"Economic independence is the most important issue for women because it is the
necessary
condition for social and economic well-being."
The
Ministry of Women's Affairs, briefing for the incoming minister,
1999 (NZ)
(and what of families?)
And even more in 2002: Labour's Feminist Agenda
"I have never been aware that it is a problem to be a man." Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand, TV3 news, 6pm, 27 March 2001
See also New Zealand Government aims for equality of OUTCOMES
And for another perspective................
New Zealand's Shared Parenting Bill (link to text and relevant points)
From here you can see:
Link to a Statistics New Zealand publication, Using Time Use Data: A history of time use surveys and uses of time use data (1999).
Comments on the New Zealand Time Use Survey, and link to the Statistics New Zealand page on Time use (for reports and data)
Link to "A time (use survey) for every purpose" by Nancy Folbre
Link to: IATUR - International Association for Time Use Research
Statistics Finland - Statistical News 2001:242 (Finnish time-use data)
My paper on "Women, Families and Unpaid Work". This is the version that I submitted to New Zealand Economic Papers, the New Zealand Association of Economists journal. Reports from the referees were what could be called "interesting". I include here the referees' reports plus further comments (some economics), sent to the editor as my response.
Marilyn Waring and unpaid work (contains some New Zealand data). And more recently, she ignores the 1978 study by Fletcher (discussed here) as an early New Zealand study, and she says that the 1998-1999 New Zealand Time Use Survey (discussed here) is "the most sophisticated and conceptually advanced time use survey of all. This will be the single most exciting information base established as a vehicle for change in my lifetime." (quoted from here)
Do men spend only a few minutes a day on childcare?
Link to some Canadian data.
Valuing unpaid work - discussion of a Statistics Canada study.
The gender-sensitive Human Development Index used by the United Nations Development Programme misrepresents unpaid work, as my comments show.
Housework: Austria and Germany
Link to: "Human capital and the use of time" by Frank Jones
On the division of paid work in households, see: Family Structure, Usual and Preferred Working Hours, and Egalitarianism Drago, R and Tseng Y-P, paper presented at the HILDA Conference 2003.
Link to: Child Support home page (Inland Revenue Department - overview of the New Zealand situation)
Child Support and men's responsibility
"Emotional and financial support"
There is an interesting NZ Appeal Court decision which suggests a radically different approach to child support: Child Support – the Durie Formula
The Child Support Amendment Act 2001 - what does it say about government policy towards fathers
What is the NZ child support legislation intended to achieve?
A brief comment on child support and the Child Support Review (NZ)
Another on the 40% of nights requirement for shared custody and more here. (NZ)
Is Child Support also alimony?
Child support assessment, one possible outcome (NZ situation).
The costs of collecting child support in New Zealand, information and comments, plus some US enforcement data.
Child support obligations and the roles of custodial and non-custodial parents (in New Zealand).
Link to: Child Support Defaulter Arrested (NZ IRD)
Child support and the principle of estoppel - an Australian case.
Child support issues when there are multiple partners and in the case of surrogacy, a contributed discussion.
Child support and visitation, two views.
Costs of children, etc., some measures.
Child Support Guidelines: Research and Analysis, and Child Support Research by U.S. State and Country
Child Support and Effective Marginal Tax Rates
Michael Cullen and child support
Canadian 1996 child support reforms (links to government documents)
Imputed income as child support income for liable parents
Child Support and Joint Custody by Stuart Miller
Poverty in New Zealand: a challenge by Shane Frith
Pop psychobabble and child support
Link to the Men's Issues Page child support economics and statistics information.
And link to some US submissions on non-custodial dads
Link to "Beating up on deadbeat dads", a special report by Stephen Baskerville in The American Spectator
Link to Bruce Ritchie's Family page where he has material on child support, and parenting agreements (Canada).
Link to Solving Sole Parenting Poverty?, an article from Straight Thinking magazine.
Link to The Child Support Initiative for UK, US, and Australian child support information, etc..
Link to the UK Child Support Agency.
