In my experience there are few things quite so shocking as going out of your way to do something good, spending time and effort to do the right thing, then turning around and then suddenly finding yourself deep in trouble because of it.
This comes pretty close to that.
A Wellington mother says her family has been left traumatised by new anti-smacking laws, after her son’s school reported her to Child, Youth and Family for smacking him on the hand.
“I don’t want to feel like a child abuser, and I don’t want to be labelled as a child abuser because I smacked my son,” she said. “It’s brought a lot of trauma to our family unit and unnecessary stress.”
The woman, who did not wish to be named because she says she fears losing her children, says another smacking several months later resulted in a visit from police.
The mother said she had not previously been involved in Family First and had had some sympathy with Sue Bradford’s anti-smacking bill, “not thinking that it would affect us on a personal level”.
Here’s a woman who one would presume to be in the small minority of parents who supported the smacking ban law. She was clearly fooled by Sue Bradford saying things like this:
- “My experience over the last two years of campaigning for the repeal of s59 of the Crimes Act has revealed to me personally that too many New Zealanders see children as being their property.”
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As normal well adjusted parents become the subject of police attention over such a trivial matters like this incident - child abuse continues at the alarming rate of one in four Maori women are the victims of the abuse !!
New Zealand had the highest rate of child abuse among the 10 countries that recently took part in a study of the insidious problem . It is sad when kiwi children are suffering more than the kids of Brazil, Ethiopia, Namibia,and Bangladesh .
Sue Bradford and Helen Clark are guilty of large scale child abuse and both of them should be detained in a secure Mental Hospital or a prison !!
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