From the Telegraph in the UK Boys who grow up in homes without fathers from the age of seven or earlier are almost seven per cent more likely to become young fathers than those who do not, according to a…
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Month: September 2011
Raising Drinking Age Will Save Lives
Media Release 7 Sep 2011 Family First NZ says that the just-released Child and Youth Mortality Review confirms that NZ needs to raise the drinking age in order to protect young people and to save lives. “Alcohol policies and decisions…
Family First Midweek Update 7 September 2011
1.Abortion Harmful to Women’s Mental Health – Study Family First NZ says that a meta-analysis published today in the British Journal of Psychiatry has revealed that 81 percent of females who had an abortion were found to be at an…
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From the British Psychological Society Fathers who are hands-on in the raising of their children can play an important role in the intellectual and behavioural development of their offspring, new research has found. Published in the Canadian Journal of Behavioural…
Couples who live together before they marry are much more likely to divorce
From the Daily Mail in the UK Couples who live together before they marry are ‘significantly’ more likely to end up divorced, says a report by a Christian think-tank. The Jubilee Centre, a social reform group with a Christian perspective, said…
Falling marriage rates hurting children: report
From The Age in Australia The well-being of Australia’s children and young adults has declined sharply in the past decade – and sliding marriage rates are partly to blame, a study has found. Spiralling rates of child abuse and neglect,…
Biology 101: Women wear bras, men don’t, Steve
Weekend Porn Parade Targeting Rugby Families ‘Offside’
Media Release 3 Sep 2011 Family First NZ is writing to the Commissioner of Police to plead that the police prevent the proposed Boobs on Bikes parade happening in the centre of Auckland city on the same day that families…
Abortion Harmful to Women’s Mental Health – Study
Media Release 2 September 2011 Family First NZ says that a meta-analysis published today in the British Journal of Psychiatry has revealed that 81 percent of females who had an abortion were found to be at an increased risk for…
Why grandparents think their children are poor parents – Study
From the Daily Mail in the UK Children are ill-disciplined, bad-mannered, disrespectful and treated too leniently – according to their grandparents. Changing attitudes mean most parents no longer reprimand their offspring with the age-old methods of a smack or sending…