Link to press release on the UK child support white paper July 1999 (note the repeated use of "father" to refer to the paying parent), and the white paper itself, plus summary.
Link to Unofficial CSA website (Australia)
Link to and Australian paper: Department of Family & Community Services - Sharing the care of children post-separation: conference paper
Link to: Ronald Henry article from Family Law Quarterly ("Child Support at the Crossroads")
Link to: UnityWall.com a US site with cases outlining the effects of child support
| "When researchers at Britain's Relate Centre
for Family Research undertook a project to discover why
so many divorced men lost contact with their children,
they ended up five years later with a very different
perspective. The wonder was not, they concluded, that so
many fathers lost contact but, given the difficulties,
that so many had stayed in touch." Burgess A (1997) Fatherhood Reclaimed: The Making of the Modern Father, Vermilion, page 203 |
Children and separation (some thoughts for separating parents)
The NZSCHF definition of "family" and its implications - Note that there are also moves to redefine "father", as illustrated in a Reuters piece of 3 May 2004, "Pediatricians told to make room for daddy", which states: "The academy also reminded doctors that fathers are not necessarily biological, and that they may be a grand father, stepfather, foster father, coparent in a gay relationship or other father figure." The Academy in question is the The American Academy of Pediatrics. This move is also observed in the increasing reference to the concept of "social parent", with parenting defined as a social construct - see, for example, point 6.3 in chapter 4 of http://econ.massey.ac.nz/cppe/papers/cppeip11/cppeip11.pdf, and page xv of the NZ Law Commission paper, "New issues in legal parenthood".
Shared parenting ..... LINK TO: Shared Parenting New Zealand
New Zealand's Shared Parenting Bill (includes link to text and relevant points, plus the Parliamentary debate). See also: The NZ Shared Parenting Bill, PHA conference paper (a critique of the government stance).
See also this US link: Joint Custody and Shared Parenting - What the Research Says, What Parents Say, and in particular: Growth of Shared Parenting, Joint custody legislation in the U.S., Joint custody research
and here's an interesting site: Coparenting and Shared Parenting: Facts on Fatherhood and Why We Need a Level Playingfield.
For a critical opinion on those wanting shared parenting, see: Is this gatekeeping?, And here is a link to a more general comment on gatekeeping by Cathy Young: Salon.com mwt | The mama lion at the gate.
And here's a link to an article from the Seattle Times: From Mom to Dad and back: Summer for kids with divorced parents.
Here's a link to some recent overseas shared parenting legislation (pdf)
And here are some pro-shared parenting brochures from Canada: Index of brochures
"Rights for Children in Separation" (from the Courthouse, Palmerston North, NZ)
Link to: The role of counsel for the child - perspectives of children, young people and their lawyers, by Nicola Taylor, Megan Gollop, Anne Smith and Pauline Tapp April 1999 (report by the Children’s Issues Centre for the NZ Department for Courts)
Link to: Counsel for the child guidelines - NZ Law Society (ratified 18 February 2000)
No gender bias in New Zealand according to the Guardianship Act.
Some points on custody and division of labour.
Child support obligations and the roles of custodial and non-custodial parents (in New Zealand).
Custodial and non-custodial parents according to the Child Support Act (NZ)
NZ Family Court backing for non-custodial fathers?
Penalties in New Zealand for hindering or preventing access
Florida legislation on obstructing access (visitation) and Bill 26: Family Law Statutes Amendment Act, 1999 - Legislative Assembly of Alberta - enforcement of access. On the other hand, follow this link to: Why Is Daddy in Jail?
Schools' guidelines for non-custodial parents in South Australia.
Link to the New Zealand Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989 on-line at Auckland University.
Comments on a paper by Judge D F Green on Custody and Access Disputes, presented at the New Zealand Law Society Family Law Conference, Wellington, October 1995. There may also be something relevant here.
Joint custody - has the NZ Ministry of Justice got its facts wrong?
Link to California law showing a preference for joint custody. And here is AB999.
