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Another Smacking Poll – Same Response
Sunday, September 28th, 2008MEDIA RELEASE
29 September 2008
Another Smacking Poll – Same Response
Family First NZ says that the NZ Herald poll showing 86% opposition to the anti-smacking law is further proof that the law is fundamentally wrong and should be changed.
“This is not 86% of NZ’ers who want to ‘thrash and beat’ their [...]
Family policies released at Family First Forum
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008Family policies released at Family First Forum
Monday, 8 September 2008, 11:00 am
Press Release: The Kiwi Party
Kiwi Party Leader Larry Baldock released the party’s Family Policy brochure at the Family First Forum today.
Speaking to the forum delegates Mr Baldock said, “This brochure brings together our policies from a wide range of portfolios which will, we believe, [...]
Family First Welcomes Comments by Key on Smacking Referendum
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008MEDIA RELEASE
9 September 2008
Family First Welcomes Comments by Key on Smacking Referendum
Family First NZ is welcoming comments made by National leader John Key at the Forum on the Family in Auckland yesterday that National will listen to the results of a Referendum on the anti-smacking law.
“The large [...]
Mum who beat son with gumboots bailed
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008This is Child Abuse not reasonable force by way of correction:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4686614a11.html
Mum who beat son with gumboots bailed
Tuesday, 09 September 2008
A judge has called for a victim impact report on a six-year-old boy who was lifted by the ears and beaten with a gumboot by his 28-year-old mother.
Helen Dawn Jones admitted both the charges of assault [...]
Investment in prevention to reduce intervention
Friday, September 5th, 2008United Future news and views with Judy Turner MP
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Straight talk…
In the six years I have been in Parliament I have never been able to shake off a deep-seated disquiet about the way we approach child protection in New Zealand.
I continue to have more questions than answers and remain convinced that those involved [...]
Anti-Smacking Law Wasting CYF Time – Missing Real Abuse
Thursday, August 21st, 2008MEDIA RELEASE
1 August 2008
Anti-Smacking Law Wasting CYF Time – Missing Real Abuse
Family First NZ says there is further evidence that CYF’s limited resources are being wasted, with a ‘blow-out’ in CYF notifications but the levels of actual abuse not increasing, or at worst not being caught.
Waikato figures reported in [...]
Kiwi Party leader outlines first five pledges.
Friday, August 8th, 2008Addressing his party’s annual conference today, party leader Larry Baldock announced their first five priorities for action they would be working on after the election.
“Our number one priority is of course to stop the criminalisation of good parents by repealing the anti-smacking law. This has to be the most anti-family socially [...]
Baby fighting for life after incident at home: abuse suspected
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008This is not Reasonable Force by way of correction it is child Abuse:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4643858a11.html
Baby fighting for life after incident at home
By SALLY FRENCH - Stuff.co.nz | Tuesday, 05 August 2008
SHANE WENZLICK/Surburban Newspapers
INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY: A police cordon surrounds the house in Papakura.
A baby is fighting for his life in Auckland’s Starship Children’s Hospital after suffering non-accidental head [...]
Ban-smacking? - read on computer
Thursday, July 31st, 2008For Reading on your Computer:
ban-smacking?
What Does the Law Really Say?
Is Smacking the Same as Abuse?
Will Parents’ Authority Be Taken Away?
Will This Turn Parents into Criminals?
Questions….and Answers
When we changed websites these brochures were lost in the change. Sorry this was not picked up until now. We have been asked to put these back on our website. [...]
Why a smacking ban must be slapped down
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008A great article from Wales:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/columnists/2008/07/29/why-a-smacking-ban-must-be-slapped-down-91466-21420462/
Why a smacking ban must be slapped down
July 29, 2008 by Denise Robertson, Western Mail
I’M TOLD there are moves in Parliament to bring in a Bill to outlaw smacking. If they succeed, I will again oppose it, which seems odd when I abhor smacking and long for a world in which [...]
