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Labour Should Ditch Assisted Suicide Bill Now
Wednesday, 17 July 2013, 11:07 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that Labour MP Maryann Street should immediately withdraw her private members bill which is attempting to decriminalise assisted suicide or euthanasia. “To legalise assisted suicide would place large numbers of vulnerable people at ... More >>
Book OK For Schools, But Not Their Facebook Page
Monday, 8 July 2013, 6:02 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First says that NZ Post is being bombarded with emails and letters calling for it to withdraw its children’s book award prize which was awarded to Into the River last week. “In a display of hypocrisy, the Award’s Facebook page is now ... More >>
Call for NZ Post To Withdraw Award From Book
Monday, 1 July 2013, 11:41 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First is calling on NZ Post to withdraw their support and the award from Ted Dawe's Into the River book which won top prize in the annual New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards More >>
Family First Muzzled Because of Traditional Marriage Views
Monday, 6 May 2013, 9:40 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ has received notification that the Charities Commission intends to deregister the charity, citing Family First’s traditional view of marriage being one man and one woman as one of the reasons for the deregistration. More >>
Food In Schools Will Feed The Problem
Thursday, 2 May 2013, 2:17 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is rejecting calls for food in schools programmes, warning that this band-aid measure will simply exacerbate the problem and ignore the underlying causes. More >>
MPs Allowed Conscience But Not Celebrants, Churches?
Wednesday, 27 March 2013, 12:21 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is calling on politicians to support amendments to the Marriage Amendment Bill to allow for conscientious exemption for all celebrants and marriage registrars, places of faith, and schools if the same-sex marriage law is passed by politicians ... More >>
National Voters Want Smacking Law Change - Poll
Monday, 18 March 2013, 10:24 am | Family First New Zealand
A poll of New Zealanders has found that 3 out of 4 voters want the anti-smacking law amended, and the support is strongest from National, NZ First and Maori party voters. More >>
Dutch MP Admits Polygamy, Group Marriage Next
Friday, 15 March 2013, 3:09 pm | Family First New Zealand
A former Dutch MP who was behind the first same-sex marriage legislation in the world, and brought to NZ by supporters of the same-sex marriage bill to make a submission to the Select Committee, has admitted that group marriages of three or more people ... More >>
Backdown on Banning School Drug Searches Welcomed
Wednesday, 13 March 2013, 3:32 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is welcoming a Government backdown on a proposed law change to ban schools from drug testing or searching students for drugs. More >>
Support for Paid Father Leave, Split on 26 Weeks - Poll
Wednesday, 13 March 2013, 11:36 am | Family First New Zealand
A nationwide poll of New Zealanders commissioned by Family First NZ has found strong support for paid paternal leave of two weeks for fathers, but a split in support for expanding paid parental leave for mothers to 26 weeks. More >>
The Evidence That Polygamy And Polyamory Will Be Next Claim
Thursday, 10 January 2013, 11:44 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ has released evidence from overseas showing growing demands for recognition of polygamy and polyamory on the back of the ‘gay marriage’ campaigns. More >>
Support for Gay Marriage Drops In Latest Poll
Thursday, 27 September 2012, 2:39 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ says that a Research NZ poll shows that support for same-sex marriage has dropped to less than 50%, down 11% from a similar poll in 2011. “Only 49% of the 500 respondents said that they were in favour of same sex couples being allowed ... More >>
Nurses and Public Servants Misrepresented on Marriage?
Thursday, 6 September 2012, 11:14 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is calling on the nurses’ and public service unions to produce evidence that they have canvassed their members on the issue of redefining marriage. More >>
Schools Informed Of Agenda of Sex Ed Groups
Monday, 27 August 2012, 10:24 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ has sent a DVD presentation entitled “YOU’RE TEACHING MY CHILD WHAT? Sex Education: A Psychiatrist Calls Foul” to every school principal and every Board of Trustees in New Zealand, highlighting the dangers of Family Planning and ... More >>
Parents Demand Apology For Inaccurate Smacking Review
Friday, 24 August 2012, 2:33 pm | Family First New Zealand
A Timaru couple whose experience of the anti-smacking law was used in the Prime Minister’s report on Section 59 by psychologist Nigel Latta, and whose integrity and honesty was called in to question along with a number of other parents, now have the government ... More >>
Labour Call to Withdraw Marriage Bill Welcomed
Wednesday, 8 August 2012, 11:00 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First is welcoming calls from Labour Party's Pacific Island Affairs spokesperson, Su'a William Sio, calling for the withdrawal of the same-sex marriage bill. More >>
Restoring the Marriage Website after ‘Unprecedented’ Attack
Tuesday, 31 July 2012, 12:14 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First is hoping to restore their marriage website within the next 24 hours, after being cyber-attacked by opponents in an ‘unprecedented attack’. The website is www.protectmarriage.org.nz and was launched in response to the private members ... More >>
First, Same Sex Marriage. Next, Polygamy?
Monday, 30 July 2012, 12:49 pm | Family First New Zealand
Family First NZ is repeating its call for political parties to state where they stand on the issue of redefining marriage to allow polygamy and polyamory. “Wellington-based activist group The Queer Avengers said at the weekend that polyamory with be the ... More >>
Funding and Support for Royal Commission on Child Abuse
Thursday, 19 July 2012, 10:39 am | Family First New Zealand
Family First is welcoming the pledge of funding for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into child abuse from millionaire businessman Owen Glenn. Family First has been calling for a Royal Commission of Inquiry since 2007, and a recent petition seeking a referendum ... More >>
US Psychiatrist Calls Foul on Sex Education
Wednesday, 27 June 2012, 11:28 am | Family First New Zealand
200 delegates representing over 70 family-focused organisations and community groups are gathering in Auckland on Thursday 28th for the seventh annual NZ Forum on the Family, hosted by Family First NZ. They will be encouraged to call foul on the current ... More >>
