Recent Dads on the Air Media Releases

Monday 9th February 2009

Kids are safer with Dads

The Australian Institute of Criminology has reviewed the most recent child homicide statistics from its National Homicide Monitoring Program. The new data shows that during 2006-07, eleven child homicides were perpetrated by a mother, while five perpetrators were fathers, and another five were defacto partners of the mother who lived with the child. Read more (PDF).

Tuesday 22nd May 2007

Founder of women's shelter movement says domestic violence programs "do more harm than good".

Domestic violence is not a gender issue, says the founder of the world's first refuge for battered women. Back in the UK from Bahrain where she recently opened the first purpose-built shelter for women and children in the Arab world, Erin Pizzey spoke today with the Dads on the Air radio program on radio 2GLF, Liverpool. Read more (PDF).