{"id":786,"date":"2005-01-18T22:54:05","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T09:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=786"},"modified":"2005-01-18T23:03:16","modified_gmt":"2005-01-18T10:03:16","slug":"families-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/786","title":{"rendered":"Families&#8217; Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familiescommission.govt.nz\/download\/SOI_2004-2005.pdf\">Families&#8217; Commission Statement of Intent<\/a> <small>[1MB PDF]<\/small>. Up till this point I had heard only bad things about the Commission. Mostly that their definition of a family includes non-nuclear families. I was really impressed with the document. I particularly liked their set of expectations for families:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn the Commission\u2019s view, all families should be able to exercise a capacity to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>love, protect and nurture children to help them reach their full potential<\/li>\n<li>protect and care for elderly, disabled and sick family members<\/li>\n<li>share resources, wisdom, knowledge, and time<\/li>\n<li>participate in education, society, and the economy<\/li>\n<li>plan for today and tomorrow, for retirement, and for future generations<\/li>\n<li>protect family wealth, land, taonga, and history<\/li>\n<li>transmit values, lifestyles, ethics, and culture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I read in the same document that around 7500 children were assessed as abused or neglected during 2003 in New Zealand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I read the Families&#8217; Commission Statement of Intent [1MB PDF]. Up till this point I had heard only bad things about the Commission. Mostly that their definition of a family includes non-nuclear families. I was really impressed with the document. I particularly liked their set of expectations for families: In the Commission\u2019s view, all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}