More Good Parents Victims of Anti-Smacking Law
Monday, July 28th, 2008http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0807/S00332.htm
More Good Parents Victims of Anti-Smacking Law
Monday, 28 July 2008, 8:29 am
Press Release: Family First
More Evidence of Good Parents Victims of Anti-Smacking Law
Family First has published advertisements in the Sunday papers highlighting further cases of good parents being reported, investigated, persecuted, and even prosecuted as a result of the anti-smacking law.
“All NZ’ers want to tackle [...]
Family First NZ comment on Vigilance needed still on child abuse
Sunday, July 27th, 2008From Family First NZ Website:
http://www.familyfirst.org.nz/index.cfm/media_centre/recent_news/news/vigilance_needed_still_on_child_abuse.html
Green Party MP Sue Bradford addresses the Children’s Issues Centre national seminar in the Tower Lecture Theatre, at the University of Otago College of Education in Dunedin [...]
Discredited Anti-Smacking Advocate Back in NZ
Sunday, July 27th, 2008MEDIA RELEASE
July 2008
Discredited Anti-Smacking Advocate Back in NZ
Family First NZ says that Canadian researcher Joan Durrant, who is currently in NZ as a guest of the anti-smacking lobby, has been discredited with her claims made during the anti-smacking debate.
“In fact, her evidence was not even accepted in her [...]
Muriel Newman: Rich Country - Poor Families
Sunday, July 20th, 2008http://www.nzcpr.com/weekly25.htm
1 April 06
Rich Country - Poor Families
In a sense, New Zealand [...]
Comments from Ruby Harrold-Claesson on Deborah Coddington: Violence so ingrained
Thursday, July 17th, 2008A lot of what Deborah Coddington has written in her article (see below) is completely irrelevant. Deborah Coddington, Sue Bradford and the other ideologically, politically correct advocates brains are so twisted that they can’t see the difference between violence and discipline. They portray good as evil, but they are the ones [...]
Family First: CAN YOU HELP US?
Wednesday, July 16th, 200817 Jul 2008
CAN YOU HELP US
‘SLEDGEHAMMER’
A FEW MYTHS
Myth #1 : There have been no prosecutions under the new anti-smacking law
FALSE
Myth #2 : The anti-smacking law has not resulted in good parents being investigated and interrogated by the police or CYF
FALSE
We have evidence of a number of [...]
Mum beat girl, terrorised her with knife
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008This is child abuse not reasonable force by way of correction:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4620389a11.html
Mum beat girl, terrorised her with knife
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
A Tauranga mother, who repeatedly beat her 12-year-old daughter and once held a knife to her throat because of “back-chatting” and behavioural problems, has been sentenced to home detention.
In Tauranga District Court yesterday, Judge Stan Thorburn [...]
Family justice: the secret state that steals our children
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/camilla_cavendish/article4271773.ece?token=null&offset=0
From The Times
July 6, 2008
Family justice: the secret state that steals
our children
Every year thousands of children are taken from their parents,
largely on the say-so of ‘experts’. It is a secret and sometimes
unjust process and the system must change
Camilla Cavendish Learn more about family justice | [...]
Police investigate suspicious child death
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008This is Child abuse NOT reasonable force by way of correction.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4605275a10.html
Wednesday, 02 July 2008
BREAKING NEWS: Nelson Detectives are currently at the scene of a suspected homicide involving a child at an address in Stoke.
Police said they were alerted by ambulance staff just before midday that they had been called to the address with reports of [...]
Child Abuse-Police: Toddler’s critical injuries inflicted in family care
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008This was Child abuse - not reasonable force by way of correction
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4604868a11.html
Wednesday, 02 July 2008
Another toddler is fighting for his life in Auckland’s Starship Children’s Hospital from injuries police say he got in the care of his family.
The three-year-old Avondale boy was admitted to hospital on Monday after family members consulted relatives.
Police were told [...]