<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975304605693999828</id><updated>2009-09-23T23:11:24.501-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ration Shed</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ration-shed.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4975304605693999828/posts/default?orderby=updated'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ration-shed.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Jim Bailey - JimBWarrior - HandsOnEqualParent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10908714952818051719</uri><email>jimbwarrior@xtra.co.nz</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975304605693999828.post-3511416442395301255</id><published>2008-07-26T00:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-01-02T19:47:50.017-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FatherHood'/><title type='text'>NZ-Fatherless Kids</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Fatherless Kids&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Yes - New Zealand now has upwards of 300,000 Fatherless Kids&lt;br /&gt;according to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;WINZ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (NZ Social Welfare ) and so called Child Support, caused by;&lt;br /&gt;Family destructive &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;NZLaw&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;NZSocial&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Policy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                               A study done in Massey University in 1996                                                                                                                                                          &lt;br /&gt;http://www.massey.ac.nz/~kbirks/gender/econ/nodad.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;found the following horrific facts;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Has LABOUR made these stats WORSE?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will NATIONAL reverse the trend?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fatherless Children are;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;5&lt;/span&gt; times more likely to commit suicide&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;32&lt;/span&gt; times more likely to runaway&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;20&lt;/span&gt; times more likely to have behavioural disorders&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;14&lt;/span&gt; times more likely to commit rape&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;9&lt;/span&gt; times more likely to drop out of high school&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;10&lt;/span&gt; times more likely to abuse chemical substances&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;9&lt;/span&gt; times more likely to end up in a state-operated institution&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;20&lt;/span&gt; times more likely to end up in prison&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Additions from our observations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Far more likely to Father/Bear a Child as a young teenager&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Far more likely to be party to an abortion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is much more data out there to support this &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;conclusion&lt;/span&gt; which is now more than just a theory. These are just the main bullet points. Not only do we suffer as Fathers with little to no access to our Sons and Daughters, which in itself is a heart breaker but the Kids face even greater difficulties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Legislation and Social Policy encourages Mothers to do it alone...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;but look what happens when they do.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This does not mean Men are better than Women or Fathers are better than Mothers, it means they are more powerful and effective when working together as &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;EQUAL Parents&lt;/span&gt; residing together or not, even better &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;HandsOnEqualParents&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; from conception.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The above seems to be overlooked when the;&lt;br /&gt;so called Family Court - so called Child Support - so called Child Youth and Family Services - so called Work and Income NZ - so called Ministry of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Women's&lt;/span&gt; Affairs - so called Ministry of Social Development  - so called Human Rights Commission - so called Housing NZ and so called Members of Parliament work; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; the best interest of the Children"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I don't think so??&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;What do you think?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4975304605693999828-3511416442395301255?l=ration-shed.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ration-shed.blogspot.com/feeds/3511416442395301255/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4975304605693999828&amp;postID=3511416442395301255' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4975304605693999828/posts/default/3511416442395301255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4975304605693999828/posts/default/3511416442395301255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ration-shed.blogspot.com/2008/07/nz-fatherless-kids-yours-comments-asap.html' title='NZ-Fatherless Kids'/><author><name>Jim Bailey - JimBWarrior - HandsOnEqualParent</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10908714952818051719</uri><email>jimbwarrior@xtra.co.nz</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14910594485184480866'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975304605693999828.post-6991027994358104693</id><published>2008-07-11T02:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-11T02:56:20.396-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Who gains by spin doctoring ALL Men bad</title><content type='html'>Having spent a year or so away from watching NZLaw and NZSocial destroy our Families, I come back a little refreshed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However my increased clarity is alarmed to find;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1- APATHY has risen among those who have had their Children stolen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2- Violence has increased, a police person killed this morning&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3- The MPs who are responsible for creating the Policies and Laws that have destroyed our Families blame us&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What’s the answer?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Onward - Jim &lt;a name="msg_10804"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Clarendon;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 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