Smack your child - you won't be a criminal. Yeah right.

This from the Waikato Times:

"....The main reason the "anti-smacking" law has been so contentious is the continued mistrust of Labour and the Greens by a large portion of the electorate on social issues. There continues to be a worry we are becoming more politically correct and that the State wants to have more say over how we run our lives. It has not been helped by the bill being fronted by someone as flaky as Ms Bradford.

Everyone says there is no intention that repealing section 59 will result in parents hauled before the court for smacking their child. That probably won't be tested till some brat reports his parents to police for giving them a tickle-up. Woe betide anyone who gives such complaint traction."

I ask you.  If, - as the repealists keep saying, "ordinary parents who give their child the odd smack will not be criminalised", then for the love of Mike, what is the point of repealing a perfectly fine piece of legislation.

I smiled when I read this in the article (see above), - smile, and forward it on to your mates.

"It [repeal of s59] has not been helped by the bill being fronted by someone as flaky as Ms Bradford."