A Joint Custody - Equal Placement proposal in Wisconsin
Link to: California Judge Targets Joint Custody Foes as `dangerous... unbalanced'
Link to: Study finds capabilities of fathers ignored (Canadian research)
Child Support and Joint Custody by Stuart Miller
The Handbook to Shared Parenting (Therapists' version, by Guy Thisdelle, Fathers Without Children)
Link to: Centre for Children's Justice Inc ("Dedicated to Protecting and Preserving THE INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN To Access to BOTH Parents After Divorce or Separation") Includes information on shared parenting.
American Journal of Forensic Psychology. 21(1):39-64 Richard A. Gardner, M.D. |
Here is a link on Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) (Custody Newsletter #9 1993 of the PACE (Professional Academy of Custody Evaluators) Custody Home Page in the US) (here is a longer version from the New Hampshire Bar Journal: Family Wars: The Alienation of Children). And for another problem, here is a link to False Allegations Of Child Sexual Abuse (Edward Nichols).
And another link to a A Guide to the Parental Alienation Syndrome by Stan Hayward, or go direct to Richard A Gardner's web page. Note also The Parental Alienation Directory at PsyCare Foundation. And also the Parental Alienation Syndrome Forum, and PAS at The Family Court Reform Council of America. See also The Effects of Divorce on Children. And here is the alienated fathers forum. And PAIN: Parental Alienation Information Network. See also PARENTAL ALIENATION SYNDROME NEWSLETTER - U.N. Petition under Rights of the Child to have Both Parents (note the links to the excellent work of Deirdre Conway Rand, also under "papers" at the end of this page). There are also numerous links at: F.A.C.T. Info: Parental Alienation Information, and some more from miningco.com at Parental Alienation - Stepparenting - Net Links, also PAIN (Parental Alienation Information Network). Another paper, from the 1999 North Dakota Law review, is Parental Alienation: Not in the Best Interest of the Children
There are some interesting descriptions of alienating approaches in Parental Alienation Syndrome: A 'Hidden' Facet of Custody Disputes -- L. Cook
See also a press release, from the Parental Alienation Syndrome Research Foundation , 27 April 2000, ABDUCTION OF THE MIND - THE CASE OF ELIAN GONZALEZ. (see here for information on PASRF, and here for their executive)
On handling cases of PAS, here is a paper from the American Journal of Family Law (Waldron and Joanis, 1996), and here is a legal paper on PAS from the Florida Bar Journal (Walsh and Bone, 1997). And here is a (PDF) paper from the Australian Family Court web page: "Alienation revisited", Paul Lodge. Also from the American Bar Association, a Student Writing Competition Winner's Essay, "Perspectives on Parental Alienation, Child Custody and Dispute Resolution Systems" by Anita Vestal. Here is an earlier (1986) paper from The Independent Practitioner: Post-Divorce Therapy With Highly Conflicted Families - Anita K. Lampel, Ph.D. And here is a more recent piece on PAS: Editorial. See also: Intervention-guided single case-help and parental alienation syndrome (PAS): differential diagnosis and treatment approaches by Dr. Werner G. Leitner, Bamberg, Germany.
Here is quote from another legal site's page on Parental Alienation Syndrome by Anne-France Goldwater (Avocate). It includes the following statement:
"... a court must respect a child's best interests by requiring that the custodial parent (or person) do everything in his power to ensure real contact between the child and the non-custodial parent. No custodial parent would expect a judge to accept that the child be permitted not to attend school because he didn't feel like going. Why then should a judge accept that a child not visit his other parent for the same reason?
Also, a judge must recognize that a child's rejection of his parent, even in instances of neglect or abuse, indicates a disturbance within the child which must be tended to, and not simply ignored. One must rely on positive steps by the custodial parent to rectify the alienation within the child, in that child's best interest."
