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Another child dies

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http://big-news.blogspot.com/2009/08/another-child-dies-when-is-it-going-to.html

Another child dies
When is it going to end? Story here TV clip here. Sue Bradford too busy posting pics of protests on Facebook to comment.
An interview of the neighbour will be on TV3 news tonight.

The anti-smacking law: Only a law change is morally acceptable

From beretta-online

The anti-smacking law: Only a law change is morally acceptable

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NZ Prime Minister John Key is saying that he takes the referendum outcome seriously, and that he wants to reassure parents that they will not be investigated or prosecuted just for smacking a child. See the story here.
Police and Child Youth and Family [...]

The opponents of the anti-smacking law outnumber the supporters of ANY New Zealand government

The opponents of the anti-smacking law outnumber the supporters of ANY New Zealand government

I (Beretta Blog) spotted this over at Kiwiblog today:

1,420,959 – Voted no to treating correctional smacking as a criminal offence
1,053,398 – 2008 Voted for National when they won the election
935,319 – 2005 Voted for Labour when they won the election
838,219 – [...]

CYF boss apologies after parents go public – not for wrongdoing, but because those his department hassled were “upset”.

FROM Big News blog – read the comments on Big News as well:
http://big-news.blogspot.com/2009/07/cyf-boss-apologies-after-parents-go.html
CYF boss apologies after parents go public – not for wrongdoing, but because those his department hassled were “upset”.
A parent tells how he smacked his child
“I grabbed hold of her ankle and smacked her bottom” Two of his fingers went above the [...]

No Defences Permitted for the Accused

From:  http://www.mandm.org.nz/2009/06/no-defences-permitted-for-accused.html
No Defences Permitted for the Accused
In, The referendum campaign is underway, No Right Turn’s Idiot/Savant gives an excellent example of an argument we see coming up a lot in the debate around the upcoming referendum on smacking. In addition to trotting out the standard ad hominem, that everyone who supports the reinstatement of [...]

(dis)Honest to God: How Not to Argue about the Smacking Referendum

FROM:
beretta-online.com
and
christiannews.co.nz

(dis)Honest to God: How Not to Argue about the Smacking Referendum
Dr. Glenn Peoples responds to liberal Ian Harris.
Ian Harris tells us (“Honest to God,” Dominion Post, [Dominion Post. Saturday July 11, 2009. Page B5], reproduced at the YesVote website at /http://yesvote.org.nz/2009/07/17/the-bibles-harsh-view-rejected) that we should reject the “harsh views” on child rearing found [...]

Police admit they may prosecute for smacking cases initially considered “reasonable force in the circumstances”

FROM:
http://www.big-news.blogspot.com/
Police admit they may prosecute for smacking cases initially considered “reasonable force in the circumstances”
Police have not ruled out prosecuting a parent who lightly – and with reasonable force – smacks their child, despite proponents of a law change on smacking saying it will never happen.
Prior to 2007, if a parent was taken to court [...]

A very simple question

A very simple question
cross-posted from Big News, 14 April 2009 and   http://section59.blogspot.com/ 16 April

Bill English was asked on Radio Live today whether a smack should be allowed as part of good parental correction. He was asked at least six times. Here’s the transcript. It’s a classic.
Radio Live Breakfast Show – 14 April 09
INTERVIEWER: The Labour [...]

Cabinet Minister’s Smacking Law Comments Welcomed

MEDIA RELEASE
1 June 2009
Cabinet Minister’s Smacking Law Comments Welcomed
Family First NZ is welcoming comments made by Social Development Minister Paula Bennett in a radio interview over the weekend.
When a caller to the programme on Newstalk ZB asked the Minister whether she thought a smack as part of good parental correction should be a [...]

Ads taken out for ‘anti-smacking’ repeal

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4841414a11.html
Ads taken out for ‘anti-smacking’ repeal
Sunday, 08 February 2009
Lobby group Family First has placed advertisements in all three Sunday newspapers calling for the repeal of the “anti-smacking law”.
The advertisement described four cases where parents were investigated by Child, Youth and Family following the repeal of Section 59 of the Crimes Act, which removed the defence [...]