Mixed bag at hui

What was I saying yesteday about the state replacing the father...
here's someone else saying the same thing.

Manurewa training provider Frank Solomon also criticised the benefit system. It encouraged young couples to split so that one could get the domestic purposes benefit.

"We are told by our students that they get more money if they live separately, so we then face the fact that our tane [men] are not with our tamariki [children] to provide that leadership and mentoring and modelling as a father," he said.

Unfortunately other people reported at the hui to tackle child abuse held yesterday in Mangere, were calling for more of the same - more government money and yet another helpline.

Some communities have become mini-matriarchies. Something I read from the Cato Institute. Women control much of the power through the welfare payments. Women dominate the social worker classes and most of the schools.

So expect matriarchal solutions to problems. What made me remember that?