Tag: Correction
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Sue Reid: Smacking laws were never about the real issue of child abuse
This was in the NZ Herald . It is a shame that we have a Families Commission that is driven by ideology rather than listening to families. Chief commissioner Jan Pryor espouses her beliefs that “positive parenting should never include a smack” (Herald, April 3). Her so-called justification for the anti-smacking laws are inflammatory and…
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Smacking Equated with Torture and Death Penalty
MEDIA RELEASE 20 May 2009 Smacking Equated with Torture and Death Penalty Family First NZ says that the United Nations Committee on Torture has equated a kiwi parent using a smack for the purpose of correction as a form of torture, and compared the anti-smacking law to the abolition of the death penalty. “This report…
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Critique of the so-called ‘anti-smacking law’
Critique of the so-called ‘anti-smacking law’. 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…
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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…