Kia ora whānau. Following on from last month's article, we're going to continue to push the White Ribbon agenda.
This year's White Ribbon campaign is asking all of us to challenge the #Unspoken Rules.
Unspoken rules are the expectations that boys and young men inherit from society, based on outdated ideas of what a man is, how he acts and how he should express himself. Even if we don't agree with them, these rules still exist silently in the background for far too many.
Rules like Be the Man, Toughen Up and Boys Don't Cry reinforce damaging stereotypes of what it is to be a man.
Taranaki Safe Families Trust has a multi-pronged approach to spread awareness of the White Ribbon kaupapa.