A surge in child abuse cases has been recorded at Starship Children's Hospital.
Ministry of Health child and youth health chief adviser Pat Tuohy said the high numbers of recent child abuse cases were very concerning.
"It's hard to know if it's a statistical blip but certainly if it continues it means what we're doing isn't working."
Which raises the question, WHAT isn't working?
Perhaps he is referring to the endless anti-violence TV advertisements that deeply upset many but go over the head of the ones it is aimed at?
The legislative changes that were intended to send a message that hitting (and smacking for that matter) are not OK?
The collaborative inter-agency systems for reporting and addressing abuse?
The war on drugs and under-age alcohol consumption?
The hiring of 8 teenage parent supervisors for the entire country?
The political disassembling of two parent families?
The active all-but abolition of adoption?
One thing I am sure he isn't talking about is the continuing practice of encouraging unwanted births with relatively generous welfare payments.
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"...She warned that it was not hard for beneficiaries to take advantage of the system. "It's way too easy if you want to do it. The temptation is there. If they (WINZ) don't want it to happen they need to do something more about it. ..."
Did she ever hear of concepts like honesty, integrity, pride or shame? I bloody doubt it!
Oswald,
One group of people now take their morality from the state. Her self-justification; If WINZ really thought it was wrong to do what I am doing they would make it impossible.
Another group won't let WINZ make it impossible because then 'children would starve'.
The rest of us, are a dwindling, despairing minority I fear.
I live in a household of two adults married to each other, two children whose parents are the same.
I go out to work, my wife stays home and looks after the house & children during the day.
We own our own home, grow vegetables in the garden and have more books than will fit in the average station wagon.
I'm definitely in a bloody minority group!
Once upon a time parents were highly motivated to teach their children the importance of positive non-violent relationships with other people. They knew that failure to interact with others in a mutually constructive way would probably lead to poverty and misery. Today, thanks to caring collectivism, this message is no longer such a high priority for parents. The entire welfare project leads to the atomisation of society and uncivil behaviour - and not just amongst beneficiaries. Violence of all kinds is bound to increase, not just because people are having babies for money instead of love, but also because collective responsibility has insidious consequences for civil society.
Thanks to compulsory state indoctrination, this message will never be heard let alone understood by the majority. Western civilisation is doomed. (I feel gloomy this morning)
Dave Christian
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