On this Page, I will be displaying several Photos and Stories on Child Abuse and Neglect.
New Zealand - What Can Be Done About NZ's Child Abuse problem? 3:49 PM Monday, July 30, 2007
The Prime Minister has today voiced her concern over the Grave Issue of Child Abuse.
A Second Rotorua Child - a 12-week-old Baby - is in the Starship with Suspicious Head Injuries.
What can be done to solve the Country's escalating Child Abuse Problem? Here is a Selection of People's Views:
R (Auckland) - What can we do? We can make it an Election Issue.
Most of us don't Abuse our Kids - but New Zealand is the 3rd Worst Developed Country for Killing our Own Children
(behind Mexico and Us) in a Study I believe the Herald published some time ago. It's never an Election Issue - let's make
it one.
Write to your Local Political Candidates and ask for their Views on what needs to be done. If you agree with
them - Vote for them.
If you don't, tell them why you don't. They are Would-be-Leaders - let's ask for some Leadership from them. Until
we stand as One People on this we're all just whistling in the Wind.
First Time Mum - How and why are People getting away with this Disgusting Behaviour? New Zealand is meant
to be a Safe Country, yet how can we promote this when Young Children are being Tortured and Abused. People of all Ages need
to start taking responsibility for their own Actions. I am sick of People blaming Drugs and Alcohol for what they do: How
anyone can be sick enough in the Head to put a Tiny Child in a Tumble Dryer for 30 minutes or at all for that matter is beyond
me. Take away the Benefit, these People obviously have nothing better to dp, so make them Work for their Money rather than
taking the dol hand out as a given. My Heart goes out to these Small Children who are completely defenseless, and also to
People who try so hard to have Children and would give anything in the World to be able to do this. If you do not want Children
use Contraception, in this Country it is easy to get and affordable if not Free.
Delenn - Let's stop with the Blame Game. It's time to start asking ourselves, what are we, the Community,
doing to stop it?
What can we do and what Support do we need? All too often people sit around and debate angrily and emotively
but do nothing!
Let's ask ourselves what changes we need to make in our Communities and as Individuals to help our Children and
let's do something to effect change, let's bring back Community Spitit.
It starts with us, we are the Protectors of our Future Generations so let's start guiding and protecting them!
Is it really so hard?
Ken - The National Scandal is the failure to identify and openly discuss the real Issues of Child Abuse.
It is predominantly a Maori and Polynesian Problem and until there is Open Discussion in this specifically, the Problem will
not go away. Targeted Help, Training and Support as well as a Local Community keeping a close watch on all its Children is
the only answer. The Culprits for the recent Cases are Sue Bradford and Helen Clark, they stupidly pushed through the Anti-Smacking
Bill where they were frequently quoted as saying that Parents who Smacked their Children were Assaulting them. Few would say
that a Smack and a Beating were one and the same and no-one except these two really believed that Child Violence would stop
as a result of this Law. Now the Teaching Profession acknowledges that Discipline started to decline when Corporal Punishment
stopped in Schools, it will only worsen now that Moderate Disciplining is outlawed at Home. The PC Brigade are the ones causing
the decline in our Society, they need to be challenged and held accountable for their Actions, as do the Thugs who Abuse and
Beat their Children.
A Real Mother (Auckland) - Let's stop beating around the bush! Doesn't matter who you are, Race, Social
Economic, Religion, you never harm a Child. There is nothing in the World that can justify the Actions of the Animals that
are Killing our Children.
