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Dying with Dignity Lies In Love and Best Palliative Care
Saturday, 21 March 2015, 10:48 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that the heartbreaking situation that Lecretia Seales faces should not be solved in the courtroom or by a change in law, but through the guarantee of the best palliative care that the country can offer her and others in a similar ... More >>
Parents Right to Question HPV Vaccine
Monday, 16 March 2015, 4:46 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that contrary to claims that ‘well-off Pakeha girls’ are rejecting the HPV vaccine, parents of all racial groups in New Zealand are rightly rejecting the pressure to have their children vaccinated for an infection which isn’t ... More >>
Report Calls For Screen Time Guidelines for Children
Monday, 9 February 2015, 9:52 am | Family First New Zealand
A report on the increasing use of screen time for children is critical of government agencies for a lack of guidelines to families, and says that the Ministry of Health should consider screen time as a personal health and well-being issue to be formally ... More >>
Boycott ‘50 Shades’ Movie, Donate to Victims Instead
Sunday, 8 February 2015, 10:41 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is calling on families to boycott the upcoming “ Fifty Shades of Grey ” movie and instead donate the admission fee to a local women’s refuge. They are also encouraging families to use the release of the movie as an opportunity ... More >>
Ban On Alcohol Advertising Just One Step
Wednesday, 17 December 2014, 2:54 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that a proposed ban on alcohol advertising at sports events as recommended by a ministerial forum is an important move, but will not solve the binge drinking and alcohol abuse issue on its own. More >>
TV Standards Board Seen As Irrelevant, Ineffective
Thursday, 11 December 2014, 11:33 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that the Broadcasting Standards Authority’s 2014 Report reveals that less and less families are bothering to make a complaint despite increasing concerns about broadcasting standards, and that very few complaints are upheld. More >>
Politicians Put Prostitution Harm in ‘Too Hard Basket’
Saturday, 6 December 2014, 10:30 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that politicians are living in ‘la-la land’ when it comes to the concerns of families regarding the ongoing harms of street prostitution and residential brothels. More >>
The Warehouse & Noel Leeming Praised for Principled Stand
Monday, 24 November 2014, 5:24 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is congratulating The Warehouse and Noel Leeming for reinforcing their ‘family-friendly values’ by removing R18 games and DVD’s from its shelves, and is calling on other retailers including JB Hi-Fi, Harvey Norman and Dick Smith ... More >>
Legal Opinion Sets Up Challenge To Smacking Law
Monday, 17 November 2014, 1:26 pm | Family First New Zealand
An independent legal analysis of court cases involving prosecutions for smacking since the anti-smacking law was passed has found that the anti-smacking law is complicated, difficult to apply, and lower courts are getting it wrong. More >>
Assisted Suicide: A Beautiful Response to Brittany Maynard
Wednesday, 5 November 2014, 1:49 pm | Family First New Zealand
There has been plenty of media coverage in NZ of the sad death of Brittany Maynard yesterday. Maynard, 29, who was suffering from terminal brain cancer, used her last month to advocate for “death with dignity.” More >>
Confirmed – Smacking Law Needs Correction
Monday, 15 September 2014, 12:58 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that the ONE News Vote Compass survey showing only 23% support the anti-smacking law is no surprise, and confirms that it’s time the politicians listened to New Zealand families. More >>
Outrage Over Mock Marriage Ironic
Thursday, 11 September 2014, 1:54 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First says that the outrage being expressed by gay rights groups against a radio competition involving a same-sex ‘marriage’ is ironic. More >>
Objectionable Hip-Hop Song Offensive to All NZ’ers
Tuesday, 26 August 2014, 9:34 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First is slamming Auckland hip-hop crew @peace for their new release containing lyrics that threaten to kill Prime Minister John Key and have sex with his daughter. More >>
Miley’s Pop Porn Is Coming - Lock Up Your Kids
Thursday, 21 August 2014, 2:49 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First is encouraging parents to protect their kids from the ‘pop porn’ juggernaut Miley Cyrus who is heading to New Zealand in October. More >>
Demand for Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Underwhelms
Tuesday, 19 August 2014, 12:00 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that one year on from the marriage law being politically manipulated, the demand for same-sex marriages has been underwhelming with just 318 same-sex couples rushing to take advantage of the new definition to formalise their relationship for ... More >>
Voters Wanting To Know Values of Candidates
Monday, 18 August 2014, 1:16 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ has had a massive response to its resource Value Your Vote 2014 which highlights the voting record of current MP’s on a number of controversial family and conscience issues from the past twelve years. More >>
Family Group Gets ‘F John Key’ Ad Banned
Friday, 15 August 2014, 5:08 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is welcoming a decision by the Advertising Standards Authority to uphold their complaint and ban the Internet Mana party’s ‘ Join the Revolution’ advert on YouTube which includes a crowd chanting "f*** John Key”. More >>
Court Undermines Values and Principles of Schools
Friday, 27 June 2014, 1:13 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First is slamming a decision by the High Court to overturn a St John's College school decision to set a hair standard, labelling it as disrespectful and setting a dangerous precedent. More >>
High Rate of STIs Outcome of ‘Safe Sex’ Myth
Thursday, 26 June 2014, 1:21 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that "staggeringly high" rates of chlamydia reported among New Zealand teenage girls is proof that young people are being left misinformed and with a false sense of security. It also points to the failure of the free Emergency ... More >>
Safeguards on Abortion Protect Women & Children
Friday, 6 June 2014, 1:41 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is rejecting the Green party’s call for the decriminalisation of abortion and says that the existing safeguards are there to protect women and children. More >>