Link to The Parental Alienation Syndrome: An Analysis of Sixteen Selected Cases - a paper from the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 1994. Note: "A failure to appropriately identify and intervene in the early stages of these cases may result in the alienating parent being given professional support for his/her position, reinforcing the child's need to maintain or expand complaints about the alienated parent. This has the capacity to more firmly entrench the syndrome and to enhance the severity of the dynamics." This point is also made in one of Dr Rand's articles (see here): "... the influential role of other people in the child's life, such as relatives and professionals aligned with the alienating parent, whose endorsement of the program advances the brainwashing process."
Link to: DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN PARENTAL ALIENATION SYNDROME AND BONA FIDE ABUSE-NEGLECT, a paper by R A Gardner in The American Journal of Family Therapy. Vol. 27, No. 2, p 97-107 (April-June 1999)
Link to paper on psychological characteristics of alienating parents: MMPI-2 Validity Scales and Suspected Parental Alienation Syndrome (Siegel and Langford)
Link to: Preventing Parentectomy Following Divorce by Frank S. Williams M.D.
Link to: Mediation and Parental Alienation Syndrome by Anita Vestal (a good summary paper)
and here is a case where action was taken: Notification of Judgement - Berg v. Perlow (U.S.)
Link to: Psycare Foundation
Link to: National Association of Victims of Parental Alienation Syndrome: NAVPAS presents a vaccine for the walking dead (US)
Link to details of the US National Parental Alienation Foundation
And a concern: "The parent who programs the child brings about the destruction of the bond between the other parent and the child which, unfortunately, is likely to be lifelong in duration." (here)
See also FamilyCourts.com for a free, downloadable book on PAS.
Family Court of New Zealand - Papers and Reports - Psychological Abuse: The Family Court Response 2001 and Beyond by Judge Jan Doogue. It includes the following quotable piece: "the lack of proportionality that some lawyers' bring to the equation of fees versus outcome"
For more links on parental alienation, see Paul's Links, and here's an extensive list on the UK Men's Movement page, and here's another list.
And for children: NCH - It's not your fault
Link to NCOFF Literature Review: Fathers Care (One of the NCOFF Literature Reviews at National Center on Fathers and Families, University of Pennsylvania, see also its Father&FamilyLinks)
Link to: Research on Fatherhood ("We present the following articles as a sampling of earlier research into the causes and results of children being raised in fatherless families, and of the parenting ability of fathers.")
Link to: Free UK Fathers A to Z index
Link to: The Importance of Father Love (by Rohner, Ronald P. and Veneziano, Robert A, published in Review of General Psychology, Volume 5(4), December 2001, p 382–405)
Link to: Father Facts (updated 16 July 1998)
Link to: Father's Involvement
Some links, etc., on stages of parenting (including discussion of the primary caregiver concept).
NZ Labour Party policy, fathers and mentors
Link to a paper on fatherly affirmation and women's self-esteem, Scheffler and Naus, Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, Spring 1999.
Link to: Fitting Fathers into Families (Australian Department of Family and Community Services, January 1999)
Link to: Vanderbilt News Release: father-daughter relationship crucial when girls enter puberty
Link to: Dads, daughters forge key bonds (USA Today, May 8, 2000, p.19A)
Link to: WOMEN MAY BE INHIBITING GREATER FATHER INVOLVEMENT IN FAMILY WORK
Link to: The Consequences of Fatherlessness, plus other information at: NCF Web Page Research (the National Center for Fathering, US)
Link to: Shared Parenting: Making Appropriate Custody and Access Decisions
Link to: The Age: What happens when Daddy's little girl grows up?
Link to discussion of why fathers lose contact after separation.
Link to an alternative view on future patterns of parental involvement, by Rhona Mahony.
Statistics on who gets custody in New Zealand, and some more New Zealand custody questions. And here is some discussion by Peter Vogel on the claim that Australian fathers "win" custody in 40% of cases.
Gender bias in an Australian custody decision, plus an Open Letter, both by Tony Farr
Link to data on granting of custody by courts (Colorado, US, 1990).
