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Real Objectives Revealed
Tuesday, 21 November 2006, 11:00 am | Family Integrity
At last MP Sue Bradford has been forced to admit her real objectives > of her bill to repeal of Section 59 of the Crimes Act. The Justice and > Electoral Select Committee's report shows it was not to reduce > violence but to hamstring ... More >>
Bradford is in self-destruct mode
Tuesday, 14 November 2006, 12:36 am | Family Integrity
MP Sue Bradford is in self-destruct mode as she makes incriminating remarks in a form letter trying to justify why she voted to keep the lower legal age for purchasing alcohol: More >>
EPOCH are making some rather empty claims.
Wednesday, 25 October 2006, 10:19 am | Family Integrity
They say there are 60 so-called child and family organisations who are informed when they call for repeal of Section 59. These organisations generally have four things working against them being properly informed: One, they view things from a detached ... More >>
Bradford Bill Will "Reduce Parental Authority"
Tuesday, 10 October 2006, 10:57 am | Family Integrity
Repeal of Section 59 will cause all parents, grandparents and caregivers to become criminals by definition, whether they are ever charged or not, should they use any force whatsoever to correct, train or discipline children. More >>
Bradford's Amendments A Smokescreen
Thursday, 14 September 2006, 2:52 pm | Family Integrity
The only amendments Bradford will consider are Clayton amendments, ones to make it clear parents can still pull children from harm's way or restrain them from doing damage to selves or others or property. But such amendments are totally unnecessary ... More >>
Family Integrity Comments on Police Comments
Friday, 25 August 2006, 9:48 am | Family Integrity
EPOCH NZ said yesterday they are greatly reassured by the Police Commissioner's latest statement as to how the Police would respond to parents using even minor physical punishment with their children should Section 59 ever be repealed. The Police confirmed ... More >>
Commission Comments on Smacking Booklet
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 12:33 am | Family Integrity
It is a sign of how detached from reality too many government bureaucrats and others have become to put traditional common sense smacking on the front page as if it were controversial. More >>
Call for Kiro's Sacking
Wednesday, 28 June 2006, 9:41 am | Family Integrity
Family Integrity calls on the Prime Minister and the Minister of Social Development David Benson-Pope to sack Children's Commissioner Dr Cindy Kiro for continual abdication of duty. More >>
Extremist Pronouncements On Child Rights
Sunday, 18 June 2006, 3:43 pm | Family Integrity
Children's Commissioner Dr Cindy Kiro takes her marching orders from extremist pronouncements of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Children's Commissioner Act 2003 requires her to have regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, but ... More >>
Swedish lawyer to speak on effect of smacking ban
Friday, 16 June 2006, 12:43 am | Family Integrity
Swedish lawyer Ruby Harrold-Claesson, coming to New Zealand next month, will be the most qualified person ever to speak in New Zealand on the effect of Sweden's smacking ban on that country's social fabric. More >>
More on Section 59 Submissions
Tuesday, 30 May 2006, 3:25 pm | Family Integrity
Family Integrity has noted further common strands among the first 10 groups to present oral submissions on the Bill to repeal Section 59 before the Justice and Electoral Select Committee last Thursday. More >>
Submissions on bill to repeal Section 59
Tuesday, 30 May 2006, 2:56 pm | Family Integrity
Family Integrity representatives attended the first sitting of the Justice and Electoral Select Committee last Thursday to consider submissions on MP Sue Bradford's Bill to repeal Section 59. More >>
Bradford's Intentions are Irrelevant
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 9:49 am | Family Integrity
Family Integrity published material months ago claiming that repeal of Section 59 would not only make smacking a crime but would also criminalise the pro-repeal group's favourite alternative to smacking, "time out". Since then many strands ... More >>
Truth is Catching Up
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 10:07 am | Family Integrity
It appears Sue Bradford has admitted that her Bill to amend the Crimes Act to ban smacking is flawed and itself needs 'amendment'. Since August last year when the Office of the Police Commissioner confirmed that repeal of Section 59 would make ... More >>
Anti-smacking lobby has no public support.
Friday, 17 February 2006, 4:28 pm | Family Integrity
Two representatives from Family Integrity attended the "Effective Discipline" Forum in Wellington 9 February 2006, put on by the Families and Children's Commissioners. They found that the two Commissioners knew very well they did not have public support ... More >>
Mis-Informing the public on smacking
Thursday, 16 February 2006, 10:19 am | Family Integrity
Prime Minister Helen Clark yesterday maintained that New Zealanders are well informed about the debate in our country over section 59 of the Crimes Act, which gives parents a defence of reasonable force used by way of correction, provided the force used ... More >>
The Smacking Smoke-Screen
Thursday, 16 February 2006, 10:02 am | Family Integrity
So now Child, Youth and Family Minister Ruth Dyson has joined Green MP Sue Bradford and the Prime Minister in denying what is obvious hoping to fool the public in order to advance their anti-family agenda. They all say smacking will not be banned if ... More >>
Statement on Radio New Zealand Comments
Wednesday, 1 February 2006, 10:07 am | Family Integrity
On Friday 27 January at 4:08pm Radio NZ aired a grossly biased and hopelessly ill-informed talk show attacking the institution of smacking and vilifying both Christian doctrine and Christians in general. The host was Paul Brennan and the guests were TV3's Bomber ... More >>
Prostitution Favoured Over Parenting
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 10:10 am | Family Integrity
The Crimes (Abolition of Force as a Justification for Child Discipline) Amendment Bill currently before Parliament simply seeks to repeal Section 59 of the Crimes Act. Section 59 is titled, "Domestic Discipline" and says: More >>
The Plans to Ban Parenting.
Thursday, 15 September 2005, 9:35 am | Family Integrity
The Bill by the Green's Sue Bradford to repeal Section 59 of the Crimes Act is emphatically NOT about smacking. More >>
