As many as 15 per cent of New Zealand's professional rugby players may be wrestling with stress, anxiety, substance abuse and behavioural and mental health issues.

Sir Owen Glenn's inquiry into child abuse and domestic violence says more children may be abused if they are forced to have contact with violent parents under proposed family law changes.

A leading law academic says proposed Family Court reforms could lead to children dying - and her concerns are shared by many lawyers and judges.

Christine Bristol's husband killed himself and their 3 daughters, a tragedy resulting in a law protecting kids of violent relationships. A new bill could change that.

A Hamilton man was last night being questioned after a domestic row sparked an armed police callout.

A 35-year-old Napier woman has been remanded in custody on assault charges after an alleged domestic assault in Napier left a 45-year-old man dead from stab wounds.

An anti-violence campaigner has called on Northland men to "man up" and lead the way against domestic violence by speaking up if they see others abusing loved ones.

The mother of Sophie Elliott, who was brutally murdered by her boyfriend, is backing a Northland family's stance against domestic violence following their tragic loss.

While a Northland family were grieving the death of Patricia Ann McGrath they were also spreading the anti-violence message at her tangi.

Christmas can be one of the most dreaded times for women and children affected by domestic violence.

Home detention has been rejected for a Northlander who seriously assaulted his partner and locked her in a shipping container during their short but turbulent relationship.

I'd like to see church ministers being proactive in curbing violence before it happens. It is good to see church ministers taking a positive step to curb violence.

A jury has taken just three hours to find a woman guilty of the manslaughter of her partner on Valentine's Day, but cleared her of murder.

More than 3500 domestic-violence reports were made to Northland police in the year to June - nearly 10 a day - but family violence experts say the problem is much bigger.

A woman who claims she stabbed her partner to death in self defence cried "I killed my man" after she inflicted the fatal wound, a witness has told the High Court.

Two Waikato women stepped in and stopped a man who was kicking his partner in the head on a Ngaruawahia street on Sunday night.

Here's a quick quiz. You are a child. Who is most likely to kill you. Your mum? Your dad? Stepdad? Rodney Hide says police have the answer.

White ribbons fluttered on the black leather jackets of the motorcycle riders who roared up to St Paul's Cathedral in Dunedin yesterday morning.

A mass rolling haka lined the streets of Upper Hutt yesterday as the annual White Ribbon motorcycle ride roared past on its way to Auckland.

Men have colonised women's minds just as the English colonised the Maori, says Auckland University psychologist Peter Adams.

More than a dozen Upper Hutt schools will this afternoon take part in a "rolling haka" stretching for several kilometres along Upper Hutt streets.

The police armed offenders squad used flash-bang grenades to apprehend a man involved in a domestic incident in west Auckland last night.