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New Zealand passes smacking bill
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A controversial law banning parents from hitting their children to discipline them has been passed by New Zealand's parliament.

The legislation closes a legal loophole that allowed parents to use "reasonable force" to discipline their child.

However, the new bill does allow the police to use discretion over whether a parent should be prosecuted or not.

Supporters say the previous law was too lenient, but critics say the new rules intrude too far into family life.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6660451.stm

Also in the news: Japan boy 'severs mother's head'


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Re: New Zealand passes smacking bill [Re: elbisivni]
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> law banning parents from hitting their children

So can parents hire somebody to come beat their children for them?

Has anybody else noticed that school shootings were not really a problem until after we took away the right of school officials to paddle naughty children?  Not that anybody ever got spanked... it was the threat that made us behave, at least when I was growing up.  What a messed up world we live in... it is fine to drug our children into submission with amphetamines and murder inducing antidepressants, but not to spank them when they are being bad.  :rolleyes:

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Re: New Zealand passes smacking bill [Re: Seuss]
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if my parents couldn't have slapped me around I would have turned out to be one cocky son of a bitch with a highly egotistical 'nobody can touch me' attitude that would probably get me in trouble sooner or later. if they had to seek 'alternative methods of punishment' I never would have been afraid of punishment and I would have pushed them until the exploded and somebody ended up dead or homeless. in a strange way it even showed that they cared me.

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However, the new bill does allow the police to use discretion over whether a parent should be prosecuted or not.


this is the icing on the cake right here. there is such a large margin of error permitted with this grant of power.


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Re: New Zealand passes smacking bill [Re: elbisivni]
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Are you kidding me? Law enforcement officers and judges should always be capable of using discretion if they will prosecute or not.


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Re: New Zealand passes smacking bill [Re: fireworks_god]
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No, theres no such thing as child abuse, its more abusive to not be mean sometimes, if they never learn a lesson and if they dont theres gonna be all these whiny bitchy assholes running around nothing is gonna get done, and if its one thing we dont need more of its whiny assholes


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Re: New Zealand passes smacking bill [Re: BFG101]
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No, theres no such thing as child abuse,


"A year long investigation ... has uncovered a state juvenile delinquency system in which ... children have been routinely degraded; verbally, physically and sexually abused; hog-tied; forced to sleep outside in freezing weather; and threatened with ... death by staff members if the children report the abuse."
—Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
June, 1998

"A court-appointed guardian told a judge eight years ago in Texas' Ellis County that Barbara Catherine Atkinson was an unfit parent and that her baby should remain with the couple attempting to adopt her.... Despite the testimony, the judge returned the girl to her biological mother.... The girl, now 8, was rescued after being locked in a mobile home closet for at least four months and nearly starved."
—FOX News
July, 2001

"An office of the state's child protection agency is under review after 10 children were left in a home where they were beaten and sexually abused for a decade, even though the caseworkers suspected abuse.... Records show that state social workers suspected as early as 1993 that the 10 children in a home in Warren were being abused. The youngest children were not removed from the home until last year."
—The Associated Press
August, 2002

"A Montgomery Court judge said yesterday 'it takes two to tango' when he noted that an 11-year-old girl who was sexually molested by a 23-year-old man was 'not free of fault' because she had invited the man into her bedroom."
—Washington Post
January, 2000


"A year ago this month, Erica Jones was a 27-year-old woman with a bachelor's degree in political science.... By the time she was fired by the state Department of Children and Families last week, Jones was handling 50 child abuse investigations, even though she had been on the job less than a year and lacked full certification as an investigator. Jones, eight months pregnant, carried a caseload two to three times higher than recommended by the Child Welfare League of America."
—St. Petersburgh Times
July, 2002


"About 50,000 women and children are trafficked annually into the United States along with an unknown number of men. Traffickers force young women and children into prostitution, slavery and forced labor through coercion, threats of physical violence, psychological abuse, torture and imprisonment."
—Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
July 2001

"A decade ago, Sheryl Hardy was sent to prison in Florida for the murder of her 2-year-old son, who had been shoved headfirst into a toilet for soiling his pants—a death so shocking it prompted an overhaul of the state's child-protection laws. Now, over the objections of prosecutors and Illinois' child-welfare agency, Hardy has been given a second chance. An Illinois judge has awarded her custody of her 9-month-old son, who had been in foster care because of his mother's murder conviction."
—CourtTV
November, 2001

Far from non-existent child abuse is epidemic.

Above quotes taken from: http://www.protect.org/

Especially in the US:

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According to a recent UNICEF report on child well-being [2] the United States and the United Kingdom ranked lowest among rich nations with respect to the well being of their children. This study also found that child neglect and child abuse are far more common in single-parent families than in families where both parents are present.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abuse



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Re: New Zealand passes smacking bill [Re: FrenchSocialist]
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yes there was also a follow up article today with a quote saying child abuse rates in New Zealand are horrendous http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6661823.stm

but I do not know if what they are doing is the best solution


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Re: New Zealand passes smacking bill [Re: elbisivni]
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:bitchsmack:


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Re: New Zealand passes smacking bill [Re: elbisivni]
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We already have to wear our seatbelts what next thy're going to mkae us eat our vegetables?

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Re: New Zealand passes smacking bill [Re: elbisivni]
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elbisivni said:
yes there was also a follow up article today with a quote saying child abuse rates in New Zealand are horrendous http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6661823.stm

but I do not know if what they are doing is the best solution


New Zealand is a different country than the US. Maybe this is a good move for them. :shrug:


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