The role should be scrapped but as Children's Commissioners go, Laurie O'Reilly was one of the better;
LAURIE O'RIELLY
The Children's Commissioner Laurie O'Reilly, who is terminally ill, has made his last planned public appearance at the Family Violence Symposium in Palmerston North. He used the occasion to urge more support for the Commission's Fathers Who Care: Partners in parenting programme.
O'Reilly: " The most urgent thing now facing NZ is the issue of fatherless families we have to address and develop a new attitude to parenting, it is a shared responsibility. We have been so liberal and brave and modern in meeting our own needs as adults that we have overlooked our children and everyone has an obligation to see that changed..."
Source Sunday Star-Times 31 August 1997 "O'Reilly still has his eye on the future" by Miriyana Alexander
He would be disappointed in our complete lack of action and progress in the following years. Just more huis and programmes and worsening statistics. Pay for fatherless families and that's what you get.
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We really need to stop paying women to have babies. I know there is a risk of population decline, but the fact is that a significant proportion of these babies will grow up to be a burden rather than an asset to society.
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