Posted on 05/16/2007 7:34:10 AM PDT by bedolido
NEW Zealand effectively outlawed smacking children today by removing a statutory defence for parents.
A private Bill sponsored by a Green Party MP, which removed an existing legal defence of "reasonable force" to correct a child was passed by an overwhelming majority.
"It is about our children and what I believe is their God-given right to grow up secure in the love of their family, valued as equal citizens to the rest of us and without the constant threat of legalised violence being used against them," the law's sponsor, Sue Bradford of the Green Party, said in Parliament.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
An arrest warrant is legalised violence as well. Do they want to make arrests illegal too?
The proponents of Hell, from Hell, are at it again.
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Proverbs 23:13
Strange, I see a direct correlation in the behavior of the kids between kids who are appropriately spanked and those who are never touched, and it ain’t pretty. The non-spanked group can easily be ID’d by their belligerent, obnoxious behavior.
My parents never struck me. They never had reason to.
I’ve never hit mine. Never needed to.
However. I’ve known plenty of kids whom I’d lure into a duffel bag and roll downhill, if they were mine.
We’re a lazy line of people at Graymatter Gulch. :)
bookmarkm
Kudos to these folks for standing up against this growing left-wing fascism. But it’s certainly disappointing, not to say odd, that one of them has a “Viva Democracy” poster with the image of Che Guevara.
Kudos to these folks for standing up against this growing left-wing fascism. But it’s certainly disappointing, not to say odd, that one of them has a “Viva Democracy” poster with the image of Che Guevara.
Kudos to these folks for standing up against this growing left-wing fascism. But it’s certainly disappointing, not to say odd, that one of them has a “Viva Democracy” poster with the image of Che Guevara.
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