Show me a lefty "progressive", and I'll show you home wrecker...

...the forthcoming referendum on Sue Bradford's anti-smacking bill is a custard pie in the face of the left. It's not so much that the general public are aggrieved over the attempted criminalisation of smacking, it's simply the fact that they recognise in Sue Bradford a true subversive, and see in her ham fisted attempts at law making an attempt to subvert the traditional Mum, Dad and the kids family.

Melanie Phillips reports that the UK Tories are about to announce a far reaching policy that will develop and respect and not subvert, the family...

...The family is the building block of society. If the institution of the family is broken, society breaks with it.
That is what has happened in Britain over the past four decades as part of a deliberate attempt by the ‘progressive’ intelligentsia to reshape society around the unrestrained gratification of adult sexual desire under the banners of ‘liberation’, ‘equality’ and ‘rights’.
As a result, nearly half of all babies are now born outside marriage; Britain has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Europe; and women and children are at far greater risk of sexual and physical abuse.
Children from fractured homes do worse in general in every single area of their lives. As the High Court judge Sir Paul Coleridge recently observed, the family courts are overwhelmed with cases involving damaged, miserable or disturbed children...more here...

...every word of Melanie Phillips' article is applicable to NZ. Our statistics are every bit as shameful and horrifying, and even more shameful is that "progressive" politicians like Sue Bradford have helped create the misery, and now want to extend it further...