SuziQ 4 Prime Minister !!!!!!

Other comments imply it is only people on benefits that abuse children. I think you should get your heads out of the clouds and look at the real world.

Look at improving wages so that 1 parent can earn an income for the family while the other does the most important job in the world, caring for their children. Get away from 2 working parents while our kids are left to fend for themselves and get into all sorts of mischief.

A lot of the fault can be firmly placed on the do gooders.. they have made our kids bullet proof. Parents cant discipline them, police cant discipline them, schools cant discipline them.

While the cane from teachers, mr plod's boot up the bum or slap around the butt from mum/dad was uncomfortable for the one receiving it. It does make you stop before acting and wonder if it is worth doing and at the same time stamps respect,morals and authority figures in your mind.

It is the total breakdown of the family and social behaviour over the past 2-3 generations that has got us to the stage we are at now. People have no respect for family or anything around them, we have lost the social skills and morals which took generations to develop and will take generations to re-develop.

Parents don,t have the time/patients for the children. Both the parents and children of this generation have little respect for each other, let alone law,teachers,property etc...

so yes, lets blame those on benefits for this problem, lets watch as the do gooders bind everyones hands with even more red tape and laws.

Only then will we be able to bask in the total breakdown of society and applaud their good work.

Did it ever occur to anyone that maybe the wrong people are having kids!! Thats the problem..Need measures in place to stop teens having kids or people with low incomes..sorry but that's how it works,guess it's a bit hard to fix right.

People seem to be happy to climb into bed with anyone these days. Have a couple of kids, split up. Who cares eh? But ideally speaking if you want your Toyota fixed you go to a Toyota garage. Not some government department. How do you make kids? Its 1 man and one woman. So surely therefore that man and women who made the kids in the first place should be encouraged to stay together (money, tax breaks?). Ideally speaking. Everything in society comes from the family. The ideal family unit is breaking down. Its easy to show the short comings in marriage but at the end of the day. Its the best environment to raise children.

But it is never spoken about in the news media and government. Because its these people who are contributing to our downfall. Wake up New Zealand. We need to sweep all of these politicians aside. Bring in Binding Citizens Initiated Referenda (from Switzerland). Your votes don't count in this system. The governments still do what they want (Crafar Farms).

Our social problems are growing at such a rate it is not sustainable. What the hell does a rugby world cup mean when us gutless men are killing babies every few weeks. The blood of new zealand babies is crying from the ground.

I agree with SuziQ, these people are only motivated by money, there needs to be an incentive or they feel like the can do what they want. I think people not feeding their kids because they spent all their money on other things should be reported to CYFS and made to take budgeting advise, it is abuse. If they don't follow it and the kids still starve take the kids off them, don't allow the abuse to continue and cut their benefit as they no longer have child expenses,

We don't need a green paper on child abuse the answer is simple tie the receiving of benefits to the well being of the child. There should be mandatory visits at least 4 times a year to either a doctor or public health clinic for all children whose parents receive a benefit or Working for Families. They are paid this money to care for their children and as such should be accountable to the state and taxpayer as to the well being of their children. No scheduled visit - no benefit until child is produced and their health and well being verified. I know that some would consider this an affront on them but sorry our record of child abuse is appalling and I am sick of reading about yet another dead baby. Also mothers need to be made more accountable on the choices they make regarding partners, it should not be an excuse that they live in violent relationships and allow themselves and their children to be used as punching bags - fail to protect ones child is disgusting and should be punishable, I have seen the ferocity a mother pukekohe will stand up to defend her babies against predators yet some human mothers sit back and do nothing - what does that say about mankind. It is time to get tough, time to say it is definitely not OK and only when tough choices are made will anything change. We have spent the last 20-30 years nannying people, using softly softly approaches and can only say that when I was younger I never ever heard of a child being beaten to death but in the last 10 years it is so common now and I for one have had enough.