What if some unfit, unthinking parent considers this advice credible? What local authority would want to be associated with that potential parenting disaster?

The head of an Australian royal commission into child sexual abuse says he has uncovered enough material to justify public hearings on more than 1000 institutions where child sexual abuse has been alleged.

Auckland Council will not be removing a controversial book from its libraries, despite a growing petition claiming it "advocates child abuse".

Abused children need help to sleep normally again if we are to break the abuse cycle, a child expert says.

Enoch Powell, the late Conservative anti-immigrant firebrand, is being investigated as a member of an alleged Westminster paedophile network.

A mum has launched a campaign to ban from public libraries a book that instructs parents to withhold food and whip their children with tree branches and belts.

One of the country’s worst sex offenders jailed indefinitely after he subjected a man to an horrific 17-hour attack.

An Auckland teenager has allegedly suffered four days of shocking torture at the hands of a man more than twice her age.

A High Court child-abuse trial was aborted when it was revealed Child, Youth and Family had failed to hand over 300 pages of documents to the police investigation.

The majority of children admitted to the Starship hospital as the result of suspected abuse or neglect are under 1 year old.

British police are investigating claims that up to five paedophile rings operated at the heart of Westminster with the involvement of "highly influential" politicians.

Scotland Yard is investigating claims that a Tory MP throttled a young boy to death during a depraved sex party in the 1970s and that two other boys were killed by a VIP paedophile ring.

Scotland Yard investigates the murder of three young boys by a VIP paedophile ring, after a credible witness says a Tory MP killed a boy during a sex attack.

The death of a 7-month-old Hamilton girl is no longer being treated as suspicious, police say.

A baby girl who suffered critical and unexplained injuries has died in Waikato Hospital. Enquiries continue at an address in Hamilton East.

Sir Owen Glenn's report also recommends tough new alcohol laws, including higher taxes and raising the legal drinking age to 20, plus a new dedicated family violence agency.

Leading public lawyer Mai Chen says New Zealand's 2007 changes to smacking law have criminalised "good parents".

Today is Child Matters advocacy organisation's fourth annual child abuse prevention "Buddy Day".

The recent outpouring of anger towards the NFL over its response to incidents of domestic violence involving players has been an exception rather than the norm in professional sport.

A near-dead comatose Cromwell girl found in the street was nearly mistaken for a pile of rubbish.

A Te Kuiti man caught with pictures of children being sexually abused has been sentenced to 10 months’ imprisonment.

Police say several people have "provided information" after the Berkshire apartment of singer Sir Cliff Richard was searched in connection with an alleged historical sex offence.

An Auckland man has appeared in the Manukau District Court this morning charged with the murder of a baby girl.

Police are following the money trail left by paedophiles in paying for material and are using the information to shut down rings that include dozens of people across continents.

New Zealand's first sex offender register has been signed off by Cabinet, but will only be available to agencies and not the general public.

Convicted sex offender Alan Rubick was highly manipulative and skilled at identifying young vulnerable boys, the High Court at Wanganui was told.

Police have given former Wanganui mayor Michael Laws a formal warning after he was accused of smacking his child.

An Auckland school failed to act on concerns raised by two teenage students who felt unsafe around their teacher - six years before he was arrested for sexually grooming one of them and other underage girls.

Evidence from a cell phone has been used for the first time to convict a person of possession and making a copy of objectionable material.