child discipline Archive

  • Sue Bradford

    Sue’s Truth: The referendum – the aftermath - by Sue Bradford



    The New Zealand Truth has become the Truth Weekender, so the publication both there and here of my regular article there will be a bit later in the week from now on. This week I focus on the aftermath of the child discipline referendum. Last week the result of the child discipline referendum came out. [...] read more
    August 28, 2009 11:55 am - 158 Comments
  • Sue Bradford

    Bradford’s Truth: Referendum 09 - by Sue Bradford



    My regular New Zealand Truth column this week is about the child discipline referendum and the inadequacy of the legislative provisions regarding the wording of citizens initiated referenda questions: As I am sure everyone is excruciatingly well aware, we are right now in the middle of the postal referendum on the physical discipline of children. [...] read more
    August 12, 2009 2:05 pm - 168 Comments
  • Sue Bradford

    Bradford’s Truth – The referendum approaches - by Sue Bradford



    My regular New Zealand Truth column this week is about section 59 of the Crimes Act and the child discipline referendum: In just a couple of weeks we are all going to be asked to vote on the child discipline referendum question in a postal ballot. Voting opens on 31 July and closes 21 August. [...] read more
    July 16, 2009 9:36 am - 49 Comments
  • frog

    What do the kids think? - by frog



    Family First have made much of various opinion polls, many (like their referendum question) leading in their questions and some dodgy in their methodology, in advocating that parents have a “right” to hit their children. Little has been said about what children think about the issue, despite New Zealand having ratified the United Nations Convention [...] read more
    June 24, 2009 3:17 pm - 337 Comments
  • frog

    Dazed and confused by referendum - by frog



    It seems I’m not the only one confused about the meaning of the question in the forthcoming referendum: Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand? I initially wondered if it was asking whether I should get the bash if I don’t look after the tadpoles properly. [...] read more
    June 18, 2009 9:44 am - 255 Comments
  • Sue Bradford

    Good on John Angus – Children’s Commission has lucky escape - by Sue Bradford



    I would like to be among the first to congratulate the new Children’s Commissioner John Angus for coming out so clearly in this morning’s New Zealand Herald supporting the section 59 law change. It is great that Mr Angus is not shying away from being the advocate for children that his new role demands, rather [...] read more
    June 10, 2009 10:49 am - 193 Comments
  • frog

    The Yes Vote – NZ Referendum on Child Discipline 2009 - by frog



    Here is a website, yesvote.org.nz, that spells the issue out very well, and makes a call to action that is hard to resist. I haven’t spoken to anyone in the party about it yet, and invite all frogblog readers to visit the site and express their views. The opening says it all: Aotearoa New Zealand [...] read more
    April 18, 2009 10:09 am - 89 Comments
  • frog

    4 ways to smack - by frog



    John Caldwell has taken the seemingly unusual step of reading the child discipline laws in the Crimes Act before rushing to comment on the section 59 amendment petition and referendum. Thus his commentary in The Press yesterday morning [off line] is enlightening.  It seems we do not currently have an anti-smacking law but a law [...] read more
    August 27, 2008 6:46 am - 36 Comments