You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your relatives. Neither can you choose your parents or your place of birth. If you could any sensible foetus would choose at least twenty other countries to be born in rather then New Zealand. New Zealand's children's needs are being seriously neglected. This essay will challenge New Zealand's performance in child health and welfare. Looking at the widespread abuse of children, the growing rate of …showed first 75 words of 1238 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1238 total…are the only group in New Zealand society who can be locked up without a court order.... Who are removed from their homes for the crimes of others... Who can be beaten without it being an assault.” (Advertisement in the Listener) Questioning the readiness with which New Zealand society permits children, despite our affluence to... suffer neglect and ill-health. The children of New Zealand do not deserve the suffering nor the ignorance of the nation.