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Now in your Birth Pack:
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Congratulations to fathers
with a new baby in Auckland,
Wellington or Christchurch.
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The Talk
What makes fathers so beneficial and unique for the development of young children?
Groups can book this Father & Child talk for their members or their staff . See here for more details (pdf, 0.1 MB)

Issue 33 cover (small)

Available quarterly, the Father & Child Magazine is available in selected bookstores throughout New Zealand, or make it even easier to get - you can subscribe and have it mailed directly to your door, your first edition is free.

Read more about our magazine, or, for access to articles from previous issues go straight to the archives: Most back issues are available.

The magazine is about you - so send us your stories and pictures by mail or email and tell us which issues you want to read about: editor@fatherandchild.net.nz

teendads.org.nz

Under 20 and already a dad?

Currently under reconstruction this site will be just for you.

Information, thoughts and stories from other Dads dealing with issues just like yours

The 'teendad report' Open and candid interviews with a variety of teen dads. The results may surprise you.

Read it here

Dads&Babs


A special issue of Father & Child magazine for new fathers, produced in 2000, covers birth stories, feeding, work/family, postnatal depression and much more: click here.

You also find info here if you or your partner suffer from postnatal depression.

Issues for midwives and other health professionals are covered in our 'Dads and Babies' resource. Pdf version available for download (2.3 MB): click here

Parenting

Raising children is a challenge everyday. Luckily others have gone before and wrote their experiences and tips down.

Here you find you can browse articles on an ever increasing range of topics related to parenting.

Search articles by category if you have a specific fathering issue.

Research

For the more research and "big picture"-minded: here's papers we published about our work

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Who are we? Where are we?

Why are we? and When are we?

Find those questions answered here, and give us feedback.

PROJECTS

An overview of the projects we run.

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EXTERNAL LINKS
New on popular request: links to other father haunts on the web.

 

  News
 
July 2008


  Father & Child in the Media
News of Father & Child magazine's free 'New Babies Edition' has been picked up by the mainstream media. Father & Child Trust coordinator Harald Breiding-Buss featured on TVNZ's Breakfast show, and Trust Secretary Donald Pettitt was interviewed for the Press.
Baby magazine Little Treasures runs a four-page article on teenage fathers in its current issue with extensive input by Trust Teen Dad Support Worker Jonathan Young.
Newtalk ZB in Dunedin interviewed local dad Graham Dewhirst on his efforts to start a Father & Child group and the prospect of having Dunedin included in the distribution of the New Babies Edition.
Links:
TVNZ Interview Video clip
The Press story
Advertisers (New Babies Edition): see here for rate card (pdf 1MB).

Men's Health Week a Goer in Christchurch
Newly formed Canterbury Mens Centre has organised a series of events to celebrate Men's Health Week (9 - 15 June) and raise awareness for Men's Health in general, ranging from workshops for social service providers to better include men to talks about Maori Men's Health strategies.
Men's Health Weel kicked off with the government announcing $3 million in funding for men's health - the first ever money made available in NZ specifically for men's health.


Dads Bypassed in Breastfeeding Strategy
A draft strategy produced by the National Breastfeeding Advisory Committee for the Director-General of Health makes no mention of fathers.
'Partners' and family are mentioned once as being important in the decision to breastfeed, but no strategic goals are set to improve access to breastfeeding information for people other than mothers.
Father & Child believes the strategy possibly breaches the Guardianship and the Care of Children Acts, both of which require parents and/or guardians of children to make decisons jointly in the best interest of the child.

New Parenting Tips Web Site by Families Commission: www.nzfamilies.org.nz/parenting

Disabled Dad in Auckland? Researchers are asking for your participation. Email Marta Leete