 10:15 am | Family First
Family First NZ is applauding Coroner David Robinson for his call to raise the drinking age, which echoes previous calls by the NZ Medical Association to raise the drinking age. More >>
Children Hospitalised For Marijuana Poisoning & Mental Harm
Monday, 26 November 2018, 11:51 am | Family First
Family First NZ is sounding a warning that too many children are being hospitalised for marijuana poisoning and mental harm already, and that this rate will only increase if the drug is legalised. Ministry of Health figures gained under the Official Information ... More >>
Minister Didn’t Want Full Report On Abortion
Thursday, 22 November 2018, 9:30 am | Family First
The Law Commission has made a stunning admission today to the Justice Select Committee that the Minister of Justice Andrew Little didn’t want a full report on abortion laws, was only interested in a ministerial briefing paper for shifting the law in ... More >>
Scroogey Auckland Council Spoils Kids’ Santa Parade
Friday, 16 November 2018, 8:49 am | Family First
A Family First NZ is labelling a decision by Auckland Council’s events group (ATEED) to defund the Auckland Santa Parade as scroogey and a politically correct hijack of one of the city’s most iconic annual events. More >>
Nitschke Must Be Banned
Friday, 9 November 2018, 9:32 am | Family First
Family First NZ says that Philip Nitschke should not be allowed in the country and the police should be shutting down any meetings he is holding in New Zealand. “At a time when we are desperate to do everything we can to lower our unacceptable and ... More >>
