“Govt must stop driving a “legislative wedge” between children and their parents” says Direct Democracy Party.

“The recent tragic deaths of young people out partying, and the significant rise in youth crisis issues in New Zealand is the result of Government driving a “legislative wedge” between children and their parents” says Direct Democracy Party leader, Kelvyn Alp.

“The championing of “children’s rights” at the expense of parents rights has been an unfortunate experiment with tragic consequences – evidenced in dramatic increases in youth STD infections; youth depression medication; youth suicide; youth pregnancy and abortion; youth alcohol and drug use; and the overt sexualisation of children”.

“When a plethora of independent research studies are telling the public that the human brain does not fully develop until the mid-20’s, and with a Government ideology that insists that our children can run around pretending to be “little adults” with “autonomous rights”, all mixed in with parents being vilified by the Government for attempting to set rules and boundaries with their children, then it is little wonder that the suffering of our youth is so great” says Mr Alp.

“Successive Governments have set up parents to be trapped into an unsustainable bind: on the one hand, the State says “we know better than parents how to look after their children”. The UNCROC Convention; the Littlies Lobby; the anti-Smacking Bill; the Office of the Children’s Commissioner master-plan to monitor every child in New Zealand; and the Care of Children Act; all of these initiatives have sought to undermine the authority and wisdom of parents in New Zealand, in favour of the State being the preferred “caregiver” of the nations children.

On the other hand, the State expects parents to look after their children, and then wrongly intervenes if parents attempt to set reasonable boundaries with their children for wrong behaviour: Child, Youth and Family abducting children without grounds to do so; the Family Planning Association and / or School Counsellors covertly organising abortions for 12 year olds without parental consent; and the Family Court empowering defiant teenagers to “divorce” their parents, are three striking examples of how ideologically warped the “children’s rights” brigade have become in recent years”.

What is really going on with children and parents in New Zealand? – this article may well have the answer”.

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“If we are to truly make inroads into protecting our youth, then it is time for the Government to recognise the authority of parents in their children's lives, and start working with parents to guard their children's lives, as opposed to attempting to drive parents and their children further away from each other in the misguided and erroneous pursuit of "children's rights", says Mr Alp.

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