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Child Correction Expert in NZ

An expert in child correction is in the country (someone who actually knows what he is talking about) and is supposed to be meeting with the major political parties on Tuesday (today?) and Wednesday, according to info on the Family First website.

Snippet below from FF website -

"There is No Sound Scientific Evidence
to Support
Anti-Smacking Bans"

ROBERT E. LARZELERE PhD

Associate Professor of Psychology Dept. Human Development & Family Science - Oklahoma State University

Dr Larzelere has been one of the world's foremost experts on child correction for the past 30 years - including:
• One of three social scientific expert witnesses on the side of successfully defending a similar section to NZ’s s59 of Canada’s Criminal Code.
(The social scientific expert witnesses on the other side included Joan Durrant. Durrant has been painted as the authority on smacking bans in NZ yet was ignored in her own country!)
• Member of Task Force on Corporal Punishment - American Psychological Association.
• One of 7 experts invited to present at 1996 Scientific Consensus Conference on the Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Corporal Punishment - co-sponsored by American Academy of Pediatrics.

Comments

  1. I heard him on the radio this morning. He sounded careful, but forthright in his wording.

    He also seemed quite neutral.

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  2. He was on Campbell Live last night with the Children's Comissioner

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  3. He's an American and a (gasp!) Baptist. It says so righ there in the Herald! Doesn't that automatically disqualify him in the minds of most New Zealanders?

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