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Child abuse is a blight on us all : Comments

By Rob Moodie, published 9/7/2008

We need greater public awareness about the long-term consequences of child abuse and neglect.

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A follow on from my earlier post. As I pointed out child abuse and neglect happens in all sorts of places and types of homes but is more concentrated in some than others. From that we should be learning about root causes and working to alleviate those which we can.

We should also be looking for some of quick wins - where it's easily identified that kids of school age are not being appropriately fed or clothed perhaps meals at school and a laundry service via the school environment could reduce some of those issues. We would have to try and reduce the risks of kids involved being further stigmatised but I suspect most where thats an issue already stick out to their peers.

We need to ensure that good information on effective parenting strategies is readily available to parents who may not otherwise have access to that stuff. That means being creative in overcoming lack of literacy skills for some. I'm not sure how we readily overcome dogma, some around OLO just can't conceive of raising kids without the right to bash them but part of that will be ensuring that other strategies are well publicised. That if they do insist on the right to bash a kid it becomes plan "c" or "d" rather than plan "a".

R0bert
Posted by R0bert, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 1:19:38 PM
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Hi to all the forgotten australians

we have cardinal pell of the catholic church , being confroted with the truth of a cover up that he had done in knowing of sexual abuse with in his church ,

and is not going to tell the pope about this ,

as they have the pope hidden away from the public far enough but the pope has no tv no telephone no radio , so he has no idea about this or if he does he too is staying silent about this ,

the state of new south wales is still continuing to cover up the rapes and abuses that victims like myself suffered whilst in their state run institutions till this day ,,

its about time that the goverment of australia ,MR RUDD, acknowledge us victims and for MR IEMMA to stand up for the state of new south wales and to addmitt to the truth of what we victims suffered by being raped and abused in these institutions that were controlled by the state of new south wales ,

pedophiles are raping and abusing children every where in our country and its about time those pedophiles are locked up for ever , you can not even let your child walk down the street ,in case some pedophile grabs them , or even let them enjoy a day out with friends , because their is a likely chance that some one will grab them ,

our society is getting worse each day , and their is nothing we can do other than listen to hear of the next victim , whether it be in a institution , or some faimly friend or member , or some one in authority , we are finding it harder each day as to who we can trustand who we can not.

AND ALSO TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE SENATE INQUIRIES OF WHICH WHERE THE TRUTH IS THE LONGER YOU KEEP HIDING THE TRUTH FROM THE PUBLIC THE WORSE OUR STATE IS GOING TO BE

FROM A REAL VICTIM

REGARDS HUFFNPUFF
Posted by huffnpuff, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 3:31:28 PM
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If children are viewed as expendable before birth,they will be viewed
as expendable after birth. So given the Brumby Labor Government’s plans to legalise abortion (one Minister shocked two constituents by declaring support for abortion “up to a minute before birth”) Dr. Rob Moodie’s pleas for preventative strategies as outlined in his “Child abuse is a blight on us all” article are akin whistling in the wind.

When as a young nurse with other nurses I first protested against legalized abortion our pleas were drowned out by the abortion lobby’s chants ‘every child a wanted child. It assured us sex education and contraception would eliminate teenage and unwanted pregnancies,that permissive abortion laws would eradicate child abuse.This was in denial of existing research which revealed a sharp rise in child abuse in countries that had legalized abortion,research of which Dr. Moodie seems unaware. University of Southern California’s Dr Edward Lenoski’s landmark study of 674 abused children revealed 91 per cent were from planned pregnancies. Thirty five years later with the scourge of child abuse dominating our daily newspapers Premier Brumby should remember the law is a good educator and abandon ideas of legalizing child abuse in the womb. And Rob Moodie should be vocal in urging him to do so. But I wouldn't hold my breath....too politically incorrect for him I suspect!
Posted by Denny, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 5:53:49 PM
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Denny

Without wanting to sound cynical but to try and argue truth and reason with most secularist is a challenge. They hide behind women's rights so the abortion industry can prosper, insist the right to view pornography (even though it leads to child sexual abuse)and claim that bigoted Christians are really the cause of the world's woes!

They are quick to promote homosexual marriage knowing that it is destructive for society. In fact any honest study will show you most of the hated paedophile priests are homosexuals.

The only absolutes they believe in are the ones they make up themselves. One day they will bow their knee and confess Jesus Christ is Lord. Hopefully some of them will have found a little humility and repented before then.
Posted by runner, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 6:11:01 PM
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Oh gawd, runner. You're such a bore. And a boor.

Rob Moodie writes a timely, insightful and constructive piece on how to recognize and take action against child abuse;- yet all you can do is fulminate and condemn your fellow Australians, again. Feel better? I hope so, 'cos your tirades couldn't possibly achieve any other constructive end.

Here's a tip: if you want to convert a single person, ever, in your whole life, like a good Christian should be able to do - you'll have to stop shouting about how wicked and evil and perverted and monstrous we all are and actually get a civil tongue in your head. God gave you that tongue, yet all you ever do with it is utter pious garbage.

There is no uglier sight than a hard-line holy-roller in a pious rage, as you demonstrate day after dreary day.

Besides which, in my experience it is usually the most pious who have the most to hide. Got something in the closet you haven't 'fessed up to the Lord about?

The only Christians I know who actually do any good and who positively influence the people around them are unassuming, quiet achievers who do good in the world without taking out tickets on themselves or loudly condemning everybody else. They are truly doing the Lord's work.

In other words runner, the precise opposite of what you do. Maybe you could learn something from them. 'Cos based on your behaviour day after day, there's nothing you have to offer us here but spite, bile and pious denunciation, which you use to flatter your own selfish sense of moral vanity. Ugly, ugly, ugly.
Posted by Mercurius, Thursday, 10 July 2008 6:52:39 AM
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I am an investigative writer researching a project dealing with the failure of US family law courts in the areas of adoption and child custody, and am writing in response to Child abuse is a blight on us all by Rob Moodie published on 9 July 2008. Because of space limitations imposed, I will be breaking this response into several posts over several days.

While Mr Moodie highlights some of the more glamorous aspects of child abuse, unfortunately, he does not discuss the more significant contributing factors which are either direct causes or catalysts resulting in child abuse.

Mr Moodie writes that “Child abuse and neglect is not just a family problem and something to be solved by social workers, police and the courts. It is a whole-of-nation problem. Although we do not have a national study to show its prevalence, we know reported cases are on the rise and that our ‘treatment systems’ are straining to cope.”

One of the significant contributing factors in child abuse is the removal not of parental “rights,” but of parental “responsibilities” by government, be it social workers, police and the courts.

In many western nations, we have become much too lazy to want to accept and emphasize parental “responsibilities.” Since the time of US President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his “Great Society” in the 1960s, the US has led a whirlwind movement which has been repeated around the globe to relieve parents of parental “responsibility” by substituting government welfare programs which serve not to support the family in crisis, but to destroy it. Most recently, here in the US, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton continued to espouse this philosophy of her mentality that it “takes a village to raise a child.”

First. It does not take a politician to popularize the abdication of parental “responsibility” by claiming that it is the duty of the “village,” or of LBJ’s “Great Society,” to raise a child. A politician who spews forth such degrading pablum is seeking merely to continue to pander to the electorate and to propagate the eventual destruction of the family unit.
Posted by Charles Hannasch, Thursday, 10 July 2008 9:14:17 AM
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