{"id":57830,"date":"2023-08-26T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/26\/theres-a-huge-problem-new-zealand-searches-for-new-ways-to-tackle-family-violence"},"modified":"2023-08-26T05:00:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T20:00:18","slug":"theres-a-huge-problem-new-zealand-searches-for-new-ways-to-tackle-family-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57830","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There\u2019s a huge problem\u2019: New Zealand searches for new ways to tackle family violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mental health apps focusing on personal history part of a wider push to support men and address high rates of family harm<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Wilson* was abandoned at birth and then adopted into a family where he was sexually abused by his father and violently tormented by his mother.<\/p>\n<p>Cycling through state-run boys\u2019 homes, he battled addiction and later wrestled with thoughts of ending his own life. On a particularly difficult night last month, Wilson sat alone in the bush, \u201ccontemplating being another statistic\u201d, he says. He messaged these thoughts to his estranged partner, who responded with a link to a mental health app called innerBoy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/26\/theres-a-huge-problem-new-zealand-searches-for-new-ways-to-tackle-family-violence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental health apps focusing on personal history part of a wider push to support men and address high rates of family harmJoshua Wilson* was abandoned at birth and then adopted into a family where he was sexually abused by his father and violently torme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3849,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,934,346,897,744,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-domestic-violence","category-health","category-maori","category-mental-health","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57831,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57830\/revisions\/57831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}