Consultation on the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill
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Tystiolaeth i’r Pwyllgor Plant, Pobl Ifanc ac Addysg ar gyfer craffu Cyfnod 1 Bil Plant (Diddymu Amddiffyniad Cosb Resymol) (Cymru) |
Evidence submitted to the Children, Young People and Education Committee for Stage 1 scrutiny of the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill |
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CADRP-35 |
CADRP-35 |
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— No
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It undermines my rights as a parnt to educate my children in the rights and wrongs of life. It allows children to control their parents and undermines the vital importance of educating children in right and wrong behaviours. It gives children the opportunity to blackmail or even control of their parents undermining parntal authority in family situations. It will breed generations of uncontrollable children who will use this law to get their own way and will fail as parents when they grow up. It will criminalise parents and flood the social service with many uncontrollable children whose moral standards will not have been taught properly and this will result in huge pressures on our overworked social services causing the ultimtecollpse offamily life and the welfare system. Thes are just a few of the many problems that will damage society and overwhelm government actions. Thereis nothing positiveto begainedandthe numbers of children at risk will be greatly inflated nd uncontrollable by this ill thought out plan. Bad parents will alwys be a small minority nd this Act illmake good parents criminals an social workrs overwhelme. There seems no benefit from this ct which is merely atick box addition to the destruction offamily life ndtrditionalmoral values.
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Current legislation is more than adequate to cover cruelty to children and the costs incurrd by the implementtion of thisact and the extra layers of social services is neither affordable or necessary. Social services has neithe the number of trained workers nor the financil backing to take on these tasks and the destruction of family life will be immense. Kids are quite capable inth midst of a bad mood to use this act to blackmail their parents and get their families broken up which will endanger the whole family unit merely becuse they can use this act to blackmail their parents.
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Every possible barrier should be put in place if you do not want to break up family life and hopefully the government will recognisethe damage this will caus to society and also realise thatthe children taken intocare will be much more vulnerable to abuse and less able to adapt to foster care or even worse to third party run homes/ orphanages who are expensive and can be run by abusers in any case! They will have a field day with all these extra vulnerable children to exploit.
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The Bill will be a disaster for society if it succeeds in becoming law and destroying family life. I have been involved in social work throughout my life as a pastor and counsellor and can see nothing constructivein this new Act as there is alreasyprotection for children in currnt legislation. Sledghammer to crack. Nut syndrome and avery expensive sledgehammer at that!
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Breakup of family life, open to abuse by children with both lies and wanting ttention, undeliverable costs for government coupled with total absence of suitable places to put children when a court decides todestroy a family. The abusers will not be caught and the whims ofchildrenwill rule over their parents. "If You dont buy me this I will tell social services that you smacked me' will be the obvious ploy for children having a paddy. This Act will not add nything to the current protections but will be a charter for children to get their own way without realising the consequences of destroying family life which is the fondation for a free society.
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I can only foresee loads of money being wasted on paperpushers and financing fostering or childrens homes which will be both expensive and wasted on the small numbers who might be protected by this act but the downside in broken families and maverick children will have inevitable repercussions benetitting noone..
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Our society is built on the foundation of normal family life. Parents are the best people to teach children and children need the support of loving parents. Yes there may be some abuse but there are already laws to safeguard children. This dracomnian step will not provide anything better but simply be an expensive tier of extra social workers who will be inundated with kids trying it on because they have been upset at being disciplined and think that getting their own back on loving parents is in their benefit without realising that broken families are never as good as regular families and being fostered is rarely helpful especially when there are a dearth of caring families and the likelihood of being abused by devious fostering parents is something this act seems not to take into account just as it has no serious information of how much extra the costs will be to support the administrators and inlocum parents who may well have darker reasons to want to take on the 'victims' of a smack or two.