Link to a call by Dr Stephen S Honor for standardised custody evaluations in Custody Newsletter Volume #10
Judge D R Brown, Hamilton, "Domestic Violence and Children on the Eve of the Domestic Violence Act", paper presented at the New Zealand Law Society Family Law Conference, Wellington, October 1995. Selected extracts and comments. The paper describes the way domestic violence is being linked to access and custody rights. In practice, existing laws can have a fundamental influence on custody decisions, as evidenced by the US experience with restraining orders. Similar experience in Australia is described in the following extract from their House of representatives Hansard for 20 October 1997: ADJOURNMENT Domestic Violence Orders.
Link to Mr Rocher's statement on the Australian House of Representatives (16 June 1997) on Judge Alistair Nicholson's remarks about Aboriginal children being taken from their parents.
Link to: Department of Family & Community Services - Fitting Fathers into Families (Australia)
Comment on a Family Court ruling on smoking and access (NZ).
The Role of Men in Children's Lives, link to conference proceedings (High level conference in the US in July 1994, includes policy suggestions)
Supporting the Role of Fathers in Families - link to a statement by Travis Ballard, Esq., President of National Congress for Fathers and Children, for a Meeting at the White House on November 27, 1995 (US).
"Father facts" (on the ENPES page)
The effects of fatherlessness - US data from the Coalition of Parent Support, Inc..
Australian data on Frequency of face-to-face contact between parent-child by relationship status of parents, part of a larger collection of data on Parent Child Contact after Separation.
Separation and suicide (a custody link?) See also CNN.com - Men more likely to commit suicide after divorce, study finds - March 15, 2000 Some related discussion.
Views on separation (from a New Zealand study)
Link to Look Who Doesn't Want A Divorce (By Candis Mclean, ALBERTA REPORT January 11, 1999). It has some interesting points on why people divorce (comments here).
And here's a link to another view on marriage (if the currency is debased, set up a new currency) LOUISIANA’S COVENANT MARRIAGE LAW: A FIRST STEP TOWARDS A MORE ROBUST PLURALISM IN MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE LAW
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and parental contact. (Link to: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child including text and ratification details)
Link to Bruce Ritchie's Family page where he has material on child support, and parenting agreements (Canada).
Fathers and the 4th World Conference on Women, Beijing, September 1995. (For more on the Conference, follow this link.)
Link to Washington Families for Noncustodial Rights (texts of sponsored bills, including one on custody)
Link to US child custody law information (Cornell). Information also at: Nolo's Fast Facts: Child Custody and Visitation. Here are joint custody statutes in Idaho, New Mexico.
Link to The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
Link to the Family Law Advisor (US)
Link to Washington Families for Noncustodial Rights (texts of sponsored bills)
Link to Paul Robertson's page (a father and adoption issues)
Link to "The Disenfranchised Father", By Matthias Matussek, translated from German by Walter H. Schneider (from DER SPIEGEL, Volume 47/1997, November 17, 1997)
Link to a pdf file: "Parental Rights and Due Process" by Donald C. Hubin, Journal of Law and Family Studies, 1(1999) pp. 123-150. "Fundamental human rights ... ought not, legally or morally, to be suspended or denied without just cause and due process of law. This is especially important when these rights protect important human interests. Parental rights are fundamental human rights ... Furthermore, they protect important human interests of both parents and children. These rights are typically and systematically suspended or denied in divorce proceedings."
For some US legal documents on the human rights issue, see here. It includes the Massachusetts Federal Complaint action "instituted for the purpose of addressing discrimination against males in domestic relations cases in the Trial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts."
And further on the human rights issue, the "stolen generation" of aboriginal children is the subject of this Australian report: Bringing them Home. Some have drawn parallels between the human rights violations in these cases and those of today's Family Court.
Link to Canadian Custody and Access Provisions: Extended Family Custody and Access (contains international comparisons)
Primary caregiver links (for critiques of the primary caregiver concept, see chapters 4, 8 and 12 of PERSPECTIVES ON FATHERING II, and, for a US context, Primary Caretaker Theory):
Note also this link to: Mediation Ministries Homepage and Academy of Family Mediators
And be aware of the concept of The Shadow of the Law
Custody Decisions in the 19th Century
Link to Court Out - One man's battle for his kids (article in the Australian, 24 December 1999).
