Nanny State
Do you think we will ever figure it out? I bet the idiots behind this don’t even have kids 
This is just stupid.
“So your kid’s a klutz. Or a daredevil, or daydreamer.
How many times have you had to rush to an emergency ward to check that sprained ankle, bruised knee or bump on the head?
When it comes to young children - especially those adventurous types who reckon they can climb higher, run faster and balance better than anyone else - hospital visits seem to be an inevitable part of parenting.
Child protection experts beg to differ. The Australian Institute of Family Studies, in a new report on what it refers to as “supervisory neglect”, says every accident can be prevented.
Parents just need to supervise their children properly.
The federal government’s family research agency has advised child protection officers to “not be too quick to classify a child as `accident prone’.”
Children with multiple accidental injuries should be classified as “high risk of neglect”, it says.
So now, on top of the gut-wrenching guilt that comes with carrying a crying child into an emergency ward, parents have to cope with acute paranoia as well.
Pity the mother of a rambunctious toddler who falls off a trike while she is trying to cook dinner, even though she has told him over, and over, and over to stay in the sandpit.
Or the father whose daydreamy daughter keeps getting bruises, walking into furniture or tripping over her own feet.
Child protection authorities need to be prosecuting genuinely neglectful and abusive parents, not persecuting the caring yet frazzled mums and dads who are doing their best, without eyes in the backs of their heads.
Fark me what a load of shit. My parents woulda been up for abuse three times over the amount of times I injured myself. These dickheads won’t be happy until the kids don’t even have to get off the couch to change games in their PS24 lest they injure themselves on the way. These same people will be the ones screaming about childhood obesity soon.
Either that or some group of people with too much time on their hands likes sitting in a roon dreaming up more and more preposterous ideas and seeing if they can get them into the media.
That’s rediculous - I would have grown up with parents in prison… They couldn’t have supervised me better, I was just good at wrecking 
This reads like a chain email. Do you have a source?
Hey Chucky - he is a new member LAY OFF!
A simple JFGI would have sufficed….
Chuck, can you PLEASE remember we don’t wish for any member to attack another?
Happy for debate, but on topic and no personal attacks on your opponent.
Thanks man
What, like when someone infers that my child is simply an ignorant puppet - blindly regurgitating whatever opinions I feed him? THAT kind of “personal attack”?!?!?!?!?!
This reads like a chain email. Do you have a source?
Thats where I lifted it from
Cheers.
Pretty much every kid that comes in to the emergency dept, school, church, GPs office and sport training/games with injuries of any kind are assessed to see if it was abuse or an accident. The have been bound by mandatory reporting for quite some time now, this is just another ‘rabble rabble nanny state’ article that pop up every so often when a bloggers clicks get low. So yes, a child coming in with multiple injuries is going to be looked at closely. Multiple injuries don’t occur very easily in children, they have flexible bones and not a lot of distance to fall.
I have no issues with doctors and nurses, teachers etc. making sure kids who have injuries are legitimately from accidents, rather than daddy having a few too many beers.
What, like when someone infers that my child is simply an ignorant puppet - blindly regurgitating whatever opinions I feed him? THAT kind of “personal attack”?!?!?!?!?!
Please shoot either myself or one of the Mods a PM if there is a problem and we’ll endeavour to sort it out
I prefer to fight my own battles. I have a spine, and integrity.
I’ve been waiting for chucky’s input on the global warming thread!
They REALLY don’t want me ANYWHERE near that one!!!
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Billy missed it!