What You Might Not Know

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Remember a little while ago, Family Fist were crowing about a poll that showed “Almost half of parents with children under 12 have smacked them in the past year”. Don’t remember? Here’s their press release.

What you might not know is that, before the law was passed, a whopping 78% of people said they would not comply with the law. Now it shows that 52% of parents have actually complied with the law.

In their press release it discloses that the poll was commissioned by Family First. Good. Know that polls exist to prove a point for whoever commissioned it.

What you might not know is that Family First employed Curia Market Research to conduct the poll. Ring any bells?

What you might not know is that Curia Market Research is run by our very own David Farrar, author of Kiwiblog. The Kiwiblog comments section being home to some of the worst right-wing, conservative and religious wing-nuts our society has to offer. Although I don’t lump DPF in with some of the scum that lurks at his site, he’s a vocal opponent of the government.

What you might not know is that Curia Market Research is allegedly run out of National Headquarters in Wellington.

The amount of spin applied to that poll result is simply ridiculous… Statistics can prove almost anything you want when you bend them the right way.

Family Fist like to tell everyone that they’ve missed the point. In fact, it’s they who have missed the point. Nobody has been dragged off to prison for stopping their child from performing digital electrical socket investigation. Innocent parents are still innocent. Parents who abuse their children now have one less defense and I would think that anybody who actually puts Family First would get behind that.