Tag: Children
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Persecution of Parents To Be Investigated by National
MEDIA RELEASE 5 November 2008 Persecution of Parents To Be Investigated by National Family First NZ is welcoming comments by senior National MP Judith Collins that if elected, National will check whether the anti-smacking law has resulted in needless prosecutions and persecution of parents. “We have stacks of evidence and testimony that good families have…
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Marriage Breakdown Costing Taxpayers At Least $1 Billion a Year
MEDIA RELEASE – 20 October 2008 Marriage Breakdown Costing Taxpayers At Least $1 Billion a Year In the first research of its kind in NZ, a new report estimates that the fiscal cost to the taxpayer of family breakdown and decreasing marriage rates is at least $1 billion per year and has cost approximately $8…
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Section 59 old and new
Old Section 59: Every parent of a child and…every person in the place of the parent of a child is justified in using force by way of correction towards the child, if the force used is reasonable in the circumstances. New Section 59: Parental Control (1) Every parent of a child and every person in…
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Ban Smacking? – For printing out and giving away
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…
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Why a smacking ban must be slapped down
A 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…
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More Good Parents Victims of Anti-Smacking Law
http://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…
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Muriel Newman: Moral Neutrality
h ttp://www.nzcpr.com/weekly139.htm Parliament 20 July 2008 Moral Neutrality Earlier this month Britain’s culture of “moral neutrality” came under attack. In a speech in Glasgow, Conservative Party Leader Rt Hon David Cameron said that the obese, drug addicts and the poor have no-one to blame but themselves. He defined moral neutrality as the refusal to make…
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Family First: CAN YOU HELP US?
17 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 examples…