Smacking Ban
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:01 pm
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1022100
So the NZL govt. is debating whether or not to ban smacking, and it's turning into one great big debacel. Law experts have said that just picking upa child and placing them on a time out mat will class as "smacking" under this new bill. (Which is the biggest pile of **** since laxatives were invented).
The other issue on this matter is that the Labour party are voting as a block, meaning that every MP in Labour has to toe the party line or else, so no conscience vote for them.
Essentitally, the govt is wanting to go into people's homes and tell them how to raise their kids, and god help you if you dont' listen. Now while I don't support beating the crap out of junior with a 2 by 4, I don't support prosecuting parents who give the kid a light smack. I was smacked and I"m not some homicidal maniac.
This appears to be a knee jerk reaction to an internation report that painted NZL's treatment of children and abuse rates as rather dismal, is treating good parents like criminals really going to stop drunken bastards taking the bat to their kids? I don't think so. It's like microchipping dogs, if your dog is a crazy mofo you're not going to get it chiped are you? And if you're a irresponsible wanker you're not going pay that ammount of cash for a piece of plastic to be injected into your mutt.
However, at the moment many shenanigans are taking place, there is huge public opposition to this, politiacans from other parties are getting annoyed and ammendements have been tabled that might hold it up long enough that the MPs voting for it might change their minds and not.
So the NZL govt. is debating whether or not to ban smacking, and it's turning into one great big debacel. Law experts have said that just picking upa child and placing them on a time out mat will class as "smacking" under this new bill. (Which is the biggest pile of **** since laxatives were invented).
The other issue on this matter is that the Labour party are voting as a block, meaning that every MP in Labour has to toe the party line or else, so no conscience vote for them.
Essentitally, the govt is wanting to go into people's homes and tell them how to raise their kids, and god help you if you dont' listen. Now while I don't support beating the crap out of junior with a 2 by 4, I don't support prosecuting parents who give the kid a light smack. I was smacked and I"m not some homicidal maniac.
This appears to be a knee jerk reaction to an internation report that painted NZL's treatment of children and abuse rates as rather dismal, is treating good parents like criminals really going to stop drunken bastards taking the bat to their kids? I don't think so. It's like microchipping dogs, if your dog is a crazy mofo you're not going to get it chiped are you? And if you're a irresponsible wanker you're not going pay that ammount of cash for a piece of plastic to be injected into your mutt.
However, at the moment many shenanigans are taking place, there is huge public opposition to this, politiacans from other parties are getting annoyed and ammendements have been tabled that might hold it up long enough that the MPs voting for it might change their minds and not.