Your Views on the issue continues:

Kevin O'Brien
Key has not shot himself in the foot but the stomach. Clark has proved her masterful skills at deception again. The amendment turns on 'public interest': that is not public curiosity but really public policy, when proper rules of interpretation are applied. Clark probably knew that: Key I believe not. Public policy is strongly opposed to child discipline, and even the UN is trying to enforce this in NZ. CYFS will have authority now for their rigorous policies and the Police will be obliged because of public policy to refer all cases to CYPS and use their guidance as to prosecutions. School teachers may become a new class of informers. Where is the sanity in this? Is this good government?

Jason
I'm finished with all this smacking business, I'm gonna get a Tazer.

Barrie Doublesin
Was waiting with anticipation for Sue Bradford to reply to Simon Barnett on T.V.1's close up last night, after he asked her if she would resign if the police falsely prosecuted one parent. Yet thanks to Helen Clark for cutting Sue Bradford off, we will never know what her reply would have been to Simon's question. Hopefully it would have been yes..

Brendan Shore
Key? You just lost the biggest weapon for next years election. I just hope everyone signs the petition to have this State invasion into our homes repelelled.

Looks like Mr Hide will get my vote.

Paul
There are always extremes when it comes disciplining children and legislation will not prevent the situations of pure abuse; only allow the perps to be punished. Lawmakers are classically looking for an easy way to satisfy the two major views on this without really addressing the problem; how to protect children from true repetitive abusive situations. It seems with their proposal no one will benefit and more to the point, the children who truly need some discipline to curb bad behaviour will not receive it.It must be clear after millions of years of evolution that there is no magic formula to parenting. Trying to create laws to govern parenting is pure folly, and an indication that our lawmakers have an overinflated opinion of themselves for presuming the answer is sooooooo simple.

Sanson
Sold out yet again we possibly have the worse politicians in all of New Zealand's history, This bill has been a costly exercise and a lame excuse to confront the issue of fatal child abuse in N.Z. It has solved nothing other than expand the abuse industry, e.g police cyfs and most of the other organizations that have supported Bradford.

Jagannatha Suta Das
This sucks, what a bunch of hypocrites. They can send out drunk people into the night wielding weapons of mass destruction ending the lives of innocent people, but to smack a child now is illegal, meaning that you can now end up with a criminal conviction for being a parent! Stop people from drinking (drug), smoking (drug) teach them that there are others in this world besides themselves! I think I might immigrate to a country that is not a fascist regime of drunken fools and hypocrites, waving flags of self justification. I am a parent and I love my kids more than these fools that do not even have children, but I still need to discipline them from time to time.Fools and rascals thats all these politicians are, self serving idiots that need a dose of reality. I am so sure that this bill will be the worst thing that has happened to this country. I guarantee that we will have a country of hooligans and vandals in the next 10 - 12 years, then I would love to make these rascal politicians eat their words. Fools! This is not going to stop real violence to children, just see.