Media Releases

STUFF website July 2006 82% (6700 votes!) TVNZ website July 2006 88% Bay of Plenty Times May 2006 83% Child

STUFF website July 2006 82% (6700 votes!) TVNZ website July 2006 88% Bay of Plenty Times May 2006 83% Child

Hot on the heels of a TVNZ website poll yesterday showing 80% support for parents who choose to smack, a

Yet another poll has shown that a huge majority of NZ’ers understand that there is a difference between smacking and

The statement from Chris Carter that the government is considering fast-tracking the legalisation of adoption by gay couples is not

Following on from its release last week of its ‘Principles of Family’ – 11 principles highlighting the meaning and significance

The conviction of a 15 year old for manslaughter for throwing rocks off a motorway bridge raises greater issues than

Family First has released its ‘Principles of Family’ – 11 principles highlighting the meaning and significance of the term ‘family’.

The Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA), in releasing its decision on the South Park “Bl***y Mary” episode, has proved that it

The Family First Lobby is calling for the Children’s Commissioner to resign, as a result of her comments regarding child

The Family First Lobby is calling on the government, in the wake of the Kahui murders and the call for

The tragic deaths of the Kahui twins have brought into sharp focus the real causes of child abuse in NZ.

The abortion figures for 2005 released by Statistics NZ today paint a terrible picture for our teenagers.  Since 1990, the

Ruby Harrold-Claesson, a Swedish lawyer, who defends families in Sweden who are being prosecuted and who are having their children

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child shows absolute confusion in its latest statement on violence against children.

She is coming to NZ to testify before the NZ Select Committee. Ruby is being brought out by Coalition Section

              Mrs. Ruby Harrold-Claesson, Lawyer, was born in Kingston, Jamaica. They have two daughters,

Family First has made a submission before the Justice and Electoral Committee in Auckland today on the Crimes (Abolition of

 “…..Section 59 of the Crimes Act, which presently allows parents to get away with violent attacks on their children…..All I

The mother at the center of the infamous ‘horse whip’ case in Timaru, that the anti-smacking lobby has quoted as

The mother at the center of the infamous ‘horse whip’ case in Timaru, that the anti-smacking lobby has quoted as

Family First is calling on the Police, Manukau City Council and the Papatoetoe Community Board to take urgent action against

The Family First Lobby, which is aiming to bring a strong pro-family pro-life and pro-moral value message to the media

The Family First Lobby is questioning whether the Families Commission is really supporting, and speaking on behalf of, NZ families.

Green MP Sue Bradford is reported today as having conceded that her bill removing the defence of \”reasonable force\” when

The Family First Lobby congratulates Green MP Sue Bradford for acknowledging that parents who use a smack as parental discipline

The Hamilton City Council is defending in the Hamilton High Court today its bylaw restricting the location of brothels. Under

The Family First Lobby congratulates Whitcoulls for taking a magazine, containing an erect condomed penis shown in a NZ AIDS

The Family First Lobby supports the call by the Society for Promotion of Community Standards to urgently replace both the

The Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) says that schools are facing deteriorating student behaviour including fighting, intimidation and disruption, and

24 hour childcare is claimed to be a reflection of changing working patterns and family arrangements.  “It is more an

OECD Economist and social policy analyst Willem Adema will tell the Early Childhood Council’s annual conference today that the children

The Family First Lobby applauds Anna, Mavis and other concerned residents of Bushlands Park Drive on the North Shore in

In the last 12 months…… Heterosexual Civil unions: 81 Same-sex Civil unions: 377 Marriages: approx. 21,690 (Source: Department of Internal

Women are excluded from running for the co-leadership of the Green Party today because the party’s constitution specifically states that

The Children’s Commissioner is demanding smacking by good parents to be banned, but is guilty herself of the worst kind

The Family First Lobby supports the continued prohibition of shops trading on Easter Friday and Easter Sunday, along with Christmas

A stable family life leads to better education, higher household wealth and often a better chance of children growing up

It is disgraceful that a GP, who should be defending life, has urged easier and earlier access to the abortion

Two problems affecting children have been highlighted in the past week. The first is the problem of obesity, with as