Drugs and alcohol are the cause of child abuse. OK.
But why are people abusing drugs and alcohol? Because they can. Work and Income hand them the obligation-free time and obligation-free money. Even men that hold down jobs can piss all their money up the wall while the 'missus' brings in benefit money. The latter has been the case for decades and decades. That was what Sir Apirana Ngata used to fight. When he said welfare would destroy Maori he wasn't talking about the DPB. He was talking about the early family benefit which, for a large family accustomed to living off the land, amassed to quite a bit of money. The provision of this benefit to Maori during the forties was the most controversial aspect of the social security department's work.
People need to be given back their driver for living. Survival by their own efforts.
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why is it that people try to differentiate between those that commit heinous crimes against children (and others)and themselves on the basis of alcohol, drugs or insanity?
There exists a generational 'culture of abuse' in some families that is quite normal for them, and certain cultures have as their essence parental detachment and high levels of violence that are their 'way of life.' ('Once were warriors,' so to speak). With such established practice it take very little extra to effect extreme harm.
Mitigatory statements are largely the stuff of defence lawyers, not of life and are more often than not retrospective claims ... to bring land into it is simply the pursuit of racist/cultural agenda and often guilt results in attributing blame to anyone and all around (especially a predominant culture), it takes away the need to look realistically at the damage caused from pursuing a 'high risk' way of life that is potentially so damaging to their own children ... although often not to their own natural children.
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