Link to Fathers Rights To Custody Homepage
A collection of papers related to custody can be found at: FRTC Articles Archive
Link to: Matrimonial Property Amendment Bill - as at 30 October 2000. This has resulted in the Property (Relationships) Amendment Act 2001. There is some of the Parliamentary debate here:HANSARD - 21 November 2000, HANSARD - 13 March 2001, HANSARD 21 March 2001, HANSARD - 27 March 2001. Here is a paper on the Property Relationships Amendment Act, and here is an earlier submission.
A brief comment on the Matrimonial Property Act, and some points to consider in the context of proposed reforms to the Act. See also "why men shouldn't marry", and follow this link to Alberta Report: "Do you take this woman? No Way"! (Jan. 18, 1999) or to Marriage, Bubonic Plague, And Infected Warts.
Matrimonial Property Settlement Criteria, an Australian Case Study Comments on part of an Australian Radio National Law Report transcript, with a link to the transcript.
Here is a link to "Recent Developments in Equity" by Professor Julie Maxton, which includes a discussion of The Property Problems of Unmarried Cohabitees. It is a legal discussion focusing on the issue of distribution of assets on the termination of a de facto relationship. As an economist, I note the assumption made that unpaid work is of no value if it is not rewarded by a share of the assets. In fact both parties would have been benefiting from the assets and consumption of goods and services during the period of the relationship. The issue is not one of zero or positive price for unpaid work, therefore. Rather it is one of whether the payments made during the relationship (board and lodging, etc.) are appropriate, too high, or too low. I am aware that lawyers and economists frequently have very different perspectives, however.
Here is a link to the New Zealand Matrimonial Property Act 1976 on-line at Auckland University.
On Weitzman on who fares worse after divorce (comments and links).
The Property (Relationships) Bill - NZ
Link to: National Advisory Council on the Emploment of Women - NACEW Homepage (NZ)
The gender pay gap in New Zealand
Assumptions about pay equity in a Justice Department publication. (NZ)
Link to EEO Fund (Equal Employment Opportunities Contestable Fund, NZ) and here is some mention of the Joint Equal Employment Opportunities Trust which has a web page at: EEO Trust (relevant for "family-friendly" workplace issues).
Data on:
Here are my comments on The EEO on the Gender Pay Gap and here is a link to the document I was commenting on: EEO Trust Diversity Index 1999 Summary (NZ)
Link to the text of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, General Recommendation 13, Equal remuneration for work of equal value, (Eighth session, 1989)
Link to FACTS ON WORKING WOMEN, U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau, December 1993.
Free Markets, Free Choices: Women in the Workforce (December 1995, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy)
Link to Diana Furchtgott-Roth: Myth of the Glass Ceiling, and also Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba, Women’s Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America, and Women's Figures: The Economic Progress of Women in America (note Women's Figures - Highlights, including: "The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data show that, among people ages twenty-seven to thirty-three who have never had a child, women's earnings are close to 98 percent of men's.")
"Women have made great strides in the workplace compared to men over the last 30 years as evidenced by the fact that young single women working full-time earn as much as their male counterparts, according to a new book published by the Employment Policy Foundation." full press report here (at the Employment Policy Foundation, where you can order the paper)
TESTIMONY OF Anita U. Hattiangadi, Economist, Employment Policy Foundation before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, U.S. Senate, June 8, 2000 "Our research shows that there is no pay gap among full-time workers age 21 to 35 who live alone, and there is a pay gap of only 3 percent among full-time workers age 21 to 35 without children. New Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that never married women earned 92 percent as much as never married men in 1999. In fact, as early as 1971, never-married women in their 30s who had worked continuously earned slightly higher incomes than their male counterparts."
"The gender earnings gap among recent postsecondary graduates, 1984-92" (downloadable from here) a research paper at Statistics Canada.
