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The government's response was to criminalise good parents who corrected their child with a light smack and the child abuse continues.... Then they spent millions on media advertisements telling us what we already knew - that violence was not ok and the child abuse continues.... WHY? Because they fail to identify or deal with the factors which lead to a greater chance of child abuse as identified in every UNICEF and CYF report - namely, family breakdown, drug and alcohol abuse, low maternal age at birth, poverty, poor housing, and single parenthood. See our 5-point Action Plan at www.stoptheabuse.org.nz
Petition 1. "Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in NZ"
IMPORTANT: By achieving the required number of signatures, this will make parental correction and child abuse an election issue. Every voter will have to express their opinion on these 2 issues when they enter the polling booth at next year's election. The Electoral Finance Bill won't be able to stop this one. Help us hold the politicians accountable on how they have failed to deal with the real causes of child abuse while targeting good families with shoddy law making. Make Child Abuse and the Role of Parents an Election Issue in 2008! THANKS FOR YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT.
Let's speak up - and demand that as a country, we tackle actual causes of child abuse with solutions that will work.
Kind regards Bob McCoskrie
MAKE THE POLITICIANS DEAL WITH THE REAL CAUSES OF CHILD ABUSE We are sick and tired of doing nothing while our babies and children are being abused and murdered. When our families are messed up, our nation is messed up. Please forward this letter to as many people as possible Read what happened to little 3 year old Nia from Rotorua who lies in http://www.familyfirst.org.nz/index.cfm/nia.html Read what happened to 3 year old Ngati from Otara, and the pathetic punishment his mum and step-dad received http://www.familyfirst.org.nz/index.cfm/ngati.html Read a 5 point action plan, designed to get the problem away from Politics and political agendas, and into the hands of local communities and organisations.
MAKE CHILD ABUSE AN ELECTION ISSUE IN ‘08! Don't let it be 'swept under the carpet' like the Kahui case.
No More.
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Petition 2. "Should the government give urgent priority to understanding and addressing the wider causes of family breakdown, family violence and child abuse in NZ"
As Billy Graham said, "Our motto too often seems to be, ‘Stay aloof. Don’t get involved. Let somebody else stick his neck out.’ In the face of all kinds of conditions screaming to be rectified, too many of us find ourselves afflicted with moral laryngitis."