Are we really all that surprised with the escalating crime rate by gangs, especially right now in Victoria.
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The softly softly touch of law and order down there has just reinforced the mentality that anything goes.
The rights of the child act ushered in the view that they have the right to do whatever, whenever and to whom ever they like and get away scot free.
Even our courts of law are limited as to how much reprimanding they are allowed to administer for fear these brats might have a melt down.
Taking parental authority away with a role reversal that enables kids to rule the roost is the reason we have the dysfunctional society we have today.
The government doesn't have the guts to reverse this stupid introduction of the rights of the child (gone feral).
Instead now aware that they got it gravely wrong they won't own up to their error.
Instead they point the finger back onto the parents questioning as to why the parents aren't disciplining their offspring and don't know where their kids are or whom they are associating with.
Well! the answer is simple, the parents aren't allowed to know the criminal badly behaved brats have the rights (not their parents) anymore.
Until this act along with the anti discrimination act section 18C are done away with our society will continue to become more immorally secular having no standards of proper propriety and degradation will continue to gain the victory at the child's ongoing expense for want of discipline (in the home) and in the schools like it used to be.
Time to get tough love underway.
Yvonne Rance, Griffith.
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