Tag: Schools

  • Pro-Spanking (Smacking) Studies May Have Global Effect

    Pro-Spanking Studies May Have Global Effect Thursday, 07 Jan 2010 11:11 AM By: Theodore Kettle Two recent analyses – one psychological, the other legal – may debunk lenient modern parenting the way the Climategate e-mail scandal has short circuited global warming alarmism. A study entailing 2,600 interviews pertaining to corporal punishment, including the questioning of…

  • MSD report on anti-smacking law reveals more wasted paper

    MSD report on anti-smacking law reveals more wasted paper The Kiwi Party Press Release Kiwi Party Leader, Larry Baldock, said the Ministry for Social Development (MSD) report confirms there is no clear evidence anywhere that the law change is making children safer. If the Police and CYF continue to claim it is business as usual…

  • 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…

  • Bradford Encourages Parents to Carry On Smacking

    From: http://christiannews.co.nz/2008/bradford-encourages-parents-to-carry-on-smacking/ Bradford Encourages Parents to Carry On Smacking In a stunning turnaround, Green MP Sue Bradford has told parents that smacking is not a criminal offence and implied that groups like Barnardos, Plunket, Every Child Counts and politicians who have said that the aim of the law was to ban parents physically punishing their…

  • Police ‘Taxi Service’ for Truant Sets Dangerous Precedent

    Original article: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4642055a11.html MEDIA RELEASE August 2008 Police ‘Taxi Service’ for Truant Sets Dangerous Precedent Family First NZ says that a dangerous precedent is being set by the police by taxiing a truanting 14 year old to school every morning, and fails to deal with the underlying problems. “The causes of truancy are predominantly a…

  • Greens Decide Parents Should Now Be Listened To

    MEDIA RELEASE 23 July 2008 Greens Decide Parents Should Now Be Listened To Family First NZ says it is highly ironic, and hypocritical, for the Greens to be demanding that the government listen to the concerns of parents worried about the health risks of locating huge telecommunications tower masts next to pre-schools and schools. Green…

  • 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…

  • A great post from darrenrickard.blogspot

    A great post from darrenrickard.blogspot http://darrenrickard.blogspot.com/2008/07/param-namemovie-value.html Helen Clark stares down the barrel and lies I don’t usually post You Tube stuff here but this one is a gem of a home video. From Gyon Espiner from TV One news from last year. Ms Clark says in similar words that, she would never like to see…