Rodney Hide on Section59
http://andrewfalloon.blogspot.com/2007/03/forward-thinking-being-smart-
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"Thinking- Being "Smart Green" - Andrew Falloon
"...High Performance Government also means passing smart laws that are enforceable and enforced, not meaningless 'feel good' laws which can only be applied arbitrarily. That's why it's wrong to criminalise parents who smack their children. It's fine that parents can choose not to smack their kids. That's their choice and their right. But it's wrong for politicians to tell responsible parents who smack their kids that they can't, that they are breaking the law, and that they are tantamount to child abusers. It's stupid stuff.
Plenty of caring, loving, responsible parents smack their children. I know. I was one of them.
Abolishing Section 59 won't stop child abuse...."
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"Thinking- Being "Smart Green" - Andrew Falloon
"...High Performance Government also means passing smart laws that are enforceable and enforced, not meaningless 'feel good' laws which can only be applied arbitrarily. That's why it's wrong to criminalise parents who smack their children. It's fine that parents can choose not to smack their kids. That's their choice and their right. But it's wrong for politicians to tell responsible parents who smack their kids that they can't, that they are breaking the law, and that they are tantamount to child abusers. It's stupid stuff.
Plenty of caring, loving, responsible parents smack their children. I know. I was one of them.
Abolishing Section 59 won't stop child abuse...."
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