A retired judge wants all newborns to be placed on a national "at-risk" register so child services can identify which children, and their caregivers, need assistance and support - before it's too late.
Graeme MacCormick, a former Human Rights Commissioner, said the needs/risk assessment could be done in most cases by the health professional primarily responsible for the birth itself. He said if the assessment was objective and mandatory it could not be deemed selective. "Although there are personal information, privacy, choice and freedom issues ... the right of children to the best possible start in life and societal benefits should and must outweigh the rights of parents and caregivers," Mr MacCormick, a retired district and family court judge, said
More at Granny Herald:
What can I say but 'Fuck you, asshole!- eat shit and die!'
Then there is more Here
The wreck of the old frigate Wellington has broken in half off Island Bay in Wellington and has been declared off-limits to divers. The ship was sunk as an artificial reef and dive zone last November and has been visited by scores of divers. A month after the sinking the trust that sank the ship said it was showing no signs of movement.
I mean, diving is inherently dangerous- let's just ban it or better still, regulate and tax the hell out of it!
Friggin' nanny state cotton-wool wraping extends still further...
On Cotton-wool issue,
This poor bastard is being hounded (as if he isn't suffeing enough already), for doing what we have done forever.
Manslaughter for something all of us in rural areas have done. Before quad bikes, it was bicycles, horses, trolleys. The sad fact is and was that kids get hurt. So what we do now is remove the risks- then when they reach their teens they try the same dumb stunts, but in high-powered cars.
They haven't learned that failing to take a corner has consequences. I learned by loosing skin- some broke bones and dare I say it, vary rarely one died.
It the same attitude that has all the school pools closing, as the grey-shoe wearers think that maybe a kid might catch something from the water.
So they can't swim.
How many have drowned because they can't swim?
More than have died from pool-water poisoning, that much is certain...
UPDATE:
Dairy farmer Gavin John Vanner was today found not guilty in the High Court at New Plymouth of the manslaughter of his four-year-old daughter Molly who was killed riding his quad bike. Vanner, 37, was also found not guilty of the lesser charge of committing criminal nuisance by endangering his daughter's life in allowing her to ride the quad bike on August 30 on the family farm at Kakaramea in South Taranaki.
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