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Family First has been speaking up on a number of family issues recently in the media, including:
* Family Planning wanting to teach your children about "pleasuring your partner, orgasms, arousal and erogenous zones" (!);
* Auckland Council allowing residential brothels to have advertising signage (this will have a flow-on to other areas of NZ);

Brothels Ads Could Turn Residential Street In To K Rd
Media Release 14 July 2015
Family First NZ says that new regulations around advertising for residential brothels means that a residential street with families and children could easily become a K Rd red light district.

“Brothels – no matter how large or small – simply shouldn’t be in residential areas or near sensitive sites such as schools, churches or maraes. The bylaws needs to give priority to the concerns and demands of families and create a bylaw that minimises the harms of the flawed Prostitution Reform Act,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ.

“In 2013, residents in an Auckland suburb were upset that a cluster of premises offering commercial sex were operating within a kilometre of one another in an upmarket Auckland city-fringe suburb, and there was nothing they could do. To now allow signage on all these places will simply add further aggravation to families who don’t want their children confronted with this industry.”

“The Council’s suggestion that the Advertising Standards Authority or the Human Rights Commission would deal with complaints is naïve and flawed. Both bodies are slow to act, come after the advertising damage has been done, and based on history are more likely to protect the brothels than consider the concerns of families. This is just a cop-out by the Council,” says Mr McCoskrie.
READ MORE of our Media Release

Quoted In the media
Auckland suburbs could become a red light district - NZ Herald
Auckland brothels allowed to advertise - Yahoo News
Green light for red light advertising - 3 News
Brothel signs coming to residential Auckland - Newstalk ZB

TAKE ACTION: Please EMAIL US (in complete confidence) if you see any signage in your residential area.

Parents Want Education In Schools, Not Sexualisation
Media Release 8 July 2015
Family First NZ is rubbishing the agenda of Family Planning to teach teenagers in schools about ‘pleasuring’ your partner, orgasms, arousal and erogenous zones, and says that this is a continued assault on our young people and ignoring what parents want taught and what young people need.

“Parents aren’t sending their children to school to learn about orgasms and erogenous zones. They expect an education for their children related to reading, writing and arithmetic – not to be sexualised with inappropriate material that teenagers are not emotionally or physically ready for and which parents are not calling for or expecting,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ.

“The most successful programs are those that show how delaying sexual activity protects a young person from STD’s, teen pregnancy and emotional trauma. They also underline the importance of self-control and responsibility, and the positive impact of delaying sexual activity on their emotional and mental welfare and academic performance.”
READ MORE of our Media Release

Principals reject sex education ‘pleasure zone’ teaching - Stuff.co.nz

TAKE ACTION: Read Your Rights as a Parent to protect your children

Parks Should be Alcohol-Free For Protection of Families
Media Release 7 July 2015
Family First NZ is concerned with proposed alcohol ban laws in Auckland which require communities to have to prove that public parks should be alcohol-free based on evidence and harm.

“It should not be up to local residents to have to police and monitor unruly or drunken behaviour in order to prove that public parks should be alcohol-free. The alcohol-free status is a preventative message that has protected children and families. There are many places to consume alcohol but public parks surrounded by residential housing and playgrounds and schools are not appropriate places,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ.

“The speed limit applies to all roads regardless of evidence as to whether drivers are speeding on that road. It is a public safety issue. That has been the approach with public park drinking bans. It’s about safety first. Local boards should be empowered to identify at-risk areas.”
READ MORE of our Media Release

Quoted In the Media
Hard evidence needed to keep liquor ban - NZ Herald

TAKE ACTION: If you're an Auckland resident, see how you may be affected, and then make an online submission by THIS Friday! 

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Bob McCoskrie
National Director

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