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• Reviewing the Anti-smacking law

  
  Family Integrity — Authority: 126
  Reformation Testimony The criminalisation of New Zealand parents who discipline their children biblically: Or who will you obey, God or man? New Zealand has a new law which makes the corporal punishment of children a crime. This includes smacking them with a wooden spoon or strap. The government has ...
  1 week ago

• Wow! *That* Worked!

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 518
  Today the police have blithely announced that 12 children were killed through abuse (9 murders 3 manslaughters) over the past two years (June 2007 – June 2009). This is unchanged from previous years with an average of five children a year dying from abuse and 45 seriously injured. My immediate reaction to this ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Anti-Smacking Recommendations that allows Smacking… Confused?

  
  Christian News New Zealand — Authority: 128
  In an article on Stuff, the following is being reported… Parents being investigated for smacking their children were today encouraged by Prime Minister John Key to ring a new help line so they know their rights. The helpline is one of four recommendations Key said the Government had accepted and would implement ...
  2 weeks ago

• Herald on anti-smacking law

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 630
  The NZ Herald editorial : The Prime Minister’s appointment of child psychologist Nigel Latta to lead a review of the smacking law was an inspired one. Dr Latta, a noted defender of smacking, has undertaken the work with an open mind and has come to conclusions that should answer the concerns of 87 per cent of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Some Correction Needed, But John Key says it’s OK!

  
  Family Integrity — Authority: 126
  From Family First NZ Some Correction Needed But John Key says it’s OK! Prime Minister John Key and Nigel Latta say the anti-smacking law is working well, that there is no evidence of good parents being criminalised, that Family First has been misled by parents , and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Law continues to be a dog’s breakfast

  
  Family Integrity — Authority: 126
  The Kiwi Party Press Release Law continues to be a dog’s breakfast Kiwi Party leader and Anti-smacking referendum organiser Larry Baldock called on the Prime Minister to stop wasting taxpayers money defending the indefensible! “Let’s understand what John Key is saying,” said Mr Baldock. “He is ...
  2 weeks ago

• • Anti-smacking law: Key’s words don’t match his actions

  
  Kiwi Polemicist — Authority: 103
  This is from the NZ Herald : Prime Minister John Key has reiterated his belief no change is needed to the anti-smacking law after a new review found cases were being dealt with properly. [...] “Lightly smacking a child will be in the course of parenting for some parents and I think that’s acceptable,” Mr ...
  2 weeks ago

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  BIG NEWS — Authority: 127
  Does CYFS think a smack is abuse? CYFS working definition of abuse is: an act or act that results in inflicted injury to a child or young person. It may include, but is not restricted to bruises and welts, cuts and abrasions, fractures or sprains, head, abdominal or internal organ injuries, strangulation or ...
  2 weeks ago

• S59 Review

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 630
  The Nigel Latta et al review of how Police and CYFS are implementing the new Section 59 has been reported back to the Government. It is online here . Some extracts: It makes 13 recommendations to improve information to parents etc. What is very interesting is the detailed responses to some of the cases that have ...
  2 weeks ago

• Latest Smacking Law Review Offers No Comfort

  
  Family Integrity — Authority: 126
  Family First NZ MEDIA RELEASE 7 December 2009 Latest Smacking Law Review Offers No Comfort Family First NZ is dismissing yet another report on the anti-smacking law which fails to address the real issues and concerns over the law change. “This is the eighth report in just over two years on the law ...
  2 weeks ago

• The pillow attack case

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 630
  The pillow attack case is interesting because t both can and can not be linked to the S59 debate. The Herald reports : A judge has thrown out an assault case against a man who threw a cushion at his nephew’s head following an argument with the boy’s mother. George Taylor was accused of assault last New ...
  3 weeks ago

• Families Warned Pillow Fight May Be Assault

  
  Family Integrity — Authority: 126
  MEDIA RELEASE 3 December 2009 Families Warned Pillow Fight May Be Assault Family First NZ says that a decision to drag an uncle through court for having a pillow fight with his nephew is an example of the ‘discretion’ test failing and laws such as the anti-smacking law effectively targeting good parents. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Things I did not need to see today.

  
  I was told there would be bacon. — Authority: 125
  1. A toilet at the gym with so much piss on it that I used about five times as much toilet paper cleaning up the pee as I did when I eventually got to pee. Honestly. I will never understand how you can possibly get that much pee fucking everywhere . 2. Old Scrote fondling his wifes ass as they walked up from the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Research shows smacking no part of Pacific culture

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 135
  SMACKING MESSAGE: Rev Nove Vailaau. NOVE Vailaau has been on both ends of the stick when it comes to smacking – but his latest publication rejects religion and Pacific culture as an excuse for smacking children. “I have been on the receiving end of the stick and I started off as a Dad who thought smacking was ...
  3 weeks ago

• Family Integrity #491 — Report on S59 to date tabled in Parliament

  
  Family Integrity — Authority: 126
  Family Integrity #491 — Report on S59 to date tabled in Parliament Dear Friends, Here is an analysis of the Report tabled in Parliament, the Report by Peter Hughes, CEO of the Ministry of Social Development, which supposedly reviews how the new Section 59 of the Crimes Act (Bradford’s anti-smacking law) is ...
  4 weeks ago

• 6,000 join ‘March for Democracy’

  
  Family Integrity — Authority: 126
  From Family First NZ e-newsletter 6,000 join ‘March for Democracy’ Protesters March on City NZ Herald Nov 21, 2009 READ MORE Herald on Sunday 22 Nov 09 READ MORE MEDIA COVERAGE: TV3 News WATCH HERE TV3 News Full Interviews with Bob McCoskrie, Colin Craig and ...
  4 weeks ago

• New Deputy Commissioner Will Speak For Families

  
  Family Integrity — Authority: 126
  MEDIA RELEASE 25 November 2009 New Deputy Commissioner Will Speak For Families Family First NZ is welcoming the appointment of Parents Inc’s Bruce Pilbrow as Deputy Families Commissioner. “Bruce Pilbrow will bring some much needed balance at the Commission and rather than talking at parents, it will ...
  4 weeks ago

• To smack or not to smack... that is not really the question is it?

  
  And All These Things — Authority: 114
  There has been much controversy about the "smacking" debate. Proponents of the bill point to the disturbingly high rate of child abuse in New Zealand. "Time to stop the abuse," they cry.... but how can we stop this problem? Is it a matter of having police in every house? Can the state show us the way to be moral on ...
  4 weeks ago

• Kiwi parents say positive discipline works

  
  Family Times — Authority: 424
  The Families Commission says its latest report on preschool discipline methods shows positive parenting techniques work for ordinary kiwi families. Chief commissioner Jan Pryor said the results were encouraging and showed parents tried hard to use techniques they thought were effective. “Parents told us they ...
  4 weeks ago

• What is best for the ingorant masses?

  
  Brad Heap — Authority: 120
  This quote made me laugh this morning: Another marcher, Steve Baron of Better Democracy NZ, congratulated all those who participated in the march. “They are the gladiators of society, the 6-8 per cent of New Zealanders who get politically involved and get off their backsides in an attempt to make a difference”, ...
  4 weeks ago

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