Gradstats, from the Australian 2000 Graduate Destination Survey
Link to Exploring the Gap: An exploration of the difference in income received from wages and salaries by women and men in full-time employment, by Heather Kirkwood, Statistics New Zealand, November 1998
Link to Hon Jenny Shipley - Prime Minister Welcomes More Women In Decision Making Positions
... and a link to how this may be achieved: MWA | Nominations
... with key points here
The Myth That Schools Shortchange Girls, by Judith Kleinfeld (US)
Link to a more general report: Futurework - Trends and Challenges for Work in the 21st Century - U.S. DOL
Link to: STATUS of WOMEN - CANADA
Link to Childcare, Families and Work "This report, published by the Department of Labour and the National Advisory Council on the Employment of Women (NACEW), represents New Zealand’s first comprehensive national survey on childcare and its relationship to participation in employment."
Here are some links to US statements critical of the wage gap concept:
Family Structure, Usual and Preferred Working Hours, and Egalitarianism Drago, R and Tseng Y-P, paper presented at the HILDA Conference 2003.
As an aside, here is link to a short US piece on marriage and taxes.
Link to: Facts about dads today (UK, Equal Opportunities Commission fact sheet)
I have noticed a particular gender slant coming through in UN Development Programme material. they are described in the following articles:
The gender-sensitive Human Development Index used by the United Nations Development Programme misrepresents unpaid work, as my comments show.
Life expectancy and "natural biological tendencies".
UNICEF takes a different view, looking at Eastern Europe.
Link to UNDP homepage
Link to extracts from the UNDP Human Development Report 1995 edition
See also: discussion of Sex discrimination against females (discussing an example in a United Nations University document)
ON THE WOMEN'S ACCESS TO JUSTICE PROJECT (NZ)
THE UNOFFICIAL MEN'S ACCESS TO JUSTICE PROJECT (NZ)
Evidence of gender bias in family law?
Is feminist research impartial?
My review of Prue Hyman's Women and Economics:A New Zealand Feminist Perspective. This includes brief information on men's and women's wealth, about which there is also information in a NSW document, Women's Economic Status, Equal Worth.
A brief discussion of two reports from the Intra Family Income Study.
An extract from and response to an article on the "Future of the family", Sunday Star-Times, 10 September 1995. Link to an interview with Judith Wallerstein on what holds families together (at Mother Jones).
Link to an article, "The Market Value of Family Values", by Ralph Chami and Connel Fullenkamp.
Some observations on a few quotes from Hansard (New Zealand Parliamentary debates and questions).
Susanna Lobez interviewed Catherine Fraser, Chief Justice of Alberta on "Ex-husbands and ex-wives" (click for transcript) on Australian Radio National, The Law Report, Tuesday, 3rd October 1995. Here are my comments.
Children's rights, and criticisms of the Family Court (click for transcript)- Alistair Nicholson, Australian Family Court Chief Justice, was interviewed by Susanna Lobez for ABC Radio National - The Law Report, Tuesday, 26th September 1995 (mainly on the issue of men's dissatisfaction with the Family Court). Here are my comments, and here is a brief note on men as seen by New Zealand judges. Here is some discussion on men and the family court.
A draft policy for schools on communicating with parents/guardians. This can be contrasted with schools' guidelines for non-custodial parents in South Australia.
Parental leave in the European Union.
Separated parents and the 1996 New Zealand Census.
Link to points from Women in Canada 3rd edition, (by Statistics Canada, 1995)
Israeli woman wins forced parenthood case
The Office of the Commissioner for Children (NZ) - attitude towards fathers
Link to article: Family Court of Australia, Decisions by Gender
CPPE Issues Paper No.2 "Gender Analysis and the Women's Access to Justice Project"
Link to: Women's Access to legal Services (report of the Women's Access to Justice project, .pdf)
Gender imbalance among lawyers
CPPE Issues Paper No.3 "The Family Court: A View from the Outside"
CPPE Issues Paper No.4 "Perspectives on Fathering"
CPPE Issues Paper No.6 "Perspectives on Fathering II"
CPPE Issues Paper No.7 "Research for policy: informing or misleading?"
