The Yes Vote - NZ Referendum on Child Discipline 2009 » child killers http://yesvote.org.nz Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:50:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://yesvote.org.nz http://yesvote.org.nz//files/2009/05/favicon.ico The Yes Vote - NZ Referendum on Child Discipline 2009 Christopher Horan: Time to move past the smacking debate http://yesvote.org.nz/2009/08/17/christopher-horan-time-to-move-past-the-smacking-debate/ http://yesvote.org.nz/2009/08/17/christopher-horan-time-to-move-past-the-smacking-debate/#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:22:18 +0000 The Yes Vote Team http://yesvote.org.nz/?p=2102 Former probation officer Christopher Horan writes in today's Otago Daily Times that people are sick of the debate and it's time to move on, comparing the present situation to the debate around corporal punishment in schools. We moved on, and few regret the move to more effective ways of disciplining children in schools.

I'm confident that most parents who oppose Sue Bradford's child-discipline Act are caring and responsible parents. That's why I'm also sure they will be uneasy in the knowledge that their view is shared by most wife beaters, sex offenders, child abusers and child killers.

These are the people who cling to a distorted sense of entitlement to control the lives of others.

Moving on would leave them behind.

]]> Former probation officer Christopher Horan writes in today’s Otago Daily Times that people are sick of the debate and it’s time to move on, comparing the present situation to the debate around corporal punishment in schools.  We moved on, and few regret the move to more effective ways of disciplining children in schools.

I’m confident that most parents who oppose Sue Bradford’s child-discipline Act are caring and responsible parents. That’s why I’m also sure they will be uneasy in the knowledge that their view is shared by most wife beaters, sex offenders, child abusers and child killers.

These are the people who cling to a distorted sense of entitlement to control the lives of others.

Moving on would leave them behind.

Read the full article at the ODT.

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