CPPE Issues Paper No.8 "Analytical skills for social issues: reason or delusion?"
CPPE Issues Paper No.9 "Inclusion or Exclusion: Family Strategy and Policy"
CPPE Issues Paper No.10 "Children's Rights and Families: Proceedings of Social Policy Forum 2000"
Link to Council of Legal Education "Ethics Courses Approved" (some action on the Cotter and Roper report as mentioned in section 3.4.2 in CPPE Issues Paper No.1, but what of existing lawyers?)
Stealth and Surprise - law in the good old days
SOME MATERIAL BY PAUL CALLISTER:
Paul Callister's work on Fathers as Primary Caregivers: "Non-traditional" roles in two parent families with young children. (August 1995): This collection of papers is drawn from one overall literature review. The research is still in progress so these papers are all very much at the "working paper" stage of development. For further information, (and queries re: copyright) contact Paul at Paekakariki, New Zealand, or email at paul.callister@actrix.gen.nz.
How Australians Use Their Time, 1997 ( at the Australian Bureau of Statistics)
Link to NZ Health Information Service
Children's Issues Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ.
Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health & Development Research Unit
New Zealand Law Society - Family Law Section
Counsel for the Child:
- Guidelines for Counsel for the Child
- Practice Note Counsel for the Child: Selection, Appointment and Other Matters
- Practice Note Counsel for the Child Code of Practice
Australian Institute of Family Studies.
Household Research Unit at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA)
Strengthening and Supporting Australian Families at the Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services (from the '99 budget).
Research Publications at the Australian Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services
- Empowerment and Protection of Children in Family Courts Third National Conference, Melbourne, October 1998
- "Alienation revisited", Paul Lodge
Family Law Research Unit (Griffith University, Australia, includes conference papers)
GENDER BIAS AND FAMILY LAW: WHERE ARE WE a paper by Gene Coleman at Gene C. Colman - Family Law Centre in Canada.
"Just Peace" an international conference in conflict resolution, peace building, and social justice that will be held between 25-28 April 2000 at Massey University, Auckland.
The School of Home Economics and Family Ecology at the University of Akron, US.
National Center on Fathers and Families: Main Page (US)
Father&FamilyLink (US)
The Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (Princeton)
slowlane.com - the on-line resource for stay-at-home dads and primary caregiving fathers
Foundation for Grandparenting (US)
The Effects of Divorce on Children (Robert Hughes, Ohio State University)
Richard Warshak, Clinical Psychology Associates, "offering material developed by Richard A. Warshak, Ph.D. for parents, and legal, mental health, and educational professionals".
Fathering Bibliography (Department of Human Development, Washington State University)
Professional Academy of Custody Evaluators (PACE) in the US.
False Allegations Of Child Sexual Abuse (Edward Nichols)
ANZACCS (Australian & New Zealand Association of Children's Contact Services Inc.)
Canadian Gallup Poll results, searchable.
Australian Commonwealth Government Entry Point
Hand in Hand: Parents, Schools, Communities United for Kids, includes: Hand in Hand TIPS Brochure: Tips for Parents, Families and Teachers
Gender Home Page (World Bank)
Has links to keynote and session papers. Keynote papers include:
- Non-resident fathers and children's wellbeing (Paul Amato, includes "authoritative parenting" concept)
- The effects of marital separation on men - 10 years on (Peter Jordan)
A collection of papers related to custody can be found at: FRTC Articles Archive
The Emperor's New Clothes : Divorce Process & Consequence on-line book from the UK Men's Movement. A shorter version for general readers is: Marriage and Fatherhood : Important Information for Young Men. Other publications form the same source can be found at: The Bookshelf on the United Kingdom Men's Movement web page.
Missing children:
Kids Help Line (Australia)
On the lighter side: Housewife Charged In Sex-For-Security Scam, and Man Tricked Into Marriage With Love, Support, Kindness (at The Onion)
New Zealand Government sites (for others, or to search all, go to New Zealand Government Online):
Stuart Birks
Last updated 10 August 2005
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